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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

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

The history and problem of the idea of evolution

The usual picture of the phylogenetic process is that there were first single-celled bacteria-like organisms followed by multicellular,»lower«and later»higher«, rather complex and differentiated forms of life. This succession of evolutionary changes has often been called»evolutionary… Read More

Concerning the evolutionary development of the blossom and fruit of the Ranunculaeeae

The fruit formation of the Ranunculaceae - evolutionarily early representatives of the angiosperms - is taken as a motif in examining the evolutiona1y path of the formation of both the angiosperm blossoms, exposed as they are to their surroundings, and… Read More

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

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

The native species of the genus Hypericum compared

In Middle Europe the genus Hypericum is divided into six sections systemizing ten Hypericnm species according to morphological characteristics. In our proposed order, Hypericum perfomtum as a mesophil perennial plant is positioned between the related hygro- and xerophil species. Within… Read More

Cephalopods, snails and bivalves in their organismic relationship

This contribution was first published in 1973 by Thomas Göbel after mutual discussions on the subject. It is reprinted here enlarged and supported by further details. The main point is to demonstrate how the molluscs can also show the scientific fruitfulness of a… Read More

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