Introducing Anthroposophical Medicine: The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner

Our task is to discover the real difference between those processes in the human organism that we call disease processes―which are basically quite normal, natural processes, even though specific causes must precipitate them―and the everyday processes that we call healthy. We must discover this radical distinction, but we shall not be able to do so if we cannot take up a way of looking at human beings that really leads to their essential nature.” ― Rudolf Steiner In these twenty lectures, given to medical doctors and students, Steiner presents a new approach to the art of healing, based on the insights of spiritual science. Considering modern medical knowledge and practice and deeply versed in alchemical, Paracelsian, and naturopathic approaches, as well as homeopathy, aroma therapy, and other “alternative” therapies, Rudolf Steiner demonstrates, based on his own research, how a truly integrated whole-person form of medicine is possible―one that accepts the human as a being of body, so