Rescue me (Bach Flower Remedies)

Member Name: scattyredhead

Product:	Bach Flower Remedies
Date:	03/02/02 (1731 review reads)
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Advantages: Totally naturally

Disadvantages: As far as I am concerned there can be no disadvantages to Complimentary medicine and the like.

Several years ago whilst visiting my in-laws I walloped my shin on a table. I was very proud of myself and managed to keep my cursing to a lady like level!

As the pain subsided I was offered some arnica to take to minimise the bruising, I declined.

I knew a little about homeopathic remedies so it wasn’t fear of the unknown that led to this.

It was purely and simply that the person offering it to me wasn’t, well for the sake of dignity and self preservation shall we just say that she wasn’t my most favourite of people.

Bloody-minded and a touch childish I know, but there you are. We all have our crosses to bear and this particular woman is mine.

Several years later we were to meet again at a funeral, she offered to give a member of my family some Bach Rescue Remedy to ease their distress. Once again I declined for the person in question.

Not solely for the reason that it was she who offered it, but mainly because at that time I was of the belief that the human body is quite capable of coping with moments of stress and distress such as this.

I would rather the person concerned be able to deal with their distress with the love and support of my family and myself. And they did.

At no point did I refuse either medication because I was worried about any side effects, I knew enough to know that both complimentary remedies were perfectly safe.

Fast forward to last week.
I have been attending an Admin and Clerical course as part of my ongoing training to further my knowledge in this my chosen career path, of the moment.

It has consisted of one day a month sitting through various lectures, talks, discussions etc. Some have been very good, some have not been so.

Take the one on finance for example. Oh please do! Never have I been bored rigid in so quick a time span and to add insult to injury the two most boring people were sent along to do the talk
.

All of us on the course thought our finance department must be a bundle of laughs..NOT!! We also wondered what their Christmas parties were like??Ho hum!!

Anyway I digress, nothing changes then! The one I want to tell you about is the last one I went and I promise not to bore you to tears either, at least I hope I won’t! It was all about stress and well being within the work place.

I knew the trainer on this course on a professional level so I knew that I was going to enjoy it. I had previously been to see her at Occy Health as part of my migraine management programme.

Forthwith followed a thoroughly enjoyable first couple of hours discussing the levels of stress that can occur within the Health Service and how each of thought we dealt with, or not, in some cases our particular stress levels.

As the morning came to a close Ellen shared with us some of the products that she herself found useful in her working and personal life to help her deal with her stress.

Alongside lavender and tea tree pulse point products was a small bottle of Bach flower Rescue Remedy.

It was passed around the room for us to look at and have a quick sniff. Wow!!! No wonder this worked I though after my first contact with it at this level, it smells of alcohol! More on the ingredients to follow…

“Does it really work Ellen?” I asked.

I mean so many people are purported to use this stuff and swear by it, but I wanted to hear it from someone I trusted and someone I knew would be honest with me.

“Yes, I think it does.” She replied.

Despite the fact that she had said ‘think’ as opposed to a more affirmative answer did nothing to put me of wanting to sample it for myself.

See I am of the train of though that if you think something is going to work for you then it probably will.

There is nothing wrong with wanting something to happ
en as opposed to having negative thoughts, after all the human mind is a very powerful tool.

As you might have guessed by know by now it wasn’t long before I was the owner of a very small bottle of Bach rescue remedy.

It took me all of ten minutes to get to Tescos and purchase some that very day! Now all I needed was a stressful time for me to have it rescue me!

Whilst I was waiting I decided to do a spot of research on this product and headed straight for the channel health web site.

It may be that I will do an op on this site at some point in the future; it is wonderful, as is the TV channel.

www.channelhealth.co.uk

There is a whole page dedicated to Bach flower remedies and how they were first discovered. I won’t reiterate it all here, pop along and have a look yourself if you want to know more.

I will try to condense some of the bits that I found interesting, just to give you a taster, as it were!

They were developed by Dr Edward Bach around the early 1900’s. Dr Bach was a firm believer in treating mental attitudes instead of just physical ailments, allowing positive mental attitude to have a

“direct bearing on our abilities to heal our body’s problems and imbalances.”

His approach to Homeopathic medicine was holistic and way ahead of its time. As time wore on he began to wonder if the healing qualities of trees and plants might hold the natural key for

“anything that ails us.”

Over a period of seven years he “identified 38 harmless tree, plant and wildflower remedies that were prescribed to treat a patients state of mind.”

He divided his remedies into seven groups to treat despair, fear, insufficient interest in life, loneliness, uncertainty etc.

I was quite astounded to discover that there is more than one Bach remedy, believing that the rescue was the only be all and end
all one, not so!

There follows, on this site a long list of the remedies available and what ailments they can help.

