Paracelsus, Troxler, Rudolf Steiner - die historischen Wurzeln und methodischen Grundlagen der anthroposophischen Medizin

Abstract: Paracelsus, who was born 500 years ago (1493-1541) aimed at a reestablishment of medicine, where the medical traditions from the ancient world were intended to be replaced by "experience", by a concrete study of the diseases and drugs "in the light of nature". Paracelsus not only meant it in the sense of an external sensory observation by science which began to develop in his era, he also meant it in the sense of a higher transcendental experience. In his opinion, the life of an organism was the result of an immaterial organization of forces ("Archäus"), where cosmic forces were active, too. These forces have also to be taken into consideration by the physician in a therapy. The physician and philosopher L P. V Troxler (1780-1866) anticipated the one-sidness of science, which was already well developed but which was confined to the material things and therefore he aimed, with reference to Paracelsus, at an enlargement of the human knowledge, which would make possible a scientific study of the immaterial things in man (live, soul and mind). Such a science, already called "Anthroposophy" by Troxler, has than been founded in a modern sense by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). lt allows a scientific extension of medicine from the realm of matter into the realms of life, soul and spirit.

Keyword(s): Anthroposophie

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