How to Learn and Understand

Holistic Medicine

wirtten by Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Rau, November 2020

To learn Biological Medicine in its whole, one needs to adopt a completely different way of thinking, focusing on "regulation," "information" and an underlying belief that all diseases have their purpose.  Seen in this light, symptoms are never diseases, but rather signs of the body’s regulation.  This is based on the fundamental belief that the human being is part of nature and reacts like everything in nature.

The biological doctor must train to identify and understand correspondences between nature and patients’ symptoms.  For me, this involved over ten years of taking courses, apprenticing with many alternative doctors, reading books, and utilizing the new methods I learned through this study.  And this learning process always continues. During all this time I realized: my patients are my main teachers – and my therapies base on intuition and guidance from a Higher Force.

This holistic and biological approach to medicine is so completely different from that traditionally taught in medical schools that it may never be possible to offer formal foundational training to medical school students. Practicing Biological Medicine is an art and not a science!  One can become a biological doctor only with deep dedication to helping and healing, and with an acceptance that biological medicine is always the primary focus of care.  Biological medicine supports the human body’s reactions and never suppresses them, because it acknowledges that these reactions always have their meaning.  Biological medicine attempts to understand the meaning of these reactions. Providing holistic care is never treating diseases; instead, it is supporting special reactions for different constitutional types.  I never treat diagnoses nor symptoms, but only the whole Human Being.

In addition, being a biological doctor also means understanding that traditional allopathic medicine is complementary and secondary to biological medicine.

When biological medicine is subjected to today’s scientific testing methods, which include statistical studies and control groups, it will likely fail. Does this mean that biological medicine’s treatments are not successful?  To the contrary.  Biological medicine often fails these studies because today’s scientific testing methods do not reflect the reality that human beings exist on a higher level than is statistically controllable with standardized studies.  Biological medicine believes that you can never standardize one or even a few single variables in a test pool of patients.  Biological medicine believes that if we really want to know about the effects of our treatments, we need to ask patients about the change in their attitude toward life, and about life quality. Our patients love about our medicine that they learn to understand their symptoms and intent to change themselves.

Trying to understand and study homeopathy, one component of biological medicine, offers students a very deep insight into the human character, its archetypal reactions, and the meaning and structure of personalities.  This study takes the student to a deeper level of information, into dimensions that make human beings individuals.  Homeopathy therefore always has to be an important part of education for a holistic doctor, in part because the study of homeopathy also educates about his own character.

Enderlein’s revolutionary isopathic theory is another “building block” of the philosophy of biological medicine.  Isopathy teaches us that everything in man is dynamic, always changing and reacting.  It reminds us that we are most integrally part of the earth and Mother Nature, out of which we develop and live, and to which we return.  True to isopathic theory, bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms, which are commonly thought to be the causes of diseases, develop within us.  They are normally, in the form of proteins, part of every person’s cells.  To emphasize: only our “internal milieu” (the environment in which our cells function), which we ourselves have built, changes these microorganisms, and by doing so, changes our diseases.

So, you see, learning biological medicine involves changing oneself, through identifying and pursuing new interests and guidance. Biological medicine is believing in the good of nature, of which we and our patients are an integrative part. I am extremely happy and fulfilled to have patients who want to follow me in this path of learning, changing – and by doing so to get to a better level of health.

This all sounds very philosophical – but Biological Medicine is very practicable and in a way simple- In my last 30 years of closest contact with my patients, we developed a very straight-forward strategy to change patients health to the good, based on Dr.Rau’s 3 main pillars of treatment approach:

• Toxic load and body-foreign influences block the healing functions of the body – we call this “blockades” – they have to be found and removed. Therefore, detoxification techniques always must be important part of diagnostics and treatment.
• The Intestines connect us to Mother Earth, they are the “replacement of the plant’s roots – and they are site of the immune system. There is no disease which would not be connected to disturbances of intestinal flora or membranes
• The body rebuilds permanently if it is healthy. In sick bodies the rebuilding (anabolic) forces must be supported specifically. This makes healing process better and faster.

All these 3 main points of healing are not covered by orthodox medicine.

With my best thanks for your interest and with my very best regards.