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PRANA

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I am making a spagyric Prana Elixir.

Prana is lifeforce which enters the body through the breath and is sent to every cell through the circulatory system.

This elixirs is for deep breathing and contains long pepper, black pepper, mullein, eucalyptus, ginger, elecampane, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, vanilla, licoriceroot and sacred basil.
It will contain the hydrosol of sacred basil (Tulsi).

You can preorder by sending me an e-mail: info@alchemillasapotek.com
150 kr + shipping for a bottle of 10 ml.

 

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PRANA

I am making a spagyric Prana Elixir. Prana is lifeforce which enters the body through the breath and is sent to every cell through the circulatory system. This elixirs is for deep breathing and contains long pepper, black pepper, mullein, eucalyptus, ginger, elecampane, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, vanilla, licoriceroot and sacred basil. It will contain the hydrosol of sacred basil (Tulsi). … Read More

MANDARIN HYDROLAT OCH INRE SOL ELIXIR

  I går destillerade jag hydrolat av mandarinskal i solens astrologiska timma och dag. Min familj kom med en resväska med mandariner från deras trädgård i sydfrankrike och firade jul hos oss.  Här är min pappa och min bror innan avresan till Sverige. Man ser mandarinträdet i bakgrunden. Mandarinhydrolat doftar och smakar MAGISKT, det är glädje, värme, citrus, fruktigt och … Read More

HYDROSOLS

    Hydrosols are the distilled herbal waters in the process of steamdistillation of essential oils. In alchemy the sulphur principle represents the initial light and the source of life, and it manifests in the essential oil, which is the soul of the plant. So hydrosols contain the soul of the plants and they operate on a high vibration and … Read More

WORKSHOP 2017

INTRODUKTION TILL DEN SPAGYRISKA KONSTEN WORKSHOP i Örtalkemi med Lisa Jeannin Denna workshop äger rum under 2 helger , varav den ena i juni och den andra i augusti 2017. Man kan inte gå endast en av modulerna. Det kommer att vara intensiva moduler då du kommer att få nycklar som öppnar upp dörren till naturens och alkemins hemligheter och … Read More

SCUTELLARIA GALERICULATA

    SCUTELLARIA GALERICULATA Skullcap makes you feel like you have a helmet on your head that calms and protects you. Salt: A supreme nerve remedy with great sedative powers. Cooling, relaxant and calming to the nerves. Skullcap is also good for tense headaches. Mercury: Scutella means shield in latin. Skullcap is a comforting herb, traditionally used to alleviate nervous … Read More

HYSSOPUS OFFICINALIS

    HYSSOPUS OFFICINALIS “Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean.” Psalm 51:7,  The Bible Salt: Hyssop is a fever remedy , indicated in  “slow fever”  where nerves are affected so reactions and movements are slow, numb and weak. It is deeply penetrating, opening pores and passageways deep inside the body, as well as the skin, releasing heat … Read More

TILLIA CORDATA

  TILLIA CORDATA “Love is space and time measured by the heart.” – Marcel Proust Salt:  Lindenflower is cooling internal heat, warm skin, fever. It is good for restlessness, hyperactivity and panic attacks. It is supporting the respiratory system, good to take for influenza and to expell mucus in the lungs. Mercury: Linden is soothing to the nerves, comforting to … Read More

SOLIDAGO VIRGAUERA

  SOLIDAGO VIRGAUERA Solidago comes from the Latin word solidus, which means: “whole” as in “to make one whole” or to bind or bring together. Salt:Goldenrod supports the kidneys, is good for a cold stomach and  low metabolism. It is a warming, bitter and pungent remedy that is stimulating and increases digestion. Goldenrod can be helpful in allergies, especially cat … Read More

ALOYSIA CITRODORA

  ALOYSIA CITRODORA When life gives you lemon verbena, make Chartreuse. An alchemical recipe reached the religious order’s headquarters at the Grande Chartreuse monastery, in Voiron, near Grenoble. It has since then been used to produce the “Elixir Végétal de la Grande Chartreuse”. Only two monks at a lifetime know the secret ingredients. Lemon verbena is one of them. Salt: … Read More

