Phytoembryotherapy is a branch of phytotherapy that specifically incorporates plant embryological tissues (buds, young shoots, etc.) containing “plant meristem” cells – undifferentiated, fast dividing cells which contain the plant’s genetic blueprint and material. These embryonic tissues are rich in beneficial phyto-chemicals including: growth factors and plant hormones, enzymes, nucleic acids, oligoelements, and phytonutrients such as polyphenols and flavonoids. These embryological tissues are also utilized because many of the above mentioned components are lost in fully developed plants once chlorophyll is formed. These embryological tissues are also utilized because their energetic components are at their highest levels when they are harvested in the spring – the most active phase of the growth cycle.

Black Alder is a robust pioneering tree. It colonizes along the river's edge and protects surrounding trees from excess humidity with its radicular tuberosities that reach deep into turbulent soil to regenerate the terrain in which it grows.

 

The Black Alder bud is round and sticky, and mimics this signature of platelets in the treatment of acute venous platelet aggregation. It also has an affinity for the arterial capillaries and thus helps facilitate oxygenation.

 

This bud works well in the treatment of suppurative, inflammatory and subacute diffuse inflammatory conditions on the mucosal terrain. By this doctrine, Black Alder also helps with the resolution of painful hydrogenoid rheumatism.*