Picture-forming methods
When examining the quality of pharmaceutical starting materials, such as medicinal plants, the analysis of the ingredients is only one side of the coin. It is obvious that a connecting element between the individual ingredients and the plant as a whole is missing. This missing element can best be described as coordination or organisation of the ingredients, which is lost when the plant is destroyed. Unlike analytical methods, image-forming methods are based on a building principle and create an image of the sample under investigation. This image is considered to represent the unifying element mentioned above.
The image-forming methods were developed by the pioneers E. Pfeiffer (copper chloride crystallisation or copper chloride biocrystallisation and round filter chromatography) and L. Kolisko (capillary dynamolysis or rising image method) were developed to investigate the formative forces in nature. At the Society for Cancer Research, these methods are currently being used to investigate questions in the areas of basic research with potentised substances as well as medicinal plant quality in connection with the use of biodynamic preparations in special constellations.
