There's a remedy for all things. (Bach Flower Remedies)

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Product:	Bach Flower Remedies
Date:	28/07/05 (1220 review reads)
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Bach Flower Remedies

These remedies can be bought at the health shop individually or in a set and will cost you around £3 each for the individual bottles or around £35 to 45 for the whole set. They come in a small brown bottle which has a dropper for dispensing the dosage onto your tongue.
I have been using Bach remedies for years and swear by them, they are easy to administer and keep for months. A handy alternative remedy for anyone who is interested in a more natural way of treatment.
They can be used on adults, children, animals and even on plants. There are 38 different flower remedies and each can help the cure of different ailments.

Each remedy comes under one of seven categories, which are:-

Fear
Loneliness
Uncertainty
Insufficient interest in present circumstances
Over sensitive to influences and idea’s
Despondency and over care for the welfare of others.

The 38 flower remedies are in alphabetical order:-

Agrimony
This is used by the person who tends to hide their feelings behind a happy outlook and other people tend to think that they are always happy go lucky and that they have no problems when really this kind of person doesn’t like to open up to others and try’s to deal with things in their own way.
Agrimony will help this kind of person to focus and relax when they are stressed and to share their problems with other people.

Aspen
This is suitable for people who suffer from fear related things, not the fear of anything which can be seen like dogs, spiders, bee’s ect but from the fear of something uncontrollable. Fear which comes from no-where like anxiety, anxiousness, dread or panic attacks which if anyone has ever suffered from any of these is hard to explain where it comes from or why it happens. This remedy will calm and settle your mind and relax you when these attacks come on.

Beech
This remedy is most suited to people who are very critical of others who they consider to be foolish, they find some people’s habits annoying and can sometimes a bit of a perfectionist. They have high values and this remedy helps them to understand others and give them a different view to the understanding of other people.

Centaury
This is a great remedy for the kind of people who find it difficult to stand up to other people, they can be too eager to do what others say and follow the say so of others all to quickly. They find it hard to say No when asked for favours instead of saying what they think will often go along with the wishes of others so as not to make waves.
This remedy will help them to be more confident but not arrogant or bossy when dealing with others.

Cerato
This is useful for anyone who finds it hard to trust their own judgement, the person who lakes confidence in themselves. They can sometimes be over protective of others and like to feel needed. They like to be around family and friends but can sometimes feel overpowered which makes them fell emotional. This one helps them to let go of their inhibitions and helps you make decisions instead of to standing back and leaving it to others.

Cherry Plum
This flower remedy is for those who fear that they will or might go insane and believe me we all have these moments, when everything goes wrong and all you see is the black hole of depression looming then reach for this one, it will help to calm, focus and relax any panic which seems to come from nowhere. It is also good for people who have lost control in anger or are acting irrational which makes it ideal to take when PMS.

Chestnut Bud
This is for the people who tend to make the same mistakes over and over again, the ones who don’t seem to learn from the lessons in life but go about doing things which they know will land them in trouble or hurt from relationships.

Chicory
This flower remedy is for those of us who have an over mothering tendency, we fuss or tend to be over protective of our children. I fall into this category. It is also good for clingy children and children who find it hard to share toys and friends.

Clematis
The people who are most suited to this remedy are the creative one’s anyone good at art, music, or tend to daydream. They can lack concentration and often are in a world of their own. This remedy can help to focus them and give them a more concentrated outlook on life.

Crab Apple
This is great for anyone who feels as if they need to be cleansed, like when you feel run down after illness. It is also good for anyone with a compulsive nature.

Elm
This one is for anyone who feels that the responsibility of a family, work or friends is getting on top of them. Anyone who feels like they could very well pack a bag and run off to a new life and start again in different surroundings. It is especially good to take if you are going through a relationship problem or are not getting on at your job.

Gentian
This flower remedy is good for anyone who feels like they are depressed after not getting a job, or feel sad after a let down in something they have pinned their hopes on. It will help you to feel good about yourself again and get over the upset of your disappointments.

Gorse
This remedy is ideal for when you are in a mood of contemplation which you know will set you off thinking bad thoughts and get you depressed, it will nip things in the bud and help you to feel more positive.

Heather
People who are most suited to Heather are the chatterboxes in life, they are the one’s who like to touch you when speaking to you or get close to you when telling you something. They enjoy talking about themselves and might hold on to your arm whilst chattering. Heather can be used for the excessive person, the self absorbed or obsessive one’s. This remedy helps them to look away from their own issues and realise there are others around who might be in the same boat.

