Awakening to Child Health - Vol. I
Holistic Child and Adolescent Development

Raoul Goldberg MD

Hardbound

$30.00

Awakening to Child Health - Vol. 1, is an exquisitely beautiful and warm portrait of child development and the health-giving impact of a warm and nurturing environment on the emerging human being. I should be clear that this is *not* a home medical care guidebook. It is something that I've always that was very needed - an exploration (in clear and common English) of the nature of childhood with lots of examples and considered discussions.

In other words, this is a book about children, who and what they are, what they need to develop into healthy adults, what they need to be healthy and strong as they grow. The knowledge, warmth and wisdom of Awakening to Child Health is truly life enhancing, at every level.

This book is wonderful - the sort you'll read, explore and be grateful to have known for years and years to come.

Contents:

1. Meeting Children and Your Inner Child
2. The Prenatal Journey of the Incarnating Child
3. Body, Soul, and Spirit and the Three Births of Childhood
4. The Heavenly Years from Birth to Three
5. The Golden Years from Three to Seven
6. The Beautiful and Healthy Years from Seven to Fourteen
7. Puberty to Adulthood
8. Seven Life Processes, Four Temperaments, Three Physical Types and Seven Character Types
9. Awakening to the Self and Identity

Anthroposophical Therapeutic Speech

Barbara
Denjean-von Strik

Dietrich von Bonin

Softbound

$50.00

Written for speech therapists and doctors, this book gives a precise, practical summary of anthroposophical therapeutic speech.

Speech formation, or creative speech, is based on the ancient art of recitation and drama, and was revived and fundamentally redeveloped by Rudolf and Marie Steiner in the early 1920s. This therapeutic work is based on speech exercises and indications on how to use them, as given by Rudolf Steiner.

Contents:

• Part One: Foundations of Therapeutic Speech
• Historical Development
• The Significance of Air
• Speech As Formed Exhalation
• Artistic Means
• Relationship between the Artistic Means and the Human Being
• “Knowledge of the Human Being” with Regard to Speech
  
  
• Part Two: The Practice of Therapeutic Speech
• General Diagnosis in Therapeutic Speech
• Aspects of Therapy
• Neurathenia and Hysteria: A Medical-Artistic Comparison
• Observations of Some Illnesses with Case Examples
• Further Case Examples
• Typical Speech Disorders, Their Assignment to the Articulation Regions, and Therapy
• Processes of Development

The Therapeutic Eye
How Rudolf Steiner Observed Children

Peter Selg

Softbound

$15.00

Rudolf Steiner’s extraordinary ability to perceive the inner nature and development of children provided insights at many levels and areas of the creative learning process. He spoke of this ability as a precondition for all forms of healthy childhood education—including special education—and suggested that teachers should develop such a capacity within themselves.

This process involves the recreation of the child within oneself, based on what we are able to observe in the child’s physical appearance, temperament, ways of moving, and environment. In The Therapeutic Eye, Dr. Peter Selg discusses Steiner’s views on childhood development, how teachers can look at children, and ways that these approaches can be used to develop lessons and classroom activities to deal with behavioral extremes and learning challenges.

The Therapeutic Eye is a valuable resource for teachers and parents - well worth studying again and again.

A Living Physiology

Karl König

Softbound

$34.95

A Living Physiology is a phenomenological exploration of the human being that we believe can become as important a resource as Steiner's Foundations of Human Experience (aka Study of Man). As a physician with a specialty in homeopathy and long experience with developmental disabilities, König was wonderfully qualified to develop and unite biological physiology with Steiner's spiritually-based biological insights. In this book he brings the two together and places them before us in ways that enable us to also see and understand others and ourselves in ways that can open our hearts and inspire our will to help and to transform.

König discussions of 'The Circle of the Senses', 'The Four Lower' and 'The Three Higher' senses detail the inner experience and organ of each of the twelve senses, the effect on the self and the aberrations, developmental handicaps and fundamental soul experiences for each sense.

'The Seven Life Processes' are related to the senses, ethers, planetary spheres, endocrine glands and pathologies. 'The Temple of our Existence' builds on the second coming of Christ in the realm of the etheric and the four kings in Goethe's Fairy Tale. König describes the cosmic evolution, embryological development and psychological development of the four meteorological organs – the heart, bladder/kidney, liver and lungs.

There is a treasure chest of discover and insight between these covers - highly recommended!

Seeing Christ in Sickness and Healing
Anthroposophical medicine as a medicine founded in Christianity

Dr. Peter Selg

Softbound

$29.50

For those who are in daily contact with people who are ill or in need, there may be a tendency to forget the larger purpose of healing because of a need to focus on the day-to-day mechanics of healthcare. Anthroposophic medicine, however, encompasses more than the physical body—it is also concerned with the soul and individual biography of patients, which brings a broader dimension to conventional medical care.

Peter Selg shows how anthroposophic therapies draw heavily on the Christian concept of healing as seen in the Christian Bible. In practical terms, he suggests that, through meditation, healers and caregivers can allow the healing power of Christ to work through them. They must come to recognize that sickness is part of a person’s destiny and that the healing process can help realize the purpose of the sickness for the person’s individual life story.