SYRINGA VULGARIS

  SYRINGA VULGARIS “The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is – to bloom.” ( A Story About The Most Important Thing ) – Yevgeny Zamyatin Salt: Syringa means tube in latin and the signature is the spine, our inner tube filled with cerebrospinal fluid. The branches of … Read More

VIOLA RIVINIANA

  VIOLA RIVINIANA “Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?” –        L.M. Montgomery Salt: Violets are suited when mucosal membranes are dry, for dry caugh, and indicated in lymphatic stagnation. Violets works as a dissolver and may ease constipation. Mercury: Violets are soothing to the restless and calming to the nerves. Reduces excessive and unwanted thoughts. … Read More

VALERIANA OFFICINALIS

  VALERIANA OFFICINALIS “Without phosphorus there would be no thought.” — Jacob Moleschott Salt: Valerian is a remedy for insomnia, to relax muscles and ease pain. Mercury: It is especially indicated for spinal pain and people who holds anger inside, causing a knotted feeling in the stomach or low back. Sulphur: The root of Valerian glows in the dark of … Read More

Crataegus Oxyacantha

  CRATAEGUS OXYACANTHA  “It’s only with the heart one sees clearly, for what’s essential is invisible to the eye.” –        Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Salt: Hawthornberry is a heart-tonic for the physical heart including arteries and veins. It has a normalizing effect on cholesterols and the coronary circulation. Hawthorn improves the nutrition, energy reserve, and energy release of the heart muscle. … Read More

ARTEMISIA VULGARIS

  ARTEMISIA VULGARIS Artemis- goddess of the moon and mother of nature Salt: Mugwort is a womb herb, used for PMS, menstrual pain and too much bleeding during menses. Mugwort can help people sensitive to light and noice, restless sleepers and  sleepwalkers. It is also indicated for anemia. Mercury: Good for memory especially for people who can´t remember simple words, … Read More

WEBSITE

Finally there is a website! More will be listed in the beginning of 2017 and all will be translated to swedish. Please visit and explore. Under singular spagyric tinctures , all are listed in planetary order. So if you click on the glyph of the sun, all solar herbs show up. You can also sign up for the newsletter on … Read More

Indian Cress

  Tropaeolum Majus “They flash upon that inward eye” – William Wordsworth “Flashes the golden-coloured flower  A fair electric flame “ – Coleridge. Salt: Indian Cress has a high vitamin C-content , a  natural antibiotic. Good for colds, the flu and urinary tract infections. Mercury: Indian Cress is strengthening for the immunesystem. It´s flashing bright colored flowers bring strength, joy … Read More

Calluna Vulgaris

  Calluna Vulgaris Heather is said to grow over the final resting place of Faeries. Salt:In recent years heather has been used successfully, especially in Germany, to treat rheumatic pains. The reason for this is probably because it contains a substance that removes excess uric acid from the body. Heather may be used as both an antiseptic and detoxifier. It … Read More

STACHYS BETONICA

  STACHYS BETONICA Sell your coat and buy Betony! Old italian proverb Salt: Wood Betony is a herb for the head. Tension , new and older injuries to the head,  headache and to strengthen the connection between gut and brain. It is a relaxant for the muscles, muscous membranes and the nerves. It is good for ulcers and other digestive … Read More

MATRICARIA CHAMOMILLA

  MATRICARIA CHAMOMILLA “Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.” – Jimi Hendrix Salt: A great digestive helper, good for cramp, constipation, gas, IBS, tension. It is good for fever and suited for mental and physical tension. Mercury: Chamomile is for babies of any age. People who are intolerant to pain, “I can´t bear it” , breathing loudly … Read More

DRK MSS

Alchemillas Apotek kommer att erbjuda spagyriska elixir, spagyriska praliner, hydrolat och amuletter på en marknad som äger rum den 3/12 i Stockholm. Välkommen!

