Health has represented one of the fields of constant research ever since the beginning of Damanhur. Healing is never a passive event to be demanded from the miraculous intervention of other specialised individuals or from a means outside of oneself...

The body, in Damanhurian philosophy, is considered to be a temple, a precious tool for the soul and for the divine principle contained within every human being; for this reason, physical and spiritual wellbeing are equally important for health. It depends not just on the individual but also on various other factors, such as genetic characteristics and interaction with the environment; however it is the responsibility of the person to put into effect all those behaviours that can defend their overall health as much as possible.

Healing is never a passive event to be demanded from the miraculous intervention of other specialised individuals or from a means outside of oneself but is always characterised by choice. It is a process, a potential path which can allow one to take fast shortcuts to personal growth and self knowledge. A harmonious lifestyle and way of thinking, prevention and identifying suitable cures in each case are all part of the concept of health, making use of the principles of maximum benefit and minimum risk and of synergy between different cures.

Damanhurian medicine is preventative and synergetic because it makes use of numerous techniques suited to the person and the pathology, which are inseparably linked to the model of life practised. From home births to organic foods; from pranatherapy to regular health screening; from phytotherapy to emergency medicine; from ‘Selfica’ to genetic screening tests, to the fight against GMOs; from hypnosis to art in all its forms as therapy, to research into the divine essence within oneself: this is the territory covered by the original Damanhurian model of health.

It is important to choose natural methods that respect humans and the environment, without neglecting but rather valuing our present scientific and technological patrimony. In a step by step model, one moves on from prevention (pranatherapy, diet, deep breathing exercises, prenatal and birth care) to maintenance medicine (with all the disciplines of wellbeing), to reparatory medicine (phytotherapy, homeopathy, flower remedies, conventional medicine, surgery).

Thirty years of constantly developing work has led to defining the techniques of the ‘Damanhurian Tradition’. They represent a first level of assistance, between wellbeing and a cure: pranatherapy and deep breathing, hypnosis and relaxation techniques, massage and self massage, coloured light baths linked with sound (phono-chromatherapy), the use of ‘selfica’, a discipline that permits the creation of structures made from metals and specially prepared liquids and inks, which use the spiral as their base unit and are employed for protecting and rehabilitating various physical and psychical functions.

The development of selfic research is one of the most important, original and characteristic directions of Damanhurian medicine. Its use and experimentation has the benefit of the collaboration of doctors and health technicians who monitor the experiments.

The ‘Green Doctor’

This term is used to define the doctors who work within the Federation according to a paradigm consistent with Damanhurian philosophy: the Green Doctor gives centre place to the person, not the disease. He or she is a professional who uses the therapeutic relationship as a fundamental, irreplaceable tool of the cure. The Green Doctor conceives of health with a holistic vision of human beings and is the point of reference for the person under their care in the most meaningful moments of their life. They work to restore dignity to life, birth and death, and they help the person to give a meaning to their illness when it happens The Green Doctor, in addition to suitable professional training in their chosen specialisation, is able to make use of methods of assistance that draw from non-conventional medicine (homeopathy, homotossicology, phytotherapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, hypnosis and relaxation techniques) and from the internal Damanhurian tradition, which can be integrated into a therapeutic programme suited to the person, to the seriousness and urgency of the pathology.