By Philippe Mathelet
Gemmotherapy: use of plant buds
Gemmotherapy is based on the use of extracts from young growing plant tissues, such as buds and young shoots.
The founding idea is that young plant tissue carries all the information containing the full power of the future plant. It contains more genetic information than other tissues but also growth hormones, vitamins, minerals and sap.
Gemmotherapy was founded by doctor Pol Henry (1918-1988) and was developed by the French physician Max Tétau who gave it the name Gemmotherapy.
It is based on the use of extracts from young growing plant tissues, such as buds and young shoots. The founding idea is that young plant tissue carries all the information containing the full power of the future plant. It contains more genetic information than other tissues but also growth hormones, vitamins, minerals and sap.
The embryonic parts of plants also develop the production of amino acids, essential for the subsequent production of structural proteins and certain vitamins as in all growing plants.
For some plants, the active principles are present in greater quantity than in the adult plant. The energetic whole constituted by the gemmotherapy extract concentrates the active principles of the different parts of the tree.
One could summarise by saying that gemmotherapy uses the whole plant in embryonic form. Thus, the lime tree glycerine macerate possesses the sedative properties linked to the flowers but also the purifying and diuretic virtues of the sapwood. Similarly, the hawthorn bud has the properties of the fruit (action on the heart muscle) and the flower (action on the heart rhythm) and the arginine content is significantly higher in the blackcurrant bud than in the leaf.
Gemmotherapy is therefore interesting for its revitalising therapeutic effects on sclerosed organs and for chronic or more advanced pathologies.
It should be noted that some health practitioners combine plant treatment with blood protein analysis. Experience shows that glycerine macerates act on natural regulatory processes more than on specific organs and can therefore be considered as acting on the "systems" of the human body.
Gemmotherapy therefore has its place in the arsenal of phytotherapy and presents strong development potential in the coming years
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