Werner Junge
Werner Paul Friedrich Junge (* March 31, 1912[1] in Berlin[2]; † December 13, 1998[3] in Birenbach[2]) was a medical bath master and developer of the Junge or oil dispersion bath named after him. After meeting a patient suffering from actinomycosis, he developed, inspired by suggestions from Rudolf Steiner, a bath therapy in which oil and water are mixed purely physically by means of an apparatus blown from glass in which a vortex is created.[4]
Biography
Werner Junge was born on Palm Sunday, March 31, 1912 in Berlin, the son of Emma and Paul Junge. In 1916 his father was killed in Russia. After a physical breakdown of his mother, he grows up for two years with relatives. After completing elementary school, he begins an apprenticeship as a machinist at AEG in Berlin in 1926, which he finishes early and with honors in the journeyman's examination because of his very good performance. He is then employed as a journeyman in steam turbine construction.[2]
The beginning of oil dispersion bath therapy was the 1937 presentation of a thirty-year-old female patient who was critically ill with cervicofacial actinomycosis. She had been discharged from inpatient surgical treatment because she refused further surgical intervention. She had finished with life. In his search for therapeutic possibilities, Werner Junge found a statement by Rudolf Steiner[5] on the use of finely atomized oils in the bath. In the hope of strengthening the ego of the patient in apathy, oil baths were carried out. The patient gained new courage to face life and after a few weeks of continued baths, there was also a complete healing of the physical illness.[6]
Oil dispersion bathing apparatus
The oil dispersion bathing apparatus is a pear-shaped glass device that swirls incoming water and adds oil, sucked in from an inserted pipette, drop by drop to the outgoing water at the point of the vortex's highest rotation speed. This development was a synthesis of various ideas that Werner Junge had formed from his own observations and researches, based on the knowledge of Rudolf Steiner's data and Goethe's scientific writings.[7] In this process, occupations with the nature of water and its vortices, lemniscate and projective geometry played a role.
Brush massage
Werner Junge initially conceived the oil dispersion bath as a resting bath. Under the impression of insufficient oil absorption, he started a brush massage of the skin after about 5 min of rest. He derived this procedure from his knowledge of classical massage and rhythmic massage according to Wegman/Hauschka.[8]
References
- ↑ . Therapeutenverband für Öldispersionsbäder (ed.). "Schlagzeilen - 100. Geburtstag Werner Junge". Ölbadebote (in Deutsch). 2011-11-04.CS1 maint: others (link)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Junge, Florian. Verein für Öldispersionsbadetherapie nach Werner Junge (ed.). "Werner Junge - ein Streifzug durch seine Biographie". Zum Öldispersionsbad - Eine Jubiläumsschrift anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags von Werner Junge (in Deutsch): 6–9.
- ↑ "Zur Geschichte des Oeldispersionsbades". Website of the International Association for Oil Dispersion Bath Therapy (in Deutsch). Archived from the original on 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ↑ Junge, Franziska (October 1990). "So entstand das Öldispersionsbad" (PDF). Der Merkustab (in Deutsch) (5): 338–339.
- ↑ Steiner, Rudolf; Rudolf-Steiner-Nachlassverwaltung (Dornach) (1999). Geisteswissenschaft und Medizin : zwanzig Vorträge, gehalten in Dornach vom 21. März bis 9. April 1920 vor Ärzten und Medizinstudierenden (PDF). Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe (in Deutsch). 312 (7. Aufl. ed.). Dornach: Rudolf-Steiner-Verlag. p. 286. ISBN 978-3-7274-3120-3. p. 286:
The best way to do this is to try to use finely atomized oil in the bath and to treat people with the oil baths. (Das können wir wohl am besten dadurch, daß wir versuchen, fein zerstäubtes Öl im Bade zu verarbeiten und den Menschen zu behandeln mit den Ölbädern.)
- ↑ Junge, Werner (1981-08-15). Das Öldispersionsbad (in Deutsch). Birenbach.
- ↑ Dr. Albrecht Warning (2016). Das Öldispersionsbad nach Werner Junge eine Hydrotherapie als Körpertherapie der Anthroposophischen Medizin. Als Chronik verfasst im Sommer 2016 (in Deutsch).
- ↑ Warning, Albrecht; Krüger, Markus (2014). "Das Öldispersionsbad nach Werner Junge". Der Merkurstab (in Deutsch). doi:10.14271/DMS-20288-DE. ISSN 0935-798X. Retrieved 2020-11-27.