Recognized as a special therapeutic direction
The term anthroposophic medicine is made up of the Greek words “anthropos”, meaning human being, and “sophia”, meaning wisdom. Anthroposophic medicine has been anchored and recognized as a “special therapeutic direction” in the German Medicines Act since 1976 and as a medical direction in the German Social Code since 1989.
Anthroposophic medicine is an extension of scientific medicine. In principle, it includes its diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and applies them in full to all disease processes in which this is necessary. It is the doctor’s responsibility to assess in each individual case which physical, functional, psychosocial and biographical aspects should be taken into account in diagnosis and therapy.
The use of anthroposophical therapy methods (often through remedies such as eurythmy therapy, art therapy and rhythmic massages) is generally useful for illnesses where a cure or alleviation can be expected through a specific therapeutic response to potentially still existing self-regulatory or self-healing powers.