Skriverier

  Alkemin är en av världens mest missförstådda traditioner. Höljd i mystik och mysticism, symboler och tecken har den västerländska alkemiska traditionen hållits dold bara för att vara synlig under korta tidsperioder. Från hype till fördömmande och allt där emellan har alkemisterna bevarat en gyllene tråd  som håller den uråldriga vishetstraditionen vid liv och leder den vidare. För djupt i … Read More

SMÅBORRE ELIXIR * ENTERISKT ELIXIR

  SMÅBORRE Agrimonia Eupatoria Tillhör ros-släktet Astringent och toniserar vävnader men används för att slappna av i vävnaderna. Det är det  paradoxala som är det magiska som småborren delar med många andra medicinalväxter. Innehåller tanniner, flavanoider, kumariner,polysackarider, mineraler mm Småborre är överlägsen vid spänningar och kramp och här menar jag både på ett fysiskt och ett psykologiskt plan.  Småborre är  … Read More

ELEMENTENS ELIXIR

Här är lite info om elementelixiren. När jag gjorde dem (under ett år) arbetade jag med mitt medicinhjul, därav riktningarna och årstiderna från ett  shamanskt perspektiv . Så som ovan – Så och nedan. Så som innom – så och utom. Genom elementen upplever vi hur växterna har förbindelser med livets underliggande energimönster och hur detta energimönster påverkar den fysiska … Read More

CALAMUS ROOT ELIXIR

I am very happy to be able to work with the Calamusroot. My friend gave me enough to make a spagyric tincture. I extracted it´s essential oil and hydrosol and made a tincture. Later I will calcinate the tinctured roots and purify the ashes and add them to the spagyric tincture. You can preorder from me if you are interested … Read More

RÖLLEKA

Achilles rider på Chiron. Båda är passande arketyper för Röllekan.Det spagyriska elixiret finns till salu genom att kontakta mig på turtleok@hotmail.com Det kostar 150 kr + porto för 10 ml Har nöjda kunder som fått hjälp med olika dilemman som att blöda mindre vid mens, vid smärtsam mens, hemmorojder, beskydd och självständighet     Achillea Millefolium   På våren reser sig … Read More

NEWS

I post regularly on Alchemillas Apotek on Facebook. Go there for updates:https://www.facebook.com/AlchemillasApotek

ELIXIR VITAE DE COMTE DE SAINT-GERMAIN

TaaDaa! Since June I have been preparing the Elixir Vitae of Le Comte de Saint-Germain. I researched recipies for the past years , trying to understand the essence of his Elixir of Life. A version was created that I am very pleased with. It was a pleasure to plant the seed, follow the growth and get to know Nigella * … Read More

Solve et Coagula

Alchemillas Apotek is present at the exhibition of Lisa Jeannin and Rolf Schuurmans at Christian Larsen gallery. We have made The Elixir of Revelation especially for this exhibition and 7 planetary elixirs are for sale as well in the exhibition. ELIXIR OF REVELATION A formula for Gnosis For  the exhibition Solve et Coagula at Christian Larsen Gallery   Salvia Apiana … Read More

Solve et Coagula

 Alchemillas Apotek at Christian Larsen!     JEANNIN / SCHUURMANS AT CHRISTIAN LARSEN OPENING TODAY MAY 12, 6-8 PM, 2016   WELCOME THURSDAY MAY 12, 6-8 PM SOLVE ET COAGULA, MAY 12 – JUN 23, 2016 CHRISTIAN LARSEN, HUDIKSVALLSGATAN 8, 1ST FL, STOCKHOLM TUE – FRI 11-6 PM, SAT 12-4 PM WWW.CHRISTIANLARSEN.SE Stillbild ur Solve et Coagula, 2015.   Lisa Jeannin … Read More

Doubble Spagyric Tincture of Guayusa

Yesterday the doubble spagyric tincture of Guayusa I made was completed and it is a very good dreamcatcher! Deeper than the tea! Legend has it, that the Kichwa tribe prayed for a plant that could help them connect to the dream world. When they awoke in the morning, there was a guayusa plant in their hands. The tea was often … Read More

Workshop in Spagyria

This summer I will teach a beginners course in the Art of Spagyria, Plant based alchemy at Yantra AyurVeda in Adelöv, Sweden.  You will learn how to make spagyric Elixirs and how to work in the internal and external laboratory guided by the Light of Nature. With me is Susanne Montelius that will guide the inner alchemical exercises. We will … Read More

