The Healing Process
Spirit, Nature & Our Bodies
11 lectures, Aug. 28, 1923ug. 29, 1924 (CW 319)
Rudolf Steiner,
Foreword by Richard Leviton,
Introduction by Christopher Bamford,
Translation by Catherine E. Creeger

Rudolf Steiner, a scientist by training, lectured and wrote,
at different times on medical subjects and advised physicians
on their work. His view of medicine was both unconventional
and precise. He could describeased on his highly developed
powers of observation and his spiritual researchrocesses of
health and disease that escape conventional methods of medical
observation.

In all his lectures to doctors and in his explanations of anthroposophic
medicine, Steiner emphasized that his medical concepts are not
intended to replace conventional Western medicine, but to extend it;
diagnosis and healing methods are expanded to include our soul and spirit.

In these broadly ranging talks, Steiner introduces fundamental
principles of anthroposophically extended medicine. Some of the
most remarkable insights that anthroposophy brings to medicine
are contained in this volume. For example, Steiner points out that
the heart is not a pump and that its motion is a consequence, not
the cause, of rhythmic movements in human beings.

Topics include:

• Health problems, such as hay fever, migraine, sclerosis,
  cancer, tuberculosis, typhoid, and childhood diseases
• The polarity between nerve and liver cells
• The functions of the spleen and the gallbladder
• The three basic processes of sensory-nervous system,
  rhythmic system, and metabolic-limb system
• Regenerative and degenerative processes
• The true nature of the nervous system
• Plus many suggestions for the use of minerals, plants,
  and artistic therapies in healing.