Fear


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Definition:
Anticipation of misfortune or pain; the state of being afraid; anxiety; reverent awe.

Etiology:
• It is thought that humans may be born with only two fears: that of loud noises and that of falling. • Fear is a learned emotion which comes about through painful experiences. • May be environmental. When parents live with dread of factors in their lives, such as finances the child can grow to address money situations with the same emotions even when far better equipped to deal with the situation than his/her parents.

Somatic Therapies:
• qigong • tai qi chuan

Nutrition:
therapeutic foods » for Kidney Yang Xu (Deficiency): • increase foods rich in Sodium foods • Five Phases - Water • Warming foods, steamed, baked, or cooked foods, chicken, lamb, scallions, sesame seeds, fish, baked tofu, soybeans, walnuts, eggs, lentils, black beans, lotus seed, ginger, a little wine, cinnamon bark tea, foods that tonify the Kidney (Ni, p. 144)

avoid: • Cold and Cooling foods, raw foods, fruits (Ni, p. 144)

therapeutic foods » for Kidney Yin Xu (Deficiency): • Cooling foods, mulberries, apples, peaches, pears, fresh vegetables, beans, tofu, soy sprouts, chrysanthemum flowers, foods that tonify the Kidney, Heat-clearing foods (Ni, p. 145)

avoid: • hot, spicy foods, alcohol (Ni, p. 145)

fresh juices: • carrot (Walker, p. 144) • carrot and spinach (Walker, p. 144) • carrot, beet, and cucumber (Walker, p. 144) • carrot, celery, parsley, and spinach (Walker, p. 144)

Botanicals
• Aconitum napellus (toxic): of impending danger or death especially if in accident or a "brush with death," acute panic, of examinations, of meeting public, stagefright (NCNM Botanicals; Harper-Shove, p. 28; Ellingwood, p. 77) • Anemone pulsatilla (toxic): of impending danger or death (Harper-Shove, p. 28; Ellingwood, p. 214) • Cactus grandiflorus (toxic): vague fears in menopause (Ellingwood, p. 214) • Gelsemium sempervirens (toxic): stagefright, fear of meeting public, student's fear of examinations (Ellingwood, p. 77)

consider: nervines (Turska)

Chinese Formulae
• Cinnamon and Dragon Bone C. (Gui Zhi Jia Long Gu Mu Li Tang): Kidney and Heart Not Communication with Yin Xu (Deficiency) and Yang Xu (Deficiency): Nervousness, occasional watery diarrhea, dizziness, insomnia and dream-disturbed sleep (Hsu, 1980, p. 351; Bensky and Barolet, p. 364) • Peony and Licorice F. (Shao Yao Gan Cao Tang): Liver Xue Xu (Blood Deficiency) or Liver Yin Xu (Deficiency): abdominal pain due to fear (Hsu, 1980, p. 108; Dharmananda, 1986, p. 109) • Bamboo and Hoelen C. (Wen Dan Tang): Gall Bladder Damp-Heat: timidity, dizziness, nausea (Hsu, 1980, p. 114; Yeung, p. 241; Dharmananda, 1986, p. 305; Bensky and Barolet, p. 435) • Shi Wei Wen Dan Tang: Gall Bladder Xu (Deficiency): easily frightened, anorexia, fidgeting (Bensky and Barolet, p. 436) • Ding Zhi Wan (Settle Emotions Pill): Heart Qi Xu (Deficiency): severe emotional shock or bad fright (Bensky and Barolet, p. 381)

Acupuncture
after assessing the person and palpating, consider these patterns: Kidney Xu (Deficiency); Kidney and Heart Not Communicating; Heart Qi Xu (Deficiency); Liver Xue Xu (Blood Deficiency) or Liver Yin Xu (Deficiency); Gall Bladder Damp-Heat; Gall Bladder Xu (Deficiency); dysfunction of the Du Mai (Governing Vessel); Xu (Deficiency) of the Yin Wei Mai (Yin Linking Vessel)

