M.S.A (Alchemical Spagyric Macerate of Solanimus)

Before talking about the preparation of the “Alchemical Spagyric Macerate of Solanimus”, it’s good to take a hint on the spagyric alcohol; such an alcohol so involved, precisely, in the preparation of M.S.A. of Solanimus. The Spagyric Alcohol obtained from red wine, Paracelsus said, is the universal mercury of the plant kingdom. Alcohol, in Alchemical Spagyric Macerate of Solanimus, is important because it is the carrier of the active ingredient, but it is also the one that brings the information to a psychic level: it’s the Mercurial Principle. As the God Mercury is the messenger of the gods and get wings that make him light, so the mercury of the plant kingdom (spagyric alcohol) is the messenger of the macerate and, quite developing its work, it must be very volatile.

The volatility, obtained with the circular movement, makes it pervasive and thus able to bring the information where a classic macerate cannot go, as well as to penetrate more deeply in the plant and extract much more of active ingredient. To bring the mere information of the plant, and only that, we need an alcohol that has not one of its information, named “indeterminate” alcohol, which binds the sulfur (soul of the plant) and bring its information to the destination, without contaminating it, so that this can get clear, still well understandable and not corrupted by other messages.

On the bottom of a circulator machine we put the barrel purified tartar (see at the last part the way to prepare it) then we have to poured the red wine alcohol corrected to 95° volumetrics over.

After having left everything to circular up to twenty-four hours, we gently begin to distil with a closed-circuit distiller (this distiller is formed by a flask with the Moor's head at the top and at the end of the Moor’s head there is a collection ampoule).

Alcohol resulting from this distillation and then poured on the bottom of another circulator, where it was previously placed some calcium oxide (lime) and let it be circulating for twenty-four hours.

After this period it will be started a slow distillation with a closed circuit distiller: the lime and so the tartar will have absorbed from alcohol about 5% of water that it contained. The ultimate result of this process will be an alcohol at 100° volumetric and without impurities: the tartar will draw upon itself the volatile salts (volatile tartar) that are within the alcohol (Paracelsus: “like attracts like” ).

The alcohol will have a sweet taste, not an acidic or aggressive taste as the normal alcohol; Paracelsus considered spagyric alcohol as a medicine for all tartarous deposits.

 

The Spagyric-Alchemical Macerate of Solanimus is obtained from fresh plant and precisely from its meristematic tissue (young part, buds, radicles, young shoots). Part of the collected plant is combined with a glycero-alcoholic solution (herbal glycerol 40% and spagyric alcohol 60%) and soak in a circulator for a period of one philosophical lunar month (30 days), if they are aerial parts from full moon to full moon, if are radicles from new moon to new moon.

The ratio between the plant dry residue and the solvent is 1/5 (A.R. 1:5 or A.R. 1/5, or 4 litre of glycero-alcoholic solution each kilo of plant), while in a classic macerate this ratio is 1/20. To have the dry residue you just have to take a fresh plant sample of 100g and put it in a drying oven, let it to become dry, pull it out and weigh (this weight will be called “dry residue”).

If, for example, after drying, its weight dropped from 100 grams to 50 grams, it would mean that the missing 50 grams consisted of water, so then a kilogram of fresh plant will correspond to 500 grams of dried plant (D.S. = Dry Residue) and it is from here that we have to start to do the calculations of the abstraction ratio. When the philosophical lunar month maceration is done, we step to the filtering phase, in order to obtain a residue of the plant that will be passed to the winepress. The liquid obtained from that pressing, is in turn filtered and added to the liquid we obtained previously.

The residue from the pressing is burned up to the point of obtaining ashes, which are then poured into the solution obtained above.

The liquid is then put to circulate (1) another philosophical month long. 

The circulation (2) makes the macerate thinner and then more volatile, its evaporation point lowers and a greater amount of liquid, whereas a constant temperature, turns to steam.

This transformation causes an increase in volume, and therefore an increase of pressure within the vessel, forcing the luteus to its disruption.

This type of circulator, formed by the two vessels is called “microcosm”, for it plays, in a small scale, what is happening outside, in the macrocosm (on Earth) (see the figure near).

