More and more people are interested in their personal fulfillment and in natural treatments that help them find a greater physical and mental balance without being harmful.
It is what explains that bach flower therapy remain more current than ever despite having been developed in the thirties the last century.
In recent years its diffusion has not stopped growing: it is enough to verify that more than 150 books have been published in Spanish on the subject.
This popularity has been further reinforced by the recognition of this alternative medicine by the World Health Organization since 1993 and because currently in our country these remedies are sold in pharmacies, apart from herbalists and establishments specialized in natural products.
In Switzerland, Austria and Germany, Bach flowers have been accepted by the health system for years and in Cuba since 1998 they are also considered one more medicine from the public health system.
All this has given rise to a increasing amount of previously non-existent, which have contributed to .
Dr Edward Bach (1886-1936)for whom disease was not “material in its origin but the result of a conflict between the soul and the mind”, affirmed that each of the almost forty flowers that make up your system has a analogous energy pattern or vibration to the vibratory pattern of a certain virtue or positive tendency of the personality.
The energetic pattern of the flower, when it is incorporated into the organism, acts by resonance and stimulates that positive tendency of the personality, inducing the healing process.
How is energy transferred?
Therefore, Bach flower remedies do not influence through a biochemical active ingredientsuch as allopathic medicines or phytotherapy.
Similar to homeopathy, provide energy information capable of harmonizing an imbalanced system, something like an intelligent tuning fork that would make the subtle bodies resonate and tune.
Twenty of the remedies of Dr. Bach are prepared by solarization (the freshly collected flowers are exposed to the sun in a bowl with spring water for four to six hours) and eighteen othersmade with bushier plants or that are collected before the hot season, They are obtained by boiling.
Both methods achieve a volume of liquid that It is preserved in another amount of cognac as a mother tincture.
With two drops of that tincture per 30 ml of cognac the stock is prepared, which is the amber-colored bottle that can be purchased in pharmacies and other establishments.
Stephan Ballwho left his job as a specialist in educational software development to dedicate himself entirely to advising on the use of Bach flower remedies, helps to prepare today’s base tinctures with which the 38 original remedies that are distributed throughout the world are made.
it does from the same garden in which Dr. Bach did it in his last years, in the Mount Vernon Bach Center (England).
He explains that, although these remedies are increasingly widespread and implanted due to their proven beneficial effects, are still controversial for science because conventional laboratory analyzes find nothing more than water and brandy in floral preparations. It is the same as with homeopathy: that no traces left.
“We believe that some energy from the plant is transferred to the wateras different studies with Kirlian photography have shown”, explains Stephan Ball.
In these studies, photographs capture how an electrical current is transmitted through the liquid and reveal that each of the remedies has a different color and drawingsomething that does not happen with water and alcohol control tests without essences.
“We believe that this energy somehow connects with the energy of the person and does not inhibit emotions, but rather enhance its positive partincreasing the person’s ability to assume them,” concludes Ball.
Ricardo Orozcodoctor, flower therapist and president of Sedibac (Society for the Study and Diffusion of Doctor Bach Therapy in Catalonia), defines Bach flowers as “liquid emotional intelligence”.
In the words of Dr. Orozco, “the information that catalyzes helps us to be more aware. Above all, they help to unearth and develop resources to improve our perceptions and actions in everyday life. At the same time, many flowers operate very directly in the field of anxiety and the stress that generates it, and offer quick relief. On the other hand, they constitute excellent preventative therapysince, by helping to modify certain behavior patterns and to correct many distorted beliefs, thoughts and feelings, can keep us away from most diseasesor at least can improve them”.
What flowers are used?
Doctor Bach classified flowers into seven categories or emotional states. The key to choosing the most appropriate one is to recognize what it feels like.
1. For those who feel lonely
- Heather (Heather): for people who constantly demand the attention of others and who are difficult to part with. They continually talk about themselves and their problems.
- Impatiens (impatience): for those who are impatient and irritable with the limitations of others. Prone to nervous tension and hyperactivity.
- Water Violet (water violet): For those who like to be alone and who carry sorrow and pain in silence.
2. For overworry
- I came (vine): for leaders who, although effective in emergencies, act dictatorially and dominate others.
- Vervain (verbena): for strong, enthusiastic and excitable personalities. They rarely change their minds and insist that others convert to their creed.
