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There, the formic acid as it arises within the human organism can act as a solvent. If the necessary amount of formic acid is produced, the organism will remove those products tending to the lifeless state in the correct manner. If the force to create formic acid is too weak, rheumatic and gouty conditions arise. By introducing formic acid into the organism from outside, we support it, by giving what it is unable to create for itself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":106,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/27/l17/p004","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l17","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 27/l17/p004","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/27/l17/p004"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":93,"en_words":106,"ratio":1.14,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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The diseases which reveal themselves in rheumatic and gouty conditions are to be ascribed to a deficient action of the astral body. There are other conditions which present themselves such that the causes, which in gout and rheumatism stem from the astral organism, lie further back in the etheric organism. In which case there arise, not only congestions of forces towards the astral, which hinder and obstruct the ego organization, but also retarding effects in the etheric, which the astral organization is powerless to overcome. These reveal themselves in sluggish activity of the lower abdomen, in slowing of the liver and spleen activity, in stony deposits of gall and the like. If oxalic acid is given in such cases, the activity of the etheric organism is supported in the appropriate way. Through oxalic acid the etheric body is reinforced; for that force of the ego-organization is transformed by this acid into a force of the astral body which then has a strengthened effect on the etheric body.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":282,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/27/l17/p005","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l17","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 27/l17/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/27/l17/p005"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 27/l17/p005"],"length_check":{"de_words":237,"en_words":282,"ratio":1.19,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Da tritt nun im menschlichen Organismus auflösend die sich bildende Ameisensäure ein. Wird sie in der notwendigen Menge erzeugt, so entfernt der Organismus die zum Leblosen zielenden Produkte in richtiger Art. Ist die Erzeugungskraft zu schwach, so entstehen die gichtischen oder rheumatischen Zustände. Führt man sie dem Organismus von außen zu, so unterstützt man ihn, indem man ihm gibt, was er nicht selbst erzeugen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":93,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/27/l17/p004"},{"locus":"GA 27/l17/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Man kann solche Wirkungsarten kennen lernen, wenn man die eine Substanz mit der andern in ihrem Fortwirken im menschlichen Organismus vergleicht. Man nehme die Kleesäure. Sie kann unter gewissen Verhältnissen in die Ameisensäure übergehen. Die letztere stellt in ihren Wirkungen eine Metamorphose der Kleesäure dar. Die Kleesäure ist Absonderung des Pflanzlichen wie die Ameisensäure des Tierischen. Die Kleesäure-Erzeugung stellt im pflanzlichen Organismus eine Tätigkeit her, die der von der Ameisensäure-Erzeugung im Tierischen analog ist. Das heißt, die Kleesäure-Erzeugung entspricht dem Gebiet des Ätherischen, die Ameisensäure-Erzeugung dem des Astralischen. Die in gichtischen und rheumatischen Zuständen sich offenbaren-den Erkrankungen schreiben sich von einer mangelhaften Tätigkeit des astralischen Leibes her. Es gibt andere Zustände, die sich so darstellen, daß die Ursachen, die bei Gicht und Rheumatismus aus dem astralischen Organismus stammen, in den ätherischen Organismus zurückverlegt sind. Dann entstehen nicht bloß Kräftestockungen nach dem Astralischen hin, welche der Ich-Organisation hemmend in den Weg treten, sondern Hinderniswirkungen im Ätherischen, die von der astralischen Organisation nicht bewältigt werden können. Sie zeigen sich in einer trägen Tätigkeit des Unterleibes, in Hemmungen der Leber- und Milztätigkeit, in steinartigen Ablagerungen der Galle und Ähnlichem. Führt man in diesen Fällen Kleesäure zu, so unterstützt man in entsprechender Art den ätherischen Organismus in seiner Tätigkeit. Man erhält durch Kleesäure eine Verstärkung des ätherischen Leibes, weil die Kraft der Ich-Organisation durch diese Säure in eine Kraft des astralischen Leibes verwandelt wird, der dann verstärkt auf den Ätherleib wirkt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":237,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/27/l17/p005"}],"beads":[{"from":[4],"to":[4],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[5],"to":[5],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}