Dear Dave, My apologies for the late reply to your request for more information on our use of Lycopodium as a homoeopathic treatment to strengthen the archetypal being of a plant.The berry picking and processing season is now finished, consequently I will have more energy to devote to the love of my life (biodynamics) and getting plants to grow how they shouldn't. This idea is still in the early stages of observation of what happens. The theory is that once plants evolved from the primitive algaes the first two were Lycopodium and Equisetum. Lycopopdium fits between the mosses and the ferns, both of which were able to propagate in the sulphur rich environment at that time.an incredibly tough pair of plants. The story starts with my finding of a large number of dendrites in the strata of sedimentary rocks in an area near us. For those who have never seen a dendrite, it is the exact image of one of the Lycopodium ferns, however at that particular geological age there was not any above ground plants (or so biology tells me). The patterns for the forthcoming plants were already here before they came into physical manifestation. The strange thing is that this pattern was caused by pressure well below the earths surface acting upon iron and manganese rich fluid seeping between the strata of the rocks. Lycopodium also has the common name of vegetable sulphur, sulphur being the organising element, the assumption is that Lycopodium sprayed on the foliage and soil of plants that were doing poorly would give some type of effect. My hypothesis if you could call it that, involved an assumption that these two plants were necessary for the rest of the plant world to evolve. I do not need to enunciate any further on the role of Equisetum. which has such a favoured place in biodynamic theory and practice, however the fact that the first two plants on earth have such a great impact in homoeopathic practice indicated to me that it had an application in healing the elementals involved in plant growth. Lycopodium is one of the great polychrest remedies of the Materia Medica, renowned for it's impact on the whole organism. Initial tests have shown that Apricot trees which had not fruited for at least 10 years, as long as I can remember were able to set a bumper crop of fruit and the trees are as vigorous as can be. raspberries grow into shrubs not just canes. The use of radionically potentised homoeopathic doses of herbal remedies to treat plants has a lot of potential in strengthening plants. I intend to use mixtures of Calcarea, Lycopodium and Sulphur this yearon strips in pasture just to see the effects. By the way has anyone ever investigated or used that common old weed Phytolacca in homoeopathic dilutions to set the patterns for regulation of the potassium element. Phytolacca root can contain up to 45% caustic potash and large amounts of malic acid. If there is anyone who reads this who can help with the role of malic acid in plant growth could they please help with information.i read about it once and now I can't find the information. Maybe Chris Shade can help with developing my ideas about Lycopodium in relation to the dendritic patterns found in sedimentary rocks.
Love and Light, James Hedley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Robison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 6:45 AM Subject: Re: Growing fruit/berries biodynamically > This is interesting > "To achieve this we use homoeopathic remedies such as Lycopodium at > high potency to bring the plants back to their archetypal patterns." > James, can you tell us more? > > > ========================== > Dave Robison > >
