Vergleich: Carbo umbra (= Braunkohle). Mineral gold extra (= Torfart durchsetzt mit Mineralien/Utah/Quelle: Internet)
Rubus chamaemorus (= Torfbeere Rosales). Sphagnum (= Torfmoos). Torfwolle (Tantragruppe).
Siehe: Carbon + Brennstoffen + Teergruppe
Carb-v (weich)/Carbo miserabilis (faserich) ó Carbo-umbra ó Carbo-mineralis (hart)
Vergleich: Carbo umbra (= Braunkohle). Mineral gold extra (= Torfart durchsetzt mit Mineralien/Utah/Quelle: Internet)
Rubus chamaemorus (= Torfbeere Rosales). Sphagnum (= Torfmoos). Torfwolle (Tantragruppe).
Siehe: Carbon + Brennstoffen
+ Teergruppe
Carb-v. (weich)/Carbo miserabilis (faserich) ó Carbo-umbra. ó Carbo-mineralis (hart)
Allerlei: entstanden aus Sumpfzypressen (Taxodium), Mammutbäumen (Seqoia/(Metasequoia glyptostroboides/Sequoia sempervirens)/Kiefern (Pinus) und Fichten (Abies).
Solum
Uliginosum and Peat Products. Peat products in themselves do not cure us;
rather they can be used to form a protective layer around us, allowing our own
life forces to sustain, strengthen and heal us.
Dr.
Hauschka researched the therapeutic use of the fluid extracted during
processing of the peat substance. It was known a long time in Europe that
organic substances from the moors could be used therapeutically for many
illnesses and ailments. These histories lead towards the development of solum
uliginosum as both an oil and internal medicine for modern illnesses. Solum
uliginosum was first developed by Wala in Bad Boll, Germany. Peat fluid is
collected and prepared over months to produce solum uliginosum. Initially the
substance is stored in a dark incubating chamber and over seven days
rhythmically exposed to sunrise and sunset. Then for a further two-three months
it is stored, enabling the loss of the sulphurous odor.
In Sweden
peat is harvested using sustainable environmentally protected systems for
alternative biofuel and horticultural use; it is the by-product in this process
that is used for the peat products discussed.
Frei nach: Fritz Ewald, Ph.D.
On April
26, 1986, a nuclear reactor exploded in Chernobyl. During weeks that followed
radioactive clouds spread across large parts of Europe. Every particle of dust
in this cloud, which measured over
1000 m in
height, carried radioactive material: large amounts of I l31 [affinity with the
thyroid (children/younger adults)]/Sr 90 (takes the place of calcium in
bones)/Caesium 137 (takes the place of potassium in muscles). All of these are
carcinogenic/cause damage to cells.
Are
undetectable by any human sense organ. The effects were detectable in Germany
only few days after the catastrophe: radioactive pollution settled down in
fields and streets.
Vegetables/salad
plants/milk had to be avoided because polluted with radioactive particles; play
areas and sports grounds were closed for the same reason/children were not
allowed to play outdoors.
Fear
prompted people to take action and use peat products and textiles. The longer
the fallout lasted, the greater the demand for peat textiles.
Source and development of peat fiber
Peat fiber
is a constituent of sheathed cotton sedge = Eriophorum vaginatum =
Scheidenwollgras growing in bogs/boggy soils. Raised bogs always develop soils
with little mineral content where there is almost no drainage. Rainwater
collects as though in a bath tub that gradually fills up.
Few plants
survive in such conditions; the original vegetation (trees/bushes/forests)
gradually perish over the centuries: becoming peat. Only mosses/heathers/a few
grasses survive on the surface.
Plants with
few needs in regard to warmth and nutrients (these gradually submerge in the
water).
Sphagnum
mosses are the only plants that flourish in these conditions. They grow over
everything, incl. themselves, creating a layer of vegetation from which new
shoots constantly appear; new plants
create
further layers on top of the dead bodies of older vegetation.
Over many
years a spongy mass of vegetable matter develops. Increasing in thickness it
will in the end absorb 25x its own weight in water. The surface of these raised
bogs is noticeably higher than the surrounding ground, hence their name. Sunken
bogs are flatter, as the name implies; they contain more nutrients and
therefore support a richer assortment of plants such as birch/alder/Carx =
sedge.
