Bach Flower Remedies

 

 

The Bach Remedies are a comparatively new science.  Dr. Edward Bach developed this technique for healing in the mid 1900's.  He was a medical doctor, bacteriologist, and a Homeopath who had his practice at University College Hospital in England. 

He started noticing in his practice, that the people who were coming to him for treatment for diseases had also confided to him earlier--in some cases up to a year earlier--about some emotional upsets and disturbances in their lives:  death of a loved one, marital split, run of bad luck, and so on.  He began keeping a journal as to when he first met a person who just needed to talk about emotional problems, and then again when they came back afflicted by some disease or illness. 

He would write down all the phrases used by his patients to describe how they experienced--in detail--the emotional problem.  He started to notice a pattern or correlation between a certain type of emotional upset bringing about a certain illness.  He very quickly discovered what many medical doctors are re-discovering today:  that the emotions affect the physical health of the body.  The emotional imbalance is, so to say, a precursor of any physical ailment.

He set out on a quest in which he spent 6 years (1930-36) roaming about in the jungles and ravines all over the world, searching for herbs which could provide simple treatment of man's ailments.  He ultimately succeeded in isolating 38 flowers which had intimate connections with the various mental symptoms or states of mind of his patients.  Remedies prepared from these flowers are called Bach Flower Remedies, and each remedy is suitable for a particular mental state of the person.

The real cause of the diseased body is when an imbalance occurs in the harmonious working of the trio--the mind, the spirit, the body.  Physical symptoms are only an external show of the mental or emotional disturbance within.  The ultimate purpose of the Bach remedies is to remove from the mind of the patient any obstruction which prevents his smooth flow of life--the harmonious working of the body by the spirit acting through the mind.

Many times things happen to us in our lives that we have no control over, but we can control our perception of them.  Most times they happen on the three levels of body, emotions, and spirit.  We cannot change what happened at the physical level for that is the past--history--facts.  But we can change how it affects us at the spirit and emotional levels.  Assign to the event meaning, a purpose, a challenge that you had to experience and overcome, perhaps to be able to help others who will go through the same challenge.  If you can change your perception you can change how it affects you emotionally and ultimately, physically. 

Bach Flower Remedies enable us to do this and it does not matter how many years ago the incident--or incidents--happened.  Correct the emotional disharmony as soon as you find it and you can forestall the physical disturbance before it has time to manifest as illness.  Sometimes when illness has already taken hold it can even be reversed.  Whatever your circumstances, these remedies will help you do what you have to do to make life less stressful, more livable and joyous. 

A good remedy to have in your first aid kit would be Rescue Remedy which is a combination of 5 remedies.  It is the remedy to take in the case of an accident, emotional shock, or trauma.  Each of the 5 remedies that constitute Rescue cover an element of the mental state of the person who is involved in an emergency situation.  These elements and their remedies are:
1. SHOCK--Mental or physical--and the after-effects of shock. 
  Remedy for this:  Star of Bethlehem.  It soothes, calms the nervous system.

2.  TERROR, PANIC--When there appears to be no hope, overwhelming, unable to stay calm,  unable to think constructively in order to redeem the situation.
    Remedy for this:  Rock Rose.  It provides mental strength.

3.  UNCONSCIOUSNESS--Complete or partial, fainting, coma, giddiness.
    Remedy for this:  Clematis.  It takes care of all states of mind which indicate a temporary loss of interest in the present.

4.  UNBEARABLE PAIN--In body or mind, when there is danger of the mind losing control over the actions of the body, as in uncontrollable anger, hysteria, suicidal thoughts, loss of control of one's senses.
    Remedy for this:  Cherry Plum.  It prevents mind losing control over actions.  Does not let impulse get the better of reason..

5.  EXTREME ANXIETY--Extreme mental tension, anxiety, and impatience caused by the situation in which the sufferer feels helpless.
    Remedy for this:  Impatiens.  It provides the necessary patience to wait and watch the process of the rescue effort as it usually happen as fast as humanly possible.

Remedy is taken a drop or two under the tongue every 15 minutes in emergency situations, and usually gives aid for all the above conditions.

 


 


 
 

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