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| Biodynamic Preparations, Composts and Compost Teas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PREPARATION 500 COW HORN MANURE |
Cow horns (in contrast to the antler's horns) retain formative astral-etheric forces and send them back into the digestive system. | Books on BD Issues | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PREPARATION 501 HORN SILICA |
The distant planets - Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are involved in forming the nourishing substances in plants via silica. Silica makes the plant receptive to the expanses of the Universe. | Books on Silica | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PREPARATION 502 YARROW Achillea millefolium |
Plants, in order to grow properly, need to have a certain ability to sense and perceive. What a plant does not perceive it cannot put to use. | Books on Herbs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PREPARATION 503 GERMAN CHAMOMILE Matricaria chamomilla |
Elements that are necessary for plant growth include potash, calcium and various compounds of calcium. Chamomile draws the effects of calcium. | Books on Herbal Remedies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PREPARATION 504 STINGING NETTLE Urtica dioica |
'...The stinging nettle is the greatest benefactor of plant growth, it can hardly be replaced by any other plant. It contains sulfur which plays an important part in assimilating and incorporating the spiritual. | Books on Nettle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PREPARATION 505 OAK BARK Quercus robur |
'...The plant that contains
plenty of calcium is the oak. Seventy-seven percent of its substance
consists of finely distributed calcium. Oak bark, in particular,
represents a kind of intermediate product between the plant and the
living earth element. Of the many form in which calcium can appear,
the calcium structure of oak bark is the most ideal. |
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| PREPARATION 506 DANDELION Taraxacum officinale |
'...Silicic acid is needed to draw in the cosmic factor, and a thorough interaction must come about between the silicic acid, and the plant as the potassium. We have to enliven the soil through manuring so that it can facilitate this interaction. | Books on Herbal Medicine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PREPARATION 507 VALERIAN Valeriana officinalis |
...press the blossoms from the valerian plant and greatly dilute the extract with warm water. The extraction can be done any time and can be stored. If this diluted valerian juice is applied to the manure... | Books on Herbal Medicine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PREPARATION 508 EQUISETUM Equisetum arvense |
'... when the Moon influences are too strong the soil is overly enlivened and the vitality works too strongly from below... because of the effect of the Moon... | Books on Herbal Medicine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BIO DYNAMIC COMPOST |
Biodynamic agriculture was the first ecological farming system to arise in response to commercial fertilizers and specialized agriculture after the turn of the century... | Books on Compost | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Compost Teas for Plant Disease Control | Compost teas, also known as compost watery extracts or simply compost extracts, are gaining increased attention as a crop protection tool for the control of foliar diseases, and as an inoculant to restore or enhance soil microflora. | Books on Weeds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preparation | The Maria Thun Fladen Preparation is also called Barrel Compost (i.e. BC), as it is matured inside a barrel. BC is made by rhythmically lifting and turning approximately one wheel barrow full of fresh cow manure. | Books on Rudolf Steiner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