Sheathed
cotton sedge favors raised bogs where it constantly dies down and then regrows.
Peat fibers are obtained from the light-colored peat nearest the surface of the
bog. The black peat lower down contains almost no recognizable plant remains.
Its dark color foreshadows the process in which it will gradually turn into
coal.
Peat
development is neither decomposition [microbial activity converting organic
into inorganic matter in the presence of air and water], nor putrefaction
[bacteria ultimately converting organic matter into sludge in a process
(generating CO2/water/gases: H/methane)]. Peat develops once the upper layers
of vegetation have died when a lengthy process begins in which microbial action
takes the organic matter through many chemical stages before it turns into
humic substance systems. Despite their lack of structure these are relatively
stable mixtures of substances on the way to becoming coal, with some very
special properties.
In peat,
the ascending (etheric) forces in the remaining life processes of the vegetation
are met by descending death processes that cause the vegetation to
disintegrate.
R.S.:
"In peat the ether forces have a descending tendency; this must be
transformed into an ascending one. This divides plant nature into 2 aspects.
1. towards life/wholly in the sphere of the
periphery: the sprouting organs that sustain growth and flower.
2. toward the lifeless/remains in the sphere of
outward radiating forces, including everything that hardens growth, providing a
firm supporting structure for life, etc.". Such is the stream of
substances in which the lifeless comes to life
and what is alive dies; plants exist within such a stream.
Raised bogs
develop when plants live in an ongoing process of excessive new growth and
dying. In the form of mounds.
R.S. These
mounds particularly good at absorbing the cosmic forces from the periphery.
Centuries of stored forces of growth and development from an originally
healthy, vital natural world free of environmental toxins are imprisoned in
peat fibers.
Characteristics of peat and peat
fibers
A number of
physical and chemical properties can be deduced from what has been stated above
regarding the development and composition of peat. For a wider understanding of
all the effects, however,we shall, have to base ourselves on points of view
gained from Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science. We can assume that much of what
can be said with regard to peat also applies to peat fibers, since these are a
constituent of peat.
Peat
preserves: ancient oak boles/tree coffins or corpses/fruit and vegetables laid
in peat also stay fresh longer. Decomposition and putrefaction of organic
matter are not only prevented by lack of oxygen and acidity; certain substances
and forces present in peat also counteract decomposition.
Peat provides warmth
The
warming, vitalizing effect of peat has been used for a long time in the
treatment of rheumatic or sclerotic conditions. This is due to the high
specific heat of the humic substance system; such heat is easily stored. It
goes without saying that individual reactions must be taken into account when
medicinal peat products and preparations are used. The same goes for the
wearing of peat fiber textiles (discussed below).
This brings
us to the advantages of healthy clothing. We all know the discomforts of
wearing easy-care synthetic textiles that quickly make a good many of us
perspire and smell. This generally happens because heat is trapped by fibers
that cannot ventilate adequately or which lack the ability to absorb moisture.
Peat textiles do not have these disadvantages.
Peat absorbs moisture
Peat has a
low specific weight so the fibers are loosely woven and light-weight. They
absorb moisture because of the colloidal nature of the humin in the fibers.
They act like a sponge/absorbed water
can be
squeezed out again. It is also the humins that make the textiles specially
efficient at binding odors, sweat and salts.
Peat fibers
can easily be spun with wool and 40 or 50% peat has proved a good proportion in
a wool-peat mixture. The properties of peat still apply in such mixtures or
else the peat complements or
increases
the properties of the thread with which it is spun.
Flammability and electrostatic
charge
Peat fibers
bum almost as badly as wool; they just glow or glimmer. Synthetic textiles on the
other hand can generate high temperatures when burning, and they also release
toxic gases. There is almost
no
electrostatic charge in peat fibers.
Peat and solar radiation
Textiles
containing peat fibers give warmth in a highly specific way. This might also
involve a heat-activating process triggered when high-energy light is converted
to long-wave heat radiation by the
brown humin
substances. Heat and light, which are essential for life, are in continuous
wave motion. Light has very short wavelengths, and those of UV light are even
shorter. Light with especially
short
wavelengths damages proteins (cells). Human skin transforms short-wave into
long-wave radiation with the help of endogenous melanin. Melanin is the brown
skin pigment we know as freckles.