Nurses, caregivers, social workers, therapists, counselors, and doctors can all benefit from this insightful book.

The Healing Power of Prayer

Hans-Werner Schroeder

Softbound

$11.95

My experience of reading The Healing Power of Prayer is that it is, in itself, a taste of the grace of wholeness that awaits us if we but ask. Schroeder's little book is so awake with a warm wisdom that it becomes a portal into the world of Love, into the universe of Hope, and shows us how to walk there upon the foundation of Faith.

None of which is as easy to do as it is to percieve as possibility. Schroeder so gently but clearly makes plain the reason so few of us experience the healing that can come through prayer: we don't feel ourselves worthy to ask, we don't feel worthy to stand alongside Love. And yet, because he allows Love to answer, through his book, and with Schroeder as companion and guide, allowing blessing to be given us becomes a gift in the face of which we can bow our heads.

May this little book touch many hearts.

Practical Home Care Medicine
A Natural Approach

Christine Murphy, Editor

Softbound

$15.00

This little book is a gem! Like a homeopathic remedy, it's small size belies its power to heal. Christine Murphy has gathered together what I believe is best collection of home remedies ever presented in one place. Most of them them are ones she grew up with and many of them I used for my own children. I can personally tell you that you will be astonished at how effective they are - and how quickly they act!

I can remember when one of my children would begin to get an earache, just placing a simple onion poultice on the ear brought instant pain relief and sped the healing so much that things were often back to normal within a day. Really. This is the type of remedy you will find in this wonderful book - organized by illness, with special how-to sections on preparing the compresses, poultices, baths; stocking your remedy chest, and more.

Once you start using this book, you'll find it indispensable. And, you'll learn so much about the gifts the world brings for our health. Recommended without hesitation and with much hope that Practical Home Care Medicine finds its way into home after home after home.

Healing the Skin
Holistic Aproaches to Treating Skin Conditions

A practical guide based on anthroposophic medicine

Lueder Jachens, MD

Softbound

$32.00

Our skin is the visible barrier between what is inside and what is outside our bodies. It can respond with sensitivity to tender contact, allowing us to experience pleasure, or, when harmful influences arise, it can contract or erupt and lead to pain. The increasing prevalence in recent years of various types of skin conditions is an indication that toxic influences are on the increase.

A dermatologist, allergist, and physician, Lueder Jachens offers wise advice in Healing the Skin, an expertly written and helpful “owner’s handbook.” His concern is not only to offer his insights into the individual conditions, their causes, and how best to treat them, but also to present a holistic understanding of the skin itself—the largest human organ—to help us develop better health and harmony in the longer term.

Dr. Jachens’ authoritative guide begins with an anatomy of the skin and its relationship to the physical and spiritual levels of existence. He then goes on to study various specific conditions and their treatment, including psoriasis, dermatitis, acne, boils, hayfever, alopecia (hair loss), melanoma, abscesses, impetigo, fungal infections, herpes, scabies, head lice, sunburn, and much more.

Therapeutic Eurythmy for Children
From Early Childhood to Adolescence

Includes practical exercises

Anne-Maidlin Vogel

Hardbound, large format

$45.00

Therapeutic Eurythmy for Children is a collection of exercises gathered by Anne-Maidlin Vogel from 1968 until 1998. Many arose from lectures the author attended, given by experienced therapeutic eurythmists—especially Trude Thetter and Ilse Rolofs, as well as medical doctors and colleagues. Much of the material she used in her own therapy lessons with patients, with some of the exercises created from her own work with children for over thirty years.

As a form of movement therapy, eurythmy has been very effective in treating physical and mental developmental disorders. This book is a rich source of information for professional eurythmy therapists, physicians, and teachers of children up to fifteen years of age. Therapeutic Eurythmy for Children provides not only examples for exercises, but also offers useful references for personal development and additional training for therapists.

Included here are eurythmy therapy exercises to be performed with premature infants, babies, and young children up to the age of fourteen. Although based firmly on Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science and his general recommendations for eurythmy, anyone can follow the descriptions and sketches for individual exercises, which are based on healthy movement of the developing human organism.

Speech eurythmy exercises (specific spoken sounds and sequences) are included for postural problems, enuresis, lack of concentration, and more. These encourage readers to study the principles behind the practice of eurythmy performance and eurythmy therapy.

Therapeutic Eurythmy for Children will inspire and enrich the work of therapists, provide a means to more holistic pediatrics, give teachers a better understanding of how to approach their students through movement, and encourage parents toward a more effective, holistic aid to their children’s overall health and development.

The Fourfold Path to Healing
Working with the Laws of Nutrition, Therapeutics, Movement and Meditation in the Art of Medicine

Thomas S. Cowan, MD
with Sally Fallon
and Jaimen McMillan

Softbound

$25.00

A magnificent work! The Fourfold Path to Healing does something I have wanted to see for years -- it addresses a wide variety of ailments and conditions and offers a comprehensive approach that includes homeopathic and anthroposophic remedies and herbs, really supportive nutrition using traditional foods, movement exercises that are condition-specific, and (I just love this!) types of meditation and prayer conceived to assist with the healing of the given illness.

