Mineral remedies in agro-homeopathy

Mineral remedies in agro-homeopathy

I have been arguing for a long time that without knowing a minimum of agricultural sciences, it becomes extremely difficult (as well as uncertain) to choose and use homeopathic substances in agriculture, expecting to obtain positive results.
To be honest, doing a good agro-homeopathy without being an agronomist and without having studied homeopathy is really difficult.
In particular, in this contribution, I would like to talk about the mineral remedies (metals, metalloids, mineral salts, etc.) typical of classical human homeopathy but also very useful in agro-homeopathy, especially if used with full knowledge of the facts.
Homeopathic remedies of mineral origin have an immediate, profound and long-lasting action on plants and more generally on agricultural systems.
I am obliged, in order to clear the field of strange beliefs and convictions, to make a dutiful premise.
In human homeopathy, minerals and some salts are used which in weighty doses can be used in agriculture as fertilizers.
Well, these minerals and these salts cannot be used in agro-homeopathy (therefore on plants) as if they were homeopathic “fertilizers”.
So do not think of using homeopathic ammonium carbonate (which in homeopathic jargon takes the name of Ammonium carbonicum) for the purpose of making a nitrogen fertilization.
Many salts typical of human homeopathy can instead be used on plants with a stimulus function, i.e. with the aim of unblocking the absorption of a particular macro or micro element that is no longer available but actually present.
On the other hand, it is well known that natural systems (ecosystems) and agricultural systems (agroecosystems) work through weak signals consisting of volatile substances (volatile and semiochemical organic compounds) emitted by plants, bacteria, fungi, insects and animals. By weak signals we mean biochemical signals present in the area or in the soil at concentrations ranging from parts per million (ppm) to parts per billion or micrograms/liter (ppb or μg).
Another clarification: my vision of agriculture is by no means romantic.
My approach to agricultural systems is of an agroecological type, and therefore systemic par excellence.
Farms are complex living systems, and I am sure they have their own “autonomy” in terms of vitality and intelligence.
However, I believe that any advancement of homeopathy in the agricultural field cannot follow the same paths that have been followed in the human field.
I’ll try to explain myself better.
What I am referring to are two aspects of homeopathy that are particularly close to my heart.
The first is the mental aspect of homeopathic remedies, while the second is the repertorization process.
It is well known that man, due to and as a result of an extremely developed nervous system, very complex and concentrated mainly in the cranial box, as well as physically perceiving the environment in which he lives, processes the reality that surrounds him by experiencing emotions and sensations which distinguish it from the rest of the living beings present on this planet.
Homeopathy, which is a medical methodology centered on the whole person and not just on the symptoms, has identified and systematized, in addition to the physical symptoms, also the mental symptoms characteristic of homeopathic remedies of mineral origin.
All of this, as is known, has led homeopathy to be accused, often gratuitously, of working solely and exclusively due to the placebo effect.
According to many authors, it is not the homeopathic substances (often diluted beyond Avogadro’s number) that affect the physical and mental state of man but it is man himself who lets himself be influenced by the mere act of taking such diluted substances.
Moving these concepts to the agricultural sphere, my personal position is that today it is not possible to think of the presence of a mental component either in ecosystems or in agricultural systems in which man intervenes more or less deeply, in order to obtain food production .
I’ll explain.
I am fully convinced that plants have their own mental aspect, but I think it is a mental very different and far from the human one.
Therefore, administering a highly diluted homeopathic mineral remedy to a plant or to an entire agricultural system (even more than Avogadro) thinking of acting on the mental system, comparing this mental to the human one, I believe has no scientific foundation, even though I believe that the The current scientific paradigm really has many limitations and needs to be seriously reviewed.
I have repeatedly argued that it makes no sense to think of a hysterical, anxious, scared, sad, depressed or desperate plant.
With this I absolutely do not deny the numerous researches published in the field of plant neurophysiology by eminent European researchers.
However, I believe that today it is premature and inappropriate to attribute typical human emotions and sensations to plants.
This is my personal and current position on the emotions of plants; I believe that the use of highly diluted homeopathic remedies of mineral origin, with the aim of reviving the morale of plants or agricultural systems, is sheer nonsense.