» illustrative combinations: • Ht-7; Kd-1 and UB-15 (D) for fears as part of neurasthenia (McWilliams, et al., Lesson 31, p. 159) • Kd-10, GV-20 and PC-9 for children afraid of the dark (Mann, p. 155) • UB-15 and Ht-7 (-): tonify and open the Heart • GV-24 and GB-13 (-): relieve "severe anxiety and fears" (Maciocia, p. 472) • St-36, Sp-2, Sp-6, Ht-3, Ht-5, Kd-7, PC-6, GV-20 and CV-6 (+) for timidity (McWilliams, et al., Lesson 31, p. 160) • Sp-2, Kd-7, PC-7 and CV-6 (+) for lack of Will Power (McWilliams, et al., Lesson 31, p. 160) • UB-15 and CV-15 (-); then, Ht-3, Ht-5, Ht-7 and GV-20 (+) for stage fright (McWilliams, et al., Lesson 31, p. 160) • PC-6, PC-7, PC-5, GV-20 and GV-15 (-); then, Ht-3, Ht-5 and Ht-7 (+) for emotional stuttering (McWilliams, et al., Lesson 31, p. 160) • LI-4 -> PC-8 for hysteria (Shanghai, p. 251) • PC-6 and Ht-7 (-): soothe the Heart; calm the Shen; open the chest • PC-4 and Ht-7 (-): tranquilize the Source of Heart Yang to reduce palpitations (Finkelstein, p. 57) • PC-3 and PC-5 (-): transform mucous in the Heart and chest; regulate and tonify the Heart; clear Heat; calm the Shen • PC-6, Ht-7, GV-26 and SI-3 (also consider LI-4, Lv-3, Lu-11, PC-7, Kd-1, Kd-5 (listed as "Kd-4"), Sp-6, LI-11, GB-34, GB-30, yi lung, TW-21, TW-17, CV-22, UB-1, TW-23, GV-20 and Kd-6) for hysteria (Lee and Cheung, p. 322) • SI-3 and UB-62: open the Du Mai (Governing Vessel) for which Shen disorders are a symptom of dysfunction • PC-6 and Sp-4: open the Yin Wei Mai (Yin Linking Vessel) for which timidity and fear are Xu (Deficiency) symptoms • consider treatment for "Internal Dragons" or "External Dragons"; External Dragons: GV-20, UB-11, UB-23, UB-61; Internal Dragons: Master point 1/4" below CV-15, St-25, St-32, St-41; In both treatments, sedate first. If the person and the pulses change, fine. If no change with sedation, then tonify. (Worsley)

» note: • search various syndromes, esp. those of Kidney, in materia medica

Homeopathy
• Aconitum napellus: fear of death; wakes suddenly in fright, palpitations result • Argentum nitricum: fear causing diarrhea • Arsenicum album: fear and anxiety and hidden irrational motives for action • Calcarea carbonica: fears loss of reason, misfortune, disease • Gelsemium: school phobia, diarrhea and/or incontinence result, fright from anticipation; stagefright • Ignatia: hysteria due to a fright; crying, laughing, flailing, deep sighs • Kali carbonicum: fear of being alone, especially in the evening • Opium: petrified, fear causing a state of helpless inaction • Phosphorus: fear of dark, sensitivity to thunder storms and nightmares • Pulsatilla: fears leading to floods of tears

Subtle Support
• Mi (Gardner, p. 72, 78) • Fa# (Gardner, p. 82, 87)

mental/emotional: • rhythmic folk songs • County Derry • songs of Steven Foster • Spanish tangos • Brahms' Hungarian dances • Sousa's marches • Strauss' waltzes • Gilbert and Sullivan • Indian Love Call • My Wild Irish Rose • Wishing • Estrellita (Heline, p.18)

Mind/Body
• Fear is the basis of all illness. Fear necessitates the early childhood adaptations which result in illness. We are afraid to take responsibility for ourselves, to trust the grownup part of us to take care of the child in all of us. (Harrison, p. 277) • Chronic fear is associated with disturbance in kidney function which may manifest in puffy eyes and blue discoloration around the eyes. It is also associated with scaly and inflamed skin on the side of the nose. (Harrison, p. 77) • The voice of a person who's chronically afraid will be wavering, apparently struggling against great odds to be heard, and the speech may begin and end abruptly. The breathing will be shallow and rapid, with little expansion of the chest wall. A feature of scared people is that they hunch their shoulders to hide their chest from view, as the heart is considered vulnerable. This further restricts the delivery of air to the vocal cords, whose movements already reflect the general indecision of the body musculature. (Harrison, p. 84) • Fear of not being able to survive in the world is perhaps the greatest cause of illness. (Harrison, p. 181) • An important characteristic of altered states is that many of them cannot be dealt with sufficiently without entering into them. At one end is consciousness and awareness, while at the other there is literally no control. Everyone's psychotic corner can be accessed by touching upon a central, mythical, painful issue. (Mindell, 1988, p. 164) • "Extreme states are not purely random and meaningless pathological behaviors. Each has a highly ordered, almost mathematical, predictability. One goal of process paradigm has been to demonstrate that the cause-and-effect, illness-and-cure philosophy governing much of psychiatric research and treatment is not the only useful way of either observing or treating the effects of these syndromes. A process paradigm which studies the various channels of human expression and which deals concretely with both individual and collective issues, normal and extreme states, is sorely needed." (Mindell, 1988, p. 162)

Chinese psychophysiology: • Liver ~ Gan is the home of the Hun (Ethereal Soul); it relates to decisiveness, control, and the principle of emergence; maintains smooth flow of Qi and Xue (Blood); controls the muscles, especially their contractility; and reflects emotional harmony and movement. » Healthy expressions are kindness, spontaneity, and ease of movement. » Liver Xu (Deficiency) signs include impotence; frigidity; pain in thighs, pelvic region, and throat; ready tendency to "the blahs" (Seem, p. 28); timidity; depression; irritability; vertigo; pruritus; dry skin and/or tendons; asthma; aching at the waist; hernia; and difficulty raising head up and down.

