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PREPARATION
506 - DANDELION - Taraxacum officinale |
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STEINER'S
PROPOSITION: '...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. We need to look for a plant whose own potassium-silicic acid relationship will enable it to impart this power to the manure when it is added to the manure in a kind of homeopathic dosage... this plant is the dandelion... the innocent, yellow dandelion is a tremendous assed because it mediates between the fine homeopathic distribution of silicic acid in the cosmos, and the silicic acid that is actually used over the whole region. The dandelion is really a kind of messenger form heaven... the plant needs to be utilized in the right way... it must be exposed to the Earth's influences... HOW TO MAKE 500 ACCORDING TO STEINER: "... collect the yellow heads of the dandelion and let them wilt a little. Then pack them together and sew them up in a bovine mesentery (vertebrate membrane), and put them in the Earth for winter. When the balls are dug up in spring, they will in fact be thoroughly saturated with cosmic influences and can be stored till needed, This material can be added to the manure... it will give the soil the ability to attract just as much silicic acid from the atmosphere and the cosmos as is needed by the plants. In this way the plants will become sensitive to everything at work in their environment and then be able themselves to draw in whatever else is needed...' ESOTERIC COMMENT: Dandelion attracts the forces of the outer planets, especially Jupiter. ABOUT THE PLANT: Dandelion is a major herb in at least three ancient herbal traditions - Western, Chinese, and Ayurveda. It is a common herbaceous plant abundant all over the world, growing in meadows and pastures, and often your front lawn. Dandelion has a thick, light brown perennial root which produces a rosette of basal leaves. A leafless flower stem grows from the centre of the basal leaves. It is smooth, hollow, and terminates with a single large golden flower which opens during the day and closes at night, and in the rain. The root, leaves, and stem contain a milky fluid. These flowers are succeeded by a hairy puffball containing seeds which ripen and are blown by the wind. The medicinal parts are the leaves and the roots. Properties: Tonic and blood purifier, for constipation, inflammatory skin conditions, joint pain, eczema and liver dysfunction, including liver conditions such as hepatitis and jaundice. An infusion of the root encourages the steady elimination of toxins from the body. It is a powerful diuretic but does not deplete the body of potassium like many other diuretics. It has such medicinal qualities as aperient, cholagogue, depurative, hepatic, laxative, stomachic, tonic. PRACTICAL FARMING CONSIDERATIONS: Pick flowers early in the morning when the flowers are no more than half open. Dry the flowers and store them in a brown paper bag in airy, dark place. Get hold of a mesentery (remove all fat first) and fold the dried flowers into it. Tie the package with string. Bury in autumn during descending moon phase. Lift in spring (same time as 500). Let the remains dry naturally and store in glass jar. HOW TO APPLY 506: Bind the preparation in compost or dry grass and drill deep holes into the compost heap. Insert the preparation 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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