NEUOFFENBARUNGThis nineteenth-century devotional text describes historical remedies. Please do not use these preparations or procedures as medical advice or in place of professional care.
[HS.01_005,01] For the third method, see that you obtain a salt freed from all mineral constituents, especially arsenic. Perfectly pure sulphur salt would be best, or in its place a pure sea salt, which would first have to be roasted until it gave off no more visible vapour and then ground to a fine powder.
[HS.01_005,02] This salt, like the sugar in the two methods you know, would have to be exposed to the sun’s rays for 2 to 3 moons (months), likewise in one of the dark vessels described earlier. Those of a dark violet-blue colour are best.
[HS.01_005,03] While the salt is in the sun, make sure that it is stirred several times during the day with a glass rod made expressly for the purpose. This stirring is necessary because the finely powdered salt may lie about two lines deep in the vessel in which it is exposed to the sun. The stirring must expose the lower particles of salt to the sun’s rays as well. When stirring, take care not to form too many furrows or heaps. If any form, as is often unavoidable, smooth them out so that the sun’s rays can act equally everywhere.
[HS.01_005,04] Once these kinds of salt have been sufficiently imbued with the sun’s rays for the time stated above, they must be kept, like the sugar of the first and second methods, in dark, dry vessels well protected from the air. In addition, they must be stored in dry boxes in the driest parts of the room.
[HS.01_005,05] If one wishes to use them in an illness, a special little spoon of gold or the finest silver should be made for drawing as much salt as needed from the vessel. The spoon must hold only as much as the volume of a small lentil, and that portion is already sufficient for an adult. Give children under fourteen only half, and children under six only a quarter. For the effect of this salt, especially the pure sulphur salt, is exceedingly strong and acts particularly on the bones, as well as on the teeth and hair. It is therefore especially to be used for broken legs. For if someone has broken a leg and it is properly set and bandaged in the usual way, it will be completely healed again within a few days of taking this salt.
[HS.01_005,06] If the fracture is very serious and the flesh and muscles adjoining the bone have also been injured, the injured flesh can also be helped externally with compresses of sun-exposed water or with the familiar greenish arnica ointment. But always mix one or two doses of the salt just made known to you into either the water or the ointment.
[HS.01_005,07] Even the strongest person must use no more than 1½ portions of this salt internally, and it may be taken only once. If taken repeatedly it would cause death in a short time instead of healing. For because it acts chiefly on the bones, it would promote their growth so extraordinarily that a person might become almost entirely ossified in all parts of the body in a short time.
[HS.01_005,08] Used properly, however, it gives the whole body the right tension and in time brings about a complete renewal of the body, so that after a year not a grain is left of the body the soul laboriously dragged about a year earlier. Even teeth a person has lost are replaced. The older teeth, however, may easily grow a line longer in the process. This is another reason not to exceed the portion, as it could cause trouble with the teeth.
[HS.01_005,09] What is set out here is the particular effect of this salt. Used correctly, it heals every bodily ailment just as the earlier remedies do, but great care must be exercised. With the earlier kinds no appreciable harm can result if, according to the patient’s constitution and illness, a larger portion is given at once or if in an emergency it is repeated after a few days. But this salt must never be given again until ten years have passed, and the portion must never exceed the prescribed measure.
[HS.01_005,10] The diet must be followed just as carefully as in the earlier methods. The sick person must, however, abstain from sour foods and drinks at least fourteen days longer than in the earlier methods. For this salt contains extremely potent specific constituents of the soul, which are also present to a greater or lesser degree in every other acid. Thus, at first, it would draw constituents similar to its own from other acids that had entered the stomach and body, and increase them beyond measure. This would ultimately have the same effects as if a double or triple portion had been taken at the outset.
[HS.01_005,11] This salt has yet another effect. If someone already near death places it on his tongue and his organism has not yet been too grievously damaged, he may recover completely, and in any event may prolong his life for some time.
[HS.01_005,12] As to your question about what kind of sulphur salt to use, let this be your answer. I know far better than all chemists and apothecaries that many preparations can be made from sulphur, and that many more than are known so far can be made and are called sulphurous salts. For sulphur, which is partly a mineral and partly a fat arising from the inner bowels of the earth, contains as many kinds of salts as it contains different mineral constituents proper.
[HS.01_005,13] All these, however, I do not call the general sulphur salt. What I designate as salt is the acid in sulphur. The acid, as you know it, is itself of two kinds, the familiar fuming brown kind and the purified kind, clear as water.
[HS.01_005,14] The latter is to be treated so that it crystallises, and these crystals are then to be freed by suitable means of whatever moisture remains.
[HS.01_005,15] After they have been dried as far as possible, grind them to powder with a pestle in a clean porcelain vessel. While grinding, add to one coffee-spoonful of this salt one quarter as much flowers of sulphur, as free from arsenic as possible, and grind it thoroughly with the other powder. This is then the very sulphur salt to be used for the purpose set out in this communication.