This is the first time I have see any of Jaimen McMillan's work (Spacial Dynamics) presented to the general public and in a healing context - wonderful! You can easily follow the diagrams and descriptions to practice this beautiful movement art.

Sally Fallon may already be known to some of you as the author of Nourishing Traditions (below), but if not I will tell you that her research is rigorous, her conclusions sound and (this is the best part) her recipes delicious, satisfying and life-giving. To see her work placed in the context of a healing program is a joy.

I had not encountered Dr. Thomas Cowan before reviewing this book -- boy, have I been missing something! He is deeply and warmly schooled in conventional medicine, homeopathy, nutrition, herbal remedies and anthroposophical medicine. His insight and guidance are extraordinary.

I believe that this book is probably the best self-help guide for the healing arts that has ever been written -- it is certainly the best I have ever seen, and I have seen many that I value very highly and have used for years. I'm delighted to be able to introduce you to this unique and vibrant guide to healing. Gesundheit!

Nourishing Traditions
The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats

Revised and greatly expanded 2nd edition

Sally Fallon
with Mary G. Enig, Ph.D

Softbound

$25.00

I LOVE this cookbook! There are over 700 recipes and eveyone I've tried produces delicious, satisfying, healthy food. Reading it inspires both appetite and joyous cooking -- and, the only cookbook I can think of that offers almost as much variety as this one, is The Joy of Cooking. I was serious when I said "almost" as much variety -- out of a foundation of world traditions, there is more creativity, wide-ranging ingredients and surprising combinations here than in any other cookbook I've read (we're talking hundreds - I love cookbooks).

As much as I love the recipes, I think I love Fallon's research and clear thinking about food the best. I knew I'd met a friend when I discovered that the bedrock of her research begins with Dr. Weston A Price, a dentist who got to wondering what the nutritional roots of good dental formation and health were and set out on several journeys around the world, photographing and documenting which groups of people had well-formed teeth, which did not, and what each group generally ate.

In 1939 he published Nutrition and Physical Degeneration which is the classic study of isolated populations on native diets and the disasterous effects of processed foods and commercial farming methods on human health. The book includes Price's unforgettable photographs showing the superb dentition and facial development of peoples living on nutrient-dense foods. I first saw these photos in the late 1970s in one of the original Whole Earth Catalogs. I've never forgotten them, and the little bit I learned from them has guided my diet and what I chose to feed my family ever since. In later years, I was startled to find that Rudolf Steiner offered similar conclusions about human nutrition from an entirely different perspective, which shouldn't have been surprising, but somehow was anyway.

What Nourishing Traditions offers is a diet that brushes aside Politically Correct notions of nutrition in favor of traditional food choices that are known to produce robust health. What you'll find is a diet rich in meat, vegetables, whole grains, naturally sweet treats and brimming with easily absorbed vital nutrients. And flavor. Lots and lots of flavor -- as though the love of cooks throughout the ages infused each bite.

A great book!

As a convinced vegetarian of some 25 years, I opened Sally Fallon's book to her many meat recipes and immediately closed it again. But then I figured that there must be more to it than that. There is . . . I was surprised at the wealth of information to help me (even as a vegetarian) make better food choices and prepare the ones I have chosen to get the most nourishment from them.

-Peter Hinderberger, MD, Past President
Physicians Association for Anthroposophical Medicine

Medicine
An Introductory Reader

Rudolf Steiner

Original texts compiled with an introduction, commentary and notes by Andrew Maendl

Softbound

$14.95

This a small book that is nonetheless potent with an excellent selection of Steiner's key lectures and essays on the topic of the medical arts. If you are looking for a readable, from-the-source overview of the basic tenants of anthroposophical medicine, you've found your book.

Topics include:

• true human nature as a basis for medical practice;
• the science of knowing;
• the mission of reverence;
• the four temperaments;
• the bridge between universal spirituality and the physical;
• the constellation of the supersensible bodies;
• the invisible human within us: the pathology underlying therapy;
• cancer and mistletoe, and aspects of psychiatry;
• case history questions: diagnosis and therapy;
• anthroposophic medicine in practice: and three case histories.

An Introduction to Anthroposophical Medicine
Extending the Art of Healing

Victor Bott

Softbound

$22.00

In modern times, Western societies have become increasingly familiar and comfortable with the numerous complementary and alternative forms of medicine, often derived from Eastern sources. Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophical medicine, founded in the early part of the twentieth century, renews the origin of Western medicine. But unlike many modern medical practices based on reductionist, materialistic thinking, Steiner’s holistic system encompasses a picture of the human being as an entity of body, soul, and spirit. Anthroposophical medicine brings harmony to these different aspects of the human constitution.

Victor Bott, a medical doctor, offers a comprehensive overview of this remarkable system of medicine. He presents a new approach to understanding various types of diseases, including a discussion on the stages of human development; the roles of organs such as the lungs, liver, kidneys, and heart; specific diseases; and indications about why people become ill. He also discusses the increasing prevalence of cancer and specific phenomena such as the menstrual cycle.

