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PREPARATION
502 - YARROW - Achillea millefolium
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STEINER'S
PROPOSITION: 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. But if a plant is very delicately permeated and enlivened, it becomes sensitive and can attract everything that it needs. -- Fertilisers of the future should not be prepared with all kinds of chemicals, but rather with yarrow, chamomile, nettle, oak bark and dandelion. -- Yarrow brings light to the soil as potassium and sulphur. WHAT STEINER SAYS ABOUT YARROW: '..yarrow works in the compost heap in the same way as used medicinally in the human body: it can remedy the weaknesses of the astral body. ' HOW TO MAKE 502 ACCORDING TO STEINER: The yarrow is placed into a stag's bladder (the terminating point of Venus influences) which is then hung in a place exposed to the Sun during summer. In autumn it is taken down and buried for the duration of the winter. The preparation has very strong radiating power, refreshes and quickens the soil so that the more distant cosmic substances -silicic acid, lead etc which come to the Earth in homeopathic quantities, are caught up and received. ESOTERIC COMMENT: Yarrow helps to create an environment in which the spiritual can penetrate substance. The primary Venus forces nourish and nurse, inviting new possibilities. The secondary Venus forces strengthen by means of the excretion of cellulose and salts. Steiner says that the stag's bladder is directly connected to cosmic forces via the antlers. He points out that the antlers actually have a similar form to the yarrow plant. Within the bladder Venus and Moon forces blend and are enhanced. ABOUT THE YARROW PLANT: A hardy and persistent perennial herb. Stands erect, leaves alternate, finely pinnately divided; flowers small, white, pink or yellow in terminal clusters of small heads. Properties: stimulates digestion, expectorant, carminative (dispels gas), hemostatic (stops bleeding), astringent, antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, analgesic, stimulant, and emmenagogue, general tonic for the cardio-vascular system, lowers blood pressure, slows heartbeat. PRACTICAL FARMING CONSIDERATIONS: Pick the flowers and dry them on racks. Store the dried flowers until spring. Obtain a stag's bladder, maybe from an abattoir or a hunter. The bladder can be dried and stored. In spring moisten the bladder and fill it with the yarrow flowers. (Cut the stems off the flowers first) If you have to cut the bladder to make filling easier, stitch the cut after filling. Water should be able to run off the packet. Hang the bladder into a tree facing south (sunny side). In autumn cut the bladder off the tree and bury it in the same way as the cow horns were buried. Make sure to mark the spot so that you can find it again. After lifting, store what is left of the flowers in glass jar with a loose-fitting lid. Storage is similar to 500. Make sure the flowers do not dry out . Add a little bit of rainwater from time to time. HOW TO ADD TO COMPOST: Bind the flowers in compost or dry grass and drill deep holes into the compost heap. Insert the preparations into these holes and backfill. Liquid manure: Wrap the flowers in cheesecloth or dried grass and tie them in such a way that they float on top of the liquid manure. |
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