Duodenal Complaints

The duodenum is an unassuming stretch of intestine — barely thirty centimeters long, right behind the stomach. But its task is enormous: it is the first station at which what you have taken in is truly processed. The stomach breaks down and checks. The duodenum takes over — mixing in digestive juices, splitting, making things usable. It is the threshold between intake and integration. Between what comes in and what actually becomes part of you.

When this area falls ill — with inflammation, ulcers, cramping, chronic irritation — it is medically a sign of excess acidity, stress, infection. From a psychosomatic perspective, a different question arises: What in your life refuses to be processed? Which experiences, impressions, confrontations are stuck — between intake and acceptance, between swallowing and digesting?