Extending Practical

Medicine : Fundamental
Principles Based on the
Science of the Spirit
 By
Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner Press
 Written in 1925 (CW 27)

In this classic introductory work on spiritual medicine, Rudolf

Steiner worked in a unique literary collaboration with the physician
Ita Wegman. Their aim was to revitalize the art of healing through
spiritual knowledge--yet in so doing they did not underrate or
dismiss modern allopathic medicine; rather, they illumined ordinary
medicine beyond its materialistic outlook to a fuller realization of
the human condition. As Ita Wegman wrote in her preface: "The aim
was not to underestimate scientific medicine in an amateurish way;
it was given full recognition. But it was important to add to existing
knowledge the insights that can come from true perception of the
spirit, enabling us to understand the processes of illness and
healing."

Today this new extension of practical medicine--generally called

"anthroposophical medicine"--is used and valued by many
physicians in numerous clinics around the world.

Contents:

Foreword by Dr. Michael Evans

1. Understanding the True Nature of Man as a Basis of Medical

 Practice
2. Why Do People Fall Ill?
3. The Phenomena of Life
4. On the Nature of the Sentient Organism
5. Plant, Animal, Man
6. Blood and Nerve
7. The Nature of Medicinal Actions
8. Activities in the Human Organism--Diabetes Mellitus
9. The Role of Protein in the Human Body and Proteinuria
10. The Role of Fat in the Human Organism and Deceptive Local
Symptom Complexes
11. The Configuration of the Human Body and Gout
12. Development and Separating-off Processes of the Human
Organism
13. On the Nature of Illness and Healing
14. The Therapeutic Way of Thinking
15. The Method of Treatment
16. Perceiving Medicinal Qualities
17. Perceiving the Nature of Substances as a Basis of
Pharmacognosy
18. Eurythmy Therapy
19. Characteristic Illnesses
20. Typical Medicines

This volume is a translation from the German of Grundlegendes für

eine Erweiterung der Heilkunst nach geisteswissenschaflichen
Erkenntnissen (GA 27).

Rudolf Steiner Press

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