The droplet evaporation method (DEM) is increasingly used for assessing various characteristics of water. In our research we tried to use DEM to detect a possible self-ordering capability of (spring) ...water that would be similar to the already found and described autothixotropic phenomenon, namely increasing order of non-distilled water subject to aging. The output of DEM is a droplet remnant pattern (DRP). For analysis of DRP images we used a specially developed computer program that does the frequency distribution analysis of certain parameters of the images. The results of experiments demonstrated statistically significant differences in both aging of water as well as in the glass exposed surface/volume ratio of the aged water. The most important result supporting the self-ordering character of water was found in an increasing dependence between two analyzed parameters: distance and frequency, at the peak frequency. As the result concerns mostly aging and shows increasing order it further corroborates other findings concerning increasing order by aging. Such further confirmation of self-ordering capacity of water is not important only for physical chemistry, but also for biology.
Abstract
Background: Even though water is regarded as something long understood and explained by conventional science – many open-minded researchers know that it still hides many mysteries (water ...clusters, coherent domains, so-called memory, etc.). Many of these mysteries come to fore in ultra-high dilution (UHD) experiments and practices, where usually not even one molecule of the originating substances is left. Mostly, they can be tackled only by using the droplet evaporation method (DEM).1
Aim: One of the hypotheses of water memory suggests that through UHD (dilutions, shaking) the field of a substance is stably impressed into water. If this is true than we should be able to imprint also a field itself - not originating from a certain substance, but from other sources. Such imprint should be revealed by an appropriate research method.
Method: The DEM consists of monitoring dried water drops by dark field microscopy. It was discovered in the previous century by Ruth Kübler, a German artist, and further developed by Bernd-Helmut Kröplin, Minnie Hein, Berthold Heusel M. A. and Georg Schröcker. It has also been used to research the still controversial special characteristics of ultra-high diluted aqueous solutions.2 It has been proved capable of demonstrating differences in subtle influences of an UHD (around 10-47 M, practically “pure†water) of As2O3 on common wheat seeds. This method is therefore, capable of transferring certain, not yet fully understood or generally accepted subtle physical characteristicsof the solution to the remnant patterns after drop evaporation.3, 4
We used DEM to evaluate experiments on impressing the subtle field of five bioenergy healers and two so called “informed†objects (a glass and an “energy†card) into mineral or spring water with well-known characteristics. In all these experiments we also used control water that was of the same origin, but placed in a separate room. The DEM images were analyzed by special computer programs and statistically evaluated. No mother tincture of any kind was used.
Results: The results demonstrate that even such subtle fields can leave stable and reproducible imprints in water - made visually accessible by the remnant patterns after drop evaporation. The irradiated water samples were statistically different from the control. This difference can usually be observed even by a naked eye.
Conclusion
These results have several implications. They confirm as follows:
a) water memory – the main background of UHD effects,
b) the possibility to imprint the fields into water,
c) the existence of subtle fields not yet generally recognized by physical community and
d) the capability of DEM to express the imprints.
Historical evidences suggest that the Himalayas have some strong biogeographical links to the Alps. In view of this fact, the present study aims to understand the similarities in plant species ...distribution and their ethnobotanical uses in the Indian Himalayas and the Slovenian Alps. The plant species common in both the mountain systems and used by local inhabitants were compiled by extensive literature search and also by carrying out primary surveys. Ethnobotanical information was collected through personal interviews of villagers with the help of local assistants and also through direct and indirect observations made during the field surveys. A total of 59 ethnobotanical species representing 17 families common in both the Indian Himalayas and the Slovenian Alps were documented, of these 78% obtained medicinal properties and traditionally used by local people for curing diseases. Comparatively, people of the Indian Himalayas used plants for medicine in higher percentage (73%) than the people of Slovenia (42%). Of the total medicinal plants, only 7 plant species such as
Acorus
calamus
,
Capsella
bursa
-
partoris
,
Hypericum
perforatum
,
Origanum
vulgare
,
Prunella
vulgaris
,
Solanum
nigrum
and
Urtica
dioica
had some common uses in both the Slovenian Alps and the Indian Himalayas. In the Slovenian Alps, the maximum ethnobotanical species (61%) had wide distribution range whereas maximum ethnobotanical species in the Indian Himalayas (62%) had localized distribution. Though, 27% of common ethnobotanical species belonged to different threat categories, only 2 species—
Taxus
baccata
and
Hippophae
rhamnoides
—are placed under similar threat category in these two different mountain areas. The study unfolds relationship in plant species distribution and their ethnobotanical uses along with offering an opportunity to provide information on uses of plant species though available but unknown to community.
V okviru genske banke zdravilnih in aromatičnih rastlin pri Biotehniški fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani (BFUNI) poteka ohranjanje genskih virov in situ, ex situ in in vitro. Pri in situ ohranjanju je ...bistveno popisovanje gostote populacij na naravnih rastiščih zdravilnih rastlin, pri čemer lokacije označimo z geografskimi koordinatami in ovrednotimo z deskriptorji za kolekcioniranje, okoljskimi deskriptorji in vrstno specifičnimi deskriptorji. Metodologija vrednotenja naravnih populacij rastlinskih vrst in njihovih habitatov, osnovana na sistemu deskriptorjev, je harmonizirana v okviru držav članic programa ECPGR in SEEDNet. S pomočjo terenskih vzorčenj zdravilnih in aromatičnih rastlin ter obdelave zbranih podatkov s pomočjo informacijskega sistema MEDPLANT bo mogoče prikazati biodiverziteto med preučevanimi populacijami zdravilnih in aromatičnih rastlin, kar bo v pomoč končnim uporabnikom in eventuelno žlahtniteljem v prihodnosti. V okviru terenskega dela ocenjujemo pojavnost 10 izbranih rastlinskih vrst: skupina taksonov navadnega rmana (Achillea millefolium L. s. lat.), skupina taksonov pravega ranjaka (Anthyllis vulneraria L. s. lat.), navadna arnika (Arnica montana L.) – zavarovana (kategorija varovanja – C, O) in ranljiva vrsta (kategorija ogroženosti – V), pravi pelin (Artemisia absinthium L.), skupina taksonov rumenega svišča, košutnika (Gentiana lutea L. s. lat.) – zavarovana (kategorija varovanja – C) in ranljiva vrsta (kategorija ogroženosti – V) (Uradni list RS 82/02, 46/04; 49/04; 110/04), šentjanževka (Hypericum perforatum L. s. lat.), navadna dobra misel (Origanum vulgare L. s. lat.), razkrečena rutica (Ruta divaricata Ten.), žajbelj (Salvia officinalis L.) in kraški šetraj (Satureja montana L. s. lat.).
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