BACH FLOWER REMEDIES - NATURAL REMEDY

Bach Flower Remedies provides us with an ideal of health beyond the absence of symptoms. True well being comes from within. Like Hippocrates, Paracelsus, and Hahnemann, the discoverer of Bach Flower Remedies, Dr. Edward Bach(1886-1936) knew that good health depended on spiritual, mental, and emotional factors being in harmony/balance.

The effects of disharmony are shown by negative moods and thoughts that assail each of us at times. Bach understood that these, in turn, can affect the body, deleting it of strength and vitality by blocking the life force necessary to our existence at all levels. True healing — restoring harmony — opens up the channel for this vital flow of life. And interestingly, Dr. Bach astutely noted that illness is ultimately beneficial and constitutes a period of true refinement and purification.

Prepared from the thirty-eight flower remedies, flowers of wild plants, bushes, and trees, the Bach Flower Remedies do not directly treat physical disease, but help stabilize the emotional and psychological stresses reflecting the root cause. Bach classified seven stress factors - fear, uncertainty, insufficient interest in present circumstances, loneliness, oversensitive to influences and ideas, despondency or despair, and overcame of the welfare of others. Carried to the extreme, these emotions lower the body’s natural resistance to disease. By assisting the integration of emotional, psychological, and physiological patterns, the remedies produce a soothing, calming effect, thereby allowing the body to heal itself.

The following are some examples of Bach Flower Remedies and their uses. (The Bach Flower Remedies are not meant to take the place of emergency medical treatment - Please seek licensed physician)

FEAR:

ROCK ROSE (Helianthemum nummularium) for extreme terror, panic, hysteria, fright, and nightmares.

Mimulus (Mimulus guttatus) for known fears; for example, fear of heights, pain, darkness, poverty, death, being along, of other people, etc. Also for timidity and shyness.

Cherry Plum (Prunus cerasifera) for fear of losing mental and physical control; inclination to uncontrollable rages and impulses, with fear of causing harm to oneself or others, for example suicidal tendencies, or losing ones’s temper.

Aspen (Populus tremula) for vague fears and anxieties of unknown origin, a sense of foreboding, apprehension, or impending disaster.

Red Chestnut (Aesculus carnea) for excessive fear or over-concern for others - especially loved ones, for example; over-concern during their illness, automobile trips, etc., always anticipating that something unfortunate may happen to them.

Already prepared Flower Remedies can be purchased in stores (Sprouts, Whole Foods, Amazon) or you can also try making your own flower essence.