Placebo or what?

Do Plants Care?

After being out in the garden again it is not only me taking Homoeopathy after a hard days work. I know that animals are treated with Homoeopathy and so I thought some years ago: "Why not try it on plants?" Having had a kiwi for 10 years at that time bearing neither blossom nor fruit, I gave it some Aurum metallicum, the Homoeopathic preparation of gold. It is used for infertility and my kiwi had blossoms the next spring but dropped all the flowers. So I tried Nat-mur the next spring because I thought that dropping the flowers might have something to do with water imbalance. So this time the kiwi kept the flowers till they bore little fruit and then dropped them. Now I was giving a remedy for miscarriages in early pregnancy in spring and my kiwi bore fruit for the first time last year. 

But I did not really know what I was doing. Usually I talk at length with my patients,  my initial consultations can last up to 3 hours. And even though I talk to my plants, they do not answer or talk back. The questions remained how I might find out what they are needing. So I was really intrigued when I found a book about Homoeopathy for plants. That made an end to shooting in the dark. 

Recently there are also webinars for Homoeopathy for plants and I'm eager to soak up all the information.  What I learned so far was that Calendula is good for root development. So on Sunday I was transplanting one of my blueberry bushes into another container I found that half of its roots were eaten by vine weevils. So in I went up to my medicine chest, got the Calendula 30c out and put 4 pillules into a jar of water. Dissolved it, shook it and poured it over the roots. Now I'm waiting to see if it is going to work or if the roots have been too far gone. 

I also have an apricot tree which broke in half during a storm and was weak and puny ever since not bearing any more fruit. It seems that Silicea is the right remedy for this problem and that it the project for me as soon as the weather becomes warmer. So bear with me and I will let you know if Homoeopathy is really a placebo of if plants do not care. 

Small but delicious.