She experimented with practical alchemy but is also credited as one of the four female alchemists who could produce the philosopher's stone.

[3] One example of this can be found in Basilica Philosophica by Johann Daniel Mylius (1618), where her seal is pictured alongside the motto: "The divine is hidden from the people according to the wisdom of the Lord".

Michael Maier, author of Atalanta Fugiens (1618), names her as one of the four women who knew how to make the philosopher's stone, along with Maria the Jewess, Medera, and Paphnutia.

[2] Jack Lindsay calls this discourse "the most imaginative and deeply felt document left by the alchemist".

The philosopher alchemist who contemplates their work is compared to a loving mother who thinks about her child and feeds it.

[5] An example of the imagery is the serpent eating its own tail as a symbol of the eternal return, called the Ouroboros: “a snake curving around with its tail in its mouth (eating itself) is an obvious emblem of unity of the cosmos, of eternity, where the beginning is the end and the end is the beginning".

It is believed that the drawing of these star symbols and the crescent shapes above them are a pictorial depiction of turning lead into silver.