Spagyric Elixir of Galium Aparine

  Galium Aparine Spagyric Tincture Cleavers is a humble little forestplant that clings to other plants and everybody she meets like velcro. Native Americans call Cleavers Deermedicine. Deers like to sleep on  a bed of cleavers. The Deertype is often tall, slender, with prominent  joints , sensitive  and nervous just as Cleavers. I see it that the Deertype has antlers … Read More

Doubble Spagyric Elixir of Chaga

New Moon in Pisces and the Solar Eclipse I am preparing a doubble spagyric tincture of Chaga, often called the King of Medicinal Mushrooms. For the Spagyricist TIMING is important . The Chaga was harvested with the celestial forces of the summer solstice . I have made a slow decoction since midsummer when I found Chaga and continued with a … Read More

The Travelers Elixir

    RESA Spagyriskt Elixir för resenären. Detta ayurvediska reseelixir stödjer kroppens förmåga till flexibilitet för optimal mental och fysisk funktion under resan. Det främjar sunda sömnmönster, hjälper till att eliminera gifter som samlas pga oregelbundna mat och sovrutiner, stödjer matsmältningen, immunförsvaret, luftvägarna och det centrala nervsystemet 10 vatabalanserade örter: ASHWAGANDHA (adaptogen, hjälper kroppen under stress, ger energi och lugnar … Read More

Melissa Officinalis Spagyric Elixir

  Melissa officinalis Lemonbalm is ruled by Jupiter. The Guru (The sanskrit name for Jupiter is Guru) of our solarsystem. I have prepared this spagyric tincture on thursdays. The teachings of Lemonbalm is to live in joy and approaching life in a childlike wonder, percieving life how it really is beyond psychological conditioning. This is the key that unlocks the … Read More

Spagyric Elixir of Wild Rose

  Elixir of Wild Rose This is one of the most profound Spagyric Tinctures I have made. It is the secret of the heart. A rose is a rose is a rose. First and all the Rose is a healer for the Heart. It evokes beauty, openness and gentleness. The petals unfolding at it´s centre just as our hearts unfold … Read More

Spagyric Elixirs for sale

Here is  a little list of some of the spagyric tinctures I have for sale. You can read about most of them in previous posts. Singular ones: Sambucus Nigra (Elder) Verbascum Thapsus (Mullein) Equistum Arvense (Horsetail) Hypericum Perforatum (St Johns Wort) Epilobium Angustifolium  (Fireweed) Angelica Archangelica Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Withania Somnifera (Ashwagandharoot) Alchemilla Vulgaris (Lady´s Mantle) Artemisia Vulgaris  (Mugwort) Galium … Read More

Passiflora Incarnata Spagyric Elixir

PASSIFLORA INCARNATA Passionflower was discovered by Spanish Jesuits in Peru in the 17th century and brought back to Europe. Of course this was not the discovery of this magical plant, the Peruvians used the flower as a sedative long before the Jesuits came there. Once it spread to Europe, it was used to treat restlessness and agitation, along with other … Read More

The Secret Fire

“Fire is at the root and about the root – I mean about the center of all things both visible and invisible. It is in Water, Earth and Air, it´s in minerals, herbs and beasts; it is in men , stars and angels. But originally it is in God Himself; for he is the fountain of heat and fire, and … Read More

NEWS

 The new year has begun. I am busy making elixirs as usual but I have more orders nowdays. Thank you everybody that has been supporting me. I have many returning customers and I am very happy that my elixirs have helped customers with insomnia, to stop smoking and many other things. (To be more independent, love themselves etc. This is … Read More

Cypress Hydrosol

I have been distilling cypress when the moon was in Sagitarius on the planetary day and hours of Jupiter . Wishing I could transmit the aroma. In one word: Viriditas ! Huge, wise, happy, smoky, uplifting , holy, just like Jupiter-energy. I made a parfumeoil with it that I am very happy with. Viriditas (Latin, literally “greenness,” formerly translated as … Read More

Lokalpressen!

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Mieke´s photos

 Mieke Verbijlen´s  photos for Alchemillas Apotek shop.

There is a shop!

Mieke Verbijlen made photos for the shop that has just opened! Check it out! 

