Bach Flower Remedies

The Bach Flower System was discovered by Dr Edward Bach a renowned homoeopathic doctor in the 1930s. His aim was to make treatment of emotional maladies accessible to everyone by a simple system of natural medicine. He discovered this approach by pure experience. On visits to the countryside he would contemplate beside or under certain plants and trees noting how these affected his mood. He came to realize that 38 different species encompassed the realm of human emotion or precisely the gamut of archetypal soul states. As each state has both a positive and negative aspect so each species manifests the ability to change the aberrant state with which it was associated.

With great diligence he perfected the practice of curing these disharmonious soul states and thereby returning the individual to a healthy state of mind all with the aid of selected flower essences. In order to capture this natural effect and make the healing potential of those plants available to others he developed a creative new system of manufacture. Ingeniously he discovered that by floating the flowers on a glass bowl of spring water in the sunshine the essence of the remedy passed into the water. In some cases especially less sunnier periods he used a boiling method for species flowering at that time. In both cases the resulting infusion was then preserved in brandy and used to make the Bach Flower Remedies.