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The patient will feel better and the migraines will disappear. — Those who take the naturopathic view and have put it into practice will say: This only combats the symptom and has done more harm than good to many people; it is important to address the deeper causes; then one will come across all sorts of things that go more to the heart of the matter, which may not bring about well-being so quickly in individual cases, but which really address the core of the illness more deeply. — If you take a dogmatic stance on one point of view or the other, you will fight one or the other or consider one or the other useful. But, strange as it may sound, it is again a question of the human being. There could be a person who says to themselves: When I have a severe migraine, it would be nice to wait until naturopathy gets to the core of the illness, recognizes its deeper roots, and then does what is necessary to eliminate it. But I don't have time for that. It is much more important for me to get rid of the migraine as soon as possible and get back to my work.\" Let us now assume that this person has a health-promoting occupation that is such that he would have been able to get rid of the ailment even without medication. In that case, the migraine medication would do him little harm, because he would be little distracted from his work, which is beneficial to him. They would then be treated according to a prescription that compares humans to machines that need to be repaired. However, this comparison must be taken to its logical conclusion. We must not forget that there must be someone who works like the driver of a locomotive. Let us assume that a crank on a locomotive is particularly difficult to turn. Someone might say: I see that the locomotive driver cannot turn the crank because he is too weak; I will take another locomotive driver who can use more force to turn the crank. Another might say: “Perhaps we can file down whatever is making the crank difficult to turn so that it turns more easily; then the train driver can stay. — So you improve the machine. Of course, this cannot be applied as a general rule, because if you were to say: ”If something is wrong with the locomotive, you have to file it down,\" that would not always be correct. Perhaps something needs to be added to the relevant part rather than removed.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Questions Regarding Health in Light of Spiritual Science","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-01-14","location":null,"word_count":473,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-01-14/p020","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:structural_identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2014","book_title":"Where and How Does One Find the Spirit?","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA057/English/eLib2014/19090114p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/57/1909-01-14/p020"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/57/1909-01-14/p020","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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