Healthy Medicine
A Guide to the Emergence of Sensible, Comprehensive Care

Robert J Zieve, MD

Softbound

$24.95

We need changes in our attitudes, our understanding of illness, our acceptance of non-allopathic practitioners, the economics of how we pay for health care, and our entire professional medical-legal system in which medical boards often act within the law to protect and defend the guild of conventional medicine under the guise of ‘scientific proof.’... I present a template that combines economics, psychology, medicine, physiology, and mythology. It can serve as support and guidance for making the changes necessary for a new model of medicine in the twenty-first century.

—Dr. Robert J. Zieve

Dr. Zieve presents a new paradigm for health care that shows us how to go beyond the limitations and severe deficiencies of our current sickness care system. It embraces and synthesizes the emerging models of integrative medicine, energy medicine, and energy psychology into an effective and affordable approach to healing for everyone.

This guide is for both those wish to provide a more complete form of health care for their patients and also for those individuals who are prepared to make the necessary changes in daily life in order to initiate or maintain a movement toward healing. This includes understanding the daily disciplines of a healing process, the deeper psychological processes of illness, and the creative arts in their therapeutic roles.

Education as Preventative Medicine
A Salutogenic Approach

Michaela Glöckler, MD

Softbound

$26.95

How and when something is taught affects the student's disposition towards health or illness for life. The whole Waldorf curriculum is built on an understanding of the development and physiology of the child. … The healthy development of the physical body is the basis for a healthy unfolding of the soul-spiritual individuality of the child. Therefore it is of great importance that doctors and teachers work together.

- Astrid Schmitt-Stegmann

Dr. Glöckler has brought together for the first time in English research and insights into the relationship between how we educate children and the health they enjoy both as children and later as adults. This is a book to read deeply, to ponder over. The application of these insights in our teaching and working with children has the power to resonate far into the future, creating a healthier world as it does.

In addition to Dr. Glöckler's insights, Education as Preventative Medicine also includes contributions by:

Johannes Bockemühl, Ernst Bücher, Wolfgang Göbel, Wolfgang Kersten, Daniela Greif, Mariana Kayser-Springorum, Armin Husemann, Gisbrt Husemann, Helmut v. Kügelgen, Karl-Reinhard Kummer, Hans Müller-Wiedemann, and Maria Theresia Pehm.

From Comets to Cocaine
Answers to Questions

Previously published as Health and Illness, Vols 1 & 2

Rudolf Steiner

Softbound

$30.00

In this volume Steiner discusses, among other things, nicotine and alcohol, causes and timing of illness, pregnancy, vegetarian and meat diets, the human ear, eye and hair color, influenza, hay fever, haemophilia, planets and metals, mental illness, the ice age, the thyroid gland and hormones, beavers, wasps and bees, the nose, smell and taste, jaundice, smallpox, rabies.

In Place of the Self
How Drugs Work

Ron Dunselman

Softbount

$40.00

This is a fascinating, drug-by-drug account of the actions of various pharmaceuticals and recreational drugs told from the perspective of their actions not just on the physical body, but on the relationships of the members of the four-fold human body as described by Rudolf Steiner. By taking this approach, Dunselman is able to not only discuss without judgementalism the effects of these substances on human beings, he is also able to dispassionately address why it is that these substances, despite known health and legal hazards, remain attractive to so many people. I learned an enormous amount from this book - things that have helped me better understand the social world around me and to better understand myself. This is really a very important and potentially healing work - I recommend it highly.

The Science and Art of Healing

Ralph Twentyman

Introduction by Owen Barfield

Softbound

$50.00

This is a remarkable book by a most experienced healer. It is a healing experience to read it . . .

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

The Science and Art of Healing has been in and out of print since it first appeared about 15 years ago - those who managed to obtain copies before they disappeared from the shelves held them close - guarding them like the treasures they were.

Being able to offer it once again is a great pleasure to me - and heartening in that the voice of one of the most insightful modern healers can again be heard.

Dr. Twentyman is a homeopath with decades of experience with both the materia medica and approach of Hahnemann and its variations that are found in anthroposophical medicine. Further, he is someone who has taken a longer view of the nature of illness and disease, discovering the relationship of historical and societal changes to the prevalance of types of illness.

If you are interested in healing and the healing arts, you will want to read this book. You will find both a deep teacher and a very good friend.

Complete Healing
Regaining Your Health through Anthroposophical Medicine

Michael Evans, M.D.
Iain Rodger

Softbound

$14.95

What I like best about Complete Healing is that it offers a beautiful presentation of the way anthroposophical medicine approaches different sorts of ailments and circumstances, as well as how this healing art understands the interweaving of spiritual-soul forces with those of the physical in sickness and health. In other words, this is an outstanding introduction to the world of anthroposophical medicine, one that offers the reader a much deeper and more practical understanding than has been generally available.

Anthroposophical medicine is seen as an extension of conventional medicine - a practice which fully utilizes standard practice but then offers more at the point where conventional limitations begin. In conventional medicine, diseases are analyzed in terms of cellular disturbances and drugs prescribed to counter physical symptoms. Yet, in order to understand what brings physical matter to life and imbues it with thoughts, feelings, and will, anthroposophical medicine adds the perspective of soul and spirit. The resulting therapeutic opportunities offer the possibility of genuine health rather than suppression of symptoms.

