Dr Edward Bach studied medicine at the
University College Hospital, London, and was a House
Surgeon there. He worked in general practice, having
a set of consulting rooms in Harley Street, and as a
bacteriologist and later a pathologist he worked on vaccines
and a set of homoeopathic nosodes still known as the
seven Bach nosodes.
Despite the success of his work with
orthodox medicine he felt dissatisfied with the way doctors
were expected to concentrate on diseases and ignore the
people who were suffering them. He was inspired by his
work with homoeopathy. So in 1930 he gave up his lucrative
practice and left London, determined to devote the rest
of his life to the new system of medicine that he was
sure could be found in nature.
Just as he had abandoned his old home,
office and work, so now he abandoned the scientific methods
he had used up until now. Instead he chose to rely on
his natural gifts as a healer, and use his intuition
to guide him. One by one he found the remedies he wanted,
each aimed at a particular mental state or emotion. His
life followed a seasonal pattern: the spring and summer
spent looking for and preparing the remedies, the winter
spent giving help and advice to all who came looking
for them. He found that when he treated the personalities
and feelings of his patients their unhappiness and physical
distress would be alleviated as the natural healing potential
in their bodies was unblocked and allowed to work once
more.
In 1934 Dr Bach moved to Mount Vernon
in Oxfordshire. It was in the lanes and fields round
about that he found the remaining 19 remedies that he
needed to complete the series. He would suffer the emotional
state that he needed to cure and then try various plants
and flowers until he found the one single plant that
could help him. In this way, through great personal suffering
and sacrifice, he completed his life's work.
Dr. Bach’s remedies are still
used today all over the world. And in fact Bach was not
the first to use flower remedies. The oldest know culture
to use flower essences are the Aborigines. The Australian
Flowers have been used for psychological, physical, spiritual
imbalances as well as emotional.
When a flower essences is taken orally or applied upon the skin it is said
to work its way through the circulatory, nervous system and the meridian system
where it interfaces between the subtle bodies and the physical body. In simplest
terms it allows our positive qualities to flourish thus removing the negative.
Ultimately healing can then take place.
For more information on flower essences
you can read “Bach Flower Therapy” by Mechthild
Scheffer and “Bush Flower Essences” by Ian
White. Or go online to www.floweressence.com.
