Chapter 10 part 02

Homoeopathic Mother Tinctures 10.28
“We gain possession of the powers of indigenous plants and of such as may be had in a fresh state in the most complete and certain manner by mixing their freshly expressed juice immediately with equal parts of spirits of wine of a strength sufficient to burn a lamp.

After this has stood a day and a night in a close stoppered bottle and deposited the fibrinous and albuminous matters, the clear superincumbent fluid is then to be decanted off for medicinal use. All fermentations of the vegetable juice will be at once checked by the spirits of wine mixed with it and rendered impossible for the future, and the entire medicinal power of the vegetable juice is thus retained perfect and uninjured for ever by keeping the preparation in well corked bottles further protected with wax to prevent evaporation and excluded from the sun light”

Hahnemann
Organon of Medicine – Aphorism 267.

In the light of advancing knowledge we may understand that Hahnemann’s method of obtaining the plant magistery takes no account of seasonal availability or for that matter the composition of the juice and its ratio of water to soluble constituents and thus on the 57% spirits of wine.

 “but the really important point is, not what they regarded as
 fact, but how ? And in what spirit they interpreted their facts ? “
Rudolph Steiner