This is a terrific addition to the available literature on the nature of anthroposophic medicine - one which I found helped me understand not only anthroposophical medicine, but also many other streams of alternative therapy as well. Highly recommended!

Introducing Anthroposophical Medicine

Rudolf Steiner

Sorry - Out of Print

Rudolf Steiner's approach to medical art represents a remarkable integration of homeopathy, aromatherapy, naturopathy, vitalism (Paracelsian medicine), and alchemy, ignited by the flame of his own insights and experience. The wealth of information and range of topics is breathtaking - from the meaning of sickness to the question of therapy; the relationship of minerals and plants to the human organism; specific organs and specific diseases. The healing approach that results is so deeply practical, so mightily spiritual, and so fully human as to offer inspiration for a lifetime.

The Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine
Volume 1
An Outline of a Spiritual Scientifically Oriented Medicine

Original edition by Friedrich Husemann

Newly edited and revised by Otto Wolff

Hardbound

$39.95

The Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine explores the body's relationship to soul and spirit on the basis of Rudolf Steiner's insights into the activities of the spiritual world. Edited by doctors Friedrich Husemann and Otto Wolff, this book invites us to an in-depth view of a true alternative to materialistically oriented medicine.

Chapters include essays on childhood development and diseases; the disorders of old age; neuroses and psychological imbalances; pharmacology; healing plants; biochemistry and pathology; blood-work; and special diagnostic techniques.

This first of a multi-volume series is an invaluable tool to all who want to extend the practice of medicine to include the whole human being.

Foundations of Anthroposophical Medicine
A Training Manual

Edited by Guus van der Bie
and Machteld Huber

Softbound

$55.00

A comprehensive textbook intended for doctors who are studying anthroposophic medicine, it can also be read profitably by anyone with a thriving interest in the this approach to the healing arts.

Contents:

• “The Art and Science of Medicine,” Anton Dekkers
• “A Philosophical Foundation of Anthroposophical Medicine,” Erik Baars
• “Developing Dynamic Perception,” Guus van der Bie
• “Dynamic Morphology and Embryology,” Jaap van der Wal
• “Polarities: Projective Geometry,” Ferdie Amons
• “Metamorphosis: Essence and Manifestation,” Guus van der Bie
• “Observing Nature and Studying the Elements,” Guus van der Bie
• “The Anthroposophical View of the Human Being,” Arie Bos
• “Pathology and Therapy,” Guus van der Bie
• “Working with the Texts of Rudolf Steiner,” Anton Dekkers
• “The Anthroposophical Path of Inner Development,” Marion van Bree, Guus van der Bie, Machteld Huber

Practical Home Care Medicine
A Natural Approach

Christine Murphy, Editor

Softbound

Sorry - Currently Out-of-Print

This little book is a gem! Like a homeopathic remedy, it's small size belies its power to heal. Christine Murphy has gathered together what I believe is best collection of home remedies ever presented in one place. Most of them them are ones she grew up with and many of them I used for my own children. I can personally tell you that you will be astonished at how effective they are - and how quickly they act! I can remember when one of my children would begin to get an earache, just placing a simple onion poultice on the ear brought instant pain relief and sped the healing so much that things were often back to normal within a day. Really. This is the type of remedy you will find in this wonderful book - organized by illness, with special how-to sections on preparing the compresses, poultices, baths; stocking your remedy chest, and more. Once you start using this book, you'll find it indispensable. And, you'll learn so much about the gifts the world brings for our health. Recommended without hesitation and with much hope that Practical Home Care Medicine finds its way into home after home after home.

Living into Dying
A Journal of Spiritual and Practical Deathcare for Family and Community

Nancy Jewel Poer

Softbound

$21.95

Click here for an enlarged view of the back cover, which tells in pictures what this book is all about.

Living into Dying is a grace-filled book. I really can't do any better at describing it than to share with you the following from the back of the book:

Here is a family who celebrated their elders, nursed them at home to die, built their caskets, honored and cared for them after death and then went out into the community to help others who wanted to do the same.

"Living into Dying" is a moving and beautiful book. I am grateful that Nancy has shared her wisdom and experience. It will benefit both present and future generations. Death is a sacred passage, and Nancy's work teaches us to approach it with reverence, respect, and naturalness.

"The stories are awe-inspiring, the practical advice is invaluable, and the explorations of spiritual meaning give depth and richness. Living into Dying will serve as a true guidebook for all those who celebrate life, community and human striving for what is good and right."

- Rev. April Herron-Sweet
United Methodist Pastor

"Every aspect of caring for the dying is in this book, from "building a casket" to "connecting with those who have died."

- Lee Sturgeon-Day
author, A Slice of Life

A Guide to Child Health

Michaela Glöckler & Wolfgang Goebel

Softbound

$36.00

Recommended to parents.

— British Homeopathic Journal

This book should be on the shelf of every parent and general practitioner.

—Anthroposophy Today

This is the definitive guide for parents on children’s physical, psychological, and spiritual development. It combines medical advice with the essential issues of raising and educating children.

