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Spagyrics: The Alchemical Preparation of Medicinal Essences, Tinctures, and Elixirs |  | Author: Manfred M. Junius
Publisher: Healing Arts Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 149818
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1594771790
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.321
EAN: 9781594771798
ASIN: 1594771790
Publication Date: February 16, 2007
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Product Description
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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 New cover and title to the Plant Alchemy book. November 17, 2007
Daniel H. Schmidt (Temecula, CA United States)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
This is just a new title and cover page to the old book. If you have the original book on Plant Alchemy; you already have this book. This is a bit of sleight of hand reintroduction into the market. This is not a 2nd volume of new material. I think the marketing should have made that clear otherwise one would think this was a bit deceitful when it was marketed as a new book by Manfred M. Junius at pre-publication...
 New Title for "Practical Handbook of Plant Alchemy" July 23, 2007
D. Johnson (Madison, Wisconsin)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book, but in case you already have 'The Practical Handbook of Plant Alchemy', then don't make the mistake of buying 'Spagyrics' (as I did) if you're looking for a different text. 'Plant Alchemy' just has a new wrapping.
 A classic resource perfect for any new age collection July 8, 2007
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
SPAGYRICS: THE ALCHEMICAL PREPARATION OF MEDIEVAL ESSENCES, TINCTURES ND ELIXIRS discusses the practice and applications of spagyrics, a method which 'opens' medicinal plants completely to draw on their more powerful healing properties. Ancient source materials and images compliment discussions which describe step-by-step methods for preparing plant remedies alchemically, blending history and science with new age beliefs and methods in a classic resource perfect for any new age collection strong in hermetic art or natural healing.
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