What is a Spagyric?

A spagyric is more than an herbal extract. They are a living ritual of transformation that mirrors the cycles of compost and the cosmos.

Spagyrics are herbal preparations that reunite all parts of a plant its body, its spirit, and its soul, after a process of separation and recombination.

The word spagyric comes from the Greek words spao (to separate) and ageiro (to recombine). This is an essential understanding, that plants hold not only physical healing compounds that we can identify through a phytochemistry lens, but also the plants lead their own spiritual and intellectual lives that are just as significant.

Spagyrics return us to wholeness, it is never about isolating or extracting. They are rooted in the Hermetic axiom solve et coagula (to dissolve, to reunite) mirroring how nature decomposes, transforms, and reweaves life through the never ceasing biogeochemical cycles that make up our glorious planet.

Spagyrics are ecological not just in ingredients but in philosophy: they treat plants, minerals, metals, shells and all things that are living and from nature as beings with body and spirit, not commodities. Making a spagyric is more akin to fermentation or gardening than pharmaceutical processing, and the process is accessible to all people. It is an ancestral lineage.

Each spagyric is created through an alchemical process that honors the Tri Prima the three essentials found in all living things:

• Sulfur (Acidic) – the soul, carried in the aromatic oils & VOC’s.

• Mercury (Neutral) – the spirit, held in the alcohol that extracts and preserves

• Salt (Alkali) – the body, mineral salt electrolyte aspect. Calcined from the ash of the plant’s physical form, then purified and crystalized.

These three are separated, and then reunited. It’s a process that echoes the compost pile and the stars: fermentation, distillation, fire and mineral rebirth.

See What is the difference between a botanical tincture and a spagyric tincture

Why Spagyrics?

In the spagyric process, compounds are created, extracted and reintroduced back into the medicine that creates a more potent tincture. Through our labors of love, we take all parts of the plant, while honoring the very real and important intellectual and spiritual life lived of that plant, and create true full spectrum extracts. We aim to provide a pH balance that is more aligned with your natural pH, allowing you to access more while your body does less.

Spagyric remedies are not just chemical balance but relational harmony. These preparations work not only on the physical body, but on the energetic and emotional layers as well. They are an offering both to the human taking them, and to the plant who is now carried forward in a new, luminous form.

From the earth, for your body.