- Spagyric tinctures use the whole plant so nothing goes to waste. (Herbal tinctures discard the biomass of the herb).
- Spagyric tinctures have 95% -100% full spectrum bioavailable medicine as opposed to 50%-70% in standard herbal tinctures. Because Spagyric Tinctures are fully reacted with minerals and esterified, saponified, etc; they are typically more efficacious and definitely far more bioavailable to the system. Because of the high alcohol content, they can be put immediately into the bloodstream, bypassing the digestive processes which degrade most herbal medicines.
- Spagyric "salts" iatrochemically react with the tincture creating long lasting effects in the human body. Many esterified substances, biosynthesized chemical salts (rosmarinates, caffeates, resinates, etc), and a bunch of other activated phytoconstituents are fully dissolved in ethanol. These are absorbed into the bloodstream immediately and start going to work. The liver enzymatically breaks down the ethanol first to acetaldehyde and then to acetate; each conversion reacts upon the phytochemicals in a slightly different way, enhancing the effects of the nutrients and allowing the full medicinal intelligence to last for 24+ hours of of one dose. Herbal tinctures only last at best for a few hours in the body.
- You only need 1-3 sprays or 3-9 drops under the tongue of a Spagyric tincture to get the equivalent of about 3 tablespoons of an herbal tincture. Furthermore, the phytochemicals present in herbal tinctures are usually very complex and not fully active and prevent full assimilation whereas Spagyric tinctures are less complex and are already fully activated. In this way, less is definitely more!
- Aurelian Spagyric tinctures do not degrade over time, in fact they get more "mature" much like a fine wine does with age. This is partially because our Spagyric tinctures have very limited water content, but also because as time goes on, minor iatrochemical reactions will still occur inside the finished Spagyric tincture for at least 50 years, contributing to the "maturing" of the Spagyric tincture.
- Spagyric tinctures are also Philosophically intact. Although we can explain the effects and superior bioavailability using modern science, Spagyria is inherently a Philosophical System of Medicine: it uses perennial ideas that outline the archetypal nature of reality. By working within the system of Spagyria, we are drawing on and activating these Philosophic principles within the individual and connecting the individual with the Source of All Creation and all its multitudinous subcomponents. The effect? A more holistic connection to ourselves, others, and all of Nature.
