In 1930,
Dr. Edward Bach rediscovered
an ancient form of energy
healing using the vibratory
rate of plants and flowers.
Despite training in traditional
medicine and then homeopathy,
he had always believed
that he would find a truly
gentle and non-invasive
way to help people heal
and that this method would
reflect his understanding
that all things come first
from the mind. He believed
that attitudes and wrong
thinking are the true
cause of disease and that
to affect a real cure;
you have to correct the
underlying attitude. The
physical symptom is not
the focus, but rather
how the person feels about
the symptom or about the
rest of life.
To pursue his goal,
he gave up a highly successful practice
in London and walked the English countryside
from Wales in the west, to Norfolk
in the east where he settled for a
while and found the flowers that became
his 38 healing helpers.
With his extremely sensitive nature,
Dr. Bach could affect an attitude
and then locate the plant whose vibration
would bring him back into harmony
and connection with Divine Mind. He
developed the sun method of transferring
the plant vibration into water. This
method consists of placing the plant
material into a glass bowl filled
with spring water and leaving it in
the sun for a day. The plant material
is then removed and the water preserved
by adding a small amount of brandy.
These tinctures could now be used
in drops placed directly under the
tongue or added to a glass of water
or other liquid to be sipped from
time to time.
Since the gentle power of the flower
essences work only on the mind and
emotions, they are totally safe to
use, even with infants and pregnant
women, and they do not interfere with
any medications. The essences can
be used on animals and plants, as
well.
Because it is
an energy medicine, the amount used
is not the determining factor. It
is rather the frequency of use that
causes the shift. For example, 5
drops into a glass of water sipped
occasionally and repeated several
times a day is more effective than
20 drops taken at one time.
With a passing attitude or condition, even one dose may be sufficient to cause
a cessation of mental, emotional
and physical disharmony. This is
extremely easy to see when someone
having a panic attack takes Rescue
Remedy. Within minutes, the symptoms
subside. Where there are chronic
attitudes and conditions, several
drops are taken 4 or 5 times a day
for however long it takes for the
attitude shift to occur or for physical
symptoms to ease or disappear. It
may take days or even weeks, but
shift will occur. Some remedies
are called 'constitutional' because
they address the kinds of thoughts
and feelings that are deep personality
traits and reoccur periodically.
Such remedies can be determined
by the astrological birth chart.
Treatment would follow that for
chronic conditions. Click
here to order your Astrological
Bach Flower Remedy Consultation.
You will need to furnish your birth
date, location (city, state, country,)
and time of birth if possible. You
will receive the list of flowers
in your constitutional remedy and
instructions for use by email.
THE
REMEDIES AND METHOD OF USE
Dr. Bach's own descriptions of the
disharmony treated by each remedy
can be found in the book, "The
Bach Flower Remedies" by Edward
Bach, MD and F J Wheeler, MD. Three
practitioners who have published their
own excellent descriptions and suggestions
for the remedies are Mechthild Sheffer,
Dietmar Kramer and Eric Love. Each
month, Astral Essence will publish
an article on one of the Bach Flowers,
so build your understanding by visiting
regularly. Click
here to read about the Bach Flower
of the Month.
In order to determine which remedy
you want to use, you simply read
the descriptions and give them a
rating from 1 to 10, based on how
they relate to your current experience,
with 1 being very little and 10
being very strong. Choose only the
remedies that you have given a 10,
9 or 8 rating. You can use up to
6 different remedies at the same
time. If you come up with more than
6, read them over again to determine
which 6 of these are the most important
for you at this time.
Once you know your remedies and
have obtained them, you can put
a drop directly under your tongue
or mix 10 drops of each remedy into
an individual bottle of spring water
which you can sip occasionally during
the day. Refrigerate if you do not
finish in one day or add a tsp of
brandy or other food alcohol to
preserve. If you have access to
a one or two ounce brown glass dropper
bottle, this can be filled with
spring water and six drops of each
remedy added.
If you are alcohol sensitive, add
the remedies to boiling spring water
so that the alcohol is burned off.
The remedies and books are found
in most health food stores and the
books are also available through
new age bookstores, major bookstores
and on the internet. It was Dr.
Bach's desire that the remedies
be completely affordable so that
every person could have a set of
remedies readily available for self
treatment. There are Bach counselors
who can choose the remedies for
you, but if you are willing to be
honest about your feelings and thoughts,
you can easily choose the remedies
for yourself. Empowering the individual
through self treatment was Dr. Bach's
wish, as he wrote that his great
hope was that one day people would
be so familiar with the remedies
that taking them would be a natural
response to a situation: i.e., when
cold, put on a sweater; when thirsty,
have a cup of tea, when frightened,
take Mimulus.
There are other flower essences
from different countries and they
are also very effective. Some links
to explore:
