Ginseng quinquefolium Anhängsel

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Gins. action directed to the nervous system/the renal system (kidneys and adrenals).

Exhibition to Gins. prior to extraordinary strain and extreme situations for humans and animals results in increased speed in learning, improved mental capacity and improved memory.

Gins. treats many different symptoms and conditions from a yin or yang weakness in the kidneys which then gives rise to all the other problems.

Sensory perceptions show increased acuity, and subjects adapt more quickly to new situations (permits improved adaptation to stressful situations).

Removal of the adrenal glands in animal experiments showed greatly reduced ginseng efficacy. Ginseng thus clearly affects the release of hormones from the gland.

It will be faster and more effective (regeneration).

As seen with the ginsenosides, this concerns the potential for astral activity in the watery and etheric. This basic principle pertains also to the renal system considered from the spiritual-scientific point of view.

Name comes from the Greek panacea. Has many names/reflecting the renown which it has in Chinese medicine.

Chinese: rénshen/1st symbol: human spirit/form/dimension. 2^nd symbol: root/crystallization of earth’s in most essential nature.

Radix ginseng: “man root”/“root of life”/“extension of life”/“root of strength”/

Chemical composition = completely different from Mandragora/does not contain alkaloids.

Panax ginseng native to north east China and Korea,

Panax quinquefolius native to North America.

Used part of the plant grows underground.

Distinction is made between white and red ginseng.

White ginseng is from roots that have been dried in the sun or in kilns. The cork layer separates off in the process.

Red ginseng is from roots treated with hot water or steam (to preserve them) before they are dried. Chinese medicine. red and white ginseng have different medicinal properties.

Originally another crop had to be grown for about 10 years and then wait another 4 - 6 years after sowing before the root could be harvested. This meant at least 14 years between two possible harvests. The older the plant the more valuable the root. It grows slowLY, takes much substance from the soil, and also concentrates all the powers of light and warmth during that long process

in the root.

Active principles vary enormous and the range of action is wide.

The main principles are said to be 13 different saponins called gisenodies. They are glucosides and structurally close to steroid hormones.

Ginsenosides are found mainly in the root bark, their concentrating rising as the plant gets older (1.5 % in 4 yr old plants/8 % in 6 yr old plants). The bark of lateral roots also contains ginsenosides, but with a different range of actions.

Saponins shaken in a small amount of water in air make the mixture froth, are therefore substances which make it possible for the astral to be active in the watery and etheric.

Given on their own, both are up to 1.000 x more effective than the whole dried root or extracts of this. On the other hand the evidence is that the ginseng action

is best where the two are in a ratio of 1:1 (only in Korean ginseng). 2 different actions.

yang action – stimulating/Ginsenoside Rg1 panaxatriol

yin action – calming/Ginsenoside Rb1 panaxadiol

These actions do not cancel one another out on simultaneous exhibition of the two ginsenosides. Depending on the situation in the organism, the one action

or the other will be more forward.

Other constituents are tannins and bitter principles, 0.15 % sulphur, volatile oils, amino acids, peptides, steroids, Vit. C, B, various minerals and also a relatively

high level of Ge.

The concentrations of constituents vary considerably depending on soil/climate/seed quality/care.

The saponins are like a metaphor for the unusual configuration principles of ginseng. One gets the impression that the plant seeks to go beyond plant nature. The shape of the root points to this, as does the shape of the petals which are divided in five and like a hand. The saponins show this in the way they combine the watery and the airy element. Ginseng addresses ether body and

astral body in a very special way; it helps the astral body to intervene in the ether body.

Chinese medicine: used to treat many different symptoms and conditions, but essentially diseases arising from a weakness in the kidneys. A yin or yang weakness in the kidneys which then gives rise to all the other problems.

China: power of the kidney are the root force in human beings. The kidney is the root of life, basis of all primary yin and yang forces in the organism on which

the other organs feed. Renal functions are described as follows:

• Governs birth, growth, procreation and development

• Produces marrow, fills brain and bones

• Transformation of water

• Opens up into the ears.

Ginseng action directed to the nervous system/the renal system (kidneys and adrenals).

Exhibition of ginseng prior to extraordinary strain and extreme situations for

humans and animals results in increased speed in learning, improved mental capacity and improved memory. Sensory perceptions show increased

acuity, and subjects adapt more quickly to new situations (permits improved

adaptation to stressful situations).

