Galeopsis A GREAT REMEDY
Years ago, this field of disease
interested me particularly, and I took every opportunity to discuss it with
renowned surgeons. I learned from them that on cutting through tuberculous
tissue they encountered hard spots that chemical analysis showed to be calcium
and silica combinations. This taught me how nature proceeds to block in and
encapsule a focus, and in this way help render it inactive. It does this with
minerals, particularly calcium and silica. We can assume that this is the
reaction that makes hemp nettle, horsetail and knotgrass effective. Popular tea
blends of those early days were usually composed of Galeopsis, Equisetum and
Polygonum.
Galeopsis is also invaluable in
supplying minerals for the teeth, bones and hair. That is to say, wherever we
need silica as a raw material to build up and maintain good health. This silica
can be given as a tea or in the form of a tincture, since the form itself is of
no importance. When making tea, remember that it must be boiled longer than
when other aromatic herbs are infused by pouring boiling water over them. The
minerals are properly extracted only when Galeopsis is boiled for a while.
Rademacher indicated another use
for Galeopsis. It is said that long ago the plant was considered a noted spleen
remedy. Other authors in the field of physiotherapy, for example Bohn, relate
that the mineral salt composition in Galeopsis comes closest to that of the
human blood. Since Galeopsis is good for coughs, this may be due to other
minerals, and presumably due to its containing saponins and tannin. In any
case, Galeopsis proves to be an excellent remedy, one we should not fail to
make use of.
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