With Compliments of Vaikunthanath Das Kaviraj
A Quantum Leap
What is required is a revolution on our thinking……….
We have to remove the blinkers of linear tunnel vision and make the quantum leap to lateral vision. We have to learn that everything is part of a whole and therefore connected. We are as much part of it as everything else and what we do to each part we do to ourselves. We must realise that when we polute our food, we can no longer have right thoughts – what you eat is what you are……………….
This is not just a simple slogan without meaning but a profound insight. What do you want to be? Clear or poisoned?
For that is the choice you have, as a consumer. You are the largest group and can enforce legislation, as the example from California – where 200 dangerous pesticides were banned by public demand – has shown.
Nature works through harmony – the so-called struggle for life is a hoax. While nature also entails the principle “eat or be eaten” food is never in excess, except in our food crops… They are by their very nature unnatural. Nature does not like excess and will redress the situation by creating sudden death – disease or pests. Hen to grow them without any damage we have to imitate nature to the point where she believes everything is in balance. Therefore, plants that help each other have been grown together since ancient times, like tomatoes and basil, beans and potatoes, corn and potato and other plants and herbs. The same can be achieved by using these plants as remedies, since they have the same effects.
The law of Similars is applicable throughout nature. Like produces like, cures like and attracts like in each and every respect. Therefore, it is easy to understand that like also imitates like and that like neutralizes like. To agriculture, this means that what grows naturally together will also work harmoniously in potency. Moreover, all natural predators can be used as remedies following the same principle. The same goes for pheromones, allelopathy and allelopathic chemicals. Fungi and bacteria can and also function the same way. Thus a precise and accurate model of pest and disease control is available, without the drawbacks of resistance, pollution and added poisons or disease, or the subsequent need for stronger poisons. The implications are that with homeopathic remedies, plants will not only be healthier and therefore increase CO₂ uptake, but they will also grow more vigorously, thus increasing the CO₂ uptake of the entire crop. In this way, a 100% increase may be achieved. Coupled with the reduction in fossil fuel use, the total reduction in greenhouse gases may approach 200%. This is the best solution for the reduction of CO₂ levels, together with the project to green the desert mentioned below. Since we can improve the uptake of CO₂ by 200% for 25% of the earth’s surface and do the same with another 25% that consists of sick forests, we have already gained a tremendous advantage. In combination with the Greening of the Desert program, we can increase the percentage of arable land and plant forests to sustain the arable land and plant forests to sustain the arable land with sufficient rain and provide an even larger percentage of CO₂ uptake. Of -course it is self-evident that we must also put an immediate stop o=to unsustainable logging – not only in the Amazon, but equally in Australis, the USA, Canada and South Pacific. All forests cut down must be replaced – which in the case of the Amazon will be an enormous challenge. Otherwise any project that aims at reduction of CO₂ is simply and exercise in futility.
Elsewhere, we explain the need for and advantages of minimum doses of remedies suitable for the entire syndrome of symptoms before you. Here we deal with a different concept, where the whole is more important than its parts. We must go from the general to the particular, since we must first understand the whole before we can understand the functions of the parts. When we look around us in nature we see that trees will give each other space to grow – they simply develop more branches out of the way of their neighbour. Each plant provides the biome for other plants, and we can recognize relationships between plants that share similar medicinal effects, pheromones, allelochemicals, tastes or other features. From these relationships we can learn how the whole works and how each creature has its place in the cycle.
Soil improvers are known in agriculture as manure, compost and slurry, which were traditionally produced at the farm and spread over the land, it was left to the worms to work them into the soil and the soil remained healthy. With the beginning of so-called Agricultural Revolution, chemical fertilisers were introduced, which seemed to do away with both the smell and the flies associated with manure and compost. It also appeared that the crops fared well from the regular input of fertilizer, which seemingly adapted to the lifecycle of the plants.
Potassium and nitrogen during the growing phase produced larger and stronger plants….. Increasing the phosphorus content during flowering and fruit setting seemed also to produce a bigger and better-looking crop. However, this increase occurred with a simultaneous loss of taste! The food produced ceased to be heath. As in human society, where people became overweight from fast food, the plants became simply obese…
When pests and disease subsequently increased, requiring ever-larger doses of poison, the food produced became literally dangerous to eat. Apart from excessive amounts of nitrogen, some compounds of which are carcinogenic, large amounts of poisons like DDT and organochlorides were also consumed. This occurred despite best practices to avoid administering the chemicals during a specified period before human consumption (“withholding periods”) and the advice to wash fruit and vegetables thoroughly before consumption…..
Rudolph Steiner was the first to see that bare soil cultivation with chemical fertilisers was the wrong way to proceed. He developed several preparations from cow manure (B500) and pure silica (B501) to improve the soil without the stink and the flies. His preparations restore soil microbial life, add the necessary nutrients in a form that plants can digest and improve soil structure.
In short, then, the homeopathic approach to plant treatment involves the following procedures:
We examine by observing the pathology and its location (the organs or parts affected) comparing this to the normal physiology for diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. This includes consideration of the process of disease and its associated appearance or manifesstations, such as inflammation, exudation, degeneration, necrosis, atrophy, hypertrophy, aplasia or hyperplasia.
We assess the aetiological factors that predispose to disease or excite it, in terms of development, trauma, infection or iatrogenic causes (resulting from incorrect treatment) these relate to how the disease develops, in which direction and at what speed.
We diagnose by matching all the pathological indications (the ‘totality of symptoms’) to similar pathological conditions associated with a single specific remedy, in accordance with the Law of Similars.
We decide on how best to administer the remedy to cure the problem. In severe cases, where cure is no longer possible, palliative treatment may be a noble and achievable aim. Homeopathic remedies may also be used for prophylactic treatment during epidemics, for hygiene and sanitation. Selected therapeutic applications on these lines are given in parts of the text, along with general advice on dosage and potency.