It is
produced by melanocytes as a protection against the UV radiation constantly
reaching the earth from the sun. We protect ourselves against this
inimical/cold/invisible radiation by increased sweat secretion (contains
substances absorbing UV radiation) by producing our own active substances
(enzymes) which immediately repair cell damage by increasing cell production
(horny layer of skin),
and by the
all-important synthesis of skin pigments.
The
existence of inimical radiation brings us to the current importance of peat
fiber textiles for clothing. UV radiation from the sun and outer space has
hitherto mainly been held in check on its way
to earth by
a protective ozone layer. We know that this is subject to growing damage through
industrial use of CFCs, so that exposure to UV radiation is on the increase.
The types
of radiation reaching the earth from space and from the sun are: radio waves,
heat, light, UV light. Wavelengths are progressively shorter in this sequence,
reaching zero in X-rays which
come next.
From this point, more or less continuous radiation turns into the crackle of
the Geiger counter caused by gamma, beta and alpha rays: radioactive radiation.
The chemical actions of UV
light in
cells become destructive when X-rays or radioactive rays reach cell tissue.
Radiation
damages the DNA in cell nuclei, causing irreparable damage and cell fragments
the removal of which has toxic effects on the body. Almost exclusively
young/growing tissues are affected or tissues that reproduce rapidly, such as
blood/reproductive cells/cells in the intestinal walls. This is why children
are particularly threatened.
Peat fibers in clothing
A healthy
constitution will to some extent resist radiation damage or cope better
(physiologically and psychologically healthy lifestyle is important). Natural
clothing can have a place in such a
lifestyle,
and this is where textiles containing peat fibers come into the picture. Peat
products in bedroom and living room also have their place. Direct protection
against radiation, however, is
only
provided by proper protective clothing.
Peat and human skin
The
antibacterial properties of peat products are due to solubles in the peat. Open
wounds heal more quickly and are less likely to become infected, which is also
partly due to the acid pH of bog water.
Textiles
containing peat fibers provide with a protective layer that corresponds in some
ways to our own physiological protective layer, the skin. Peat fibers
(originating from a grass) contain a lot of
silica
(high silicic acid content of sheathed cotton sedge) Commelinidae)/silica =
SiO2 = quartz. Quartz, in turn, has a strong affinity to light, to the cosmic
environment surrounding us all.
The humin
system belongs to the dark carbon. Peat fibers' affinity to light and repulsion
of light both react to external stimuli. Human skin contains relatively large
amounts of silicic acid, and the
melanin-producing
pigment cells containing a process similar to the human system.
The above-mentioned
skin substances also react to external stimuli by triggering an appropriate
reaction in the relevant defense system. It is therefore easy to understand why
textiles containing peat
fibers can
lend a helping hand to our own protective skin layer in its efforts to ward off
harmful influences from outside.
Peat supports the life forces
Life forces
need warmth. Textiles containing peat fibers provide warmth in a specific
manner. Life forces need activating wherever damaging influences exercise their
inhibiting effects. Textiles containing peat fibers are thus doubly useful: as
a prophylactic measure for healthy individuals, and as a support to help the
sick regain health.
W.
Dethloff: "... debilitated life forces need plant fibers (linen/cotton)“.
We can confidently add peat fibers, even though the resulting textiles are not
as soft as those made from wool or silk.
History of peat fiber processing
R.S.:
fibers of sheathed cotton sedge in the peat of raised bogs could be made
spinnable. Textiles woven from such yarn would be warmer and stronger than
those made from wool and would also provide some protection against radiation.
Allerlei: entstanden aus Sumpfzypressen
(Taxodium), Mammutbäumen (Seqoia/(Metasequoia glyptostroboides/Sequoia sempervirens)./Kiefern
(Pinus) und Fichten (Abies).
Anthrazit = unter größte Druck entstanden
Steinkohl = unter mittlere Druck entstanden
Braunkohl = unter wenig Druck entstanden aus Cupressae entstanden
Torf ohne Druck entstanden
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