The authors outline the connection between education and healing and discuss its implications for the raising healthy children. Medical, educational, and spiritual questions often overlap, and, when looking for the significance of any illness, it is necessary to study a child as a whole being of body, soul, and spirit.

The authors based their theory and practice on seventeen years of experience in the children’s outpatient department at the Herdecke Hospital in Germany, which is guided by the principles of anthroposophic medicine.

Part one covers childhood ailments and home care. Part two looks at the healthy development of children and how to create the ideal conditions for them. The authors also examine issues of raising and educating children and how this affects them later on in life. This book is extremely practical. It presents cases of conflict and crisis, along with potential solutions. The new edition lists medical and health practices in North America, Southern Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

Primal Health
Understanding the critical period between conception and the first birthday

Michel Odent

Softbound

$24.00

Odent, a leading pioneer for natural childbirth, indicates that the period between conception and a child’s first birthday is critical to lifelong health. In this prophetic book, first published in 1986, Odent argues that different parts of the “primal adaptive system” develop, regulate and adjust themselves during fetal life and the time around birth and infancy. Everything that happens during this period of dependence on the mother has an influence on this primal health.

The author suggests that the later well-being of adults, and their ability to withstand hypertension, cancer, alcoholism and failures of the immune system resulting in AIDS, allergies and viral diseases, can all be traced back to society’s ignorance of the vital importance of the primal period. This book is essential reading for all who care about the health of our children and the ongoing health of society as a whole.

The Vaccination Dilemma

Christine Murphy, Editor

Softbound

$15.00

"This book should be read by all physicians, health care providers, and families with children."

—John R. Lee, MD

In their first five years of life, children are expected to undergo 37 doses of eleven different vaccines, yet relatively few parents are aware of the risks of chronic disease, injury, or death that some vaccines can present. A growing body of research has linked immunization with autism, seizures, asthma, arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and even hyperactivity and learning disabilities; yet we continue to use vaccination as “insurance” even against diseases that no longer pose a significant threat.

Christine Murphy has compiled a book that presents the vaccination dilemma from multiple perspectives. It clearly describes the immune system and its workings—and what science does and does not know about them. It offers suggestions and resources for parents whose children are sick, whether from a common childhood illness or from a vaccination reaction. And it makes a case for an alternate view of disease—as a teacher that allows us to develop physically and spiritually, and as a necessary test of strength that we have chosen out of our destiny.

This book will help educate parents about the vaccination dilemma and prepare them to make, in consultation with one or more health professionals, educated vaccination decisions for their children.

Embryology and World Evolution

Karl König

Softbound

$28.95

In these remarkable seminars, König traces the preparatory steps that every human being has to tread in forging an earthly 'house' fitting for the spiritual to incarnate into the physical. Wonder builds on wonder as we begin to recognise the wisdom with which we human beings are fashioned; it turns into awe we we see how intimately we are interwoven with the evolution of our earth. Indeed, we recapitulate its earlier stages in our own unfolding from the moment of conception onwards.

König succeeds in bringing vividly alive a subject normally confined to the academic laboratory. What might be thought dry or difficult here becomes exciting and challenging, and we are left with a new and deeper understanding of our significance for the future of this beautiful, fragile planet.

Healing Sounds
Fundamentals of Chirophonetics

Alfred Baur

Hardbound, dustjacketed

$42.95

Dr. Baur and his wife Dr. Ilse Baur developed Chirophonetics therapy in 1956. Since that time, Chirophonetics has been successfully used in remedial and educational work. It has shown outstanding results with the developmentally disabled, children with behavior difficulties, adults suffering from strokes, as well as children with speech and language difficulties. It has also supplemented and supported prescribed medicines in cases of chronic illness.

In Dr. Baur's experience, speech is more than a means of communication - each sound of spoken language has a life of its own, with qualities and properties of remarkable potential.

His years of research and treatment of communication disorders in both children and adults, coupled with in-depth studies of philology and Anthroposophy have given Dr. Baur a deep understanding of the creative power of the spoken word in all its manifestations.

Healing Sounds introduces the therapeutic approach of Chirophonetics, placing this approach in the hands of caregivers, healers and teachers. It is an outstanding resource and guide to a therapeutic modality that shows enormous promise in precisely the sorts of situations where many other approaches fail.

The Harmony of the Human Body
Musical Principles in Human Physiology

Armin Husemann, M.D.

Softbound

$40.00

This is an exploration of the cosmic origins of human beings and the evolutionary laws that govern their development. Husemann applies musical principles as a method of gaining insight into the structure of the human body and the forces that work on it, seeking to use our experience of music to explain the physiological and anatomical relationships in the body and the spiritual influences that determine physical development.

Secrets of the Skeleton
Form in Metamorphosis

L.F.C. Mees

Softbound

$25.00

In this book, we are not dealing, as is usually the case, with statements that are, in my opinion, established facts.... The artistic part that lives in some form in each human being can be used as a means of observation. Thus, it is possible to observe things that would escape those who take the purely analytical, scientific approach.... It is of prime importance to discover a certain order, a plan, in the multitude of shapes. To achieve this, we must study the skeleton as a whole. For our purpose, it is also necessary to study the shape of a number of bones in a new way and by mutual comparison.