[HS.01_005,16] An apothecary or chemist can prepare the required sulphur salt in this way if he is willing to take the trouble. But anyone will find it somewhat difficult, because the crystals obtained from pure sulphuric acid are rather difficult to dry. Time brings about the drying best, by allowing the sulphuric acid to crystallise until the crystals are visibly solid.
[HS.01_005,17] A somewhat easier, though hardly quicker, method of preparing crystals from this acid would be the following. Take a glass dish with a flat bottom, preferably dark rather than clear glass. Set it in the sun, or in winter, which is admittedly less satisfactory, on fairly hot sand. Pour in just enough of this acid at a time to cover the bottom to the height a single drop usually rises above it, no more than a quarter of a line.
[HS.01_005,18] Leave this acid exposed to the sun’s rays. The sunlight and its warmth will draw the watery moisture out of the acid, and the bottom of the glass will visibly become coated with a very thin crust. This crust is the crystallised pure sulphuric acid. Pour more acid over this crust and let it evaporate in the manner just described.
[HS.01_005,19] If someone makes this preparation in winter, he must by no means choose a living room or an ordinary kitchen for it. He must have a small laboratory of his own for the purpose, because the watery vapours separating from the acid would have a harmful effect on anyone’s chest.
[HS.01_005,20] In other respects proceed as with evaporation by the sun. As I have said, this is far preferable, since the crystals are already saturated with the sun’s rays in advance and become all the stronger at the second saturation.
[HS.01_005,21] There are several other ways to make such concentrated pure sulphuric acid crystallise. If the acid is placed in clean, unglazed vessels made of good fired clay and well stoppered, crystals will soon begin to form on the outer wall of the earthenware vessel. These crystals are to be used in just the same way as those obtained by other means.
[HS.01_005,22] Obtaining the crystals, however, may be easier than obtaining flowers of sulphur entirely free from arsenic.
[HS.01_005,23] For preparing the crystals, entirely pure, white, concentrated English sulphuric acid is preferable, for it is prepared in its purest form in England.
[HS.01_005,24] The required sulphur salt could be obtained in a very suitable form in yet another way. But because obtaining it would require too many fairly costly pieces of apparatus and at least one to two years, I will refrain from describing this way of obtaining the very suitable sulphur salt in more detail. On a later occasion I will give you through the servant a specific description of it, together with the necessary drawing of the apparatus.
[HS.01_005,25] The third method has now been made fully known to you and its use shown.
[HS.01_005,26] Bear in mind, however, that ordinary table salt and alkali salts, whether derived from salt or from various plants, are quite unsuitable for this preparation. The former, namely table salt, contains too many coarse mineral constituents and is not even free from arsenic, while the alkali salts are too dissolving and sometimes destructive in their action. Only the salts already made known to you are suitable for this preparation.
[HS.01_005,27] Thus enough has been explained for today on this point to satisfy your desire to know.
[HS.01_005,28] Before we go on to a fourth method, I will add a little more about the third, in particular about the preparation vessels, which could if necessary also be used for the first and second methods. What I have to say about them is as follows.
[HS.01_005,29] If you can obtain any of the vessels described only with difficulty or not at all (that is, in this year 1851), you can have one made in its place, if possible of the same colour, from so-called papier-mâché, like the boxes known as snuffboxes. But the material should be fairly thick, very well baked and lacquered.
[HS.01_005,30] If the lacquerer cannot produce the dark violet colour even here (I am speaking of manufacturers in this city, Graz, whereas in Vienna, Bohemia, Paris and London it would be easy), black will do as well.
[HS.01_005,31] Black, however, has the property of being too indiscriminate in what it absorbs. It takes in everything that comes its way, wholesale. I therefore advise you, with black vessels, to let the sun’s rays fall onto the remedies below through a slightly bluish but otherwise quite clear glass fitted very closely to the vessel, instead of letting them fall directly onto the remedies that are to absorb them.
[HS.01_005,32] For the sugar preparations it would be best to attach the glass mentioned above lightly to the rim of the vessel with dissolved gum. Then at night or on days when the sun does not shine, you need only cover the vessel prepared in this way, with the remedy still in it, with a matching piece of cloth and place it somewhere dry. For the salts, however, a special lid must be made to fit the vessel exactly. A pane of glass of the kind described above must then be cemented in place of the top of the lid to form an airtight seal. For as you know, the salts must be stirred frequently. If the vessel has such a lid, which can be removed without difficulty, the stirring can easily be done. The vessel for preparing the salts would need to be lacquered twice as thoroughly and heavily as the vessel for preparing the sugar remedies.
[HS.01_005,33] Now that we have said this first, we can go straight on to the fourth method.
Source: Jakob Lorber, Die Heilkraft des Sonnenlichts, Lorber-Verlag, sixth edition, 1996. Deutsche Fassung dieses Kapitels.