"Anthroposophic medicine does not view illness as failure on the patient's part,
nor is perfect health necessarily the goal. Illness is part of the human condition
and may even become a turning point in the patient's course of life. Rudolf Steiner,
in a lecture to young doctors and medical students, counseled them to develop and
maintain a strong "will to heal" -
The anthroposophic physician or therapist is also on a path of inner development.
In the anthroposophic view, if the doctor's or therapist's personal attributes do
not contribute to healing, then neither knowledge of threefold physiology and fourfold
spiritual anatomy, nor mastery of the complex language of minerals, plants, and animals
will bear fruit. The first step on the anthroposophic path, adn one to which the
doctor and therapist are encouraged to return again and again, is deep reverence
for all that manifests in nature and in each human being who seeks healing." -
Last updated 7May05
