Image-creating method
Image-creating methods are experimental procedures in anthroposophy with which an attempt is made to qualitatively describe assumed essential characteristics and relationships of forces of objects of investigation. The resulting flow and crystallization forms should vary in their characteristic form depending on the composition of water, organic materials, plant sap or blood. In anthroposophical circles, the view is held that the analysis of the ingredients of food only partially measures the quality; the so-called “vital quality”, “vitality” or “inner quality” of food, on the other hand, can be assessed using image-creating processes.
Some image-making methods have been used for several decades using various techniques:
- The capillary dynamic rising pattern method according to Lili Kolisko ,
- the copper chloride crystallization according to Ehrenfried Pfeiffer ,
- the round filter chromatogram according to Ehrenfried Pfeiffer , and
- the drip image method according to Theodor Schwenk .
The principle of this test procedure consists in adding a sample to a system in which a form-forming (structure-forming) process takes place due to an instability inherent in the system ( non-equilibrium system ). The resulting structures are evaluated according to morphological criteria (in the case of copper chloride crystallization, for example type, number and order of the branches, properties of the texture that can be measured with computer image analysis) and assessed with regard to the object of investigation.
The majority of the image-creating methods are not scientifically recognized, but more recent work deals with the validation with regard to certain applications. Individual methods gained limited importance in the food industry ( natural food ) and anthroposophical drug and cosmetic production, as well as for unofficial water testing ( drip image method ). The imaging methods are not to be confused with the imaging processes of medicine.
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- ↑ Aumaporn Meelursarn: Statistical evaluation of texture analysis from the biocrystallization method. Effect of image parameters to differentiate samples from different farming systems . Dissertation, University of Kassel 2007
- ↑ Bernhard Johannes Kahl: Development, in-house validation and application of the holistic process biocrystallization for the differentiation of wheat, carrot and apple samples from different cultivation and processing steps . Habilitation thesis, University of Kassel 2007
- ↑ Aneta Zalecka, development and validation of the riser method for differentiating selected foods from different cultivation systems and processing processes . Dissertation, University of Kassel 2007
literature
- J.-O. Andersen: Development and application of the biocrystallization method . Biodynamic Research Association, Denmark, Report No. 1, 2001
- J.-O. Andersen et al .: Comparative study between biocrystallization and chemical analysis of carrots (Daucus carota L.) grown organically using different levels of green manures . Biological Agriculture and Horticulture 19, 29-48, 2001
- J.-O. Andersen et al .: Computerized image analysis of biocrystallograms originated from agricultural products . Computers and electronics in agriculture 22, 51-69, 1999
- J.-O. Andersen et al .: A refined biocrystallization method applied in a pictomorphological investigation of a polymer . Elements of Natural Science 68, 1-20, 1998
- A. Fyfe: The signature of the moon in the vegetable kingdom . Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart, 1967
- Dittmar Jahnke: Morphological typing of drop image tests and drop images . Morphological distinguishing features for the evaluation of water quality studies with the drop image method . Sensibles Wasser 2 , Herrischried 1993, ISBN 3-931719-01-4
- Bernhard Johannes Kahl: Development, in-house validation and application of the holistic process biocrystallization for the differentiation of wheat, carrot and apple samples from different cultivation and processing steps . University of Kassel 2007
- E. Pfeiffer: Study of form forces in crystallizations . Dornach, 1931
- E. Pfeiffer: Sensitive crystallization processes as evidence of form forces in the blood . Verlag E. Weise, Dresden, 1935
- Wolfram Schwenk (ed.): Steps to the positive characterization of water as a life mediator . Selected texts from 40 years of water research using the drip image method . Sensibles Wasser 6 , Herrischried 2001, ISBN 3-931719-06-5
- A. and O. Selawry: The copper chloride crystallization in natural science and medicine . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1957
- Martin Rozumek / Haijo Knijpenga: Image- creating methods - questions and potentials . Unabridged version of the final paper of a collaboration to form a judgment. With a selection of literature by Haijo Knijpenga. 2004 (PDF; 606 kB)
- Andreas Wilkens, Michael Jacobi, Wolfram Schwenk: The experimental technique of the drip image method - documentation and instructions . Sensibles Wasser 5 , Herrischried 2000, ISBN 3-931719-04-9
- Aneta Zalecka, development and validation of the riser method to differentiate selected foods from different cultivation systems and processing methods . Dissertation, University of Kassel 2007
Web links
- Image-creating methods from an anthroposophical perspective: M. Rozumek, Image- creating methods, questions and potentials (PDF; 606 kB)
- PDF brochure on a working group on cancer research with rising images and round filter images (330kb)
- Institute for Flow Sciences
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