Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1505/en

values. The spring root has the highest content of bitter substances, the August root the most *inulin*, the September root the most *taraxin*, the October root the most *lævulin*. The milky sap consists of a water-like base substance — the *Taraxacum* liquor — in which many mineral substances, among them potassium and silica, as well as organic compounds such as proteins, tannins, alkaloids, and vitamins are dissolved. The substances suspended in this solution in fine droplets are resins and, primarily, rubber with a colloidal protein protective sheath. In the ash of the whole plant one finds 7% silicic acid, 40% potassium oxide, 8% magnesium oxide, 28.6% sodium oxide, as well as traces of zinc, copper, manganese, and sulphur. The content figures of analytically detectable substances yield, beyond the mere fact of their presence, few indications that would allow one to discern a connection to the formative being. More information is obtained when one brings certain substance compositions into view — for example, active substances and their healing effects. But even these say nothing about the wholeness of the dandelion that brings these effects forth. As long as this whole was accepted as a given natural fact, the dandelion was regarded as an officinal medicinal plant. Now, since the active substances considered healing have been isolated and synthesised, or can be replaced by other synthetic substances, the dandelion has lost its honoured status as a medicinal plant. It will regain this status — and so will all other medicinal plants — only when one seeks to recognise the relational nexus of the substances to one another as a force-structure whose architect, under the direction of the astrality working from without, is the etheric or life body of the medicinal plant in question. The individual organic substance-compounds have indeed received their imprint through the wholeness of the etheric organisation, but they do not represent it in its full validity.