Title : Pain: Anthroposophic medicine approach
Abstract:
PAIN : Anthroposophic Medicine approach.
Pain management is at the heart of all medical practice, because it is part and parcel of human life.
Pain affects the whole of human nature : physical , psychological and spiritual levels.
According to Rudolf Steiner : pain is consciousness in the wrong place.
Pain is the consequence of the psychical level which penetrates too deeply into the physical and living body
The psyche and consciousness become imprisoned in the body.
In anthroposophic medicine, pain therapy is multimodal :
- Taking physical pain into account.
- Soliciting the strengths and salutogenic capacities of the body of life.
- Relieving the psychological aspects of pain.
- Soliciting the individual activity (making sense of pain).
In anthroposophic medicine, the treatment of pain is not simply an "anti", pain-relieving, analgesic treatment, but this is complemented by a "for" treatment : encouraging the forces of self-healing in order to regain a new balance.
Pain treatment will vary according to the type of pain :
- Nociceptive or neuropathic.
- Acute or chronic and diffuse.
Differentiate between pain related to the neurosensory system and pain related to the metabolic and limb systems.
Medicinal therapy : Orally or by subcutaneous injection.
- Misteltoe.
- Aurum metal.
- Aurum comp. (Aurum/Myrrha/Olibanum).
- Meteoreisen comp. (Ferrum sidereum/Silicea/Phosphorus).
- Apis mellifica.
- Aconit comp. (Aconit/Belladonna/Rhus tox).
- Arsenicum album.
- Cuprum metal.
- Bryophylum.
- Solum uliginosum comp. (Solum uli/Aesculus/Equisetum).
External applications and compresses.
Non-medicinal therapy :
- Eurythmic therapy.
- Rhythmical massages.
