{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 312/1920-04-07/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us suppose a winter season, in which there is a powerful influence on the solar activity—and note please, not the operation of light, but the solar action—through the outer planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. A constellation of that description in the winter operates quite differently from the unimpeded action of the Sun, when Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are at a greater distance. In such a winter the atmospheric conditions will differ from the norm; and there will be a remarkable influence (on persons constitutionally so disposed) upon the rhythmical activity between chest and head, of which the most conspicuous is the act of breathing itself. We may state, however, that such cosmic conditions considerably strengthen the inclination to make this rhythm regular in people who have been born from sound conditions, and who are inwardly robust—though their external appearance may be very slight and delicate. In the case of such persons the respiratory rhythm is very well regulated and so also is the whole rhythm between chest and head. Such a stabilised inner rhythm is not easily disturbed from outside; serious injuries are required to affect it. But on persons with an irregularity of this rhythm, the external influences referred to work very strongly to disturb still more the already disturbed rhythm. Thus everyone with this disposition and resident in those parts of the earth under the special influence of the constellation in question, become liable to the complaints grouped as influenza and *grippe*. These conditions and factors must be in operation, in order to create favourable soil for such ailments as influenza.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XVIII","site_heading":"Primary Causes of Disease: Rhythmic Disturbance and Cosmic Influences","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Denken Sie sich zum Beispiel — ich will etwas herausgreifen: es ist immer natürlich wieder so, daß andere Ursachen wiederum störend eingreifen können, aber verstehen, worauf es ankommt, kann man doch, wenn man in dieser Weise die Sache schildert —, denken Sie sich, man hätte es einmal zu tun in einem Winter mit einer starken Beeinflussung der Sonnentätigkeit — ich sage jetzt nicht der Lichtwirkung, sondern der Sonnentätigkeit — durch die äußeren Planeten Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Eine solche Winterkonstellation wirkt anders, als wenn die Sonnentätigkeit durch das Fernabstehen von Mars, Jupiter und Saturn für sich allein zur Geltung kommt. Wenn ein solcher Winter da ist — man kann es schon bemerken an den atmosphärischen Erscheinungen, sie sind anders, als sie sonst sind —, dann wird ein starker Einfluß bei dazu disponierten Personen geübt auf die rhythmische Tätigkeit, die zwischen Brust und Kopf verläuft und die ihren gröbsten Ausdruck in der Atmungstätigkeit findet. Man kann sagen: Die Neigung, diesen Rhythmus regelmäßig zu machen, die wird durch eine solche kosmische Konstellation wesentlich verstärkt bei den Menschen, die zum Beispiel herausgeboren sind aus gesunden Verhältnissen, die robust sind in bezug auf ihr Inneres. Sie können dabei äußerlich sehr schmächtig sein. Bei denen ist ein sehr stark geregelter Atmungsrhythmus da, und entsprechend ist der Kopf-Brust-Rhythmus überhaupt dann stark geregelt. Ein solcher innerlich gefestigter Rhythmus, der läßt sich nicht leicht bestimmen von dem, was außen wirkt. Da müssen schon starke Insulte kommen, wenn Sie ihn bestimmen wollen. Bei wem aber schon dieser Rhythmus in einer gewissen Weise unregelmäßig verläuft, auf den wirkt ein solcher Einfluß, wie ich ihn geschildert habe, außerordentlich stark, denn der schon geschädigte Rhythmus hat die Tendenz, sich noch weiter schädigen zu lassen, und alle diejenigen Menschen, die dann auftreten mit solchen Dispositionen an denjenigen Orten der Erde, auf die diese Konstellation des Himmels besonders wirkt, sind zum Beispiel die Kandidaten für die sogenannte Influenza und für die Grippe. Diese Dinge müssen durchaus da sein, wenn der besondere Grund und Boden für so etwas wie für Influenza und Grippe geschaffen werden soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":427,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/312/1920-04-07/p018"}],"english":["GA 312/1920-04-07/p017","GA 312/1920-04-07/p018"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":427,"en_words":368,"ratio":0.86,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5116,"original_word_count":5469,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1948","book_title":"Spiritual Science and Medicine","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA312/English/RSP1948/19200407a01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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