The idea was a winner: his aqueous extracts – initially using rose petals – kept for many years without the need to add preservatives, as was previously the case.

Together with a team of anthroposophic doctors led by Ita Wegman, Rudolf Hauschka developed a series of medicines based on these aqueous medicinal herb extracts. The doctors using the treatment were so enthusiastic about its effectiveness that Hauschka opened a laboratory in Ludwigsburg in 1935 so that he could manufacture sufficient quantities of the new medicines. He named the new company after the qualities that play a key role in the rhythmic manufacturing process: Warmth and Ashes and Light and Ashes.

Even today, employees at the WALA plant laboratory still produce medicinal herb extracts – mother tinctures – using the methods developed by Rudolf Hauschka. The technique has since been included in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia for German-speaking countries. The mother tinctures are used by WALA employees to produce the homeopathically potentised ingredients for WALA medicines. Similar rhythmic processes play a role in the manufacture of essences and oil extracts that are used in WALA medicines, and Dr.Hauschka Skin Care and Dr.Hauschka Med products.

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