White Cinquefoil, Painted by Barbara Hadeljan
White Cinquefoil (Potentilla alba) in the Light of Goethean Science,
and Its Healing of Thyroid Gland
A Talk by Barbara Hadeljan, A Postgraduate ESV Student
Monday, May 4, 2026, at 7:30 pm
School of Eurythmy
289 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977
For seven years, Barbara Hadeljan did intensive goetheanistic study of a total of 29 species of the genus Potentilla, and thus, the appearance and nature of the White Cinquefoil crystallized. The plant is an important, but now almost forgotten traditional medicinal plant for various thyroid diseases. In this presentation, its regulating healing qualities in the thyroid area are elaborated from its appearance in the course of the year, the substances it contains, and its position within the diverse genus.
Barbara Hadeljan from Croatia, Europe, is a biologist, a eurythmist, and a teacher. She holds a diploma on Goethean botany from Dornach, Switzerland. Her work was published in the anthroposophical medicine newsletter Merkurstab, together with Vesna Forstnerič Lesjak, a Slovene pharmacist and farmer, and a co-leader of the Natural Science Section at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland.
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For more information, please email marta@eurythmy.org.