 

The solution, present in the lower part of the vessel, evaporates and starts to climb at the top. The steam adheres to the upper vessel walls and changes, condensing, into small droplets which, sliding along the glass, return back to the lower part of the circulator, and then evaporate and rise again, and so continuously,

That's why the inside of the pot is called “Microcosm”, because inside is what in nature, "Macrocosm", continuously occurs (rain that falls, evaporates and goes up, condenses in the sky and falls into a perpetual motion). This process is called circulation because it is a cyclic ascent and descent of the matter, often depicted as a dragon biting its tail, the “Ouroborus”.

This movement makes the soluble salts of the plant (trace elements) should be in solution in the macerate and that the macerate is so energized. The trace elements will come to act in synergy with phytohormones extracted from meristematic tissue of the plant itself.

Once the movement is done, the solution is filtered by pure cellulose… .and here is the end of the Spagyric Macerate!

To obtain the Alchemical Spagyric Macerate of Solanimus we must continue recovering the residue that is remained in the filter and calcine (3) it at 500-600 °C and then leach and filter it in such a way as to obtain a saline solution that we will evaporate up to obtain the salts that are deposited on the bottom of the vessel (fixed Salt).

This operation must be repeated three times. The salts, thus purified, have to be exposed to the full moon, so that they go to be in deliquescence (4). By doing this, an oil which has the force of nature is obtained, an oil rich in Prana, strongly energetic. The salt in deliquescence is poured into the solution (Spagyric Macerate) obtained above and the whole is put to circulate for a further philosophical month, starting with the new moon if we are using radicles, with the full moon if we are using aerial parts (buds, shoots, seeds or young shoots). This movement, in addition to send into the solution a part of the salts, transfers the vital energy of nature (Prana), collected by the “fixed Salt”, to the solution itself. It is left to decant and then we proceed with the packaging.

The solution thus obtained is the Alchemical-Spagyric Macerate of Solanimus that has got the active principles of the meristematic tissue of the plant, its trace elements and the energy so given by heavenly fire or Mercury, the thinnest; this macerate acts so deeply for it is very thin, endowed with remarkable energy. The heavenly fire, which comes to us as polarized light or luminous matter gone by the air, used in combination with a healing plant, greatly amplified the therapeutic power of the plant itself in such a way that, the universal healing power will be addressed on the organ through the action of the plant and, consequently, its curative virtues too.

The macerate thus obtained is diluted at a ratio of 1:10, by adding nine parts of hydro-glycero-alcoholic solution for each part of Alchemical Spagyric Macerate of Solanimus concentrated, and then we can shake (succusion (5)) .

The hydro-glycero-alcoholic solution, that is going to be added to the Macerate so obtained, must be to an adequate degree in order to obtain an Alchemical Spagyric Macerate of Solanimus where its 33% will consist of alcohol, 33% of glycerol and the remaining 33% of water. With this last step we have obtained a Alchemical Spagyric Macerate which has a final abstraction ratio of 1/50 (maceration ratio of 1/5, dilution ratio of 1/10). This gives us a greater presence of active principles and a higher concentration of vital energy (Prana). Unlike the Spagyric Macerate where philosophical Mercury (spagyric alcohol), Sulfur (active principles of the plant), volatile Salt (trace elements of the plant) are present, in the Alchemical Spagyric Macerate of Solanimus we do have: philosophical Mercury (spagyric alcohol), Sulfur (active principles of the plant), volatile Salt (trace elements of the plant), fixed Salt (the calcined and leached residue of the plant) and the Prana (salts collected with the exposure of fixed Salt).

 

Advantages of the Alchemical Spagyric Macerate of Solanimus:

 

1) - the circular movement has not only made the glycero-alcoholic solution thinner, giving it a more penetrating power, but it also sent in solution the salts so contained in the ashes of the plant, i.e. the trace elements.

In the Alchemical Spagyric Macerate of Solanimus we thus have two effects that are acting in synergy: the trace elements and active principles contained in the plant.

2) - in the Alchemical Spagyric Macerate of Solanimus the circular movement has an dynamizing effect to the solution, almost equivalent to the homeopathic succussion process: this is achieved thanks to the continued expansion and contraction of matter.

3) - the last advantage, but no less important, is obtained by exposing the salts to the moon, and ramming them in deliquescence; it is in salts so exposed that the Prana (vital energy) is collected, and the salts then added to the solution and circulating go to transmit the Prana, thus allowing to obtain an Alchemical Spagyric Macerate of Solanimus.

