The medicinal use of metals plays a considerable role in the anthroposophical system of medicine founded by Rudolf Steiner. However, an abundance of indications about metals and how safe they relate to the human organism, often given from varying standpoints, makes it difficult to gain a comprehensive view of this wide field.

The following is an attempt to indicate common principles and show ways of combining many of these varying standpoints, thus allowing common features to emerge. The author makes no claim to completeness, which is something only attainable through collaboration by many colleagues.

The metals in question are the seven classical metals lead, tin, iron, gold, copper, mercury and silver whose relationship with the seven planets Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and Moon has bee known since ancient times. In extensive laboratory experiments over the last few decades L. Kolisko has clearly substantiated the relationship between these planets and the seven metals. …

Hans Joachim Pohl

Original title: Planetenwirken im Menschen. Der Merkurstab 1992; 2:112-119.
Der Merkurstab 1992;45(2):112-119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14271/DMS-16068-DE
English by Johanna Collis, MIL.
This translation is published with the kind permission of the journal Der Merkurstab.

JAM Vol. 9(3), Autumn 1992