Flowers That May Improve Your Health – Amazing Inventions

Flowers That May Improve Your Health – Amazing Inventions

By Mr. Ghaz, September 11, 2009

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Flowers That May Improve Your Health – Amazing Inventions

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In the late 1920’s a middle aged physician turned his back on conventional medicine in order to search for an alternative way to cure chronic ailments. He began to study plants, hoping to discover treatments that would not be harmful, unpleasant, or addictive.

That man was Edward Bach, and several decades later his gentle flower remedies are still used by devoted followers all over the world.

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Bach qualified as a doctor at University College, London, in 1912. For the next 16 years he worked as a pathologist and bacteriologist, setting up his own practice and laboratory and eventually formulating vaccines based on intestinal bacteria. These proved to be extremely effective in treating certain chronic illnesses and won Bach some renown in medical circles.

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Despite his success, Bach became more and more dissatisfied with orthodox methods of treatment. He began to investigate homeopathy, the medical practice developed by a German physician, Samuel Hahnemann, at the beginning of the 19th century. It treats a disease with the administration of minute doses of a drug that in a healthy person would produce the same symptoms as the disease itself. Bach was convinced that what was important was to treat the patient, not the disease.

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Unlike homeopathic practitioners, however, Bach believed that the mental state of the patient was the basis for a correct diagnosis – not the physical symptoms of illness. In his practice he had made the important observation that patients with the same disease did not respond the same way to same treatment.

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Bach abandoned London in favor of the countryside, where he began to observe his surroundings in detail. The result of his travels was the beginning of the Bach Flower Remedies – 38 tinctures derived from wildflowers.

Positive Thinking

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With his remedies Bach hoped to cure the negative states of mind that he believed were responsible for the body’s susceptibility to illness. By reversing the negative mood, one could cure, or even prevent, disease. In Bach’s view, complete healing came from within, from the soul itself.

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Bach divided negative emotions into seven main categories: fear, uncertainty, insufficient interest in the present, despondency and despair, loneliness, and excessive interest in the welfare of others. Bach made distinctions within each group, based on observations of personality types gathered in the course of his work. Each of his 38 remedies is designed to treat a specific emotion.

Bottling Nature

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To make the medicine, the best blooms of a particular species are picked, immersed in pure water, and left in full sunlight for a minimum of three hours.  The liquid is then bottled. The recommended dosage is two drops of tincture diluted in a glass of water or juice and sipped slowly. The duration and frequency of treatment varies, and if more than one problem exists, remedies can be taken in combination.

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In Addition, Bach devised a “rescue remedy,” comprising five different tinctures: star-of-Bethlehem, rockrose, impatiens, cherry plum, and clematis. The rescue remedy was intended as a form of emergency first aid to be used in all cases of “panic, sorrow, shock, terror, sudden bad news, and accidents.” Many alternative health therapists have advocated it for coping with childbirth. The remedy can be applied externally to the temples, lips, or affected part or taken internally.

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The effectiveness of the Bach Flower Remedies depends on accurate diagnosis – but in a way that stands conventional medicine on its head. Because the underlying emotional state is seen as the cause of illness, the same treatment can be prescribed for sufferers with complaints as different as asthma, alcoholism, and paralysis – as long as the patients display the same character traits.

Despite The Skeptics

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The publication of Bach’s findings in 1930 attracted considerable public interest, and many people traveled great distances to try the flower cures. Satisfied patients were convinced by his philosophy, and many case histories support the success of the remedies. Medical opinion remains one of skepticism, however.

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Although Bach died in 1936 at the age of 50, his innovative ideas have not been forgotten. Today the Bach Center still operates out of a country cottage in Oxfordshire, England.

No matter what people think of his philosophy, many remember Bach as a man with an intuitive understanding of human nature and a sincere desire to help people regain their health.