Questions Regarding Health in Light of Spiritual Science

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So we must thoroughly understand and realize that there are specific remedies for what we call illness, and that the use of specific remedies is related in a certain way to the fact that our organism is an independent entity and can be improved in many ways. If we can rely on the fact that after the improvement there is a real, effective force that drives people, then there is no need to emphasize that we are only treating the symptoms, because that is just materialistic thinking again. The naturopath will know many things that would be quite correct for the elimination of this or that disease, but it is equally true that this or that person does not have the time or the strength to carry it out, and that the most important thing for them is to quickly repair the damage.

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