Bach Flower Remedies and Inner Healing
Only recently have I come around to the idea of Bach Flower remedies, mainly by necessity to help my patients. As part of a healing paradigm and practicing integrative, or what some would call holistic psychiatry, I tend to use many different modalities and think outside of the mainstream, conventional box of just using pharmaceuticals and therapy. Bach Flower remedies to me, are true healing remedies if done right, and can certainly be used as an adjunct therapy to everything else.

Bach Flowers:
These special remedies were developed in the early 1900's by a physician and homeopath named Dr. Edward Bach. He believed and practiced mind-body medicine and emphasized how both have to be treated for complete healing. He spent time experimenting with flower remedies and using plants in the aim of correcting and supporting emotional health for his patients. By the late 1930's, he identified 38 different flower essences, each from a different source and relating to different emotions. He then developed 7 different groups among the 38 remedies that are still practiced today and used all over the world. These seven groups are the following:
Orange: Face Your Fears
Yellow: Know Your Own Mind
Light Green: Live the Day
Purple: Reach Out to Others
Dark Green: Stand Your Ground
Pink: Find Joy and Hope
Blue: Live and Let Live
The remedies gently support the nervous system and the emotional state of the person by treating various negative emotions such as fear, worry, grief, and doubt by bringing the person back into balance and a more positive emotional state like joy, peace and happiness.
Dosing of The Remedies:
I suggest taking one remedy at a time and using only 2-4 drops several times per day. As I said before, Bach flower remedies are gently treating a fragile nervous system and micro-dosing to balance a negative emotional state. Now, we may do this alone, or in conjunction with other therapies including dietary management, supplementation, and medication, as needed. In elaboration of the term fragile, you may think of those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, multiple chemical sensitivity, chronic pain, chronic fatigue and those with mold exposure (biotoxin illness).
Bach Flower Remedies:
Agrimony: mental torture behind a cheerful face
Aspen: fear of unknown things
Beech: intolerance
Centaury: the inability to say ‘no’
Cerato: lack of trust in one’s own decisions
Cherry plum: fear of the mind giving way
Chestnut Bud: failure to learn from mistakes
Chicory: selfish, possessive love
Clematis: dreaming of the future without working in the present
Crab Apple: the cleansing remedy, also for not liking something about ourselves
Elm: overwhelmed by responsibility
Gentian: discouragement after a setback
Gorse: hopelessness and despair
Heather: talkative self-concern and being self-centered
Holly: hatred, envy and jealousy
Honeysuckle: living in the past
Hornbeam: tiredness at the thought of doing something
impatience
Larch: lack of confidence
Mimulus: fear of known things
Mustard: deep gloom for no reason
Oak: the plodder who keeps going past the point of exhaustion
Olive: exhaustion following mental or physical effort
Pine: guilt
Red Chestnut: over-concern for the welfare of loved ones
Rock Rose: terror and fright
Rock Water: self-denial, rigidity and self-repression
Scleranthus: inability to choose between alternatives
Star of Bethlehem: shock
Sweet Chestnut: extreme mental anguish, when everything has been tried and there is no light left
Vervain: over-enthusiasm
Vine: dominance and inflexibility
Walnut: protection from change and unwanted influences
Water Violet: quiet self-reliance leading to isolation
White Chestnut: unwanted thoughts and mental arguments
Wild Oat: uncertainty over one’s direction in life
Wild Rose: drifting, resignation, apathy
Willow: self-pity and resentment
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