Holly
This can be used by anyone feeling jealous, hate, revenge or suspicious of others. It is ideal for dealing with anger and can help to calm you in situations which might bring out these emotions.

Honeysuckle
This is great for anyone who has a tendency to dwell on the past, like me who has had lots of bad experiences in my youth and have had to deal with trauma, loss of a loved one and other things which sometimes come into my thoughts to upset and make me feel depressed and find it hard to shake these memories off. This will help to ease the mind and help you focus on the here and now, get things into perspective and move on.

Hornbeam
This remedy can help to give strength to people who are finding it hard to deal with the day ahead. They may be tired after hard work and feel mentally exhausted, or anyone who gets the Monday morning feeling.

Impatiens
This helps people who are impatient and irritable, people who try to do too much at once and gat angry if everything isn’t going to plan.

Larch
This is also for the person who lacks self confidence, the kind of person who might say I couldn’t do that but wishes secretly that they could have a go. This will help to make them bolder and give confidence to them to try new things.

Mimulus
This is for people who fear the unknown, illness, poverty, living alone, travelling or death. These kind of people are often shy nervous or retiring. They feel uneasy with other people and tend to blush easily or stammer. This can be a great help in helping them to face their fears.

Mustard
This remedy is for anyone who suffers from the kind of depression which descends like a dark cloud, it can also help with anyone who suffers from S.A.D.

Oak
These remedy is great for those people who are fighters in life, the one’s who do not give up hope or give in to anyone too easily, whenever they feel unhappy or ill at ease with themselves Oak can help to bring them back to the right path of thought.

Olive
This flower remedy is for helping people who are exhausted or feeling drained, it helps to bring feelings of revived energy to those who feel they are lacking in enthusiasm from over work or mental fatigue.

Pine
This is for anyone who has feelings of guilt, it could be from something from the past or due to something more recent, but Pine will help to dispel the feelings and help you to move forward.

Red Chestnut
This remedy is for those who worry about their loved one’s, it could be that your children have moved away to uni or have just left home and you are still trying to adjust to the fleeing of the nest feeling, if so then taking this will help to ease your mind.

Rock Rose
This is great for fear or panic, when you feel as if your losing control of a situation, panic can be brought on by the strangest of things and taking this will help to ease the feelings of lack of control.

Rock Water
This is suitable for people who are strict with themselves or have standards to be upheld, the people who hate laziness or shoddiness. It can help them to become less rigid and more lenient with themselves.

Scleranthus
This is especially for those who suffer from emotional stress and indecision , this could be an emotional state which has been brought on by having to have lived in a stressful situation or domestic violence. The kind of emotional stress which has left you timid and uncertain of which choices to make for yourself. This remedy could help you to focus and take direction, as well as settling the mind.

Star of Bethlehem
This is a great remedy for shock, either from disturbing news, accident or a distressing sight. It is good to take following a bereavement as it helps the bereaved to cope with their grief and eases pain and sorrow.

Sweet Chestnut
This is good for anyone suffering from mental anguish or despair, if you have or are going through a divorce or romantic break up then this is particularly good to help restore your faith in mankind. It also gives you hope.
Vervain
This is for people who have strong principles and ethic’s for anyone who finds it hard to back down in an argument. It can help you to stay calm and see the other persons point of view and help to relax.

Vine
This is for the dominant person, the self assured and people who know their own minds. It can also be given to children who are bossy, demanding and aggressive, the children who are in danger of becoming bullies at school if left unchecked. Taking this will help to ease them into an understanding of the views of others and to be less harsh with people who are weaker than themselves.

Walnut
This is for the person who has difficulty with change, either settling into a new home or new job. This is the one I took when I moved out of the caravan and settled into a house, which was a strange environment for me and my family, but this helped us all to settle in and be happy with our surroundings. It can also be given to children who are having a stressful time of teething.

Water Violet
This is for people who are proud and positive, sometimes these people put up barriers against others and find it becomes a habit to distance themselves from emotions. This can help to break down that barrier and can help to make them more friendly.

White Chestnut
This remedy is for anyone tormented by worry or unwanted thoughts, it can help to restore peace of mind.

Wild Oat
This is for anyone who feels they have come to a cross roads in life and don’t know which way to turn. They are dissatisfied with their lot but don’t know how to make the changes needed to advance onto other things. This can help bring clear thoughts.

