VARICOSE VEINS – HORMONAL DISTURBANCES
If you reflect on the significance of the blood vessels and the blood, you can benefit from the Bible’s statement that ‘the soul of every sort of flesh is in the blood.’ Goethe’s words in Faust, ‘blood is a unique fluid’, express a similar thought. Everything in the body, its development and functions, depends on our blood and its quality, even our perceptions and feelings. If the blood is sound, our feelings and attitudes will also be healthy. We often hear about hormones, the glandular secretions present in the blood in minute concentrations, and how they influence the functions of the body and its physical activities. But this is not their only influence. They also affect our mental and emotional state and even have a bearing on our character and personality. Hormonal disturbances have been known to cause changes in character. Such thoughts make us feel very uncomfortable about taking another person’s blood through a blood transfusion. Not without reason did God strictly forbid the ancient Jews to take in blood in any form.
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