…putting the ‘CARE’ back into ‘healthcare’.
Posted in Asperger's Syndrome, Diagnosis, Inside The Consult Room, Therapeutics on Feb 22nd, 2012
I enjoyed this week’s episode of This American Life, which included the story of David Finch who recently authored a book called The Journal of Best Practices, about his coming to terms with his late-discovered diagnosis of Aspergers Syndrome, and how he learned to compensate for his social incongruencies and emotional deficits within his marriage. [...]
Posted in Healthy Emotional Expression, Inside The Consult Room on Feb 21st, 2012
They say that “youth is wasted on the young”, and I certainly spent my formative years wandering without a plan, from one subject of interest to the next. I began university enrolled in one course of study, but graduated from a completely different department. When I began my B.A. In Psychology, I was full of [...]
Posted in Hydration, Inside The Consult Room, Regimen on Feb 20th, 2012
Becoming healthy can seem daunting and even complex to someone who suddenly decides that they need to dramatically turn the direction of their life around, for whatever reason. At whatever stage someone is working on their health, I always recommend small incremental baby steps on their journey from point ‘A’ to point ‘Z’. Like a [...]
Posted in Diagnosis, Inside The Consult Room, Principles, State of Health on Feb 19th, 2012
The mode of diagnosis in Heilkunst works in a unique way, as I’ve explored in recent blogs. At first it is difficult to understand what Dr. Hahnemann meant when he instructed the Heilkunst Physician to “participate” rather than “observe” the patient. What exactly does he mean by this? We are so used to the language [...]
Posted in Allopathic Medicine, Anthroposophy, Cancer, Diagnosis, Inside The Consult Room, State of Mind, Therapeutics on Feb 18th, 2012
I briefly described the four bodies in yesterday’s post, and now I’d like to take a bit of a closer look at the ontic organization (fourth body). As I mentioned yesterday, the birth of the ontic organization happens somewhere around the age of three, and one of the significant markers of this event is the [...]
Posted in Anthroposophy, Diagnosis, Inside The Consult Room, Principles on Feb 17th, 2012
Previously in this series on physiology, I described the difference between the radial and spherical forces, as the fundamental polarity which every process is built upon. Today I want to describe another basic perspective we use in understanding physiology as applied in our diagnosis, namely, the four bodies of the human being. The first and [...]
Posted in Healing, Inside The Consult Room, Regimen on Feb 16th, 2012
Becoming and staying healthy is simple in some ways, and complex in others. What are some of the common stumbling blocks that patients have had? In no particular order: Misinformation. Health is one of the largest industries in our modern economy, and like any area of human activity, is full of both good and bad. [...]
Posted in Inside The Consult Room, Principles, State of Health on Feb 15th, 2012
Patients typically respond eagerly to the concept of ‘resonance’, and start to explore what it would mean in their life. This is a positive thing, as the greater the resonance operating in someone’s life, the greater will be their overall health and satisfaction in life. What most patients don’t realize at first, is that resonance [...]
Posted in Diagnosis, Healing, Inside The Consult Room, Materia Medica, State of Mind, Tuberculinum on Feb 14th, 2012
I recently wrote about the little girl who was obsessed with the thought of being arrested and put in jail, and how this wasn’t getting any better until I figured out that I was using the wrong remedy for her state of mind (I was using Lachesis which is related to guilt in the sense [...]
Posted in Diagnosis, Inside The Consult Room, Migraine, Principles, Ulcers on Feb 13th, 2012
The study of physiology within Medical Heilkunst is considerably different from that of conventional medicine which begins and ends with a biochemical model (not surprising given the biochemical model of the drugs used). Rather than a biochemical model, Heilkunst instead studies physiology in terms of the ‘powers’, ‘forces’, and ‘energies’ which govern all of our [...]
