Alchemillas Apotek 3.03

ALCHEMILLA APOTHECARY

Spagyric Tinctures

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Initiatic Plantmedicine


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Alchemillas Apotek (apothecary) is a practice by Lisa Jeannin, located in the forest of Hakebo, Sweden.

Lisa is an artist with a passion for alchemy and the healing power of plants. The herbs are her teachers and co-creators in this practice. She lives and work in close connection with the plant-kingdom.

All her spagyric products are organic, ethically foraged in the wild or grown in her garden. Sometimes friends bring plants that they have grown or collected on travels and in rare cases she buys dried organic plants from reliable sources.

For the majority Lisa uses fresh plants in her practice, as the viriditas, the green life-force of the plants are harvested in tune with the celestial forces. The spagyric operations are timed astrologically with the phases of the moon and its orbit through the signs of the zodiac.

Lisa follows the cycles of nature and works in ceremony as close to the earth as to the stars. She brings the plants into her lab and guides them through the initiatic processes of transforming into spagyric tinctures.


The intelligence of nature is at the centre of this practice.

Lisa studied with The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, Alkemiska Akademin, Phoenix Aurelius, Tyler Penor, European Northern Ayurveda School, alongside with a lifelong personal research and practice of alchemy, healing and medicinal plants.

“Alchemy is the gentle acceleration of growth through the use of the fire of nature” - Paracelsus


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Spagyrics (spa-gîr-iks) is a Greek word meaning to separate and recombine. Spagyrics was the basis of Paracelsus’ work, and he is often considered its father. The spagyric process is a three-fold process of separation, purification, and cohobation (reunion of the purified parts). These procedures involve fermentation, distillation and the extraction of mineral components from the ash of the plant. These processes were in use in medieval alchemy generally for the separation and purification of metals from ores.
The practice of spagyrics is the application of ancient alchemical working methods to the preparation of tinctures, essences, and other products from medicinal plants. While ordinary tinctures and infusions use only a part of the great curative potential of plants, spagyric methods 'open. medicinal plants completely to reveal their more powerful healing properties.