• Gall Bladder ~ Dan is the source of courage and initiative, and is responsible for decision-making as the bodily Minister of Justice; controls circulation of the nourishing and protecting energies [Ying Qi and Wei (Protective) Qi]; expresses itself through the sinews (ligaments and tendons); and opens into the eyes. Its channel purifies Yang energy in the body. » Healthy expressions are kindness, decisiveness, control, and spirit of initiative. » Gall Bladder Xu (Deficiency) signs include insomnia; wandering pains; chest and side pains; swollen breasts (Seem, p. 29); weakness in muscles and tendons of the legs; difficulty standing; asthenia; vertigo; chills; timidity; cowardice; indecisiveness; and excessive sighing. » Mental signs of Gall Bladder channel disorders associated with bitterness, lack of control, irritability, unfaithfulness, lack of courage, timidity, and hypochondria. (Seem, p. 28)

• Heart ~ Xin houses the Shen (Spirit) and reveals itself through the brightness in the eyes; governs Fire; rules the Xue (Blood) and its vessels and directs the circulation; opens into the tongue and controls speech; and relates to the integration of the organs and the personality. » Healthy expressions are warmth, vitality, excitement, inner peace, love, and joy. » Heart Xu (Deficiency) signs include sadness; absence of laughter; depression; fear; anxiety; shortness of breath (Seem, p. 28); cold feeling in the chest and limbs; palpitations; cold sweat; inability to speak; memory failure; nocturnal emissions; and restless sleep. » Heart Shi (Excess) signs include false or facile laughter; sobbing; agitated spirit; insomnia (Seem, p. 28); frightful dreams; anxiety; tongue feels numb and heavy; heavy chest; hot sweat; and orange-colored urine. » The Heart is the Emperor of the bodily realm so that when the Heart is disturbed all the other organs will be disrupted. » Mental signs of Heart channel disorders include insomnia, anxiety, and all Shen disturbances. (Seem, p. 27)

» Mental signs of Pericardium (Heart Protector) channel disorders associated with depression, sexual perversion, aversions, and phobias. (Seem, p. 28)

» Mental signs of Triple Warmer channel disorders associated with emotional upsets caused by breaking of friendships or family relations; depression; suspicion; anxiety; and poor elimination of harmful thoughts. (Seem, p. 28)

» Mental signs of Lung channel disorders associated with obsessions that are future directed (Excess); and a feeling of being vulnerable (Deficiency). (Seem, p. 27)

• Kidney ~ Shen houses the Zhi (Will); expresses ambition and focus; directly expresses and is effected by fear (possibly through its inclusion of the adrenals and relationship to the sympathetic nervous system), and displays the effects of aging, chronic degenerative processes, and extreme stress; likewise any severe disturbance in the complementary relationship between the Kidney and Heart expresses itself in emotional dys-stress. » Healthy expressions are gentleness, groundedness, and endurance. » Kidney Xu (Deficiency) signs include indecisiveness; confused speech; dreams of trees submerged under water; cold feet and legs; abundant sweating (Seem, p. 28); hearing loss; fearfulness; apathy; chronic fatigue; discouragement; scatteredness; lack of will; negativity; impatience; difficult inhalation; low sex drive; lumbago; sciatica; and musculoskeletal irritation and inflammation, especially when worse from touch. » Intense or prolonged fear depletes the Kidney. Often chronic anxiety may induce Xu (Deficiency) and then Fire within the Kidney. (Maciocia, p. 250) Overwork, parenting, simple aging, and a sedentary or excessively indulgent lifestyle all contribute significantly to Kidney Xu (Deficiency). » Mental signs of Kidney channel disorders include anxiety; fear in the pit of the stomach; sadness; mental and physical fatigue; antisocial tendencies; and laziness. (Seem, p. 28)

• Pang Guang ~ Chinese "Bladder" receives the "dirty" part of fluids after Small Intestine separates them from the "clean" fluids; is in charge of Qi transformation, i.e. transforming and excreting fluids by the power of Qi; and controls the storing of fluid. » Fear, or more exactly fright, adversely effects the Bladder. In children, fear or insecurity leads to sinking of Qi in the Bladder resulting in nocturnal enuresis. In adults, Bladder disharmonies are often manifested with feelings of suspicion and jealousy over a long period of time. (Maciocia, p. 287-288) » Bladder Xu (Deficiency) signs include lack of confidence; lethargy; neurological disorders; low sexual energy; incontinence (Seem, p. 29); epistaxis; frequent excessive urination; back pain; nocturnal enuresis; and fear.

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Recommended Minerals
-Lithium