Vitality energies

by Marinus Jan Marijs 

Within many of the alternative worldviews especially within the alternative medical treatments, the concept of vitality energies plays a important role.
But the knowledge about the nature of these energies is still very limited, and one should take great care before one even takes into consideration to use this without sufficient knowledge.

“In the late 19th century, controversy centred on whether the phenomena of growth, regeneration, and reproduction characteristic of living organisms could be explained in purely mechanistic terms. The vitalism of Hans Driesch, a German biologist and philosopher, according to which an Aristotelian entelechy, or immanent agency, must be postulated in every organism, found little support after his death. There remains, however, the question of whether biological processes can be explained in purely physicochemical terms, or whether the problems of structure, function, and organization necessitate some kind of teleology. Organismic conceptions, such as those espoused in the mid-20th century by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, an Austrian-Canadian theoretical biologist, have thrown these issues into a new perspective.”
(Encyclopædia Britannica)