Horn dung
As a horn manure (also preparation 500 ) is a so-called preparation in the biodynamic agriculture designated.
Manufacture and use
To obtain the preparation, a small handful of fresh cow dung is poured into the hollowed out horn of a dead cow. This is buried in the earth; the application is preferably carried out at full moon (in contrast to horn pebbles , which should be buried at new moon ). The cow horn filled with manure must now remain in the ground for a certain time. Then the contents of the cow horn are mixed in a bucket of water and sprayed by the farmer over a hectare of field.
Alleged mode of action
An effect of this preparation is asserted from the point of view of the doctrine of anthroposophy , which was established by Rudolf Steiner around 1924. The preparation is supposed to activate "the cosmic forces of the soil" and correspond to the effect of warm rain.
Steiner himself spoke at the fourth lecture of his agricultural course on fertilization on June 12, 1924 in Koberwitz :
"If we take fertilizer as we can get it, we stuff a cow horn with it and we give it at a certain depth, I mean about three quarters to one half meters deep if we have a soil that is not too clay or too sandy - the cow horn into that Earth. We can choose a good soil that is not sandy. You see, by digging in the cow horn with its manure content, we preserve in the cow horn the forces that the cow horn was used to exert in the cow itself, namely to reflect back what is animating and astral. Because the cow horn is externally surrounded by the earth, all rays radiate into its inner cavity, which go in the sense of aetherization and astralization. "
Cow dung contains a large number of microorganisms which, in principle, can stimulate the “smallest world” in a fine distribution over the soil, but which in high concentration represent a risk of infection for animals and humans.
From a scientific point of view, however, an effect cannot be understood.
See also
- Horn pebbles , a similar preparation.
literature
- Hans Peter Rusch: Soil Fertility: A Study of Biological Thought . Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-922201-45-8
- Alwin Seifert: gardening, farming - without poison. Munich 1971, ISBN 3-406-34026-1
- Rudolf Steiner: Fundamentals of the humanities for the prosperity of agriculture. Dornach 1999, ISBN 3-7274-6400-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The horn manure preparation 500 - the preparation box
- ↑ What are biodynamic wines? - Alnatura
- ↑ Blood and Beans - The paradigm shift in the Künast Ministry replaces science with occultism . In: FAZ , March 13, 2002
- ↑ GA 327, p. 99 f., Archive.org
- ↑ Dubious miracles from the cow horn. The press