Agro Homeopathy

Ask the Plant Doctor – October 2011

Written by V.D. Kaviraj

Dr. Kaviraj continues to answer our questions about our plants.

Each month V.D. Kaviraj answers questions about plants and plant problems. Kaviraj is one of the foremost pioneers of Agro-homeopathy and author of the book, Homeopathy for Farm and Garden. Send your questions! (with pictures when possible -JPG or GIF format) to [email protected] with the subject “Plant Doctor”.

Dosing Plants: When I refer to treating plants with homeopathic remedies, this is the standard dosing procedure: Put 20 drops of a 6X potency in a litre of water. Succuss the bottle 50 times. Put this litre in the watering can, fill it up with 19 litres of tap water and stir. If the watering can is smaller, the amount of remedy put in must be proportionally smaller. Thus a 10 litre can needs only ½ litre and just 10 drops of the remedy. Apply the contents of the watering can to the roots of the plants to be treated.

Dear Dr. Kaviraj,

We’ve found a tomato plant growing on one of our unused balconies – probably thanks to a seed dropped by a bird? We’re happy to have it and want to plant it in a pot. Are there any homeopathic tips you can give us for growing a healthy tomato plant? I read that this plant needs fertilisers rich in phosphorus and potassium; of course, we don’t want to give it anything chemical. Would be grateful for your advice!

Thanks so much,
Firuzi Mehta


Hi Firuzi,

The best remedy for tomatoes is and stays Ocimum basilicum. Potassium and phosphorus can be enhanced through a single application of Kali phos. This of course requires a good potting mix which already contains those nutrients. The problem with the chemical variety is that a little too much of either will have the other one unavailable. In humans those remedies are friends with each other, but in plants they are inimical.

Dear Dr. Kaviraj,

On our property we have some dogwood trees and found white larvae with light brown heads. Our neighbor says they are Dogwood Borers. Is there a nontoxic solution to this?

Thank you

Gertie Frank

Hi Gertie,
The best remedy for borers of any kind is Thuja. Since the borer causes damage and poisoning, Thuja is the best, since it counteracts animal poisoning, such as we also find in vaccination, where the poison has entered the body. This is also the case with borers in trees.

Dear Kaviraj,

Soy productora de cafes especiales, organico, y gran dificultad poseo en el control de arvenses (para el caso malezas) como los pastos brachiaria, estrella, yaragua pues sus raices son invasoras para la raiz del cafe. Aunque llevo algunos intentos con aceticum acidum y citricum acidum, no logro encontrar resultados satisfactorios.

Gracias por sus aportes – Maria Teresa Mejia T Colombia’

“‘I am a producer of specialty coffees, organic, and I have great difficulty in controlling weeds (for weed case) and Brachiaria grass, star, because their roots are yaragua invasive to the root of the cafe. Although I have made some attempts with aceticum, citricum acid, I cannot find satisfactory results.

Thanks for your input

Maria Teresa MejiaColombia

Maria, I think the best is to use Juglans nigra, but you have to be careful not to use it on the coffee plants – they will also stop growing.

Dr.Kaviraj,

I am from Maryland in the United States. We have a pest from Asia known as the brown marmonated stink bug. Would the cure be the same as for squash bugs?

David Bauer

Hi David,

Yes that would be the same remedy.

Dear Sir

Divine Love from India. Would you kindly let me know if your book “Homeopathy for Farm and Garden” can be had in India on payments of Indian currency? If so, kindly advise me about the bookselling agents / their locations in India and contact numbers.

Thanking

Gopal Rajak

Hi Gopal,

The best way is to contact my publisher and find out if they have established a representation in Bharat. Here is their contact address:

 

Homeopathy for Farm and Garden is now available in a completely revised and enlarged edition with an additional 176 pages :

 

About the author

V.D. Kaviraj

V.D. Kaviraj is a Dutch homeopath, author, researcher and pioneer in Agrohomeopathy. He is also Vice President, World Homoeopathic Association UK Chapter. He has written textbooks on various aspects of homeopathy including "Homeopathy for Farm and Garden", which is now available in seven languages. The revised and enlarged edition with 376 pages has just been published : http://www.narayana-publishers.com/Homeopathy-for-Farm-and-Garden/Vaikunthanath-Das-Kaviraj/b8241

3 Comments

  • Dear Doctor,

    Tell me a remedy for the white pest that succumbs plants like hibiscus, papaya mostly…..we have lost so many plants…..tried some herbal remedies with neem as well….

  • Dr Kaviraj/ Plant Dr,
    Iso-teraphy – can a type of iso-therapy be used on farms?

    Can one take a soil sample ( sample taken on different places with problems on a farm ) and use that in a Radionics device/ Field Broadcaster as a “detox” on a farm to balance the soil?

    Can I make use of blood or urine or both to prepare an iso-theraphy remedy with cattle/animals for mastitis, trichomonas infection?

    Regards
    Tommie

    In a apple or citrus orchard experience low yields – van leave samples be use as a iso-teraphy in Radionics and Field broadcaster as a cure or to remove the blokage in higher yielding, healthier trees in an orchard?

  • Dear David

    I just wanted to let you know that I have bought, read and thoroughly enjoyed your book. I am a homeopath and feel drawn to agricultural homeopathy. I am instigating a practice on my farm which is non-arable. I do feel drawn to tree, soil and plant homeopathy and wondered whether you do lectures or other broader-based teaching?

    Thank you for your hard work

    Best wishes

    Mark

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