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. > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Surf the Web without missing calls! Get MSN Broadband. >http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