This is a Macerate that has got the active principles of the meristematic tissue of the plant, its trace elements as well as the energy given by heavenly fire or Mercury, the thinner, the Prana (vital Energy), which, after having been captured, is restrained into the Alchemical Spagyric Macerate of Solanimus. This is the operation that allows us to affirm that the macerate is, in fact, even an Alchemical macerate. It is a Macerate able to act so deeply for it is very thin and endowed with a strong energy. Unlike the Spagyric Tincture and Spagyric Quintessence, in the Alchemical Spagyric Macerate of Solanimus are present: philosophical Mercury (spagyric alcohol), philosophical Sulfur (active principles of the plant), volatile Salt (trace elements of the plant), fixed Salt (calcined and leached residue of the plant) and the Prana (salts collected with the exposure of fixed salt).

 

Preparation of the purified barrel tartar useful to obtain spagyric alcohol:

 

Take a piece of raw tartar, tartar removed from oak barrels where red wine was aged and put it in a bowl, putting everything on a stove. This operation should be carried outdoor because barrel tartar, being in heat, will start to emit very dense and toxic fumes.

 

In the meanwhile the tartar will be baked, you must continue to mix. at a certain moment the tartar will catch fire: it is the oil contained in it that burns. Let it burn until the flame will spontaneously die and the tartar will become black, lightweight and dry, leaving its previous greasy state.

Now, take this tartar and put it in a muffle for 2-3 days long at about 500-600 °C (this is called Calcination). After this period pull out the tartar and let it cool down.

Now, take a bowl and put on the bottom of it the tartar that you have previously passed in a muffle furnace and then fill it with distilled water and bring the mixture to its boiling point. When the whole boils, filter it in a clean bowl by using a pure cellulose filter and let all of the liquid steps through. It will be pale yellow coloured.

Take now the vessel that contains the pale yellow coloured liquid and then put it back on the fire allowing it to evaporate so that on the bottom of the jar dry salts are going to be formed: these are the salts of tartar that you have leached out. The operation just described is called leaching.

To have well purified salts, suitable for preparing the Alchemical Spagyric Macerate by Solanimus we described above, you will have to repeat three times these operations, i.e. calcination and leaching. We have thus obtained, at last, the purified salts of tartar.

 

 

NOTES:

 

(1) Time ago, this liquid was placed in a circulator consisting of two vessels, which were placed one above the other and the two parties that were in contact were sealed with luteus, a kind of sealant formed from a strip of paper soaked with a paste made by flour, water, white of egg, lime and/or clay and then put around the seam formed by the two vases. The ancients called this luteus as "Luteus of Wisdom", because when the Spagyric Macerate was ripe, the luteus broke and this pointed out the term of the maceration-circulation.

(2) Circulation is a process that allows us to energize the product in working progress by subjecting it to the polarized rays of the sun. The photons penetrate into the liquid while the liquid particles become gas that evaporates and falls like rain into the circulator.

(3) The process of calcination derives its name from the Latin calcinare (to burn lime) due to its most common application, the decomposition of calcium carbonate (limestone) to calcium oxide (lime) and carbon dioxide, in order to produce cement. The product of calcination is usually referred to in general as "calcine," regardless of the actual minerals undergoing thermal treatment. Calcination is carried out in furnaces or reactors (sometimes referred to as kilns or calciners) of various designs including shaft furnaces, rotary kilns, multiple hearth furnaces, and fluidized bed reactors.

(4) Deliquescence,  the process by which a substance absorbs moisture from the atmosphere until it dissolves in the absorbed water and forms a solution. Deliquescence occurs when the vapour pressure of the solution that is formed is less than the partial pressure of water vapour in the air. All soluble salts will deliquesce if the air is sufficiently humid. A substance that absorbs moisture from the air but not necessarily to the point of dissolution is called hygroscopic.

(5) Regarding succussion (i.e. the shaking understood as dynamization), it's interesting to note that: "In the light of the theories of modern physics, the method of succussion causes the release of the energy of a drug.

The intuition of Hahneman (father of Homeopathy) agrees with the concept of radiation by Planck-Einstein: a fragment of matter, when it is bombed by an external source of energy, emits energy."