Salt body extraction

To obtain the Salt, the extracted plant material is dried and then incinerated to an ash. This purges the accumulated impurities and structural components, which protected the plant in its growing environment. They have served their purpose but are no longer necessary. The light gray to white ash we obtain is dissolved in water, filtered and the liquid is then evaporated leaving a purified white crystalline salt. This represents the Alchemical Salt, the true body of the plant. With the separation and purification of our three essentials complete, we move on to the final step of the Spagyric process, that of cohobation. 

Collagen is the most abundant and ubiquitous structural protein in the body, and it may be readily purified from both animal and human tissues with an enzyme treatment and salt/acid extraction (Li 1995). Collagen has long been known to exhibit minimal inflammatory and antigenic responses (Furthmayr and Timpl 1976), and it has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for many types of medical applications, including wound dressings and artificial skin (Cen et al. 

Occurrence. Brine found in Seades Lake, California is the only brine source where boron is produced commercially. Other brine bodies such as the Great Salt Lake or brine from thermal weUs at the Salton Sea have been considered but have not been exploited. Brines at the Salar de Atacama in Chile also contain boron, but it is not presently extracted. 

It was known for some time that even after the corticoids had been separated from crude extracts of the adrenal cortex, the remaining material, the so-called "amorphous fraction" still possessed considerable mineralocorticoid activity. Aldosterone (250), one of the last steroids to be isolated from this fraction, proved to be the active principle. This compound proved to be an extremely potent agent for the retention of salt, and thus water, in body fluids. An antagonist would be expected to act as a diuretic in those edematous states caused by excess sodium retention. Although aldosterone has been prepared by both total and partial synthesis, the complexity of the molecule discouraged attempts to prepare antagonists based directly on the parent compound. 

Observe also, thou who art a lover of this Art, that the salt that is gained from ashes has great potency, and possesses many concealed virtues. Nevertheless, the salt is unprofitable, until its inward substance has been extracted. For the spirit alone gives strength and life. The body by itself profits nothing. If you know... 

This I also say, that if the spirit of common salt be joined to the spirit of wine, and distilled together with it, it becomes sweet, and loses its acidity. This prepared spirit does not dissolve gold bodily, but if it be poured on prepared calx of gold, it extracts the essence of its colour and redness. If this be rightly done, it reduces the white and pure moon to the colour of that body from which it was itself extracted. The old body may also receive back its former colour through the love of alluring Venus, from whose blood it, in the first instance, derived its origin. 

The driving force of the transport of salts, proteins, etc., through the cell membrane from the nuclens to the body fluids, and vice versa, is a complicated biochemical process. As far as is known, this field has not been explored by traditional solution chemists, although a detailed analysis of these transfer processes indicates many similarities with solvent extraction processes (equilibrium as well as kinetics). It is possible that studies of such simpler model systems could contribute to the understanding of the more complicated biochemical processes. 

Tis not, that after what I have try d myself I dare peremptorily deny, that there may out of gold be extracted a certain substance, which I cannot hinder Chymists from calling its tincture or Sulphur and which leaves the remaining Body depriv d of its wonted colour. Nor am I sure, that there cannot be drawn out of the same Metal a real quick and running Mercury. But for the Salt of Gold, I never could either see it, or be satisfied that there was ever such a thing separated, in rerum natura, by the relation of any credible eye witnesse. (Cited in Principe 43)... 

Besides fhe application in chromatography, chaotropic substances are used for protein extraction, e.g., of recombinant proteins from inclusion bodies and for precipitation by salts or organic solvents... 

Decoction. A preparation made by boiling a plant part in water a boiled extract. Dental enamel. A hard, thin, transcluent layer of calcified substance that envelops and protects the dentin of the crown of the tooth. It is the hardest substance in the body and is almost entirely composed of calcium salts. 

Salt was one of Paracelsus tria prima. Like the other principles and the four elements of the alchemists, salt as principle took its qualities as well as its name from the material bodies with the same properties. In a fire analysis, salt was to be found in the non-volatile residue and extracted from the non-soluble earth by water. This real salt demonstrated the more or less universal presence of the salt principle in all such bodies. The presence of SALT as principle accounted for the body s solidity and resistance to fire. In its material manifestation, it was recognized by its solubility and its saline taste. 

The salts of the series are bright red crystalline bodies. They are soluble in water, neutral in reaction, and dilute mineral acids do not transform them into aquo-salts. The least soluble member of the series is the sulphate [(NH3)4Co (OH)2 Co(NH3)4](S04)a.2H30, which is prepared by heating hydroxo-aquo-tetrammino-cobaltic sulphate at 100° C. till it is constant in weight. The mass is extracted with water and the sparingly soluble sulphate collected and dried. The crude product so obtained is converted into the chloride and an aqueous solution of this then treated with a solution of sodium sulphate, when a crystalline precipitate of the diol-sulphate is obtained. It is collected, washed with water, alcohol, and finally with ether. It forms small red needle-shaped crystals which contain two molecules of water of hydration. 

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