Anthroposophical

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Anthroposophical medicine is an alternative medicine founded in the 1920s by Rudolf Steiner in conjunction with doctor Ita Wegman. The adherents see that it focuses on ensuring that the conditions for health are present in a person, and that combating illness is often necessary but is insufficient alone. They think it as a holistic and salutogenetic approach to health.
This approach to medicine begins from the proposition that true healing takes place when the body is stimulated to overcome the influences that cause illness, whether these arise from its own constitution or the environment — whether they be poisonous substances, antagonistic organisms (bacterial or viral), or psychological states. The adherents stress that under circumstances where it is not possible to support the body's own resistance, it may be necessary to overcome symptoms by purely external means such as surgery and allopathic medicine offer. They see that anthroposophical medicine provides an extension of conventional medical approaches rather than an alternative to these, and conventional medicines and therapies may also be employed.
As a variety of influences may cause illness, a corresponding range of treatment possibilities are employed. Therapeutic approaches presently used by anthroposophical doctors include anthroposophic remedies based upon homeopathic principles, oil dispersion baths, massage therapy, artistic therapies to heal the psychological causes of illness, and biographical therapy to establish or re-establish a sense of life purpose in the ill person. There are specialized trainings in each of these therapeutic professions, as well as in anthroposophical nursing and medicine. An anthroposophic doctor must also have a medical degree from an established and certified medical school.
Anthroposophic medicine has been criticized for involving a variety of metaphysical entities and being based on what amounts to sympathetic magic

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