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Interview with Dr. Rau
by Richard Leviton (April 1996)
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The Paracelsus Clinic in Lustmühle, Switzerland was founded
in 1958 as a center for health and well-being based on the prin-
ciples of natural healing. Since then it has continually integrated
and adapted to the evolving and developing models of biological
and holistic medicine and dentistry.
A team of more than 60 motivated nurses and health practi-
tioners work closely with: 6 doctors, 5 dentists, therapists, a phar-
macist, consultants of different scientific specializations, medical
assistants, dental technicians and administrative assistants. Thus
a combination of treatments can be offered to the differing needs of
patients.
The Paracelsus Klinik is the only outpatient clinic in Switzer-
land in which the full range of biological medicine is combined
with conventional as well as state of the art therapies designed to
help balance and restore the overall regulation of the body’s sys-
tems. This unique model also includes the integration of holistic
dentistry.
In nearly all cases of acute and chronic disease the patient
can be either treated or advised on an outpatient or inpatient ba-
sis.
As it has been found through extensive study that the teeth as
well as the jaw are frequently the cause for disease located else-
where in the body, dental treatment is a key factor in this biological
medicine system.
The on-site pharmacy at Paracelsus carries a complete range
of biological supplements and medicines. The clinic also serves as
an educational resource foundation for holistic medicine, offering
further education to doctors, dentists, non-medical practitioners,
pharmacists and other therapists.
L—You said that you wanted to focus on holistic dentistry in
this.
R—You know the special thing that we do in Switzerland in
our clinic which is the only clinic doing anything like this is the
strict combination between holistic dentistry and biological medi-
cine. We have all the possibilities of biological medicine since ’58
we are developing this. The clinic exists since--
L—Why don’t you tell me what biological medicine means in
Europe because we don’t quite have that term in the U.S. and the
German-speaking countries, frankly, are quite a bit ahead of us in
terms of what the government allows them to do. So what does that
mean, what does it encompass?
R—Biological medicine understands much more than you un-
derstand here in the States. It’s not only nutrition, biologic nutri-
tion and organic things, but also all the methods combining with
it—acupuncture, homeopathy, isopathic therapy, and Enderline
things.
L—Underlying? Or Enderline
R—Enderline.
L—As in pleomorphic?
R—Yes, the pleomorphic things are much loved, wider spread
in Germany and Switzerland.
L—Nobody has even heard of it in the U.S.
R—Yes, they are very new here, they are just registered now,
but in Switzerland they have a tradition and are very effective. So
these are all the things. And we integrate all the fine energetic thera-
pies.
L—Can I ask another very broad question? I know who
Paracelsus is, our readers wouldn’t. We will explain it to them, but
is there any philosophical kinship that your clinic has in terms of
its approach to medicine with the old boy in the 17th century?
Paracelsus as the alchemist, herbalist.
R—No. You know in the German-speaking part of the world
Paracelsus is something like a symbol for biological things, for
entire medicine, for entire thinking of regulation in the human be-
ing. It is not a philosophy behind like Kurelich (sp), or a group.
L—I didn’t mean it that way, but Paracelsus had very definite
views on medicine in his day.
R—In his day, but the day has changed and now we know
much, much more. We integrate this thinking that the human being
has to heal itself by changing the terrain, the internal milieu, the
internal environment.
L—That and pleomorphism are ideas very poorly understood
in the U.S. As you know, in the U.S. there is a war on between one
practice of medicine and another, conventional allopathic and em-
piric, holistic, or biological medicine. And one side has tons of
money and the government behind them and all the drug compa-
nies and the other side has all the therapeutic success behind it. So
pleomorphism and the idea of the terrain are not well understood,
even by a lot of people on the empiric side of things. Maybe, again,
if you could amplify two things. You mentioned energetic medi-
cines and the terrain. If you could briefly explain what you mean
by both of those.
R—This is very difficult to explain because the internal mi-
lieu is what allows acting, the metabolism which allows acting --
the internal organs to react. If you change what we call the milieu,
the acid-base balance of the cell and of the plasma, or if you change
the reduction oxidation potential — it is very, very important, a big
part of the internal milieu — or if you change the protein content. I
think here in the States you see it somehow more narrowly. You
see, for example, the trace elements. There are nutritionists who
make orthomolecular medicine. They add trace elements, vitamin
supplements, to the food and they think they act as this. But this is
