Dear Daniel,
Some will tell you no problems can occur from using some but not all the preps.
I say yes, problems can and often do develop. But they are subtle and may
not be noticed by everyone.
For example, In Australia Alex Podolinsky taught farmers to use 500 and
only after quite some time to use 501--if at all. One of the reasons he
gave such counsel was that use of the 501 on paddocks and hayfields
significantly hastened seeding and lessened vegetative growth.
Had he used the two back-to-back vegetative growth would have increased
because the 500 increases the digestive, nutritive activity in the soil
that feeds the foliage AND the atmospheric activities of photosynthesis,
blossoming, fruiting and ripening would have been enhanced.
I realize that stirring and spraying large paddocks with 500 and then
turning right around and stirring and spraying 501 is too much for busy
farmers to accomplish, or if they could do it it wouldn't be easy. But
these two soil and atmosphere preps need to be sprayed back-to-back for
balance to be maintained. In fact, ideally horn clay should be used as the
final application in a three part sequence, as it stimulates the ebb and
flow of sap in plants which allows for the exchange between the below
ground activities of the plant and the above ground activities.
The pity of what has happened in Australia--and to some extent New Zealand
as well--is many farmers launched into biodynamics by spraying 500. And
they got wonderful results bringing soils to life so that digestion and
nutrition was improved for plants. But the forces all too soon began to
work too strongly downward and not enough upward into the atmosphere. Thus
the available, easily leached minerals from calcium or magnesium down to
boron and copper migrated downward out of the root zone, and these farms
progressively experienced falling production. Many of them gave up on using
biodynamics, and what seemed a very promising beginning sort of plateaued
out.
Another example. I seriously over used 507, the valerian flower juice, one
summer and I had carrots blooming in their first year. Corn tassled but
made no ears. Tomatoes and peppers blossomed a bit and then died. This
remedy stimulates blossoming, but you see, you can overdo it.
Glen Atkinson had a great picture of three kale plants in close proximity
to each other. One was given repeated homeopathic 500 while another was
given repeated 501. The former remained robustly vegetative while the
latter went to seed.
500 is like the nervous system while 501 is like the senses. To support
these you need the kidneys (yarrow) the intestines (chamomile) the
circulation (nettle) the bones (oak bark) the liver (dandelion) the lungs
(valerian) and the skin and hair (horsetail). Leaving any of them out is
going to cost you the integrity of the farm organism.
Steiner's remedies are potent tools and need to be used with skill and
insight. You wouldn't repair your automobile using only a flat bladed
screwdriver and vice grips. You'd use most if not all of your toolset and
use each appropriately.
Best,
Hugh Lovel
Hi All,
Could problems develop from using some of the preps but not all. like just
using 500, 501 and 508.
thanks,
Daniel
- Original Message -
From: Tony Nelson-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: Cancer etc
Sunny (in particular) - Even amongst fairly mainstream sufferers, attitude
and a willingness to accept unconventional therapies seem to have very
positive results. An acquaintance with colon cancer was given only months
to live but, with the help of a very positive attitude and a diet worked out
by the Bristol Centre, survived for several years; yet medical 'wisdom'
still regularly dismisses such influences. I wasn't at that time aware of
anthroposophical medicine or other, more spiritual alternative therapies -
maybe, had I been able to pass on to him the suggestions arising from this
thread, he'd still be with us! Tony N-S.
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