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Black currant buds

Food supplements

Ingredients: Glycerin, Alcohol, Water, Black currant (Ribes Nigrum L.) buds 2%

How to use: 30-60 drops 2-3 times a day diluted in water

Hydro-alcoholic macerates: The use of gemstone 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. Centofiori was born producing bud extractives by applying the criteria contained in the French pharmacopoeia. 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 sprout 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.

Centofiori uses plants from spontaneous collection, from organic or biodynamic cultivation. The product is used fresh delivered by trusted collectors and producers to avoid the use of frozen gems.

The maceration of the delivered vegetable tissues begins within 8 - 10 hours of harvesting. The solvent plant ratio is 1:20. It is macerated with alcohol, water and glycerin. Alcohol denatures the enzymes and thus blocks the enzymatic breakdown that begins after the plant is harvested. To perfect the extraction process of young plant tissues, glycerin is added which also improves the conservation of the particular constituents of embryonic cells. Centofiori has been using exclusively vegetable glycerin obtained from molasses for many years. Maceration takes place in glass containers and lasts at least 30 days.

The part of the plant is cleaned, ground and left to macerate in a quantity of solvent equal to twenty times the dry weight of the plant. The plant-solvent contact lasts at least thirty days. Then the whole is filtered through the decantation of the liquid and the plant residue is squeezed from 300 to 400 atmospheres. Then the two liquids come together and the whole is filtered by gravity into large funnels with filters suitable for food. In this way the base of the macerates of buds 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.