Doctors & Midwives

Eden G. Fromberg
DO, FACOOG, DABIHM

Holistic Gynecology & Anthroposophic Medicine for Women ~ New York, NY

Dr. Eden Fromberg's dedication to caring well for her patients and years of clinical experience integrating current research & innovation with ancient wisdom & anthroposophic principles gives her the opportunity to sort out complex issues and develop customized treatment plans. Board Certifications – OB/GYN and Holistic Medicine. Special training in Anthroposophic Medicine.

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Melanie Gisler, DO
Integrative & Anthroposophic Medicine

Akasha Center for Integrative Medicine Santa Monica, CA

Dr. Melanie Gisler is an Osteopathic Board Certified Family Physician and co-director of the women’s clinic at the Akasha Center. She works with women of all ages, whole families as well as individual children and men. Dr Gisler’s interest and ongoing training in anthroposophic medicine has contributed immensely to her work with chronic illnesses including cancer care.

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On Anthroposophic Medicine

What is Anthroposophic Medicine?

From the Physician’s Association for Anthroposophic Medicine:
Anthroposophic medicine is a holistic and human-centered approach to medicine. It recognizes and uses modern medicine’s vast information and rigorous methodology. Then it goes further, adding knowledge of the laws of the living organism, the psyche, and the spirit. This knowledge is derived from a spiritual scientific methodology, which expands on the conventional scientific method. It requires—besides the ongoing professional, personal, and moral development required of every true physician—an active meditative life. This inner activity leads to a deepened capacity for apprehending the whole human being. Such a meditative journey is outlined by Rudolf Steiner. The result is an integrated image of the whole human being in illness and health. This makes possible a holistic but also rational approach to physiology, pathology, and therapy.

Michael Evans, MD and Iain Rodger:
As all anthroposophical doctors are first trained in conventional medicines they are also able to prescribe conventional drugs when appropriate. . . Artistic therapists work together with doctors, nurses, therapeutic masseurs and hydrotherapists in anthroposophical prac­tices and hospitals. . . The practice of anthroposophical medicine embraces the environment in which patients are treated as much as the therapies and remedies that are used. It includes the way doctors, nurses and therapists work together, the way they are paid, and how the health care is itself financially supported. In anthroposophical medicine, it is considered that the way medical staff relate to each other and make decisions can profoundly affect the outcome of treatment.
At present, anthroposophical medical work is most widely developed in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, where there are several hospitals and many general practitioners. All are fully recognized and funded by state and private medical insurance schemes. In the English-speaking world, it has taken longer for Steiner's work to become widely known, although interest in this approach is growing steadily. In the UK, anthroposophical medicine is practised both within the National Health Service and privately.
(Michael Evans, MD and Iain Rodger: Complete Healing: Regaining Your Health through Anthroposophical Medicine . 1992. Forest Row, UK: Floris Books, 2000.)

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