The Thyroid - Part 1

By: Matthias Girke
Original title: Die Schilddruese. Merkurstab 1995; 48: 404-16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14271/DMS-16767-DE
English by A. R. Meuss, FIL, MTA.
This translation is published with the kind permission of the journal Der Merkurstab.

JAM Vol. 13(1), Spring 1996

Part I of a series. References in Part II.

Introduction

The organization of the thyroid may be characterized as a field of tension between the dim level of consciousness in the life of the organism and the life of soul and spirit which evolves from it. This clearly reveals the biased nature of a reductionist approach which limits itself to phenomena that can be described in terms of physiology and biochemistry, leaving aside the very real aspects of the human soul and spirit.

Below, an attempt will be made to show the essential nature of the thyroid and its diseases, using an approach that includes the different aspects of the human being. Clinical approaches may be developed out of this.

Citation: Girke, M. (1996). The Thyroid I (A. R. Meuss, Trans.). Journal of Anthroposophic Medicine, 13(1), 49–62.