Organ Massage – Mercury/Quicksilver

Organ Massage:    Mercury/ Quicksilver

As far as I am aware there is no special organ massage for this substance.   I cannot find any organ massage protocol for this.

Brief Introduction:
As a substance mercury develops a relationship with water to create movement and dissolves substances.  Although considered an ‘earthly’ organ, Quicksilver processes seem to have an affinity with the lungs through respiration.

Knowledge of Metal:
Mercury appears sometimes in the form of a fluid metal, sometimes in the form of a hard brittle metal and sometimes in the form of a corrosive translucent salt called sublimate and sometimes in the form of a transparent white earth called mercurius dulcis.  It is also found in the red opaque volatile earth called Cinnabar.

Mercury is denser than iron and heavier than water and yet it is liquid.  The smallest movement can send it scattering into round droplet forms, yet its power of cohesion allows it to reunite easily again.  Quicksilver brings the forces of the planet mercury’s mental agility as the shining globules of this liquid metal form and reform so quickly.  Hermes was the messenger of the gods, so mercurial types make good link people. Likewise the metal mercury amalgamates and different metals can be brought together by dissolving them in mercury.  However it dislikes the earthly quality of iron and will not combine with it.  Mercury likes to go into an airy rather than earthly form.  The term ‘amalgamate’ is also used in commerce when different organisations amalgamate together.  This is a mercury-process, and Hermes was traditionally the god of commerce, (Kollerstrom, n.d.).

Mercurial processes within the body are valuable in the metabolic, respiratory lymph and glandular tissue.  In the digestion (and lymph) systems it facilitates the coming together of the ‘external’ substances and the human organism, merging together energy and body building processes.  In the lungs it connects us with life through the first inward breath and releases us into death with the last outward breath.  When there is imbalance in the lung region, mercury helps to counteract any inflammatory or consolidating states that would take hold, (Hauschka, 1966).

Organ Massage – The Bladder

Organ Massage:    The Bladder

Brief Introduction:
The bladder organ massage with the metal silver supports the functions of the brain and the uro-genital organs especially during conception and development of new life.  It carries the moon forces and has the opposite effect of lead within the body.

Knowledge of Metal:
Silver has an enlivening quality.  It is a soft, white, lustrous metal that has the highest electricial conductivity of any element.  It melts easily and can only be cast.  Silver has long been valued as a precious metal and used to make ornaments jewelry, high-value tableware, utensils,and currency coins.  Today, silver metal is also used in electrical contacts and conductors, in mirrors and in catalysis of chemical reactions. In mythology the pure silvery moon was associated with the chaste moon goddess, Artemis, the Huntress with the silver bow and arrow, and Diana, whoses images were cast in silver, (Kollerstrom, n.d.)

Silver reflects the action of the moon whose forces influence the rhythms in life.  The moon qualities of silver show an intimate connection with light as she reflects back light from the whole universe.  Starlight as well as sun light shines back to us in the moons reflection.  She receives light images passively and reflects them back just a mirror would.  Silver has an inner mobility that reflects it reproductive powers, like the ripples that form after throwing a stone into water.  In human beings we see the moon/silver forces in the body’s growth and building up processes, including the reproductive process that takes place within the warm and secret areas of the reproductive organs.  It also carries its forces to the brain where we are able to conceive ideas and reproduce these, thus reflecting the world in our thinking life, (Huschka, 1966).

Knowledge of Indications:
Silver is a valuable substance for restoring harmony and balance within the body, especially the rhythms.  In cases where women are finding it difficult to conceive, silver can restore rhythm and warmth to the body’s processes, especially regarding hormonal rhythms.  It is also useful for other genital disturbances in men and women.  In shock and trauma silver can help to preserve balance between the etheric and astral forces preventing hysteria and loss of boundaries.  It supports the nerve-sense system when the client has a tendency to migraine by restoring balance between the upper and lower poles of the body.  In the elderly silver can restore rhythm to micturition and in children elevate bedwetting problems, (Taruna, 2012).

Contraindications for Gallbladder Organ Massage:

• Menstruation
• An acute inflammatory condition
• Fever

Form, Dynamic and pace:

The massage describes a gently swinging half moon curve between the right and left iliac crests moving over the suprapubic area.  The right hand is held in a slightly curved position as it embraces the contours of the suprapubic area.
The left hand rests gently underneath the client’s right hip region in a warm, supportive gesture without applying any pressure.  Starting just beyond the left iliac crest, the right hand moves in a curve towards the right iliac crest and then swings back to the left.  This makes one movement and is repeated.  A third repetition from the left iliac crest finishes with a gentle outwards stroke beyond the right iliac crest.  Five swinging motions are made in all.
The practitioner holds a rhythmical pace bringing a new impulse to the process at the start of each swinging motion.

Organ Massage – The Spleen

Organ Massage:    The Spleen

Brief Introduction:

The spleen is an elastic, spongy organ that stores blood and regulates the inward and outward flow of body substances.  It has the ability to expand and contract as it manages our digestive rhythms, harmonizing rhythms between food intake and the regular rhythm of the blood flow.  It has a high proportion of lymphatic tissue indicating that it plays an important immunological role within the body.  The spleen is considered to connect strongly with cosmic rhythms and has a strong affinity with our outermost planet, Saturn.  Just as Saturn separates the planets from the rest of the cosmos, it is possible to consider that a ‘Saturn sheath’ surrounds the spleen reminding us of our long forgotten spiritual connections.

Knowledge of Metal:

Lead has an affinity with our outermost planet of Saturn and offers protection from a number of harmful earthly substances such as radiation and heat.

