@article{10.18756/jfg.2013.209,
	title = {{Der Kampferbaum und die Lauraceen}},
	shorttitle = {{Der Kampferbaum und die Lauraceen}},
	author = {Kalisch, Michael},
	journal = {Jahrbuch für Goetheanismus},
	year = {2013},
	volume = {2013},
	pages = {209--286},
	url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.18756/jfg.2013.209},
	doi = {10.18756/jfg.2013.209},
	issn = {Print :1866-4830 Online : 2750-2341 },
	language = {de},
	abstract = {},
	annote = {The first part of this paper deals with the camphor tree Cinnamomum camphora L J PRESL a member of the Lauraceae family and a source of the therapeutically significant etheric oil camphor This study addresses the question as to whether a thorough treatment of the therapeutic and toxic effects of camphor as well as of the morphological and other botanical features of the tree can be grasped as a unified picture or whether there manifest forces in the substanceforming which do not reveal themselves in the form of the treeThe second part gives an overview of the Lauraceae which hitherto have not been studied by the Goethean method It serves as background for the presentation of the camphor tree  as a living context in which the features of this tree can only really be described with regard to its metamorphic processes This includes descriptions of two groups of New and OldWorld Cinnamonum species The peculiarities of the most important genera that according to current thinking make up the main groups of the Lauraceae and which also represent the evolution and bio geography of the family are characterised In doing so attention is above all directed at the shapes of the inflorescences their positions in the vegetative shoots and the shapes of the leaves size venation and arrangement It is this approach that enables us to obtain pictures for the respective interplay of astral and etheric forces in the plant thus bringing us closer to the essential being of the plant These  processpictures of the metamorphoses of etheric and astral interactions can in turn throw light on the occurrence and character of certain secondary constituents Finally the question is investigated as to why polar opposite secondary substances etheric oils and alkaloids occur together in the Lauraceae and how this is connected with the archetype of the trees form For an external comparison this investigation draws on distantly related families  the Loganiaceae with their very toxic alkaloids and the La biates as the typical family for the formation of etheric oils}
}