The Medicinewheel – 4 Elementals Elixirs to work with in Ceremony

4 ELEMENTALS: This is a series of elixirs ultimatly to be used through out a year to gather knowledge of the nature of life which may be perceived through the observation of the rythms of Nature.                                          As above so below. As within so without. This can be seen and experienced  simultaneously on a microcosmical as well as on a … Read More

WAY OF THE HEART ELIXIR

Way of the Heart Elixir The heart is the meetingpoint of earth and heaven, the limit with the unlimitted. The heart unifies stability and flow and we need both. It is here we become whole and undivided. All our wisdom resides in our hearts and with an open heart we come into contact with the voice of our soul. When the … Read More

Ginkgo Biloba Spagyric Elixir

Making a new batch of Ginkgo Biloba spagyric tincture.The leaves can be harvested in the summer months when they are green but are most medicinally potent in the fall season, just after they start to turn a yellow-gold color. According to Christopher Hobbs, in his book, “Ginkgo, Elixir of Youth”, the best time to pick the leaves for highest concentration … Read More

Ashwagandha Spagyric Elixir

Ashwagandha, one of the most powerful herbs in Ayurvedic healing, has been used since ancient times for a wide variety of conditions, and is most well-known for its restorative benefits. In Sanskrit Ashwagandha means “the smell of a horse,” indicating that the herb imparts the vigor and strength of a stallion, and has traditionally been prescribed to help people strengthen … Read More

Hydrosol of Rosmarinus officinalis

Oh Rosemary, i love you! Distilling the last Rosemary of my garden. A Rosemary spagyric tincture is also available. You can read about it on the blog further down. I offer Hydrosol of organic Rosmarinus officinalis30 ml in a brown glass bottle with spray pump. 60 kr + shipping Rosemary is a powerful antioxidant. It stimulates the liver and gallbladder, … Read More

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My dear friend Charlotte Koopman created the beautiful logo for Alchemillas Apotek

Mentha Piperita & Mentha Villosa Hydrosol

MENTHA PIPERITA & MENTHA VILLOSA ( peppermint and maroccan mint) HYDROSOL Aroma: Pungent, cool, refreshing Undiluted the flavor is very strong, diluted it becomes softer, like a good herbal tea.Try it in cooking, baking, or as a delicious beverage hot or cold. Mint is most famous for it´s digestive , anti-infalmmatory and mind-stimulating properties. Anti-inflammatory both internally and topically it … Read More

Venus

Wishing you a great Dies Veneris or “day of Venus” . I have a spagyric elixir in honour of Venus – it is about deepening our love, relationships, creativity , beauty, our Magnum Opus – Lifework. It contains Wild Rose, Yarrow, Vervain, Mint , Lady´s Mantle and Thyme. ( vild ros, rölleka, järnört, mynta, daggkåpa och timjan) 10 ml 150 … Read More

Infused Honey

Healing Heart Honey organic honey carefully infused with herbs in a Bain Marie. (to 37 degrees celsius) Hawthornberries, Motherwort, Blue Vervaine, Lemonbalm and Linden flower. Take a spoon to sooth an aching heart. 106 ml 60 kr + shipping contact me to order: turtleok@hotmail.com organic herbs harvested in my garden and in the wild Hjärtats HonungEkologisk honung varsamt (ca 37 … Read More

Lavandula Angustifolia Hydrosol

Lavandula Angustifolia Hydrosol Fragrance: floral and sweet, smells like honey and has a deeper base-like feel than the essential oil Spray on skin, good for all types , also sensitive and delicate such as a baby´s Good for: Sunburn Cuts Bug bites Scrapes Hot flashes, hot weather on airplane to moisturize skin (good for legs and feet that become heavy … Read More

Thymus Vulgaris Hydrosol

THYMUS VULGARIS HYDROSOL Fragrance: Floral and sweet Can be used for example in cases of: Fungal infections Bedsores Herpes blisters as soon as they appear, it can prevent the outbreak Teenage acne – spray on face , not just the acneic areas(if it is used as an acne treatment I recomend to also take the Thyme spagyric tincture. Twice daily … Read More

