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Zur Dreigliederung der Käfer
On the threefoldness of beetles
Beetles are regarded in their systematic relationships as a superorganism. Concerning their evolutionary differentiation, is there any relation between the different organ-systems most animals have and the different beetle families, genera or species? Proceeding from a threefold analysis of highly… Read More
Heileurythmiewirkung auf das rhythmische System
The effect of curative eurythmy on the rhythmical system
In anthroposophical medicine, eurythmy is used therapeutically in
many cases and with different forms of disease. We report on two studies in which the effects of this therapeutic approach were studied with respect to the rhythmical-functional order of cardiac and… Read More
Signaturen der Therapeutischen Sprachgestaltung in der Herzfrequenzvariabilität
Signatures of therapeutic speech formation in heart rate variability
Background: Anthroposophical Therapeutie Speech uses poems and exercises which typically induce rhythmical breathing. Speaking influences respiration, and thus directly, heart rate variability (I IRV) in particular via respiratory sinus arrhythmia which, together With… Read More
Die Manteltiere (Tunikaten) Aspekte zu ihrer Dreigliederung
The tunicates - aspects of their threefoldness
The concept of threefoldness (sense-nerve system, metabolic system, rhythmic system) is applied to the hermaphroditic tunicates with their classes Appendicularia, Thaliacea, and Ascidia.
Ascidians are sessile organisms with a tadpole-like free-swimming larvae but often with a purely… Read More
Dynamische Anatomie des Fuß-Skeletts und ihre Darstellung im Märchen vom Aschenputtel
Der Fuß, die menschlichste Gliedmaße
The foot - the most human limb
Physical support and movement are basic functions of the foot in standing and walking, demonstrating the action of gravity and metamorphosed sunlight as the energy source for all active body movements. Calcium is a substance with a special relation to gravity and bone. ln relation to phosphorus/calcium… Read More
Beiträge der klinischen Rhythmusforschung zur therapeutischen Physiologie
Contributions of clinical rhythm research to therapeutic physiology
In the controversy between different medical approaches (conventional, alternative etc.), dogmatically holding to one’s own position is as unproductive as polemical attacks on the approaches of others.
In clinical chronobiology and chronomedicine there is… Read More
Tycho Brahe in seiner gegenwärtigen Aktualität
Tycho Brahe and his modern significance - 14th December 1546 - 24th October 1601
On 24th October 1601 Tycho Brahe died. His life-work enabled Johannes Kepler’s discovcry of the so called Kepler’s laws. With Brahe and Kepler a thousand year old striving for the mathematical description of the planets’ orbits rcached its culmination.… Read More
Johannes Müller im 19. Jahrhundert
Johannes Müller in the 19th century - destiny of his life and work
Johannes Müller (1801-1858) was not only the leading German physiologist in the first half of the 19th century but the teacher of a whole generation of natural scientists including Hermann von Helmholtz, Ernst Brücke, Carl Ludwig, Emil Du Bois-Reymond, Rudolf Virchow and… Read More
Von der Umwandlungskraft der Luft
Transformation forces of the air
a contribution to the chemistry main lesson of the 9th class of Waldorf schools
We present a guide for the chemistry main lesson of the 9th class of Waldorf schools, especially taking into account the characteristics of animal and human catabolism (linking up With the overview of plant anabnlism… Read More
