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Medicine Health

Healing for Body, Soul and Spirit

Hope and Healing for Body, Soul, & Spirit

This revised and expanded edition is a comprehensive introduction to Anthroposophic Medicine by a physician with a lifetime's experience. The introduction makes clear that this approach is an extension beyond allopathic medicine to incorporate a missing spiritual dimension and therefore postulates subtler aspects to the human being with corresponding vehicles - physical, life, soul and spirit. Each of these aspects is explained in greater detail along with the physiological classification of metabolic – limb, nerve – sense and rhythmic systems. Correspondingly, imbalances occur if either anabolic or catabolic processes predominate. There are then chapters on medicines and various forms of therapy - including artistic - and an explanation of the important role of inner development as well as applications to psychiatry and immunity, including the genesis of cancer and its relation to formative forces. Practitioners will find the resource section useful, which also includes sample therapeutic communities.