The other equally important topic I wanted to talk about is the repertorization technique.
In human homeopathy the analysis of a patient takes place through a very thorough medical examination, which examination has some aspects characterizing the homeopathic methodology.
The homeopathic doctor (in Italy homeopathy is a medical act) uses texts called “Materia Medica” and “Repertoire”.
For the choice of the homeopathic remedy or medicine (in Italy homeopathic products are subject to registration with AIFA and require AIC), the homeopathic doctor uses a tool called the Repertoire: it is a large book divided into chapters which group together “mental symptoms”, “physical symptoms” and “general symptoms”.
All the symptoms detected, together with the ways in which they occur, are accompanied by a more or less long list of homeopathic remedies that have demonstrated a curative effect on the symptoms detected, with a variable intensity measured in “degrees”.
So, in short, repertorising means searching within a homeopathic repertoire for the substances or homeopathic remedies that present most of the patient’s symptoms.
If we try to transfer this technique to agriculture, we immediately realize that reperforming the symptoms of a farm is completely different than reperforming the symptoms of a human being or an animal.
In the meantime, it must be said that to date there is still no homeopathic repertoire suitable for plants, furthermore plants cannot be questioned as if they were human beings.
Plants and agricultural systems speak a language of which we still know too little.
Language that can not even remotely be compared to human or animal.
It should also be noted that we are faced with a system made up of numerous components, living components and non-living components.
The plants present in a farm belong to different families and botanical species, they have different needs and behaviours.
Furthermore, the vegetable component is only one of the many of which an agricultural system is composed.
Furthermore, it is always good to remember that plants cause pathology in a completely different way than humans. They have morphology and physiology very far from the human one.
Many organs and systems, as well as biochemical pathways typical of man and higher animals, are not present in plants.
And then again, to return to the risky comparisons between human homeopathy and agro-homeopathy, vegetables have no laterality and perhaps not even a sensitive type.
Going into the specifics of the concept of repertorization, in agricultural systems, it must be clearly stated that this technique must be carried out using typical parameters of agroecology; i.e. parameters, agronomic, botanical, chemical, ecological, zoological, etc etc.
These parameters, to be taken into consideration for the purpose of a correct agroecological “anamnesis”, come out of typical technical evaluations of specific knowledge and professionalism.
After this long introduction, in the hope that you are still reading this post, I would like to talk to you about the use and role of magnesium in agro-homeopathy.
Magnesium, in homeopathic form (ie used in ppm or ppb), can be used in different forms.
There are many magnesium salts used in human homeopathy but which are equally useful in agriculture.
In agriculture, magnesium salts used at low power, i.e. diluted from 100 to minus 6 to 100 to minus 12 (6 CH – 12 CH) can perform various functions:
1- magnesium is an integral part of chlorophyll, so it could be used to increase the photosynthetic activity of plants;
2- magnesium acts as a carrier (this acts as a transporter) of phosphorus; phosphorus is extremely important for all meristematic tips, favoring the growth of roots and buds;
Phosphorus is also useful in specific phenological stages, especially during fruit ripening.
In all the latter cases, it would be useful to use magnesium phosphate (magnesia carbonic in homeopathic jargon) in an extremely diluted or homeopathic form.
3- magnesium becomes part of the mitochondrial respiration process; therefore of the power plant of the plant cell, the mitochondria are the engine driving the metabolic activity of the plants.
4- magnesium participates in cell division and multiplication and in the formation of the part;
Having said all this, however, it will be necessary to choose in which form the magnesium is administered.
According to classical homeopathy we could think of different salts, each of which however has a specific function, in addition to the simple contribution of magnesium.
Among the best known magnesium salts we have: Magnesium carbonate (Magnesia carbonate), Magnesium sulphate (Magnesia sulphurica), Magnesium phosphate (Magnesia phosphorica), Magnesium fluorate (Magnesia fluorica), Magnesium silicate (Magnesia silica), Chloride Magnesium (Magnesia Muriatica), Magnesium Bromide (Magnesia Bromata) etc.
In addition to classic homeopathy, decheleatrice lithotherapy could also help us.
Some cationic metals such as magnesium perform functions in various enzymatic processes as a catalyst.
Given its cationic nature, represented by an electro-positive valence, magnesium can be chelated, in other words sequestered by some organic or inorganic substances by electrochemical affinity.
Lithotherapy does nothing but determine the dechelation of magnesium, making it available at the cellular level in order to return to carry out the metabolic biochemical functions.
From a lithotherapy point of view we could therefore think of using magnesium, always in homeopathic form, i.e. in ppm or ppb, such as: Magnesium citrate, Magnesium pidolate, Magnesium glycerophosphate, Magnesium lactate, Magnesium glutenate, Magnesium pyruvate and Magnesium orotate etc.
At this point it is a matter of choosing, among all these forms of magnesium, the one most suitable for the plant species, the physiological state, the phenological phase, and the pathogenic conditions of the system in which our plants live and of which they are an integral part.
Let us remember that agro-homeopathy is a signal agriculture, it acts by stimulating entire biological systems, triggering a domino effect; to do this we do not need weighty quantities of substances, negligible quantities of substances will be enough to trigger “metabolic avalanches”.
But above all we need an analysis of the entire system. A hypothetical magnesium deficiency is only an isolated symptom, a sort of epiphenomenon, and as such it does not give us any indication of possible intervention strategies.
Let’s not forget that each and every mineral-type homeopathic intervention must always be accompanied and integrated with the correct agronomic technique.
To be continued

Francesco DiLorenzo
Agronomist

Agro-homeopathy Section FIAMO (Italian Federation of Homeopathic Doctors and Associations)
Working Group Agrohomeopathy ECH (European Committee for Homeopathy)
Research Working Group LMHI (Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis)
UIG – International University of Gorazde
Jean Monnet Department of European Studies – Lugano
School of Integrated Medicine Palermo

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Francesco Di Lorenzo, Giovanni Dinelli, Ilaria Marotti, Grazia Trebbi
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Agrohomoeopathy- Does Homoeopathy have Role in Agriculture?
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Nanoparticles Characterization of Homoeo Agrocare (agro homeopathic drug) by HRTEM and EDS Analysis
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