Over the years, several ranges of colour remedies have been produced by homeopaths and homeopathic pharmacies using a variety of methods. They have variously been made with crystals, prisms, coloured gels, etc. and these have been used successfully by many practitioners. Recently Helios has had to renew some of the colour remedies and has undertaken to produce a new range of pure sunlight colours using some refinements in procedure to ensure the purest and most concentrated source colours.
Remedies made from light are in the class of remedies known historically as "imponderables" (lacking weight, substance, mass) and are usually made from energy sources or energy fields. Though they have been in use since the time of Hahnemann, procedures for their preparation are not included in any homoeopathic pharmacopoeias, probably due to their exotic and imponderable nature. A historical guideline for their preparation, however, can be found in Allen's Nosodes under "X-Ray":
"As maintained by Hahnemann, Hering and Fincke and demonstrated by the work of the Austrian Provers Union, the dynamic potentized drug is the chief factor in both proving and healing. Like Magnetis Polus Australis and other imponderables, electricity and the X-ray are both capable of potentization, and the potentized dynamic remedy is just as superior to the crude drug as Aurum, Lycopodium, Silicea or Sulphur. A very able description of the discovery of the X-ray by Professor Roentgen was given in the Homeopathic Physician (March, 1896), by Dr. Walter M. James, and concluded with the words: "Why should not the homeopath seek to procure a proving of the effects of the X-ray upon the animal economy of the human being? An inviting field is there opened up to the experimenters of our school. May it soon be cultivated!" March 27, 1897. A drachm vial filled with absolute alcohol was exposed to a Crook's tube in operation for half an hour, and then brought up to the sixth centesimal potency. With this smallest globules were moistened and the vials containing them presented to the members of the Brooklyn Hahnemannian Union, which met the same evening in regular session."
Several so-called "Imponderabilia" remedies were then made and proved, the best known being those developed by Dr J Clarke published in the three volume ClarkeÕs Dictionary in 1902:
Luna : Sugar of milk is exposed on a glass plate to the moon's rays for 4 hours and stirred with a glass rod.
The sugar of milk so charged is dynamized by the 3 step trituration method.Sol : Saccharum lactis (Lactose) is exposed to concentrated sun's rays and stirred with a glass rod till saturated (3hours)Magnetic Pole Australis : Lactose exposed to the emanations of the South pole of a magnet.Magnetic Pole Arcticus : Lactose exposed to the emanations of the North pole of a magnet.Magnetic Pole Ambo : Lactose exposed to the emanations of both poles of a magnet.Electricitas : The potencies are made from lactose exposed to static electricity.
Using this description as a basis, we proceeded to design a rationalised method for 'catching' pure prismatically isolated sunlight colours in a vial of alcohol. To maximise the purity of each colour, we prepared the exposure apparatus in a darkened room, - i.e. a south facing room with the windows masked with cardboard. A single horizontal slit was cut in the cardboard to allow a single beam of sunlight into the room. The exposures were done in July to get the strongest summer sunlight.
As light passes through transparent media with almost no resistance, this indicates that very little of the light is impeded and therefore 'caught' by the alcohol in its passage through it. To compensate for this and maximise the exposure of the alcohol, the vial of alcohol was secured inside a glass beaker which had a mirrored inner surface to allow repeated back-reflection of the incident beam of light. The effect of this was to expose the vial to a coloured beam of light such that instead of one passage through the alcohol vial, the light was recurrently directed through the vial greater than 1,000,000 times per second. This literally bathed the alcohol in the selected colour for the full half hour duration of the exposure.
The alcohol used for the exposure had previously been stored in opaque containers and subsequently in darkened glass bottles so that minimal prior exposure to light had taken place.
The following diagram illustrates the apparatus layout: Click to enlarge.
The following images convey something of the actual colour effects and show the tube of alcohol being exposed through recurrent reflection of selected colours. The time of each colour exposure was 30 - 40 minutes.
Exposure of Blue, Orange and Green light
The resultant tincture, along with the first 5 potencies, was stored in masked vials to ensure that no subsequent light exposure would affect the quality of the remedies. Higher potencies are also stored away from light. The colour remedies produced in this way were Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple.
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