ALL pain has one purpose, and one purpose only. It is a message that something is happening or is supposed to be happening. Every pain has a metaphysical meaning. I have placed a large database in the CCC Library (http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/CCCLib/ detailing illnesses and their underlying purposes.
Annette Noontil wrote The Body is the Barometer of the Soul – So Be Your Own Doctor (ISBN 0646197121 5). She speculates that our body chakras are in different positions from that we have traditionally come to understand.