Duden 130: "'Flux' is the name for pains a woman felt inside from matter flowing in her body. The women also spoke of 'flux' when something flowed from their body"
"inner flux" (a source of pains, aches, especially when it is not moving, or "stagnating")
a "dry flux" or "absent flux" is cause for concern -- "the perception of the inner space as a space of induration and stoppage" (132)
176: all of Storch's prescriptions "were all meant to achieve the same thing: an opening. His enire practice was like a ritual intended to dissolve the death that was trying to gain control of the woman's inside under the sign of hardening"
death = the "final stagnation" (176)
"outer flux" ("periodic discharges," "oozing sores," "the evacuation of 'humoral matter'")
women "might sense the movement of the flowing matter inside themselves for years" (131)