Help, the winged beasties are coming (Dr Bach Rescue Remedy)

Member Name: thehonesttruth

Product:	Dr Bach Rescue Remedy
Date:	16/04/09 (100 review reads)
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About Rescue Remedy
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Bach flower remedies are widely available in health food shops, and even in boots. Essentially, they are dilutions of flower "essences" in a 50/50 mix of water and brandy. There's a huge range of individual flower remiedies, each with their own special area they help in - from depression and anxiety, to period pain. Each remedy is used either alone, or combined with others, to treat symptoms.

However, this review concentrates on Rescue Remedy , which contains a mixture of flower essenses.

These flower essenses are :

Rock Rose - for terror and panic
Impatiens - for irritation and impatience
Clematis - for inattentiveness and to counteract faintness
Star of Bethlehem - for shock
Cherry Plum - for irrational thoughts and lack of self control

It's designed to be taken in times of stress or anxiety, from common everyday situations, to full on emotional emergencies .

Rescue Remedy is available in most chemists, and cost around £4 a bottle.

A little personal history - why I needed this
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I have a phobia. I fear nasty winged beasts, that fly at me in the night, bump into my window panes and make sinister shadows on my wall. That'sright ladies and gents, the most terrifying beast known to man, in my opinion, is the moth! I once threw a rocking horse out of my back bedroom window because a winged beastie was sat on it, and I thought it might have laid eggs in the woolen tail.

With me being a bit of of a night owl, the moths love butting into the lamp on my desk next to the pc, batting into the bulb and getting in my way. Thanks to hypnotherapy, I can largely cope without getting wound up, but occasionally, the phobia returns with a vengeance, and I get short of breath, anxious, and sweaty. So I looked into something that might help me feel a little more reassured.

How its made.
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Rescue Remedy is made using a 70 year old method developed by Dr Edward Bach, and is pretty simple

The flower essense is obtained by steeping plants and shrub parts in boiling water . Its then mixed with equal parts brandy and water, and voila, it's ready to go!

Packaging.
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It comes in two kinds of packaging - either a spray, or a dropper. I personally always buy the small brown glass bottles with the pipette style dropper, as I find it easier to guage how much I am using .

The bottle is brown, with a distinctive yellow label bearing the Bach Signature, and has a chunky black lid with a rubber 'bulb' at the top. Unscrewing this lid you can see the glass tube that the remedy is sucked up into when the bulb is squeezed.

How to use.
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Its simple to use. Simply sqeeze the end of the dropper to suck up the remedy, and drop 4 drops of it onto your tongue! You can do this as often as you need to, whenever you feel yourself struggling to stay calm.

Alternatively, if you dislike the brandy taste, you can drop the remedy into a glass of water and take it that way. I tried this, and it tasted of nothing, so if you don't like the taste it might be a better way of taking it. Myself, I found the taste fine - just like a fruit flavoured brandy really! It does have a strong alcohol smell, and its a very pale yellow colour .

Effectiveness
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It's not a miracle cure - 4 drops isnt going to make your worries and anxiety vanish immediately and forever - but it does have a mild soothing effect, and calms me down a little when I'm starting to get panicky - enough so that I turn off the lamp, and the moth go's away for a bit. I don't just use it when my phobia surfaces - I use when I'm tired and irritable , angry , or just when I need an extra little bit of help relaxing .

It doesn't remove these feelings, but it makes them seem less important and easier to deal with, which at £4 for a bottle that lasts a good few months, is well worth the money.

Bach Flower Remedies Ltd
Oxfordshire
OX14 5JX

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