Removal of the adrenal glands in animal experiments showed greatly reduced ginseng efficacy. Ginseng thus clearly affects the release of hormones from the gland.

It will be faster and more effective (regeneration).

As seen with the ginsenosides, this concerns the potential for astral activity in the watery and etheric. This basic principle pertains also to the renal system considered from the spiritual-scientific point of view.

The kidney is the main organ of the astral body. Physiologically it primarily serves to eliminate the substances normally found in urine. By far the greater part of matter eliminated in the ultra filtrate is resorbed, going through qualitative change and vitalization in the whole process in the kidney. Considering all the substance qualities that are new in the blood of renal and adrenal veins (which has remarkable arterial quality, rich in O) - think of sodium/cortisone/aldosterone/regulation of haemopoiesis and hence the activity of iron the the blood/of blood pressure, etc. - it is evident

that through the functions of kidney and adrenals the blood is eminently able to enable the functions of the central nervous system and the development of human consciousness. On the other hand, the functions of the sexual organs also depend to a great extent on the activities of the renal/adrenal system. An adrenal crisis with Addison’s disease is an extreme case of loss of such

production of consciousness-sustaining substance comes to be incompatible with life. Patients with Addison’s disease die in hyperkalaemic cardiac arrest, consciousness having been progressively weakened. Turning into pure plant, as it were. Functionally, this substance-creating activity of the renal system starts with degradation and elimination brought about by the astral body. This creates the precondition for the creative activity that follows, i. e. anabolism is performed by the ether body but guided by the astral body.

The katabolic dynamics of the astral body thus go through a reversal in the renal system, calling forth an anabolic etheric activity in the sphere of these organs which on its part makes the consciousness-creating activity of astral body guided by I substantially possible in the upper human being. This gives the substance not only life in the autonomic sense but also soul quality.

R.S.: “the kidney and liver system sends out radiation which is met by the sculpted forms of the head system. The kidney system sends out the forces of metabolism radially and the nervous system exists to give the organism its inner and outer forms, ... it is the sculptor”.

Kidney radiation is initially a dynamic, supersensible process which extends into the substantially tangible anabolism in kidneys and adrenals and thus also “radiates” in substance terms into the organism as a whole, making it possible for conscious inner life to arise. This also helps us to understand the physiology of awakening (and triggering of the birth process) where the renal and adrenal system holds central significance.

It is nature of the kidney to mediate the combined activities of astral body and ether body within metabolism.

These can be disrupted and one disorder may be referred to as weak kidney radiation.

With weak kidney radiation, the astral body is not sufficiently active from the lower human being. A whole sequence of symptoms follow: weakness, memory problems, low blood pressure, gastrointestinal disorders, etc., i.e. an asthenic constitution. This helps us to understand when ginseng is helpful.

• of advanced age, i.e. above 60 years of age,

• after prolonged illness,

• after a long period of mental and physical strain,

• or also following excessive sexual activity.

The symptoms are

• physical and mental weakness with problems in concentration, forgetfulness and a degree of hearing loss

• tinnitus, vertigo, apathy, sensation of coldness in lumbar region and knees

• recurrent lumbago, oedema of legs, large volume of pale urine and decreasing vitality of sexual organs.

Ginseng 1x (5 – 10 drops) is also excellent when prepuberty children have attention or memory deficits without hyperactivity. Typical signs: slow to wake up/dreaming at school/symptoms listed under ADD without hyperactivity. In this case the weak kidney radiation may be considered to be a symptom of immaturity, delayed incarnation of the astral body in the renal and adrenal system.

The action of ginseng root extract is such that the astral forces are deeply anchored in the kidney again, which stimulates constructive functon, incretion in these organs.

It therefore does not merely have a tonic/stmulant action but also calms/soothes. The powers of light and air are integrated better in the kidney again and the “light-giving” character which the kidney has for the nervous system is strengthened. The “original creation of light” in the upper human being can be stronger again.

Ginseng is excellent for treating weaknesses in the nervous and renal systems. These come with age and may also arise in specific situations. In the pathophysiology of spiritual anthropology, the patient’s symptoms are due to weak kidney radiation.

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