Diagnostics, Therapy and Pharmaceutical Experiments

First, we will work on diagnosis of the members and the therapy arising from that, using a characteristic case-study from the book Extending Practical Medicine by Steiner/Wegman. This will take place over two consecutive afternoons. In the first, the diagnostic method is in the foreground. Then the possibilities of the night are taken into account practically. If I have taken in a picture of a case, a concrete patient situation with as many details as possible, the question arises what does it all say to me for possible therapy, for my therapeutic goal? I take this question into sleep and observe, how and what other aspects reveal themselves, when we take our own ideas regarding the state of illness and health of a patient to a higher wisdom.

“Morning is cleverer than the evening” is an old folk saying. Looking at the night from a spiritual-scientific point of view shows that, just as we look at everything during daytime from the aspect of the material-physical with the help of our senses, during the night we look at the same things and processes in a social-moral way, ie from a soul-spiritual aspect. Therefore the case studies are placed in such a way, so that the night lies between the discussion of diagnosis and that of therapy. We can thus learn in this way to take note of how particular thoughts or points of view can transform themselves solely because we have taken them consciously into the night.