Image forming method

Capillary dynamolysis according to Lili Kolisko.

Image forming methods are procedures for the quality representation of organic material, water and aqueous solutions and mixtures. The analysis of the ingredients (analytics) of foodstuffs only partially covers the quality. Their "vital quality", "vitality" or "inner quality" can be assessed by imaging methods. These image-creating methods are not to be confused with the imaging methods that are usually used in technology and medicine to depict the inner physical structures of the organism or technical products.

The best known imaging methods are the capillary dynamolysis of Lili Kolisko and Rudolf Hauschka (Wala), the copper chloride crystallisation of Ehrenfied Pfeiffer, and the round filter chromatogram, which were developed on the basis of questions that go back to Rudolf Steiner.

The principle of these examination methods is to add a sample to a system in which a structure-forming process takes place due to an instability inherent to the system (non-equilibrium system). The resulting structures are evaluated according to morphological criteria (in the case of copper chloride crystallisation, for example, type, number and order of the branches, properties of the texture that can be measured with computer image analysis) and assessed with regard to the object of investigation.

The majority of image forming methods are not scientifically recognised, but some have gained limited importance in the food industry (natural foods) and for water analysis (drip image method).

See also

• Copper chloride crystallisation
• Round filter chromatogram
• Capillary dynamolysis
• Drip image method

Literature

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