Lead is a bright and silvery metal (with a slight shade of blue) in a dry atmosphere; it starts to tarnish upon contact with air.  The characteristic properties of lead include having a high density and although it is soft and pliable it has poor malleability and is easily broken when rolled or stretched (Pelikan, 1973).  Lead is a poor conductor of electricity compared to other metals; it has a high resistance to corrosion and the ability to react with organic chemicals.  Lead has a strong relationship with the warmth processes and expands dynamically when heated and contracts strongly when cooled.  Despite leads affinity to warmth, heat moves slowly through the substance of this metal, it is as if each particle of lead wants to keep the heat for itself rather than sharing it with other particles. Lead is not changed by light; rather it integrates light within the darkness of its own substance thus showing it affinity with the spleen where light is also considered to be integrated into the darkness of the organ.  Lead lacks moisture indicating that leads heavy, dark characteristics have a relationship to death, (Hausckha, 1966).

As Saturn provides a protective outer boundary for the solar system, so lead processes have an important protective role within in the human body especially regarding the core temperature.  In the human body one of leads activities is building bone (Hausckhka, 1966) for it is lead that carries on the process from cartilage building (tin) to the end conclusion of bone mineralization (hardening).  This is necessary for a healthy, active and workable bone structure that carries us through the physical world.  The strange thing is that in the mist of this ‘dead’ bone substance is the bone marrow where red blood cells, new life, are created.  On the one hand we have hardening and death; on the other new life and resurrection, the gift that brings us independent consciousness so we ‘know who we are’, (Pelikan, 1973).

Because lead has an intense relationship to warmth, its substance has the ability to combine with sugar in the body.  In this way lead processes relates to our most spiritual aspect as it supports the ego, the ‘I’ organisation, which lives entirely in states of warmth.  In a healthy state it maintains the balance between the warming and cooling processes in the body.  This member also governs the astral forces so that actions towards our self and within the world demonstrate respect and appropriate social behaviour.  Loss of balance between these warming and cooling processes can result in an imbalance in an ego-directed soul life, sclerosis within the body’s blood vessels, (especially the arteries) and joints or in the brittleness of bone and failing senses as we grow older, (Hausckha, 1966).

Knowledge of Indications:

As a therapeutic substance, lead is pharmaceutically prepared to adjust itself to the intensions of the ego, the “I” organisation and used to enhance these intensions whenever they are too weak, (Pelikan, 1973).  Lead has renewing and transforming qualities and its properties make it a valuable remedy in helping our soul (astral) and spirit (I- organisation) penetrate the physical and etheric elements in such a way that we are able to ‘know who we are’ and assert our true nature within the world.  Thus during our lifetime, our physical body (bony framework) allows us carry our impulses into the world with vitality and passion.  Lead is a valuable remedy when this healthy, dynamic balance is lost as it can stimulate the constitution to return to healthy instincts.  It especially strengthens the ‘I’ organisation in times when we feel we have lost our way in life, (Pelikan, 1973).

During childhood the ‘I’ being and astral forces shape the physical body into instrument that allows the individual to carry these impulses into the world.  If the building up processes (anabolic) within the bone is too active they may reject the forming processes that are necessary for healthy bone development.  Body substances remain too warm and too fluid so the natural bone mineralization is hindered.  In these cases lead is a valuable remedy as it normalizes the building up and forming processes allowing the “I” and astral principles to penetrate the bone and blood elements as they should.  This integration is vital for future physical and spiritual maturity, (Pelikan, 1973).  Lead is also a valuable substance as we age for it acts as a decomposing agent in cases of arthrosclerosis where plaque deposits within the walls of the vascular system.  It allows the ‘I’ organisation to continue governing the astral forces in an integrated way, minimizing the possibility for its destructive hardening forces to take hold (Taruna, 2012).

In issues of morality, lead strengthens the forces of the ‘I’ organisation within the body thus helping us to be aware of our actions within the world.  In this way it can be a counter agent against immoral tendencies towards the self, for example suicidal intentions, or wrong actions towards others or within the societal environment.  In cases of addiction, it strengthens the ‘I’ organisations control over the astral forces cravings of substances; for example alcohol, that would otherwise lead to intoxication rendering the ego (and therefore the individual) powerless.  As a remedy lead also helps to counteract an arrhythmic lifestyle, sleep disturbances, feelings of depression, metabolic weaknesses, and nutritional disturbances, loss of appetite and food allergies, (Taruna, 2012).

Contraindications for Spleen Massage:

• An acute inflammatory condition
• Fever
• Should not be done over an extended period of time for children

Form, Dynamic and pace:

• The spleen is located in the upper left quadrant of the body just below the diaphragm and is protected under the lower left ribs.  The practitioner stands at the side of the bed on the client’s right side at a comfortable angle to the table.  The left hand rests gently underneath the client’s right rib region in a supportive gesture without applying any pressure.  The right hand describes a rhythmical, changing lemniscate.
• Starting at the waistline above the iliac fossa the first loop is performed with full, warm contact over the area of the spleen.  The hand moves with a lifting quality over the skin encompassing the lateral ribs within the movement.  Inwardly we relate wholly to the organ as we do this.  At the upper turn of the lemniscate this lifting quality is relaxed as the hand turns and comes back towards the body making a smaller loop.  The smaller loop is ‘almost contracted into a turning point that is breathing’.  We go far out inwardly as if we want to take new impulses for the Saturn sphere bringing them back to give to the spleen.
• The client should experience a spleen organ massage as a very quiet yet larger movement.  The movement flows from behind the practitioner, through the arm from the shoulder streaming out through the hand in a warm, gentle rhythmical movement.  As the movement streams up toward the outer (Saturn) sphere it gathers new impulses and brings them back for the next lemniscate movement.  After seven repetitions the movement finishes with a gentle lifting of the hand medial to the iliac fossa.