The medicinal use of metals plays a considerable role in the anthroposophical system of medicine founded by Rudolf Steiner. However, an abundance of indications about metals and how safe they relate to the human organism, often given from varying standpoints, makes it difficult to gain a comprehensive view of this wide field.

The following is an attempt to indicate common principles and show ways of combining many of these varying standpoints, thus allowing common features to emerge. The author makes no claim to completeness, which is something only attainable through collaboration by many colleagues.

The metals in question are the seven classical metals lead, tin, iron, gold, copper, mercury and silver whose relationship with the seven planets Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and Moon has bee known since ancient times. In extensive laboratory experiments over the last few decades L. Kolisko has clearly substantiated the relationship between these planets and the seven metals. …

Hans Joachim Pohl

Original title: Planetenwirken im Menschen. Der Merkurstab 1992; 2:112-119.
Der Merkurstab 1992;45(2):112-119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14271/DMS-16068-DE
English by Johanna Collis, MIL.
This translation is published with the kind permission of the journal Der Merkurstab.

JAM Vol. 9(3), Autumn 1992

Between August 1985 and June 1987, sixty patient with chronic inflammatory bowel disease (31 with Chron’s disease, 29 with ulcerative colitis) were included in a study at Herdecke Community Hospital (Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus) in Germany. The aim was to look for additional criteria for differentiation between ulcerative colitis and Chron’s disease patients as regards psychology, biography and follow-up. The study included all patients admitted to the 32-bed gastroenterology department of the hospital during the above period on account of an acute episode of inflammatory bowel disease. Patients admitted with other diagnoses, who in the course of their stay were found to have inflammatory bowel disease aas well, were not included, nor were patients who came in for a check-up but were not in an acute phase. An interview based on a semi-standardized questionnaire served to establish every patient’s biography and medical history. Progress was recorded, with the patients asked to fill in stools records daily and a general condition record twice a week; the later was also presented to the physician in charge of the patient, though in a slightly different form.

Klaus Fischer

Original title: Colitis ulcerosa- und Morbus Crohn-Patienten in psychischer und biographischer Hinsicht - eine Studie, Teil I .
Der Merkurstab 1989;42(4):189-203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14271/DMS-15441-DE
English by Anna R. Meuss, FIL, MITI.
This translation is published with the kind permission of the journal Der Merkurstab.

JAM Vol. 9(3), Autumn 1992