What is Heilkunst?
Heilkunst is the complete medical system founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843). It is based on basic natural laws of cure and healing and employs homeopathic remedies as its main form of treatment. The German word "HEIL" means "healing, cure, making whole"; "KUNST" means "art" – there fore heilkunst could be translated as the Art of Remedieation.
Heilkunst treatment promotes healing on all levels of our being - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. The human body is a complete eco-system in which all components are intimately connected and in a state of constant flux whose aim is toward balance.
A disturbance in one aspect of our being will resonate on all other levels and over time we will experience discomfort and illness. A physical pain can lead to emotional stress (fear, irritability) in the same way as emotional stress can lead to physical illness (ulcers, headaches).
Based also on the findings of Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy and Wilhelm Reich’s Orgone Therapy, this medical approach is able to discern the true causes of disease and treat them effectively.
Today Heilkunst has evolved to include a variety of diagnostic tools and treatment therapies which can all contribute to improvement in patients’ health when applied correctly. The role of the physician is to co-ordinate a whole treatment approach that would best benefit the individual person.
Since we are constantly changing along with Nature and the Universe, part of which we are, it is especially helpful to learn to see our patterns of behavior and response, our cycles of expansion and contraction both on a physical and emotional level. This and many other insights are part of the teaching involved in the Heilkunst treatment journey – a natural re-learning of all we hold inside as our truth.
Heilkunst can achieve success in areas where western medicine is baffled and where single therapies have limited success. It offers solutions to known problems like chronic pain, toxicity, mental disease, etc. It is a constantly evolving and open system and I hope it stays that way because that is, in my view, how science should be, and the human mind, for that matter.
The treatment itself is applied in the three major areas of health:
- Regimen involves nutrition, detox, water intake, sleep, lifestyle choices.
- Medicine is the treatment proper, with homeopathic remedies and an array of therapies applied depending on the individual case.
- Therapeutic education is the counseling and learning involved in the process of the treatment – discovering our patterns and responses and different ways of viewing them that will help us understand and change them.