What Makes Blood Move?

<p><strong>Dr. Armin J. Husemann,</strong> MD, born in 1950, worked as a school doctor from 1988 to 1993. He has been a general practitioner in private practice since 1987 in Stuttgart, Germany. Since 1993, he has been the director and a lecturer at the Eugen Kolisko Academy (formerly The Anthroposophic Medical Seminar) in Filderstadt. Dr. Husemanns books translated into English include <em>The Harmony of the Human Body: Musical Principles in Human Physiology</em> (Floris Books, 2003); <em>Human Hearing and the Reality of Music</em> (SteinerBooks, 2015); and <em>Form, Life & Consciousness: An Introduction to Anthroposophic Medicine and Study of the Human Being</em> (SteinerBooks, 2019).</p><br>

<p>Preface to the First German Edition<br /><br>Preface to the First English Edition</p><br><br><p><strong>1. Blood Movements, their Vessels, and the Heart</strong></p><br><br><p>The evolutionary history of blood circulation<br /><br>Movement came first: Embryonic development of blood vessels<br /><br>Angiogenesis in healing processes<br /><br>Regeneration of the abdominal aorta around a synthetic mesh<br /><br>The blood is independently mobile<br /><br>The dynamics of blood flow shape the embryonic heart<br /><br>How does the vascular intima perceive the movement of flowing blood?</p><br><br><p><strong>2. What Makes Blood Move?</strong></p><br><br><p>Primary blood movement<br /><br>The dynamics of capillary circulation<br /><br>How the liver, intestines, and kidneys make blood move<br /><br>The dynamics of macro-circulation on the periphery<br /><br>The autonomy of organ perfusion<br /><br>The left heart in the arterial system<br /><br>Awaking and arterial blood pressure<br /><br>The left heart and blood movement<br /><br>The hydraulic ram as a model of heart function<br /><br>The hydraulic ram in nature’s water cycle<br /><br>Pressure buildup in the heart<br /><br>The vortex in the heart<br /><br>The heart as a sense organ<br /><br>The hearing process in the vascular intima<br /><br>The heart as an “ear”</p><br><br><p><strong>3. Blood Movement and Soul Movement</strong></p><br><br><p>Respiration modulates venous flow<br /><br>The constitutional members’ activity as tissue water enters the capillaries<br /><br>Musical hearing as an empirical path into inner life<br /><br>Music as observing time from within<br /><br>Beethoven’s use of flow and congestion</p><br><br><p><strong>4. The Heart as Organ of the “I”</strong></p><br><br><p>The heart as a balance<br /><br>The heart as an organ for the development of karma<br /><br>Cardiac maturity and sexual maturity<br /><br>The sun forces in the human heart<br /><br>Individualizing sexuality<br /><br>Freedom and karma as consequences of the separation of the sexes<br /><br>The sun substance of karma</p><br><br><p><strong>5. Cardiac Activity and Uprightness</strong></p><br><br><p>Humans and animals<br /><br>The heart as an organ of balance<br /><br>Angiogenesis and heredity</p><br><br><p><strong>6. The Dynamics of Speech Articulation in Blood Movement</strong></p><br><br><p>Discovering speech in the blood<br /><br>How speech works back on the internal organs<br /><br>Does speech also sculpt the brain?<br /><br>Instilling responsibility—the new etheric heart<br /><br>The Word in art and religion<br /><br>Visible speech in the air</p><br><br><p><strong>7. The Whole Is the Truth</strong></p><br><br><p>Blood biochemistry in relationship<br /><br>to blood movement and the heart<br /><br>Endnotes</p><br>