—L. F. C. Mees

Dr. Mees discovers numerous intriguing correspondences of form, especially between bones of the lower body and those of the skull. Interpreting the gestural language hidden within the skeleton from the background of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science, the author reaches startling conclusions concerning those correspondences — conclusions that support the reality of reincarnation and the concept of a body of formative forces, or what some call the human “etheric body.”

The book also contributes a discussion of polarity and intensification — the essential laws of metamorphosis, as discovered by Goethe and revealed in his writings. Mees clarifies the various types of metamorphosis as characterized by the living realms of plant, animal, and human, and this, in turn, sheds new light on the creationist vs. evolutionary controversy, as well as several other contemporary spiritual dilemmas.

Iscador - Mistletoe and Cancer Therapy

Christine Murphy, Editor

Softbound

$20.00

In recent years, the plant-based cancer remedy Iscador has been gaining increased media attention. But, Iscador has been known for its therapeutic benefits for over eighty years. As early as 1917, Rudolf Steiner suggested using injections of mistletoe extract for the treatment of cancer. his recommendations were taken upand put to clinical use by Ita Wegman, MD, a Dutch physician. Dr. Wegman, who founded a clinit that later became the Lukas clinic, also first developed Iscador in 1917.

In Iscador - Mistletoe and Cancer Therapy, Christine Murphy gathers together some of the work of doctors and clinicians who have been using Iscador today. Dr. Richard Wagner answers many of the questions about Iscador asked him by his patients during his many years of practice as an oncologist in general practice, treating cancer patients with both conventional and alternative therapies. Dr. Thomas Schuerholz, a medical doctor specializing in cancer, offers an overview of the terms, procedures, and different approaches to treating cancer. Phoebe Alexander examines the role of art therapy in healing, Dr. Erika Merz offers suggested dietary options for cancer patients, and a full list of resources allows those diagnosed with cancer to understand fully the options available to them.

This is the first and only book to date that really explores this topic. It does so in a thorough yet easy-to-understand way that is truly empowering. Highly recommended!

Cookery Book from the Lukas Clinic
for patients with cancer or precancerous conditions

The Soceity for Cancer Research
Arlesheim, Switzerland & Stuttgart, Germany

Softbound

$7.95

The Cookery Book offers a collection of recipes that grew out of the research done at the Lukas Clinic, the famous anthroposophical cancer clinic in Switzerland. All recipes in this book are part of the clinic's menu for patients. This is a valuable sourcebook, whether you are recovering from an illness or want to make a health-conscious, preventive diet part of your everyday life.

Home Remedies
Herbal and homeopathic treatments for use at home

Dr. Otto Wolff

Softbound

$12.95

This is a resource book that is worth its weight in gold. In the course of helping family and friends with various illnesses over the years, I have used many of the treatment approaches Dr. Wolff suggests - I have never found them to be anything other that incredibly effective. Now that this volume is available, I expect it will become a mainstay of the home remedy cabinet. You will likely find yourself turning to it to assist your family or friends - and I predict you will place it back on the shelf with a feeling of enormous gratitude that such simple and effective home remedies are recorded here.

Among the conditions addressed are asthma, fever, skin conditions, migraine, arthritis, diabetes, ailments of the head and nervous system, dental care, respiratory system, the heart and circulation, digestion and nutrition, kidney and bladder conditions, muscles, bones, joints, infections, women's health, children, age-related problems, cancer. There are also suggestions for stocking your medicine chest along with a convenient index to quickly locate a specific ailment.

I rate this a "must have" for anyone who cares for the health of others.

Blessed by Illness

L.F.C. Mees, M.D.

Softbound

$24.95

Dr. Mees offers an alternative approach to today's "symptomatic medicine" which merely attempts to remove the nuisance of disease symptoms quickly. While not arguing that it is often a great gift to have such symptoms removed, Dr. Mees goes further to explore the true nature of healing.

In the first part of Blessed by Illness, Mees traces teh history of man's changing concept of healing from the "Temple Sleep" of ancient Egypt, when human beings recognized their living connection to Spiritual Reality, through the herbal lore of ancient Greece and the healings of Christ, to the rise of our modern symptomatic medicine.

A medicine which seeks only to remove visible symptoms and ailments is not healing at all. healing must take into consideration the whole human being. The doctor must learn the language of the natural, healing forces at work not only in the body, but also in nature and the cosmos. From this point of view, illness is a gift, a blessing, that asks the patient and the doctor that they work together with it for the sake of something infinitely greater: true healing.

First published in 1983, Blessed by Illness is a powerful introduction to the world of "alternative medicine."

Extending Practical Medicine

Rudolf Steiner and Dr. Ita Wegman

$16.95

We have experienced anthroposophic medicine and its remedies, as an extremely effective approach to regaining and maintaining health and are hopeful that this new edition will help it to become more widely known. This is the founding volume, a pioneer work, where Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman first moved to extend medicine beyond the boundaries of materialism, toward a deeper realization of the human being within all creation.

