{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1906-12-13/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Nowadays the educated person finds difficulty in recognizing that many modern ideas concerned with medicine are extremely vague. If someone with knowledge of natural remedies mentions the word \"poison,\" it immediately stirs up all kinds of suppositions. But what is a poison? What is an abnormal effect on the human organism? Whatever is introduced into the human organism acts according to natural laws; that anyone should think it could act otherwise is incomprehensible. But what is a poison? Water, if taken by the bucketful all at once, is a strong poison. What is today looked upon as poison could have most beneficial effects if rightly administered. It always depends on the quantity and the circumstances under which a substance is administered. Nothing, as such, is a poison.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. Illness and Death","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-12-13","location":null,"word_count":127,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1906-12-13/p028","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Supersensible Knowledge","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/AP1987/19061213p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Wie wirkt es heute in den Versammlungen suggestiv, wenn jemand als Naturheilkundiger das Wort «Gift» ausspricht. Was ist ein Gift, und was ist eine unnatürliche Wirkung im menschlichen Organismus? Was Sie auch immer in den menschlichen Organismus einführen, wirkt nach Naturgesetzen. Es ist unerfindlich, wie man davon sprechen kann, daß irgend etwas nicht nach Naturgesetzen im Körper wirken könnte. Und was ist ein Gift? Wasser ist ein starkes Gift, wenn Sie zehn Eimer davon auf einmal vertilgen; und was heute Gift ist, könnte von den wohltätigsten Wirkungen sein, wenn man es in der richtigen Weise dem Körper zuführt. Es kommt immer darauf an, in welcher Quantität und unter welchen Umständen man einen Stoff zu sich nimmt. 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