Anthroposophical Medicine is modern
Anthroposophical medicine is commensurate with modern outlooks because of its holistic approach that considers the human being in his totality. Patients today are no longer content to simply be reduced to their illness.
Nor is it static, but is engaged in continuous research and progress. It is constantly confronting the latest trends and questions and tries to find its own answers to these that correspond to an expanded view of health and illness. In the last decades, for example, a new and internationally recognised therapeutic program fort he rehabilitation of those suffering from addictions was developed. New methods in diagnosis and therapy are taken on and integrated into the spectrum of options if they have proven to be effective.
Anthroposophical Medicine also attempts to pioneer new and individual paths in scientific research. In conventional medicine, which leans heavily on the results of natural scientific research, the doctor’s experience is mostly disregarded in favour of a clear methodology. The random, (arbitrarily split into two groups), placebo-controlled (as compared with a sugar pill or illusory medication), Doubly blind (in which both the patient and doctor are not informed of who is receiving the fake medication), presupposes this. This method replaces the doctor-patient relationship-based dialogue with a generally applicable, experimental and anonymous situation, which, however, never occurs in the everyday therapeutic situation.
Clinical pharmacologist Georges Fülgraff characterised it like this:
"The aim is to replace reality with a model, which must be reduced in proportion with the complexity of the real situation, until finally, only that fraction of reality is perceived which is still contained in the model. Medical experience is no longer even amassed, as all actions are guided by the model and not by the reality."
Anthroposophical scientists therefore try to test the effectiveness of their treatments by developing and using new scientific methods that are capable of describing the experiential reality of therapy in the daily events of medical practice. Anthroposophical Medicine is therefore always in movement and consequently always modern.