Efecto de medicamentos homeopáticos en la germinación y crecimiento inicial de Salicornia bigelovii (Torr.)

Abstract

The effect of homeopathic medicines on germination and initial growth of Salicornia bigelovii (Torr.) was evaluated under controlled conditions. A completely randomized experimental design was applied with three homeopathic treatments, Natrum muriaticum 7CH (NaM-7CH); Phosphoricum acidum 13CH (PhA-13CH); Natrum muriaticum 31CH (NaM-31CH); distilled water as control (AD) and six replicates per treatment. The response variables were the percentage and germination rate, stem and radicle length, and fresh and dry biomass of aerial and radicle parts. An analysis of variance and subsequent tests were performed to compare means (Tukey HSD, P ≤ 0.05) when a significant difference between treatments was found. A significant increase was observed in all the response variables evaluated in all the homeopathic treatments with respect to control (AD). The variables with the highest response were germination percentage, with values up to 44% and stem and radicle length with 35% above the control treatment in plants treated with NaM-7CH. These results confirmed the positive effect of homeopathic medicines on germination and initial growth of S. bigelovii, revealing that agricultural homeopathy, particularly NaM-7CH, PhA-13CH and NaM-31CH treatments, is a viable alternative to optimize the cultivation of species since it increases germination percentage and stimulates initial growth.

New Age of Common Bean

“…An outstanding feature of the germplasm of common bean is its particularly high diversity [16]. It is grown all over the world in different local environments and climates, with extremely diverse cultivation methods, uses and range of environments to which it is adapted, which has contributed to the great diversity of common bean in terms of growth type, seed characteristics and maturity period [16,17], but unfavorable environmental conditions, especially drought and salinity in soils, affect its overall performance and reduce productivity and harvest but also consequently the nutritional value [10,18]. As a food source, it can help reduce global food shortages in the coming years [11].…”

Índice de tolerancia al estrés salino y análisis de crecimiento de dos variedades de frijol (Phaseolus vulgaris L. y Vigna unguiculata L., Walp.), cultivadas en un medio salino (NaCl) y tratadas con medicamentos homeopáticos

“…Al analizar el efecto de los tratamientos homeopáticos en la TC, se observó diferencias signif icativas (P = 0.0002) con respecto al tratamiento control (AD), con una mayor TC en las plantas de frijol que recibieron las dinamizaciones homeopáticas (Figura 2). Estos resultados concuerdan con los reportados por Mazón-Suástegui et al (2020), quienes observaron un incremento signif icativo en las variables evaluadas al cultivo del frijol tratado con dinamizaciones de Natrun muriaticum. Otros autores encontraron un crecimiento signif icativo en el cultivo de chile al aplicar dinamizaciones homeopáticas de Natrun muriaticum (Rodríguez-Álvarez, Morales, Batista y Mazón, 2020).…”