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Flower Essence FAQ
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The following are some common questions and answers about flower essences. If your question is not answered here, please contact us.
What are flower essences?
How are they used as a healing modality?
What is the origin and history of flower essences?
How can only 4 to 7 drops of a remedy do so much?
Some say the remedies have a placebo effect- is that true?
Are they habit forming. Do they have side effects?
Edward Bach: The healing force behind flower essences.
A few good quotes
The wonder of nature and the healing properties of flowers and plants
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What are flower essences?
The Flower Remedies - a simple and natural method of establishing equilibrium and harmony through the personality by means of non-poisonous wild flowers, discovered by Edward Bach. They are benign in their action and result in no unpleasant reactions. They can be taken by person of all ages and there is no danger of an overdose or side effects, and they have proved to be very effective for animals and plant life.
Nature provides the air we breathe, the food we eat, the very essence of life itself- so who can deny that it must also provide the means to make us well! We must not forget that nearly all forms of medicine are derived originally from plant life - so there should be nothing odd or strange to behold in the healing quality of wild flowers.
The Flower Essences bring into the body the higher vibrations of the sun now present in the flowers and so bathing our bodies with the essences of the flowers and their very high vibrations. The body thrills to their presence, the cells themselves bathing in the flower's solar vibrations.
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How are they used as a healing modality?
"The action of these Remedies is to raise our vibrations and open up our channels for the reception of our Spiritual Self; to flood our natures with the particular virtue we need, and wash out from us the fault which is causing harm. They are able, like beautiful music or any glorious uplifting thing which gives us inspiration, to raise our very natures, and bring us nearer to our souls, and by that very act bring us peace and relieve our sufferings. They cure, not by attacking disease, but by flooding our bodies with the beautiful vibrations of our Higher Nature, in the presence of whom disease melts away as snow in the sunshine.
- - Edward Bach, in a lecture at Southport in 1934 (( also on page 62 of OWEB))
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What is the origin and history of flower essences?
Discovered by Edward Bach, the Bach Remedies - established in 1936 - act as a form of supportive therapy, and having proved themselves in this form for an unblemished 50 years or more, they are now in great demand throughout the world as a non-medicinal adjunct to various forms of treatments. They are therefore an integral part of the whole healing spectrum, not as an alternative or interfering vehicle, but as a very respected complement to many restorative treatments and therapies.
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How can only 4 to 7 drops of a remedy do so much?
It has often been said that the simplicity of this work baffles the professionals, and people attempt to look for something that is not there. Nature provides the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the very essence of life itself- so who can deny that it must also provide the means to make us well! We must not forget that nearly all forms of medicine are derived originally from plant life-so there should be nothing odd or strange to behold in the healing quality of wild flowers.
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Some say the remedies have a placebo effect- is that true?
No- this can be disproved in the successful use of the remedies on animals and little children. Often too, people in an extremely irritable mood or vile temper are helped successfully- and they certainly would not be receptive to any form of auto-suggestion.
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Are they habit forming. Do they have side effects?
The answer is NO in both cases. They can be taken by people of all ages and there is no danger of an overdose or side effects. Even should the wrong choice be made, no harm would ensue.
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Edward Bach: The healing force behind flower essences.
"In true healing the nature and the name of the physical disease is of no consequence whatever. Disease of the body itself is nothing but the result of the disharmony between soul and mind. It is only a symptom of the cause, and as the same cause will manifest itself differently in nearly every individual, seek to remove this cause, and the after results, whatever they may be, will disappear automatically."
"There are seven beautiful stages in the healing of disease, these are - Peace. Hope. Joy. Faith. Certainty. Wisdom. Love"
"We should strive to be so gentle, so quiet, so patiently helpful that we move among our fellow men more as a breath of air or a ray of sunshine: ever ready to help them when they ask: but never forcing them to our own views."
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A few good quotes
"We think that most aware people are convinced that life is composed of a Oneness - a unity of Higher-self, mind and body, and in obtaining a balance or equilibrium embracing all three, then the body (created as the most perfect healing machine) would be allowed to do its job properly. It is when there is disharmony that the door opens to allow disease, weakness, depression and so on to enter."
"Bach Remedies work on the mental/spiritual level and will not interfere with the curing of the body by other measures - they in fact hasten recovery by tackling the psychogenic aspect of a person's illness, which relates to the real cause."
"It is not the disease that is of importance. It is the patient; the way in which he or she is affected which is our true guide to healing."
"Dr. Bach, like Paracelsus, knew that if our spiritual and mental aspects were in harmony, illness could not exist."
"Disease is the result of wrong thinking and wrong doing, and ceases when the act and thought are put in order."
"True, hate may be conquered by a greater hate, but it can only be cured by love … If you listen to the teachings of Krishna, Buddha, or Christ, you will find always the teaching of good overcoming evil. Christ taught us not to resist evil, to love our enemies, to bless those who prosecute us - there is no 'like curing like' in this. And so in true healing, and so in spiritual advancement, we must always seek good to drive out evil, love to conquer hate, and light to dispel darkness. Thus must we avoid all poisons, all harmful things, and use only the beneficent and beautiful."
"Health exists when there is perfect harmony between Soul and mind and body: and this harmony, and this harmony alone, must be attained before cure can be accomplished. In the future there will be no pride in being ill: on the contrary, people will be as ashamed of sickness as they should be of crime."
OWEB pg 63
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The wonder of nature and the healing properties of flowers and plants
Nature uses the sun, water, and the earth and the air together with the living wild flowers. The plants grow and gain their food from the soil of their own choice, in the open air. The sun imparts the healing life force from the flowers into the water in the glass bowl, which rests in the actual field where the plants are growing.
One of the main virtues of the Bach Remedies is its absolute simplicity with people seem to find so difficult to accept. The flowers supply a need just as readily as hunger can be appeased with food. As Dr. Bach said, "I want to make it as simple as this: 'I am hungry, I will go and pull a lettuce from the garden for my tea; I am frightened and ill, I will take a dose of Mimulus, or whatever the condition indicates."
From time immemorial humanity has recognized that our Creator in His love for us has placed herbs in the fields for our healing, just as He has provided the corn and the fruit for our sustenance. Astrologers, those how have studied the stars, and herbalists, those who have studied the plants, have ever been seeking those remedies which will help us to keep our health and joy.
Plants - whether flowers, herbs, roots, or trees - have been in the business of healing humanity for as long as the two have co-existed on this planet. Now, after many years of gestation, this "Medicine of the Earth" is being offered in a most unusual, yet practical, fashion, through The Power of Flowers deck and accompanying book.
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