Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine, Vol. 1

by Friedrich Husemann MD, Lisa Davisson (Primary Contributor), Peter Luborsky (Translator)

Today's medicine is strongly influenced by natural science, which focuses entirely on the material nature of reality. Molecular biology has become the foundation of modern medicine with the result that today's medical industry chases after technology to solve all its problems. In the process it is losing its own essence as it moves into fields increasingly alien to human nature as a whole. Nevertheless, many doctors are beginning to reexamine this exclusive worldview in favor of a more wholistic approach to healing. To this end, anthroposophical medicine encompasses a wide range of healing modalities, including orthodox, allopathic medicine. The Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine explores the body's relationship to soul and spirit on the basis of Rudolf Steiner's insights into the activities of the spiritual world. Edited by doctors Friedrich Husemann and Otto Wolff, this book invites us to an in-depth view of a true alternative to materialistically oriented medicine. Chapters include essays on childhood development and diseases; the disorders of old age; neuroses and psychological imbalances; pharmacology; healing plants; biochemistry and pathology; blood-work; and special diagnostic techniques. This first of a multi-volume series is an invaluable tool to all who want to extend the practice of medicine to include the whole human being.

414 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

Reviews

[Paul Bowman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Diabetes per se can only occur in humans and not animals because they uniquely have an ego organization and not only an astral and etheric body of the other animals. This book is needed by family practice and internal medicine physicians (or General practitioners-GP’s).

To successfully treat the cause and not just the symptom complex of the diabetic patient, the physician must develop the mind and consciousness sufficiently so they can see beyond the outer appearances of things and have the noetic capacity (etheric thinking) to KNOW what is really wrong with the patient. The ordinary physician does much harm to the patient by palliative measures and or suppressing the semiotics (signs and symptoms) AND IN EFFECT, “shooting the messenger .” #bowmanhealth #holistichealthinstitute