Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1383/en

These indications of Rudolf Steiner cast light at the same time on the so characteristic outward appearance of chamomile in comparison to yarrow. Yarrow, by virtue of its sulphur activity in the warmth-air realm, stands in reciprocal interaction with the earth-salt potassium, in a progressive refinement of the potassium process from the root upward through stem, leaf sequence, to the blossom — it is entirely an expression of the mastery of the earthy and the watery. Everything about it shows the tendency toward strict form and toward a holding-back of the life processes: for instance, the pronounced succulence of the finely articulated yet dense pinnate foliage, and the tubular florets concealed as if behind walls of the involucral bracts. Chamomile, by contrast, appears as if lifted out of the earthly. Its relation to potassium shows itself still in a slight succulence of the leaves. Its sulphur activity, however, seems to concentrate itself above all on the processing and sublimation of the earth-substance calcium. Everything in it strives toward a loose, vigorous articulation of its vegetative organs. From the pronounced taproot — which widens slightly toward the top in a turnip-like manner — the lateral roots radiate partly horizontally in dense succession outward into breadth and depth. The primary shoot rises vertically upward, yet presently it divides itself at the base into a number of lateral branches which, branching little, radiate outward into breadth and height, and as a whole tend to give the plant a kind of spherical form. The leaves are articulated into a loose, sparsely ordered pinnation; the pinnate leaflets are