It is the primary seat of the Ego and the awake consciousness. To allow clear, objective thinking, life forces (the Etheric body) must be withdrawn from this system. Therefore, the head is a place of continuous, slow "dying."
In anthroposophical medicine, founded by Rudolf Steiner, the human being is understood through the Threefold Physiological Organization. Health is not a static state, but a dynamic, breathing balance between two polar opposites, Health is not a static state, but a dynamic, breathing balance between two polar opposites, moderated by a rhythmic middle.
Inflammation is viewed as a displaced process. It occurs when the forces of one pole illegally invade the territory of the other.
Cold, hardening, mineralising, and centripetal (moving inward).
It is the primary seat of the Ego and the awake consciousness. To allow clear, objective thinking, life forces (the Etheric body) must be withdrawn from this system. Therefore, the head is a place of continuous, slow "dying."
The nerve-sense forces are anti-inflammatory. They represent form, boundary, and cool consciousness.
Warm, dissolving, regenerating, and centrifugal (moving outward).
It is the seat of the Astral body (desires, instincts) and is deeply unconscious. It is dominated by pure life energy and metabolic fire.
This pole is inherently inflammatory. Inflammation is nothing other than the healthy, chaotic "burning" warmth of the metabolic system escaping its abdominal boundaries and entering other tissues.
When the metabolic warmth-forces overpower the cooling nerve-sense forces in a tissue, acute inflammation erupts. The body is trying to dissolve a localized hardening to regenerate itself.
If the nerve-sense forces are weak or brittle (often due to an exhausted Einstellung or cold, abstract thinking), they fail to contain and sculpt the metabolic fire.
These represents an illegal invasion of the metabolic "warmth and fluid" process into the cool, mineralised sanctuary of the nerve-sense system. The head is being asked to digest or burn something it shouldn't.