Like what I said a short while ago, I won’t run off a great long list of them, but I will mention a few that I hope you find interesting, I did.

Cherry Plum…Fear of going mad, losing control or causing harm, violent temper (Mike Tyson obviously hasn’t heard of this then!!)

Clematis…Absent minded, dreamy, escapist mentally (this one must have been developed with me in mind!)

Impatiens…Self-explanatory?

Rock rose…Terror, panic (exam nerves??)

Star of Bethlehem…Shock (Rescue remedy contains this too)

Mustard…deep depression without reason

White Chestnut…Persistent thoughts, mental chatter (I have to get me some of this too!)

(Taken from Lisha Simester’s Natural Health Bible)

Interesting eh? If you want to read about the rest of them, and I can highly recommend if you are at all interested in this subject, go to the channel health web site.

Right as this op is about Bach rescue remedy first and foremost I think I ought to tell you a little about that now that I have given you some of the background information about Bach in general.

Now let me get the bottle out of my handbag and tell you all about it. It’s not a big bottle, at only 10ml but as you only need to use 4 drops a time it is going to last quite a while. Unless of course you are heavily stressed!!

It’s made of glass so I would advise putting it inside a small plastic bag if you are going to carry it around with you, as I do, inside my make up bag.

There’s enough junk in my handbag as it is without adding broken glass to it!

It contains 5x dilution of flower extracts of, Rock Rose (see previous entry), Impatiens (as before also), Clematis, Star of Bethlehem and Cherry Plum in
a grape alcohol solution. In fact as you will see most of the ingredients that I mentioned above!

At the start of this op I pointed out that Bach Rescue Remedy smelt of alcohol, now you can see where that comes from. It kind of reminds me of cherry brandy.

I remember the furtive sniffs me and my brother used to take from the bottle that my parents kept for ‘special occasions only’. Yes we did only sniff it!!

You can use it dilute by adding it to a small glass of water and sipping it or alternatively 4 drops can be placed directly on the tongue.

More ideal in times of sudden shock etc, I should think.

It can also be added to 30 ml of spring water and 4 drops taken a minimum of 4 times a day. No dangers of over dosing there then?

It does say, as with all medicines though that it should be kept out of the reach of children.

So…the thousand dollar question…does it work?

Well yes I think it does. I make no apologies for just repeating the words that Ellen used to me when I asked her if it worked.

I have only had cause to use it the once since I purchased it, which I guess is a good thing cos that means that I have had no real shocks or moments of trauma to contend with.

I was sorting out my Mums jewellery box the other day and I came across a letter that she had written many years ago when she was well, way long before she got ill.

It said something along the lines of who the jewellery was to go to in the event of her death and on the other side of the paper she had written;

“And no arguing..I shall be watching”..love always Mum, (with a smiley face at the end):o)

Just the kind of tongue in cheek thing that we knew and loved her for

Well that was it, I completely lost it for a while and no amount of calming down and deep breathing could alleviate my sorrow for some time.

After a little while when i
t had subsided to the odd sob and occasional hiccup I wondered then if the Rescue Remedy might help?

I opted for the four drops on the tongue. Some time later I felt much calmer.

Whether it was the natural passage of time that alleviated my sorrow or whether it was the Rescue Remedy that did it, I cannot say for sure, and I don’t care, all I know is that yes I did feel better.

One wonders if it is the small amount of alcohol in it that goes someway to aiding in the ‘rescue’? After all what do they say about giving brandy to someone who has just suffered a shock?

I will certainly be carrying my little bottle about with me, just in case, although obviously I hope that I will never have to use it for myself or for others.

What I do plan to do though is check out some of the other Bach flower remedies that I mentioned earlier on in this op, I rather think that some of the single flower remedies might be more suitable for myself on a daily level.

I won’t give the Clematis one a go though; I like being dreamy and love to escape ‘mentally’!

I could do with the White Chestnut, if only you could all hear what goes on inside my head!

“Shut up you lot!!!” (That’s to my incessant mental chattering, not you lot!!)

May I just end by quoting a small paragraph about Bach Rescue remedy that I found on the health site I told you about before:

“Bach Rescue remedy: A combination of cherry plum, clematis, impatiens, rock rose and star of Bethlehem used for shock, trauma, emergencies, first aid external and internal.”

The external bit surprised me, I did not know that and will be doing some more investigating into that.

In the meantime I will update this op should I need to use the Rescue remedy again and let you know of anything else that comes to light that I think you might find interesting.

I do ho
pe that you have enjoyed reading this op and have learned something about this stuff. I know that I enjoyed reading and researching it.

I think I have discovered a subject that is going to become very interesting to me. Now how the hell am I going to shut up those voices!! Ahhh I know!!!……..

Thanks for reading.
Kazz xxxx

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