2024-03-16 09:50:03
The fact that anthroposophical medicine is a “science” in itself is shown by its origins: around 1900, the penniless Goethe researcher developed it Rudolf Steiner his idea of a modern spiritual teaching, which later became anthroposophy. In the following years he gave thousands of lectures and became famous.
His followers soon suggested that he apply the doctrine to medicine as well. And as early as the 1920s, the first clinics, institutes and factories for spiritual anthroposophical medicine were established.
Anthroposophical medicine has little to do with natural science
Humans as an inverted plant, potentized metals or rhythmically cultivated plants that are supposed to cure diseases in organs because their leaves resemble the intestines: What seemed strange in the 1920s, when modern medicine emerged, still seems far from any scientific understanding today .
And yet anthroposophists are still trying to integrate their esoteric teachings from back then into evidence-based medicine. Large foundations finance chairs at the University of Witten/Herdecke and even at the Berlin Charité. Manufacturers like Weleda contribute money to large studies that are intended to selectively evaluate effectiveness according to higher scientific standards.
What evidence is there for its effectiveness?
This causes the Anthroposophical Medicine file to swell and calls for an investigation by the Science Cops. One thing is clear: Doctors work with a number of therapies whose benefits are not as easy to research as the effects of a tablet. But they seem to deny negative scientific findings. Can anthroposophical doctors manage the balancing act between spirituality and science?
The Quarks Science Cops determine what evidence there really is for the alleged effects of anthroposophical remedies.
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