Homeopathy for Farm and Garden - VD Kaviraj

20 years ago Vaikunthanath Das Kaviraj was asked by a friend whether he would try treating some of her plants, as he had already with the family and their animals. A cordon of pears and apples was infected by a dark red rust. The rust spread quickly and the plant was very 'thirsty'. In the absence of other ideas, Kaviraj reasoned that if the cordon were a human it would be a child with scarlet fever who should benefit from a homoeopathic remedy made from the deadly nightshade, atropine belladonna. The fact that anything happened was a surprise, but that the cordon recovered and began to produce sweeter fruit was a challenge to action. Experiments began on the basis of analogy to the 200 years of collated international experiments which make up the materia medica for humans, and continued by using potentised predators and pests, by studying poisonings from existing agricultural practice, and by sheer serendipity - and the effectiveness of his approach began to become clear. Kaviraj has written down the results of his labours in this beautiful book. Over 70 remedies populate this first agricultural materia medica and repertory which is the seed growing into the considera.org materia medica agricultura.