The word spagyry is said to have been coined by the charismatic Theophrastus Aureolus Bombast von Hehenheim, or as he is known to us under the name Paracelsus (Einsiedeln 1493- Salzburg 1541). The word comes from Greek; it is composed of two Greek terms: spao and agheiro, which can also be translated by the Latin terms solve et coagula.
"The endocannabinoid system is one of the oldest biological systems on earth. In the human body and all vertebrates, it acts as a kind of SOS or information SUPERSYSTEM and is essentially an umbrella protection against anything that can happen to us. " People have been using cannabis for thousands of years and we knew that it stimulates appetite, reduces nausea, calms epileptic seizures, stops asthma attacks, improves mood; Galen treated with it, Chinese surgeons used it as an anesthetic and painkiller. We knew what it did, but we didn't know why...
Eastern approaches such as Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Unani, Tibetan medicine, etc. are completely legitimate and serve very well as an alternative to the current mechanistic system established by allopathic medicine. But the question arises, don't we in the West have something of our own? Let us immediately remember our rich herbal tradition, in which we can find pieces of an ancient civilization. Don't we have anything that we could put alongside Asian philosophical systems? Our Western tradition has a rich history, which Paracelsus called Spagyria....
Mushrooms are the guardians of our environment. Invisible, somewhere underground, they take care of the dynamic balance between the soil and the rest of the environment. We know that plants are connected to mushrooms through mycorrhiza, which is like a kind of envelope at the ends of the roots. This helps the plant process nutrients, the plant provides shelter and sugars to the mushroom, the mushroom produces hormones beneficial to the plant, if we notice a mushroom under a tree, this is a sign of a good relationship between the plant and the mushroom. Mushrooms represent ¼ of the Earth's biomass. The origin of mushrooms is unknown. Some claim that spores...