Wild Rose
This is the one for the drifter, anyone who lacks ambition or the willingness to change anything. They tend to say “ Oh well that’s life” whenever a situation arises which they feel they cannot deal with head on and tend to accept things instead of trying to change them.

Willow
This is for anyone who dwells on the bad things in life, they feel as if they have been dealt a wrong hand by fate, they are wrapped up in self pity and grumble a lot, they can sulk or moan when things go wrong and find it hard to look on the bright side of life.
Willow can help them to see the other side of the negative angle.

Rescue Remedy.
This must be the most used remedy of the lot. It can be taken orally or applied externally to stings, sprains and bruise. It helps to kick in the bodies immune system when an emergency arises, it can calm stressful situations like for those who are scared of going to the dentist, to the fear of flying. It can also be good for mental anguish and can be used on animals when an animal has suffered from a shock due to an accident. Plants can also be given this to help them to revive.
Rescue remedy is made up from Star of Bethlehem, Rock rose, Impatiens, Cherry plum and Clematis.


All of these flowers remedies can help in different ways, to give confidence, calm the mind, ease feelings of doubt and anxiety as well as helping with lots of other emotional and mental problems we all have to cope with on a day to day basis.
They are not a remedy for anything which needs immediate medical attention like a broken bone or internal damage but for the mental and emotional feelings of depression, self pity, fear, worry, negative thoughts and feelings they can help the person using them greatly.
I have found in certain situations these little bottles of flower remedies have been invaluable to me, family and friends.
Here are a couple of examples of when I have used them and seen them used and work.

The first time I came across the Bach flower remedies was in 1990 when my youngest daughter was two years old, we had gone to a party at a friends farm and other travellers were there in buses, caravans and live in vehicles.
It was around eight o’clock at night and my daughter was walking in front of me to one of the caravans we were going to stay in as it was her bedtime.
Suddenly as we passed one of the buses a Jack Russell terrier came flying out from under the bus and jumped at my daughter, it bit her on the throat and punctured the skin. I presume the terrier was only guarding it’s territory but it scared and frightened and hurt my baby.
I shouted and kicked the dog away and grabbed my daughter who was screaming in an hysterical way with blood dripping down her neck, I ran to the caravan and as I came in another traveller woman ran in behind me as she had seen it happen. She lay my daughter down on the bed who was now in such a hysterical state that no-one not even me could get her to stay still. The woman pulled a little bottle of rescue remedy out of her pocket and put three drops of the liquid into the open screaming mouth of my daughter, within minutes my daughter had quietened down and was sobbing. The woman spoke to her in a gentle voice asking her to lift her head up so she could see where the dog had bite her.
My daughter lifted her head up and we then saw that the bite was only a little nip which had bleed a lot it was not as bad as it looked, she cleaned the bite wound and gave her two more drops of rescue remedy and dressed the wound, gave her arnica and offered to give me a lift to hospital for a tetanus jab. Luckily my daughter was covered with a tetanus injection she had had six months earlier.
My daughter was now calm and had stopped crying, she sat up and I picked her up, I asked the woman what it was she had given her and she showed me the bottle of rescue remedy. I then went out the next day to buy some and have used it ever since. I was so surprised at the quickness and the way it had worked as my daughter was a real clingy child, she was shy and never let anyone but me, her dad and brother or sister pick her up. She always came to sit by me, would never talk to strangers until she had at least seen them for five or six times and got to know them, yet she let this complete stranger give her medical attention.
I was impressed.

Another time I have seen the remedies work is when my friend lost the father of her child in a car crash, her son was in the car and survived but is in a wheel chair. She was expectedly in a real bad mental state for quite a few years after but someone had bought her the full set of remedies in a kit and she took different remedies everyday to help her cope with the stress of looking after her son, the loss of her loved one and the bad days she had in her mind which were ever too often.
This helped her through and nine years later she has come to terms with it all and deals with it better, with the help of the remedies she still uses.

The remedies are made by two methods. One is through the action of the sun and the second is through boiling. It is mostly the flower heads of the plants which are collected and left in water for the healing properties from the plants to go into the water. The plants which are mostly boiled are the tree type plants.
The remedies can be taken by putting two or three drops of the liquids onto the tongue, they can also be taken in a cup of tea or other drink. You can take more than one remedy at a time but it is best to not exceed six remedies at a time. You can take the remedies for as long as you feel you need them.

I for one wouldn’t be without them.

Summary: Great little bottles