Morphology

Rudolf Steiner made a very interesting observation when looking at medicinal plants. He found that plants that can heal also can have an abnormality in their physiology. The scientific term for this is morphology. In an ideal plant we would see a harmony of parts - roots, leaves, flowers - just as in a healthy person the three systems are in harmony. When we are sick there is an imbalance of these systems and similarly in our healing plants there is an imbalance also.

(Source: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bender/paradox.html )