GA 27

Fundamentals of Therapy

Grundlegendes für eine Erweiterung der Heilkunst nach geisteswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen

This book, addressed to doctors, is a fundamental presentation of a healing system fertilised and expanded by anthroposophy, according to whose guidelines anthroposophical medical work is carried out throughout the world today. It discusses an extension of the art of healing through spiritual knowledge. The authors had no thought of underrating the scientific medicine of their time. Their aim was to supplement the science already in existence by the illumination that can flow, from a true knowledge of the spirit, toward a living grasp of the processes of illness and of healing. Their purpose was to bring into new life, not the instinctive habit of the soul which still existed in the mysteries of ancient time, but a method of research corresponding to the fully evolved consciousness of modern man, which can be lifted into spiritual regions.

Contents

I.

True knowledge of the human being as the basis of medical art

II.

Why does man fall ill?

III.

The phenomena of life

IV.

The nature of the sentient organism

V.

Plant, animal, human being

VI.

Blood and nerve

VII.

The nature of healing effects

VIII.

Activities in the Human Organism. Diabetes mellitus

IX.

The role of protein in the human body and albuminuria

X.

The role of fat in the human organism and the deceptive local symptom complexes

XI.

The formation of the human body and gout

XII.

Structure and secretion of the human organism

XIII.

On the nature of illness and healing

XIV.

Of the Therapeutic Way of Thinking

XV.

The Cure

XVI.

Knowledge of remedies

XVII.

Knowledge of substances as the basis of knowledge of remedies

XVIII.

Curative Eurythmy

XIX.

Characteristic Cases of Disease

XX.

Typical Remedies

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner/Ita Wegman: Fundamentals of Therapy. An Extension of the Art of Healing through Spiritual Knowledge. Translated by E. A. Frommer and J. M. Josephson. Rudolf Steiner Press 1983, ISBN 0-85440-423-6 rsarchive.org
• Rudolf Steiner/Ita Wegman: Fundamentals of Therapy. Kessinger Publishing 2010, ISBN ‎ 978-1162594668

German

• Rudolf Steiner/Ita Wegman: Grundlegendes für eine Erweiterung der Heilkunst nach geisteswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen, GA 27 (1991), ISBN 3-7274-0270-9; Tb 701, ISBN 978-3-7274-7010-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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