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DR. PHILIP RUTHER

DEAR VALUED PATIENTS

I would like to inform you personally that me and my family will relocate back to Germany beginning of December 2021 and therefore my current practice at the HOUSE OF HOLISTIC HEALTH in 81 Kloof Street, Cape Town will close by the end of this month, November 2021.

After 16 years living and working in Cape Town we feel the call to reunite with our families in Germany.

I cannot express enough how thankful I am to all of you that have sharpened my senses, opened my mind, created the vision and guided me along this incredible journey that is Afrika. I have learned for many lifetimes to come and hope to take some of the humbleness that South Africans in all their diversity express towards life and implement it in the north of Germany, in Hamburg where my roots are.

The HOUSE OF HOLISTIC HEALTH in Kloof Street will continue to operate under slightly different circumstances and I would kindly like to ask you to look regularly at our website www.houseofholistichealth.com to be informed about the remaining practitioners and myself with regards to operating hours and operating location.

My colleague Dr. Thomas Jahn will continue, as before, to be available to all of my Cape Town based patients for any herbal medicine and other treatment needs, and we will continue to liaise with one another to provide additional support as patients may require.

I am not leaving South Africa fully, as we keep some newly grown roots here so I will come back to Cape Town regularly to also practice at times at your known location. Should you wish to be informed about possible appointments and dates please click on my email below and confirm with a simple “yes” that I can contact you on those occasions.

I will be available also for online consultations from January 2022.

Please note that Dr. Ruthers practice moved to Hamburg, Germany from 01-December 2021. He is available for online consultations from January 2022. For further information, future appointments and more please contact: drphilip@houseofholistichealth.com

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DR. PHILIP RUTHER
Doctor of Chinese Medicine + Acupuncture Medical Practitioner (Germany)
DR. PHILIP RUTHER
Doctor of Chinese Medicine + Acupuncture Medical Practitioner (Germany)

MEET DR. PHILIP RUTHER

ABOUT PHILIP

Philip always reaches out to understand, respect and merge the essences of different world views and health systems in an ongoing quest to harmonise and balance what’s not.

The heartfelt calling to manifest this within a group of like-minded practitioners over the last 12 years, resulted in Philip co-founding the HOUSE OF HOLISTIC HEALTH in 2008 in Cape Town.

Philip has come a long educational way from medical University in Germany and clinical work in Africa, Germany and Switzerland. Rooted in a genuine interest in medicine since childhood, his passion for medicine has been fuelled ever more through the in-depth study of Acupuncture and the foundations of Chinese Medicine (CM) in Beijing, China in 2003.

Ongoing postgraduate studies have led to a wide array of therapeutic modalities and applied treatment systems. His special interest lies in the causal evaluation and holistic treatment of chronic diseases like cancer. The importance of participatory medical interventions with his patients provides the foundation of a deeper understanding of each individual’s needs.

Dr. Philip Ruther practises a form of INTEGRATIVE CHINESE MEDICINE that attempts to integrate the ‘whole-system philosophies’ found in the origin of Chinese Medicine in a practical and approachable way. He integrates modalities such as acupuncture and herbal medicine in close relationship with Dr. Jahn to best meet his patients’ needs. The diagnostic process and the way of evaluating symptoms is also rooted in an understanding of Western-style physiology/biology and Western understanding of the human body.

Philip is married, has two children and has been Board Director of Vulamasango, a well-established youth facilitation centre and orphanage in Philippi, Cape Town, since 2008.

PHILIP‘S DISCIPLINES

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PHILIP‘S CONTACT OPTIONS

PHILIP´S FAVOURITE BOOKS

BOOK 1

HOMO DEUS | YUVAL NOAH HARARI | 2015

Harari recounts the course of history while describing events and the individual human experience, along with ethical issues in relation to his historical survey. Moreover, Homo Deus deals more with the abilities acquired by humans their existence, and their evolution as the dominant species in the world. The book describes mankind’s current abilities and achievements and attempts to paint an image of the future.

BOOK 2

THE GLASS BEAD GAME | HERMANN HESSE | 1949

The Glass Bead Game takes place at an unspecified date centuries into the future. Hesse suggested that he imagined the book’s narrator writing around the start of the 25th century. The setting is a fictional province of central Europe called Castalia, which was reserved by political decision for the life of the mind; technology and economic life are kept to a strict minimum.

BOOK 3

SIDDAHRTHA | HERMANN HESSE | 1922

Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse’s ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s.

BOOK 4

BIOLOGY OF BELIEFS | BRUCE LIPTON | 2006

The Biology of Belief is a groundbreaking work in the field of New Biology. Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor and research scientist. His experiments, and that of other leading-edge scientists, have examined in great detail the processes by which cells receive information.

BOOK 5

I CHING THE BOOK OF CHANGES | RICHARD WILHELM, CARY F. BAYNES | 1951

This book, with a foreword by C.G. Jung, owes great credit to the translator and the publishers. No pains have been spared in making the extremely varied contents clear to the reader through brilliant variations of type and management of margins.

MEET ANOTHER TEAM MEMBER

DR. PHILIP RUTHER

JAMES RAAFF

DR. ERWANN FABRE

DR. THOMAS JAHN

JONATHAN JOSHUA

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