The Spleen: Organ Of Nutrition, Nurturing And Mother-Child Relationship
February 4th, 2012
Western Medication hardly understands the spleen. Scientific researchers have to know the practical and properties of an organ; religious properties cannot be measured. The spleen is principally a religious organ. It is so extremely religious that without it we can only be a small fraction of our true selves.
We know that without a spleen folk are more inclined to infection and are advised to take drugs to safeguard against it. Young children especially are in danger. Damaged and weak spleens are increasingly common; they can be influenced by emotional or physical shock. Any blunt wound to the left side of the body can disrupt the spleen; falling out of a tree or off a wall, sporting injuries, falling off a pony “any of these can inflict damage on the spleen. On an emotional level there are so many areas that will impact the spleen energy that these aspects will be my main focus.
Spleen Function
The spleen is the organ of nourishment, nurturing and bonding. In Oriental philosophy it is the yin, basically feminine, aspect of the Earth Element. ‘Yin ‘ is about mothering, Gaia. What most people are looking out for in life is that deep connection we call love. Do we know about love before we incarnate? Do we lose touch with it in the incarnation process? I believe we do. I think that everyone knows somewhere in our body that deep level of love for ourselves and for humanity that’s dynamic enough to prevent wars. Somehow, somewhere on our journey we lost that connection and have measured love against experiences we’ve had before or during our birth.
The Birthing Story
Birth is a complicated time for a newborn baby. Its first experience of the Earth should be loving, welcoming and a time to rejoice. It’s important to have the right kind of women supporting a mother giving birth and the father if he is capable of understanding the level of support required and to remember this is a time for the baby and the mum. It’s an superb moment welcoming a new child into this world and these initial moments will form the infant’s beliefs of the planet for the remainder of its life.
So what happened? Child birth has become the province of the medical profession. There’s nothing medical about the birth process. Medical, chemical and other mechanical interventions have become ‘normal’ to help the mother with little regard for the baby whose arrival into the world should be the most significant factor. Caesarian sections became more ordinary than natural vaginal births to cause the least pain to the mother. Many conscious mothers are making decisions now to have their babies in the most natural way and there’s still a long way to go in understanding the dynamics of the relationships created between the baby and the mother as well as the father as a result of the birth experience. A traumatic birth experience can create emotional havoc to a healthy spleen.
Baby Bonding
Most of us, at our birth, were separated from our mother to be washed, weighed and dressed by the midwife. Already the point of bonding has been broken; the baby looks into the eyes of the midwife and bonds with her, and then loses this bond forever. This moment causes deep injury in the baby, and weakens the spleen. How wonderfully enlightened are the birthing centres where the mother helps to birth her own baby with her sensitive loving hands and lifts her or him to her stomach where the baby can connect with its own impulses by finding its own way to the mother’s breast. A baby looking into its own mother’s eyes is the most wonderful, longed for moment for both mother and baby. This moment creates a bonding and attachment process that’s so empowering and enduring. The hormone oxytocin can then be discharged to facilitate the mother’s milk to flow, the baby to be nourished, and a feeling of happiness and love which is so discernable to every person who taken part.
At the time of birth any intervention will add damage to the spleen. Doctor Michel Odent has been exploring how interventions during a delivery affect the healthiness of that child later in life. He has certainly discovered that induction can be associated to Asperger’s Syndrome, and cranial haematoma (bleeding in the skull) brought about by forceps or suction is linked to eating disorders. What about the unexpected shock to a baby born by C-section? This is a huge trauma to the spleen. When the spleen is not functioning as it should our entire body is out of whack; these examples can severely affect both our nervous system and bowels.
What about before the birth? Our parents and grandparents were born from Victorian and post-Victorian parents where children and even teenagers should be seen and not heard. They experienced precious little bonding or nurturing. We’re all conceived from a generation of people with already compromised spleens; we never had an opportunity. No-one observes the spleen as it is not an understood organ. No-one with any certainty knows the results of having a feeble spleen.
Do not be worried if you’ve had your spleen extracted; with herbs and acupuncture you can maintain the dynamic meridian of the spleen.
Phylipa Dinnen is a mother of 4 children a Human Design Professional and a Consultant of Pre and Peri-Natal Birth Trauma. Along with her husband Graeme they run Resources For Life a natural health business in Chichester, West Sussex. For full info on Ancient Herbal Remedies for the spleen click here .
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