Hydrosols

Alchemillas Apotek is now introducing HYDROSOLS! Herbal distillates, also called floral water, hydrosol, hydrolate, herbal water and essential water, are aqueous products of distillation. They are colloidal suspensions (hydrosol) of essential oils as well as water-soluble components obtained by steam distillation from plants/herbs. These herbal distillates have uses as medicine , flavorings, and cosmetics (skin care). Herbal distillates are produced … Read More

Sleep Support Spagyric Tincture

Sömn Support/ Sleep Support A formula for those who have troubble sleeping and do not wish to take prescription medication. Contains: Läkepassionsblomma / Passiflora incarnata /Passionflower Havre i mjölkigt stadium/ Avena Sativa /Milky Oats Frossört/ Scutellaria galericulata / Skullcap Ljung/ Calluna vulgaris /Heather Lindblommor och blad/ Tilia Cordata /Linden flower and leaf Humle/ Humulus lupulus / Hops Vänderot/ Valeriana officinalis … Read More

Urtica Dioica Elixir

URTICA DIOICA Nettle are found in waste places and woods throughout the world. They are recognized – even in the dark, as Culpeper notes- by the sting they produce on contact.Nettle is an excellent ally when you need strong energetic borders around you. Ruled by MarsAnd just as the red planet and the blood, it is full of iron. It … Read More

Doubble Spagyric Tincture of Mother Elder

Sambucus Nigra Elder The lore surrounding the Elder is immense and mysterious.  The Elder serves as a doorway to the Underworld, or magical faery realm. Elder was sometimes called “Hylde Moer” or “Elder Mother” . Elder Mother is the Queen of the Underworld, a different dimension .  In Iceland, where faeries are still taken very seriosusly, they are known as … Read More

Angelica Archangelica Elixir

Angelica archangelica   Angelica is an important Shamanic plant among the Saami people of the Far North. In Native American herbalism it is refered to as a “Bear Medicine”.  Just as the bear goes into hibernation through the winter , bear medicine usually relax the mind, open the imagination and bring people into dreamtime. Angelica certainly has this capacity. Bears … Read More

Evolutionary Equistum Arvense Elixir

Equistum Arvense Horsetail is a Saturnian remedy.  A signature is the ringed stalks. Saturnian remedies goes deep into our DNA, the Karmic Patterns and connects us to the Invisible Landscape, opening us up tosubtle energies. Call on Saturn to instill courage and strength. When you need to learn how to be firm , set boundaries and limits, learn to do … Read More

Rosemary Recall Elixir

Rosmarinus Officinalis Rosemary is a solar plant , warming, drying , circulatory and digestive. Elementary it is connected to Air as it is relieves gaz and bloating. Rosemary increases the bloodflow and works on the cardio vascular system. It can be used as a driver for other herbs as it is cirulating . A very good trinity for the heart … Read More

Dream Recall Elixir

This elixir is good for those who want to work with lucid dreaming and dream recall. To be awake in the dream and lucid in waking life. “Once upon a time, Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting about happily enjoying himself. He did not know that he was Zhou. Suddenly he awoke, and was palpably Zhou. … Read More

Stop Smoking Support Elixir

A formula to support the person wanting to stop smoking The first time I tried a spagyric tincture of Lobelia I had the sensation as if I just had been smoking a cigarette , but much better! It also made me take long deep breaths and I felt calm and satisfied. I began working on a Support formula for smokers … Read More

Fireweed Elixir

Today I work with Fireweed. Since july I have been preparing Fireweed Spagyric Tincture . On a Sunday I harvested the plant and macerated it in alcohol for 40 philosophical days : the mercury principle – to release it´s spirit. I distilled the essential oil , it´s soul when the moon was in Leo. I calcinated the plants that were … Read More

Artemis Mugwort Elixir

Artemisia Vulgaris Mugwort is a an Eurasian plant of very ancient medicinal usage. It is called the oldest of plants (yldost wyrta) in The Charm of the Nine Worts, an ancient Anglo-Saxon book. It finds a place in the pharmacopoeia of Europe, China and India. Artemis – goddess of the moon and mother of nature. Suited for the different epochs … Read More

