502

Potassium uptake (7)

Sulphur uptake (7)

Nitrogen boost (7)

Spring flowering in trees. Late frost (283)

Potato seed bath (1050)

To take up potassium-502 evening, 506 morning (7)

To take up sulphur-502 evening, 508 morning. (7)

The preparation of yarrow, seen in its connection with potassium, acts on the physical level on the roots and supporting tissues bringing a vertical impulse in the woody part of the plant. From this point of view all the plants that are unable to carry themselves such as the vine and cucurbits betray a lack of these forces. (250)

... spraying seed potatoes with a seed-bath of 502/503 .. originated with Harald Kabisch ... 'we were very happy with this mix' .. add 1g of each of 502/503 to 2 litres hand-warm rainwater. Leave for six days, stir for 10 minutes, soak tubers fro 30 minutes, rack up for 6 weeks prior to planting (1050)

Special care is needed with seed baths for linseed, as linseed will easily go mucilagenous if wetted.. Fibre producing varieties are treated with yarrow (502)... In this particular case cold water is used (2 litres/100 kg) and the bath is sprayed one third 15 minutes apart whilst gently turning the seed with a shovel between treatments. (34)

If you want sulphur and potassium for cell strength and connective tissue, 502 (7)

To lift nitrogen-502, 503, 504, 505 evening; 505, 506, 507, 508 morning. (7)

Promotes flowering (250)

Yarrow stimulates the spring flowering of trees. Negrisolo used yarrow once in October on a pear tree and it responded by flowering. I tried the same with three plum trees which were wild and came from the same mother plant. Last year they were four years old and until the previous year were still in the vegetative phase. In this period I was using yarrow BD502 for the seed bath in the experimental plot and I was a little over enthusiastic and I decided to use it on one of the plum trees. The treated plum produced many flowers and the other untreated two trees had only four or five flowers. I applied the preparation between the end of February and the beginning of March. When the time for fruiting came there were some fifty plums on the one tree and only one or two on the other trees respectivelyAnother example is when a late frost ruins the flowering time, then the yarrow BD502 can be used to stimulate another flowering. (283)

1 - 2 ml in 3 litres of warm water stirred vigourously for five minutes and then left for 24 hours. This is used as a seed bath for rye and grass seed. Plant growth is enhanced .. and germination tends to be faster. Growth is improved and compared to untreated controls these plants prove healthier and give better yields. They are able to cope better with poor weather conditions and develop a stronger and more extensive root system. (42)

We have filled a bladder with fodder beet seed and let it go through the same processs as yarrow, from St John's tide to Michalemas and through the winter until Easter, above and below ground. We then sowed the seed. The beet grew so large that one needed two hands to lift one of them from the soil. (60)

The 502 (5-10 minute stir and let percolate overnight, 24 hours and water or soak seeds) is great for reestablishing the connection between Life/Chem etheric activity and Light/Warmth ether...and consequently opening way to connect with Group I of plants (58)

This preparation is aiding where the Astral body is weak and can not take a proper hold on the etheric and physical. It opens the Etheric to receive the astral. (48)

yarrow focuses its operations in liaison to the group-soul of plants.... we also find confirmation of ... the purifying and vivifying influence of yarrow .... We repeat that the yarrow preparation allows the union of what is above ... with what is below. It is an extremely mercurial and therapeutic preparation because a disturbed relation between above and below is the origin of all disease. (250)

Sprayed two or three days before the Holy Nights (24th December) after being stirred for one hour this opens up the land to the forces of those holy nights. Bladders should be buried in winter at 60cm in Europe, 70-80cm in the Americas, and about 40-50cm deep in Asia. This brings cosmic nutrition to the earth. (1538)

It can remedy weaknesses in the astral body. "Like sympathetic people in human society, who have a favourable influence by their mere presence and not by anything they say, so yarrow, in a district where it is plentiful, works beneficially by its mere presence.[R Steiner]" (20)

"How yarrow compost prep works" Despite its shallow roots, yarrow has an amazing capacity to regenerate the earth. Thrust skyward on firm, finger-like stems, the flowers pull carbon, nitrogen, and other elements out of the atmosphere and into the soil - and also capture fine dilutions of the myriad of other elements and beneficial forces entering our atmosphere from the celestial sphere beyond. Adding yarrow compost prep to the garden via the compost heap means that the soil, the crops you grow, and all who eat them are infused with the sensorial power of the wild plant, and are better able to reconnect with the celestial rhythms that Earth, as a living organism, needs to function at its best. Yarrow compost prep is made by stuffing the dried flower heads into a stag's bladder in spring, which is hung up in the sun for six months, then buried for a further six months where it transforms to a dark brown, crumbly mixture. A stag's bladder is used because it's believed to be a powerful focal point for everything the animal senses; and when the yarrow flowers are enclosed in it, their capacity to draw beneficial celestial forces radiating from out of the galaxy into the earth is enhanced. (1895)

Mycorrhiza (58)

Detoxifying (294)

... addresses itself in a specific way to the realtionship between nitrogen and potassium in the soil. (34)

The yarrow preparation yielded the highest mycorrhizal fungi readings Elaine Ingham of SFI tested in her laboratories, and these mycorrhizal fungi are some of the most important organisms for the formation of humus and the storing of energy and nutrients in an insoluble but available state in the soil. (58)

My radionic experiments show 502 to be one of the best BD preps for detoxifying the soil. (294)

quickens and refreshes the soil, making good exploitation.... that the more distant cosmic substances - silicic acid, lead etc which comes to the Earth in homeopathic quantities - might be caught up and received [R Steiner]. (20)

Nitrogen 'status' (1828)

Through each stage of development, the potassium is increasingly released from its terrestrial nature, becoming more refined and rarefied as it is dissolved. This process culminates in the flower: the part of the plant that opens up to the influences streaming in from the cosmos. The yarrow preparation seeks to preserve this moment of flowering and the forces that underlie it. It revitalises soil that has been exhausted through over-cultivation..... The purpose of the yarrow preparation and, in a modified way, the other compost preparations too, is to bring a ‘light effect’ to the decaying organic materials arising on the farm. This enables these farm manures to become sensitive to the cosmic archetypes that exist beyond space and time. (1565)

The Achillea preparation was specifically able to improve the N status of the microbial community as indicated by the higher catabolic use of D‐glucosamine as well as the amino acids γ‐aminobutyric acid, L‐cysteine, and L‐leucine. The reason for different effects of the sole Achillea preparation and all 6 preparations cannot be explained by the current study. (1828)