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Tables of Contents for The Healing Process
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Introduction
xi
Richard Leviton
Healing Methods Based on Spiritual Science
Penmaenmawr, England August 28, 1923
Disease processes as natural processes Human organization subdivided into the three fundamental processes considered by medical science Migraine Typhoid fever The polarity between nerve and liver cells The antimony process, the proteinizing process, and the polarity between them The quartz process Tuberculosis The phosphorus process in therapy The relationship of these processes to plant forms and the human organism The importance of education for health and illness Curative eurythmy
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19
Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Production of Remedies Based on Spiritual Science
London September 2, 1923
Spleen function Effects of minute quantities Establishing a rational connection between diagnosis and treatment The three basic processes: sensory-nervous system, rhythmical system, and metabolic-limb system Generalized exudative conditions Hay fever and its treatment Substances in the plant process: Cichorium intybus Gallbladder function and the sensory-nervous system Migraine: Biodoron The importance of process in manufacturing remedies Healing with processes
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15
London September 3, 1923
Thinking, feeling, willing and the threefold nature of the human organism Fallacy of the concept of sensory and motor nerves Cardiac activity and circulation as consequences of the movement of fluids Metabolism as an act of will External and internal elimination Regenerative and degenerative processes and mental activity The configuration of the brain and the silica process The rhythm of polar processes Typhoid-antimony Carcinoma-mistletoe Curative eurythmy Treatment derived from diagnosis that recognizes the human being
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18
Anthroposophic Spiritual Science and Medical Knowledge
Vienna October 2, 1923
The scientific character of anthroposophy Conscious development of soul forces An exact understanding of the suprasensible members of the human constitution and their importance for medical thinking
53
5
Medicine and Anthroposophical Insight Into the Human Being
The Hague November 15, 1923
General principles of anthroposophical medical research Studies on spleen function and on the efficacy of minute quantities New methods of cognition based on the development of soul faculties Understanding the physical, etheric, and astral bodies and the I-being The interaction of these four members Diagnosis and healing Processes outside and inside the human being Hay fever Uniting diagnosis and treatment Cichorium intybus Anise
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The Hague November 16, 1923
The threefold human organism. The silica/phosphorus process in the eye; the lead process as its polarity Sclerosis and its treatment Milk, honey, sugar The silver process and the development of form; phosphorus as the form-dissolving principle Calcium-exhalation; phosphorus--inhalation; their relationship to sleep Migraine typhoid fever, and Cancer; their treatment Curative eurythmy, artistic eurythmy, and speech
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24
What Can the Art of Healing Gain from the Spiritual Scientific Perspective?
Arnheim July 17, 1924
The anthroposophical view of education and medicine The development of thinking, feeling, and willing Meditation Thought exercises Strengthening memory Self-knowledge Natural and cosmic laws Transforming feeling; strengthening thinking Love as a cognitive force Immortality and the prebirth state Regenerative and degenerative tendencies and the balance between them Regenerative and degenerative natural processes as therapeutic processes Uniting insight and medicine Therapeutic centers in association with centers of knowledge
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16
Arnheim July 21, 1924
The physical body and ether body cause regeneration; the astral body and I-being cause degeneration Relationship of the human organism to the three kingdoms of nature Threefoldness Polarity Variations in intensity of the silica process in different parts of the body Respiration, carbon dioxide, and metabolism; silica and the sensory system Diagnosis and therapy: Equisetum arvense, Cichorium intybus Typhoid fever Cancer Healing as a rational art
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14
Arnheim July 24, 1924
The four higher members Waking and sleeping The effect of lead on the astral body and I-being Sclerosis Silver and the digestive process The iron process Gray and white matter in the brain The I and the brain Migraine Relationship of the human being to the natural world Regenerative and degenerative forces; the seasons in the life cycle of Plants Cancers become earthlike; mistletoe does not touch the earth Hay fever Spiritual development and illness The courage to heal
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The Art of Healing From the Perspective of Spiritual Science
London August 28, 1924
The possibility of insight into health and illness Training the soul to understand the suprasensible The ether body strives upward; the physical body is subject to gravity Astral body and sensation Regeneration and degeneration Thinking, feeling, and willing mingle in animals but are separated in humans: the I The I-being and the structure of the brain The relationship of the four members of the human constitution The relationship of quartz formation and carbon dioxide to the spirit The I and SiO2; the astral body and CO2 The ether body predominates in cancer, the astral body in Graves' disease
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15
London August 29, 1924
The relationship between spirituality in nature and spirituality in the human organism Mineral-I, plant-astral body, animal-ether body Cancer and mistletoe Graves' disease and chalcocite Studying the waking and sleeping states leads to an understanding of sclerosis and the effects of lead Remedy production that takes spiritual forces into account Immortality and prebirth, childhood diseases, rickets, phosphorus treatment The medicine of the ancient mysteries and the modern science of initiation
162
15
Further Reading
177
4
The Foundations of Anthroposophical Medicine Lectures and Writings by Rudolf Steiner
181
2
Index
183