Bach Flower Remedies - Introduction - What is Bach´s System of Healing?

What is Bach´s System of Healing?

He developed a natural system based on 38 flower remedies, made from plants, bushes, or trees. Each of the 38 remedies correspond to a specific emotional and mental state. 37 of the 38 are based on single wild flowers or tree blossoms. The exception is Rock Water, which is made from the water of a natural spring.

The philosophy is that all people are unique and distinct and thus when treating an illness the personality and mood of the individual must be the center of focus and not disease or symptoms of the disease. Therefore two individuals can have the same illness and symptoms but depending on how each reacts to the disease will depend on which flower remedy should be taken. He believed that physical health depended on the way of thinking, feeling, and emotions, and thus remedies should be prescribed in accordance to emotional outlook, mood, or temperment. The effect of taking the remedies is not to suppress negative emotions but to transform them into positive ones. This stimulates one's own potential for self-healing by freeing the physical system of stress and tackling the condition head on.

The remedies focus on the emotional instabilities and give strength to support the patients fight against the disease by first battling the depression, anxiety, or trauma which can further impede on the physical being. They can also be taken preventatively at time of anxiety and stress, thus protecting the physical being from illness.

Bach believed that tension, stress, worry, or any emotionally based cause has a detrimental effect on the physical being. The longer the intervals of emotional upset the greater the strain on the physical being which can eventually lead to a breakdown.

Why Flowers?

Life derives its energy from the sun's energy. Plants gain direct or primary energy from the sun and thus it is the most concentrated form energy possible on this planet. Although all parts of the plant can be used in medicine, it is the flower, the sexual part of the flower, that is the shortest lived and most sensitive to light that has the greatest concentration of the essential energy.

Why Essences?

Liquids are the most sensitive carriers of vibrations. A dry flower would lose most of its vibrational energy. Since humans are primarily composed of water, the essences are best absorbed in their liquid form. As well the body does not have to breakdown the liquid, and is quickly and easily absorbed.