Mighty Mullein Elixir

Mullein Spagyric Tincture Essential oil, spirit, and purified mineral salts of Mullein (Verbascum Thapsus) I was up in the hour of Saturn to calcinate the Mighty Mullein! I have been working with this glorious plant on Saturn-days (Saturdays) , picking the leaves and flowers when the moon was in Virgo. This magic herb has been protective in various cultures. Ulysses … Read More

Alchemilla Elixir

ALCHEMILLA VULGARISAlchemilla – The little Alchemist“The peculiar thing about this plant is that the leaves are “waterproof” . collecting rain and dewdrops and keeping them for many hours after the dew has burned off other plants. Lady´s Mantle encourage the subtle chemical bonding which makes a drop of water more cohesive and less capable of evaporation. We can now begin … Read More

Achillea Millefolium Elixir

Achillea Millefolium In spring the soft, lacy delicatly cut leaves rise like plumes from the ground. As the stalks rise the leaves shrrivel. The flowers are bone white , but one finds occasionally a pink or light purple one. Divining sticks are made from the stalks in China, theI-CHING: The Book of Changes. Yarrow is a fever-remedy, It is also … Read More

Wisdom of Salvia Elixir

SALVIA OFFICINALIS Sage is a complex plant with a variety of effects. The properties of sage do change with the metod of preparation. The hot tea brings out the aromatics and is therefore useful as a stimulant to sweating , salivation and internal secretion. The cold tea will decrease secretions, including sweating , salivation, mucus production in mouth, throat and … Read More

Oregano Elixir

OREGANO VULGARIS The word originates in Greece, where oros and ganos combined means Joyous Mountain or Mountain Joy. In some traditions of magic, particularly those originating in Italy and the Mediterranean areas, oregano is used for protection. Oregano Oil is an extraordinarily powerful natural anti-biotic. The strong phenol anti-oxidants destroy pathogenic bacteria, viruses and yeasts. Oregano has been classically used … Read More

Thyme and Space Elixir

THYMUS VULGARIS The spagyric tincture contains Essential oil, spirit, and purified mineral salts of Thymus Vulgaris Ruled by Venus Thymos means strength in Greek. Thyme is suited to cold, inactive conditions where there are tendencies to chills, shivering, putrefaction, sepsis and stagnant stuck mucus. It has proved effective against very serious inefective organisms such as anthrax, typhoid and diphteria. It … Read More

Light in the Dark Elixir

*LIGHT IN THE DARK* Elixir for the melancholia of the dark winter Refered to as Seasonal Affective Disorder or Winter Depression Transform the Darkness to Light The Light in the Dark Elixir is a synthesis of Sun, Mercury and Mars properties A merging of Chinese, Indian and Western Alchemy Spagyric Tincture containing the spirit, soul and purified mineral salts of … Read More

St. Johns Wort Elixir

HYPERICUM PERFORATUM ST. JOHNS WORT Hypericum Perforatum is a perennial found over much of the world. It is fondest of sunny places, southern slopes for example and dry soils. It has leaves set in pairs along the stems , and bright yellow, five-petaled flowers that bloom from june to september. The petals are dotted with little perforations. This indicates one … Read More

Quintessential Lifeforce Elixir

Kvintessenssens Livskraft/ Quintessential Lifeforce This is a useful formula when you want to engage in heartcentered communication with nature via the electro magnetic field that radiates from all living beings which can be percieved through the heart. The etherical tuning in. Facilitates non linear, visionary experiences, dreams and intuitions. Tap into the intelligence directly from the heart of nature, connect … Read More

SPAGYRIA

Spagyrics is the practical application of the cosmology of alchemy. One is theory, the other is practice. Spagyrics is a process of creating philosophical medicines that are made in harmony with the nature of the substance being worked with- mainly minerals, metals and plants. In this case plants. The word spagyrics comes from two Greek words “Spao” meaning to separate, … Read More

Alchemilla Apothecary

WELCOME TO ALCHEMILLA   APOTHECARY ! Spagyric Tinctures  Also called Elixirs     * Initiatic Plantmedicine for vibrant health  and spiritual evolution     * I use fresh herbs as much as possible Wildcrafted with respect grown organically  in my garden or otherwise  dried organic  herbs from reliable sources     * Artisanally made in the  forest of Hakebo, Sweden In accordance with Traditional … Read More