Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1671/en

Further toward the interior of the abdomen follows the intestine. Its end, the large intestine, processes microbially a portion of the remaining food residues and excretes what can no longer be made use of. This too is a process that stands under the influence of the Moon. The beginning of the intestine is formed by the small intestine, a long tube laid in loops with an inwardly almost boundless surface. Here the Venus-working provides for the sifting of the nutritive substances — excreting toward the large intestine on the one side, and secreting the digestive juices into the lymph and blood vessels on the other. This is supported and modified by the working of Mercury. It makes itself felt in the rhythmic movement-processes of peristalsis, the intestinal villi, extending to the dynamics of glandular secretion and the substance-streams passing through the intestinal walls. The Mercury forces place themselves as mediator between the working of Moon and Venus. They adapt themselves on the one hand to the ever-changing conditions; on the other hand the Mercury-working crosses boundaries that separate an inside from an outside.