Cohobation
Cohobation is a kind of circulation, only differing from it in this, that the liquid is drawn off in cohobation, as in common distillation, and thrown back again; whereas in circulation, it rises and falls in the same vessel, without ever being drawn out. For preparation of medicines Count Mattei relied upon the Cohobation process of Paracelsus by which Spagiric tinctures of all the plants are extracted. This process is also known as cold fermentation process.
From these spargiric tinctures of 113 plants Count Mattei prepared 60 combinations in 8 groups:
Scrofoloso group
Linfatico grooup
Angioitico group
Pettorale
Febrifugo
Vermifugo
Canceroso group
Venereo group
All these medicines are prepared in globule form,Besides these medicines, the other six are in liquid form and known as :-
White Electricity.
Blue Electricity.
Green Electricity.
Red Electricity.
Yellow Electricity.
Aqua perlapelle
Electro Homoeopathic medicine are administered as follows :-
In dry globules.
In mixture
Injections (Subcutaneous)
Ointments.
Compress.
Baths.
Douches.
Eye Drops, Ear Drops and Throat Paints.
Electricity can be applied externally. Red and Blue electricities are positive eletricities and Yellow and Green are negative electricities. These electricities are applied on the nerve points of the body, positive electricity on the negative nerve point and negative on the positive nerve point as per chart.
Electro Homoeopathy is quite harmless, unique, natural and scientific medical system, maintaining the utility of Od Force obtained from the vegetable kingdom based upon the principles of application of Law of Polarity, positive and negative relation between the proper remedy and living beings and similarity of medicine's strength with the ratio of organic function.
After prolonged research it is proved that Electro Homoeopathic medicines have maximum curative capacity to regulate the lymph and blood and also keep them purified. It also proved that no cell, no tissue, no organ, could possibly manifest its legitimate function without electrical energy. It is a fundamental principle of Electro Homoeopathy that the manufacture, transmission, utilization and discharge of electrical energy of living cells are responsible for metabolism of the body and also give us a rational explanation for all the phenomenas of life, health, disease and therapeutics.
Bottle with curved pouring pipe for cohobation at the Museo Galileo, Florence
In pre-modern chemistry and alchemy, cohobation was the process of repeated distillation of the same matter, with the liquid drawn from it; that liquid being poured again and again upon the matter left at the bottom of the vessel.[1] Cohobation is a kind of circulation, only differing from it in this, that the liquid is drawn off in cohobation, as in common distillation, and thrown back again; whereas in circulation, it rises and falls in the same vessel, without ever being drawn out.[2][3]
Cohobation has no corresponding process in modern chemistry, as it is not a useful process. Indeed, it is equivalent to performing the same distillation a number of times and does not increase the purity of the distillate or alter the residue any more than would be done by maintaining it at elevated temperature for the same period of time. The Dean-Stark trap does involve returning some distillate to the reaction flask: a solution is distilled and the condensed liquid is collected in a tube wherein water settles to the bottom and is drained out, while an organic solvent returns to the boiling solution. However, the process is not manual, most of the solvent does not leave the reaction flask, and the apparatus achieves a useful purpose (removing water from the reaction mixture). Circulation, on the other hand, is approximately the same as reflux, where a solution is maintained at its boiling point by condensing the distilling vapors and returning them directly to the reaction mixture.