Spagyrics
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Spagyrics

The Alchemical Preparation of Medicinal Essences, Tinctures, and Elixirs

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Spagyrics

The Alchemical Preparation of Medicinal Essences, Tinctures, and Elixirs

About this book

A comprehensive alchemical guide to plant extractions and their health benefits • Shows how spagyric methods "open" medicinal plants completely to release powerful healing properties • Provides a history and philosophy of spagyrics that reveal why Western medicine fails to recognize the full benefit to health offered by plants • Connects spagyrics to classical alchemical, hermetic, and ayurvedic traditions 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. Spagyrics includes 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.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER IMAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  4. FOREWORD BY BRIAN COTNOIR
  5. PREFACE
  6. CHAPTER 1: SPAGYRIA AND SPAGYRICS
  7. CHAPTER 2: ADVICE OF BASILIUS VALENTINUS
  8. CHAPTER 3: THE THREE PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES AND THE ELEMENTS
  9. CHAPTER 4: MERCURY, SULFUR, AND SALT IN THE PLANT WORLD
  10. CHAPTER 5: THE EXTRACTION OF THE THREE PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES FROM PLANTS
  11. CHAPTER 6: THE STARS
  12. CHAPTER 7: PREPARATION OF SPAGYRIC TINCTURES AND ESSENCES
  13. CHAPTER 8: CIRCULATION
  14. CHAPTER 9: THE PLANT MAGISTERY OF PARACELSUS
  15. CHAPTER 10: THE CIRCULATUM MINUS OF URBIGERUS
  16. CHAPTER 11: ELIXIR—CLYSSUS—VEGETABLE STONE
  17. CHAPTER 12: ALCHEMICAL SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
  18. CHAPTER 13: OLD WEIGHTS
  19. EPILOGUE: HOW CAN WE HEAL?
  20. FOOTNOTES
  21. ENDNOTES
  22. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  23. SPAGYRIC RESOURCES
  24. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  25. ABOUT INNER TRADITIONS • BEAR & COMPANY
  26. COPYRIGHT & PERMISSIONS
  27. INDEX