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Bach Flower Remedies and Inner Healing

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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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