anthroposophic medicine

Forming a Grass-Roots Organization – Healing as a Social Task: Physicians’ Association for Anthroposophical Medicine (PAAM) Introduces the New Patient and Friends Organization

January 17, 2019/in 2019, anthroposophic medicine, Health /by Kirsten

by Stephen Johnson, DO A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members. ---Mahatma Ghandi Although being president of the Physicians’ Association for Anthroposophical Medicine (PAAM) can be a challenging task at times (especially saying the name), I appreciate the opportunity it affords me to meet so many good people from around the world. Recently, I have ... Read More ►

Dementia

August 26, 2018/in 2018, anthroposophic medicine, Eldercare, Health, Past Issues, Rudolf Steiner /by Kirsten

Renee Meyer, MD There is an advertisement picturing a middle-aged couple walking down the beach. As they walk, the woman’s image slowly dissolves, leaving just one beach walker. Families of people with dementia experience this feeling of dissolution and loss. In the early stage of dementia, the afflicted patients themselves can often feel loss and sorrow as their own organizational ... Read More ►

Anthroposophic Naturopathy: From Half Science to Whole Science

February 24, 2018/in 2018, anthroposophic medicine, Health, Holistic, Medicine /by Kirsten

By Robert Kellum, ND To fully understand anthroposophic naturopathy today, we need to be clear what naturopathic medicine is, and how anthroposophy can help it to evolve; to understand what path anthroposophy offers naturopathic medicine, and all medicine for that matter, to move forward toward the higher, integrative ground we all need. That ground can’t be defined by any one ... Read More ►

Winter 2018, Issue #90: Editor’s Note

February 24, 2018/in 2018, anthroposophic medicine, Health, Holistic, Medicine /by Kirsten

Hello LILIPOH Readers! We are getting a lot of thanks and appreciation for finally bringing back into print our Holistic Wellness Guide. Originally published in 1997, this fully updated edition of the Guide has a mission to empower the individuals, families, and caregivers in a practical and accessible way. This guide centers on home care and includes hundreds of recommendations on ... Read More ►

Quality of Life—An Exploration of Biography and Social Art

May 26, 2016/1 Comment/in anthroposophic medicine, Art, Health, Holistic, Social Health, Spirituality /by Christy

By Susan Crozier In 1996, I was 42-years-old and our family relocated to a new state. I was experiencing a difficult time of loneliness, anxiety and a loss of camaraderie. The outer landscape was beautiful but my interior one was a dark wood. "What direction will lead me out of this wood?" That year, Sunbridge College in Spring Valley, NY, was starting ... Read More ►

Finding a Living Relationship to the Therapeutic Process

April 6, 2016/in 2016, anthroposophic medicine, Health, Past Issues /by Kirsten

By Adam Blanning, MD Spring 2016, Campaign Finance and the Social Order in the 2016 Election - Issue #83, Vol. 21 There is a curious experience that comes about in the process of learning anthroposophic medicine and its remedies; that is, when you learn about the therapeutic use of a substance, you often then see a whole string of patients ... Read More ►

Cancer: The Disease of our Time

March 29, 2016/in 1999, anthroposophic medicine, Health, Holistic, Medicine, Past Issues /by Kirsten

Reprinted in part from Sozial Hygiene, Nos. 19 and 26 MD Summer 1999, Cancer: A New Approach - Issue #16 How Does Cancer Arise? Time and again doctors are asked: "What really is the cause of cancer?" This question can't be answered in a sentence. The increase in incidence indicates that the disease is related to our changed customs and ... Read More ►

Iris Germanica

March 29, 2016/in 2000, anthroposophic medicine, Farming, Medicine, Nature, Past Issues /by Kirsten

By Dr. Martin Schuepbach Summer 2000 - Issue #20 Next time you meet the glorious colors, curves and scent of an iris flower, look carefully. This is a plant recognized for millennia to have special meaning and benefits for humans. Its name is the key: Iris, the Greek goddess who was the messenger of the gods. Her symbol, the many-colored ... Read More ►

Diabetes, A Mandate

March 29, 2016/in 2000, anthroposophic medicine, Health, Medicine, Past Issues /by Kirsten

By Gerald Karnow, M.D., MD Fall 2000: Chronic Illness - Issue #21 Click Here to Buy the Issue! Everywhere in the media we read about the increasing incidence of diabetes. In the last decade, diabetes rose by 3.3% nationwide to 6.5% of the population. The immense increase of a chronic illness, with its personal, social and economic consequences, poses many questions. ... Read More ►

How to Treat Childhood Illness

March 29, 2016/in 2001, anthroposophic medicine, Children & Families, Health, Holistic, Nature, Past Issues /by Kirsten

By Philip Incao, MD Summer 2001, The Child - Issue #24 All of the common illnesses of childhood are inflammations. "Infection" is the wrong word for them because it suggests that we get sick because germs invade us. This is misleading. We are always exposed to, and often harbor, germs and yet we only occasionally get sick. Why do we ... Read More ►