Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1594/en

Preliminary remarks on efficacy

The valerian blossom extract, when "introduced to the manure in a very fine way" after strong dilution in warm water, is meant to "call forth in it in particular that which stimulates it to relate in the right way to what one calls the phosphorus substance." This compressed, enigmatic statement, coming at the end of the sequence of the six manure preparations — after the naming of sulphur at the outset with yarrow, chamomile and stinging nettle — now, with valerian, points toward the phosphorus substance. Both sulphur and phosphorus are closely related to one another. Both are, in a sense, embodiments of light and warmth. And yet they are two distinct substances. They stand side by side among the acid-formers in the Periodic Table of the Elements, but in the organic realm they behave in quite polar fashion. Sulphur occurs in inorganic nature in the many sulphides, the metal salts of sulphuric acid, as well as as elemental sulphur in volcanic deposits. As such it ignites at around 250°C and burns with a bluish flame to sulphur dioxide. Phosphorus is otherwise: it is extraordinarily reactive and therefore occurs