- Beech (beech): for critical, intolerant, irritable and fault-finding people. They can be cynical, unfriendly, uptight, and strict with others.
- Chicory (chicory): For people who are possessive, controlling and excessively concerned with directing the lives of their loved ones.
- Rock Water (rock water): for strict people who repress themselves and govern their lives by rigid and resounding convictions about “what is right.”
3. For hypersensitivity
- Holly (holly): for any negative state contrary to love: anger, jealousy, envy, bitterness, anger, violence, contempt…
- Centaury (lesser centaury): for people who are shy, kind, subservient and eager to please. They tie themselves to stronger personalities that tend to exploit them.
- Agrimony (agrimony): for those who give a cheerful image and lack of complaints but hide a great discomfort and inner concern. The procession goes inside.
- Walnut (walnut): for moments of change. It helps to break with the old and sets the pattern for the new.
4. For uncertainty
- Hornbean (leaf): for states of exhaustion, with fatigue and a feeling of not being able to cope with the tasks of the day.
- Gorse (gorse): for chronic depression, resignation and loss of will to improve situations.
- Gentian (gentian): for melancholy, skepticism, disappointment and negativity that fuels a sense of failure.
- Sclerantus (sclerantus): for changing, indecisive people, with alternating moods.
- Wild Oat (wild oats): for life and professional uncertainty.
- Cerato (ceratostigma): for weak-willed people who doubt their own qualities and judgments. They seek the opinion of others out of mistrust in themselves.
5. For discouragement or despair
- Larch (larch): for people without self-confidence and with feelings of inferiority, who expect failure and think that they will never achieve their goals.
- Oak (oak): It is the remedy for those who never stop trying what they set out to do, for those who never give up, and whose extreme demands on themselves make them feel exhausted.
- Crab Apple (crab apple): it is the cleansing remedy. It applies to both physical and psychological problems: acne, feelings of not being pure enough, physical complexes…
- Star of Bethlehem (chicken milk): for states of shock and grief. For those who need comfort or relief due to accidents or trauma of any kind.
- Willow (willow): for those who suffer any small adversity with bitterness and resentment blaming others and feeling mistreated.
- Elm (elm): for people who bear a lot of responsibility and who reach a point where they fear they can’t cope, feeling overwhelmed.
- Pine (Scots pine): remedy for self-reproach and guilt. The person accuses himself of assuming responsibility for situations that are not caused by him.
- Sweet Chestnut (sweet chestnut): It is the flower of the “dark night of the soul”. For anguished, desperate people with thoughts of annihilation.
6. When there is a lack of interest in the present
- Olive (olive): remedy for when we are physically and mentally exhausted. Applicable after prolonged illnesses, accompaniment of patients…
- White Chestnut (Indian chestnut): to face the circular thoughts, without resolution, that come to the mind over and over again and exhaust the person.
- Wild Rose (wild rose): for resignation, apathy and lack of interest, spark or vitality.
- Honeysuckle (honeysuckle): for people who live on their memories and idealize the past.
- Chestnut Bud: for those who do not learn from experience and repeat the same mistakes. They tend to be careless and inattentive.
- Clematis (clematis): for dreamy, absent people, indifferent to everything and lacking concentration and vitality.
- Mustard (mustard): for depression or deep sadness for no apparent reason.
7. For various fears
- Mimulus (mimulus): for tangible fears of known origin, but often unrevealed.
- Red Chestnut (red chestnut): for people who worry excessively about the ills of the world. They anticipate problems and imagine the worst.
- Cherry Plum (cerasiferous): for despair, loss of control, uncontrollable impulses, nervous breakdowns, suicidal ideation and obsessive fears.
- Rock Rose (rock water): for emergency, illness or sudden accident and great fears. Also for when life seems hopeless.
- Aspen (aspen): for fears for no apparent reason, sudden apprehension, fear of an invisible force, dreams…
Flowers or homeopathy?
Both homeopathic and flower remedies are virtually free of molecules derived from the parent substance, which is why do not develop toxic side effects.
In both cases its power depends more on repetition and frequency in administration than in the ingested dose.
However, between the two systems there are some differences: homeopathic remedies are prepared from animal, vegetable and mineral substances, while floral ones are made only with flowers.
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