One Hundred Flowers

Macerates of Genne

Birch

BIRCH Betula verrucosa seeds
38% - 50 ml
Recommended dose: 50 drops 3 times a day diluted in water
Warnings: do not exceed the recommended dose for daily intake. The product should be used as part of a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle. Keep out of the reach of children under three years of age.

The use of bud macerates is relatively recent. In fact, only a few decades have passed since the Belgian Pol Henry understood the significance of using these preparations for human well-being. Our company was born producing gemmoderivati, applying the criteria contained in the French Pharmacopoeia. But let's proceed in order by explaining what gemstone macerates are and how they are made. The macerates of buds aim to recreate the healthy balance in the human body, using extracts of fresh plant tissues in the process of growth. These embryonic tissues (buds, young shoots, etc.) are very active because they maintain the total anabolic faculties of the primitive plant cell of that plant. It is able to develop all the potential of the plant itself, a characteristic that the differentiated adult cells no longer have. We can grasp the scope and value of these products, if we understand the meaning of the tree for the same creator: "The tree is the most gigantic plant proliferation towards the light and the set of its leaves offers the largest contact surface. with the atmosphere. The tree is the largest photosynthetic workshop and its bud is the best synthesis of its embryonic adaptation to the largest production. " (Pol Henry). The macerates of buds are obtained by maceration in hydroglycerol-alcoholic solvent (Water + alcohol + glycerin) of fresh vegetable embryonic tissues. Of the plant are used: buds, young shoots, young roots, buds, catkins, internal peel of young branches and roots, seeds and any other embryonic tissue. The plant tissues used are all of meristematic origin which expresses a unique concept: the plant embryonic tissue. Pol Henry, takes into consideration the Middle European forest and only the tree and shrub layer. This criterion confronts us with the immense advantage of using only plants of the geographical area in which we live.

MACERATES OF GEMS
In our catalog there are 49 references, even if in fact the transformed plants are 46. In fact of two (Betulla Verrucosa and Salix Alba) we use more parts. Let's look at its main features:
1) Of the 46 plants described, 35 are spontaneously harvested and 11 come from organic or biodynamic crops. In this case, we not only prefer to work with the fresh product but above all we refer to our trusted collectors and producers to avoid running into the use of frozen gems. The buds, young shoots, peels, etc. they are all rigorously collected at the right time, when the division and cellular activity of the meristems is at its maximum. The buds must be swollen but not open ...
2) Maceration of embryonic plant tissues begins within 8 - 12 hours of harvesting. The solvent plant ratio is 1: 20 i.e. one part of the plant expressed as dry weight and twenty parts of solvent. It is macerated with alcohol, glycerin and water. Alcohol denatures the enzymes and thus blocks the enzymatic breakdown that begins after the plant is harvested.
Let's not forget that it is also an excellent solvent of the active ingredients. To perfect the extraction process of young plant tissues, glycerin is added. In addition to thus expanding the extractive properties of alcohol, the conservation of the particular constituents of embryonic cells is improved. For many years we have been using exclusively vegetable glycerin, obtained from molasses. Maceration takes place in glass containers and lasts at least 30 days.
3) The production rigor, the quality of the raw materials and the suitability of the materials and equipment used in the laboratory guarantee the presence of many functional constituents in our gemmopreparati. Obviously it is difficult to identify and classify the same classes of active ingredients that are present in mature plant extracts. However, in the meristematic tissues there are more substances and active principles than there are in the adult plant. They are particularly rich in enzymes, vitamins, growth factors, nucleic acids (RNA / DNA), plant hormones (auxins, kinetins, gibberellins) in addition to the active ingredients of the species (anthocyanins, flavonoids, etc.).

THE WORKING PROCESS
The part of the plant that interests us is collected correctly, cleaned, ground (to allow the solvent to reach all its parts, thus conveying the various components) and macerated in a quantity of solvent equal to twenty times the dry weight of the plant. . The plant-solvent contact lasts at least thirty days. Let's take an example: one kilogram of fresh Ribes nigrum buds contains 75% water. Therefore the weight of the dry plant corresponds to 25% of the fresh weight.
We will therefore have in a kg of fresh buds, 250 gr. of dry and 750 gr. of water. Applying the ratio 1: 20 we will have 250 gr. x 20 = 5.000 gr. which is the amount of solvent we need for the maceration of one kg of fresh buds. The weight of the water contained in them must be subtracted from this weight, ie 750 gr. Let's use the formula to understand: 5,000 gr. - 750 gr. = 4.250 gr.
It is the actual amount of solvent to be added to the finely ground buds to complete the maceration. It will be composed in equal measure of alcohol and glycerin. The 750 gr. of water I need will be given to me by the plant. In fact this is the quantity contained in its embryonic tissues. After at least 30 days it is filtered through the decantation of the liquid and the vegetable residue is squeezed at 300 - 400 atmospheres. Then the two liquids come together and the whole is filtered by gravity into large funnels with filters suitable for food. This is how the base of the gemstone macerates (from the French souce) is obtained. To have the finished gem, ready for use, one part of the base must be diluted in nine parts of a mixture consisting of: 50% glycerin, 30% alcohol, 20% water. All expressed in weight.

Format: 50ml