House of 3 Froggies
A Teacher/Parent Manual on Health and Nutrition

Alan Whitehead

$22.95

House of 3 Froggies is not only an excellent presentation of basic nutrition and health for our children (and ourselves!), it is the only such presentation I am aware of that is written directly for teachers and parents within the framework of Rudolf Steiner's educational impulse. Yet another outstanding offering by Alan Whitehead. Here's the contents: nutrition in school; infant nutrition, the liver, diet and health, food psychology; cereals, food and morality, fluoride in water, the common cold, tobacco, soy, 7 soul spices, milk, dried foods, bread, on dying, sun 'protection,' longevity, drugs, nuts, apples, sugar, edible oils, fibre, pasta, vitamins.

Nutrition and Stimulants

Lectures and Extracts by Rudolf Steiner

Compiled and Translated by K. Castelliz and B. Saunders-Davies

Softbound

$18.95

This is a fascinating collection of extracts from many different lectures in which Steiner discussed a variety of substances and their effects on the human body, temperaments, thinking, and reporduction. Included are discusstions about coffee, tea, alcohol, nicotine, opium, milk, honey, beetroots, radishes, potatoes, tomatoes, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, sugar, chocolate, adn more. There are discussions about meat vs. vegetarian and cooked vs. raw foods, as well as indications for child nutrition and teaching children about nutrition. His spiritual insights are given in a nondogmatic way that can help us understand our own nutrition and relationship to different foods.

Man on the Threshold
The Challenge of Inner Development

Bernard Lievegoed

$19.95

Bernard Lievegoed's genius for going straight to the truly human questions surrounding any experience shines throughout this book. In it, he combines his knowledge of medicine and psychology (he was a physician and industrial psychologist) with his deep understanding of human nature and spiritual reality in order to offer a truly useful description of how human beings can undertake their own inner development. He describes how the seeds for growth that lie within each of us may be nurtured safely to fruition and how we can work therapeutically with others who may be experiencing severe psychological disturbances and mental illness. This is an unswervingly deep examination that is at the same time wonderfully accessible and practical. You'll want to nibble at the text a little at a time, not because they are so difficult to comprehend, but because you'll want to savor each thought fully.

Education for Special Needs
(formerly: Curative Education)

Rudolf Steiner

$24.95

In 1924, Rudolf Steiner gave a course for teachers and doctors on working therapeutically with children and adults with special needs. The diagnostic insights are based upon a quality of clear observation and biographical understanding that allows the practitioner to see the patient as whole, not as a collection of symptoms. The recommended therapies range from medical remedies to therapeutic exercises and serve to underscore the often overlooked relationships between body, soul and spirit. Though highly accessible, this volume also promises a lifetime's exploration to those who are interested.

Autism
A Holistic Approach

Bob Woodward
Dr. Marga Hogenboom

With a foreword by Colwyn Trevarthen, Professor Emeritus of Child Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Edinburgh

$45.00

This is the first really useful book on autism that I've found. Autism - A Holistic Approach caused me to breath a sigh of relief: "Finally, someone is discussing what can be done to help!" as well as a smile of hope: "Now, perhaps we can move ahead on this!"

The authors have written a wonderful guide to the phenomena of autism, offering a penetrating and thorough description of the symptoms and what they say about the world of the autistic human being. More importantly, in my opinion, they document case after case and describe in clear detail what sort of therapeutic work was done with the individual and what the results were! This is what I've been looking for over all these years - a source that would clearly describe these simple therapies and clearly document the results that were observed.

The therapies used are so simple in most cases that should you have an autistic person in your care, but no experts in autism within your reach, I believe that most people could safely and effectively follow through with these activities. And this is the real joy of this book - that it presents a clear picture of what to do, a picture so clear that caregivers and professionals alike can take up this work.

I can't recommend this book highly enough for anyone working or living with someone with autism.

Sexual Abuse of Chldren
Understanding, Prevention and Treatment

Dr. Michaela Glöckler

Softbound pamphlet

$7.00

Dr. Glöckler offers a considered response to the increasing incidence of children who have been sexually abused - most often by someone they love and trust. Here is a social overview, with suggestions for the direction of medical, psychological and pedagogical treatment.

Addiction's Many Faces
Tackling drug dependency amongst young people: causes, effects and prevention

Felicitas Vogt

Softbound

$18.95

Drugs are pervasive - pushed at school, at parties, in teh street. Young people make choices about drugs as a fact of everyday life.

Ideals, demanding study, peer pressure, the natural desire to experiment, appearing cool - can make drug taking attractive.

So, how do we tackle the many faces of addiction with confidence? As a first step, Felicitas Vogt invites you to consider:

• Your own addicitons and the roots of addiction
• Why young people turn to drugs
• The effects of different drugs
• What helps pesonal growth, health and relationships
• Ways we can help prevent addiction.

  Parents and teachers will find these stories by young drug users very illuminating. If you want to understand the experiences young people are seeking from drugs, if you want indications on how to relate to young drug users and ideas about dealing with drugs in schools, then read these stories.

- Frank O'Hare, Addiction Therapist and Life Coach, Glasgow