A root page for Spagyrics: plant alchemy as a distinct branch of the Art.
Main idea
Spagyrics is the alchemical work with the vegetable kingdom: the separation, purification, and recombination of a plant’s principles into tinctures, essences, medicines, and sacramental preparations.
Core themes
- The vegetable kingdom of Nature
- Salt, Sulphur, and Mercury in plants
- Separation, purification, and recombination
- Tinctures, elixirs, essences, and oils
- Herbal medicine and alchemical healing
- The plant as microcosm of cosmic life
- The garden as laboratory and chapel
- Paracelsian medicine
Topics to expand
- The spagyric process
- Harvesting and timing
- Calcination of plant salts
- Distillation and extraction
- Tinctures and elixirs
- Herbal correspondences
- Planetary rulership of plants
- Spagyrics vs. mineral alchemy
- The alchemist as gardener and healer
Place in the Royal Art
This page belongs under Alchemy as the plant-based, medicinal, and nature-facing branch of the Hermetic Art.