Spagyrics

The Alchemical Preparation of Medicinal Essences, Tinctures, and Elixirs

Manfred M. Junius (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2007 | 3rd Edition, New Edition of The Practical Handbook of Plant Alchemy
Healing Arts Press (Verlag)
978-1-59477-179-8 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive alchemical guide to plant extractions and their health benefits.

The practice of spagyrics is the application of ancient alchemical working methods to the preparation of tinctures, essences, and other products from medicinal plants. While ordinary tinctures and infusions use only a part of the great curative potential of plants, spagyric methods “open” medicinal plants completely to reveal their more powerful healing properties. Drawing on the rich imagery and symbolism of ancient source materials, Manfred M. Junius describes these methods in great detail, showing readers how to prepare plant remedies alchemically for their own use as well as imparting a knowledge of the ideological world in which alchemistic and hermetic thought flowered. Spagyricsincludes the Plant Magistery of Paracelsus and the Life Elixir recipe of Andreas Libavius among its historic techniques as well as a wealth of scientific information that demonstrates the greater efficacy of alchemical methods of plant essence extraction. This classic source text preserves the nearly forgotten but highly valuable methods of this true hermetic art for preparing natural remedies.

Professor Manfred M. Junius (1929-2004) served as the production manager for spagyrics for Australerba Laboratories and was head of the Australian School of Ayurveda in Adelaide, Australia. His Western alchemical knowledge was obtained through many years of personal instruction from Augusto Pincaldi in Switzerland.

FOREWORD BY BRIAN COTNOIR

PREFACE

1 SPAGYRIA AND SPAGYRICS

2 ADVICE OF BASILIUS VALENTINUS

3 THE THREE PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES AND THE ELEMENTS

4 MERCURY, SULFUR, AND SALT IN THE PLANT WORLD

5 THE EXTRACTION OF THE THREE PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES FROM PLANTS

The Extraction of the Essential Oils, That Is,
of the Volatile Sulfur

Mercury

Fixed Sulfur and Its Salt

Salt

6 THE STARS

The Foundations

Stars and Medicinal Plants

Days, Hours, and Rhythms of the Planets

The Exact Horoscope as the Basis for the Works

7 PREPARATION OF SPAGYRIC TINCTURES AND ESSENCES

8 CIRCULATION

9 THE PLANT MAGISTERY OF PARACELSUS

10 THE CIRCULATUM MINUS OF URBIGERUS

11 ELIXIR--CLYSSUS--VEGETABLE STONE

The Opus Vegetabile of M. Johannes Issac Hollandus

Tractatus de Quinta Essentia Vini

12 ALCHEMICAL SIGNS AND SYMBOLS

13 OLD WEIGHTS

EPILOGUE: HOW CAN WE HEAL?

NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SPAGYRIC RESOURCES
INDEX

Zusatzinfo	47 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Rochester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	395 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde ► Phytotherapie
ISBN-10	1-59477-179-0 / 1594771790
ISBN-13	978-1-59477-179-8 / 9781594771798
Zustand	Neuware