Introduction to Bach Flower Therapy
Discovery of Bach Flower Remedies:
Dr. Bach, physician, homeopath and Bacteriologist discovered Bach Flower remedies. He stayed in Mount Vernon, in little house with a small garden in Harley Street, a part of Themes Valley.
He dedicated his life to discover 38 non-poisonous wild flower remedies. Each of the 38 remedies is co-related to a specific negative state of mind, personality trait mood or temperament that so often prove to be the real cause psychosomatically, in the breakdown of one’s physical and mental equilibrium.
Nora Weeks and Victor Bullen were two sincere people who supported Dr. Bach till his end.
Dr. Bach’s homeopathy knowledge of plants, his study of nature and essentially his great sensitivity set him on the road to discover his first 19 remedies. Later during the last two years after he had settled at Mount Vernon, he discovered his final 19 remedies. Bach flower remedies are similar to homeopathy in many respects.
Principles of Bach Flower Therapy:
Bach flower remedies form a part of alternative medicine. They comprise a therapeutic system that uses dilutions of flower concentrate developed by Dr. Edward Bach to balance physical and emotional disturbances. The psyche, formative for the organism, spreads any disorder to the physical body, upsetting its delicate balance and function. Long persisted-in psychological imbalances; specifically leave a deep mark on the body.
Psychosomatic medicine has developed from the close observation of detrimental mental/emotional effects of the body. These effects have been clearly demonstrated and categorized into different groups of diseases termed according to the physical expression of symptoms.
Parallel to the efforts, the English physician Dr. Bach realized that, the mind and emotions are responsible for the formation of chronic diseases in general, excepting those conditions arising from accidents, old age and degenerative defects. His goal was to identify the various mental/emotional states experienced by man and to find remedies that would address those imbalances. These remedies, by uplifting the mind/emotions, would prevent the development of physical side effects and propel physical cure in case of physical symptoms had become manifest. This work is unparalleled in medicine history, laid by Dr. Bach along a fascinating road of discovery, closely interwoven with the soul of man and the medicinal warehouse of Mother Nature.
The Bach flower remedies are prepared by exposing crushed flowers in distilled water to sun over a period of time or by boiling them in distilled water. The thirty-eight Bach remedies, prescribed according to mental/emotional indications, have been proven to have very good healing effect on mind/emotions and the body as well, and they are well suited for treatment of psychosomatic complaints. Other than psychiatric medicines that attempt to heal mind/emotions dynamics by chemically altering the psychological processes, the Bach remedies work according to homeopathic principles, influencing the totality of the person through subtle, vibration, or energy-related medicines.
By reaching the inner core, which is seat of the trouble, healing effects radiate through all levels of the human being, the chemical psychological level as well. Classical homeopathic medicine, discovered and developed by the physician Dr. Samuel Hahmenann in 18th century, can be added to the treatment to achieve further deep reaching cure, specifically on the physical plane as well. These remedies, indicated according to the totality of mental emotions and physical symptoms, works slightly different from the Bach’s remedies, but both are considered homeopathic healers.
How does mind affects body?
The relationship between digestions and emotions has also been established in psychology and psychosomatics and, of course, in homeopathy. One can perceive that the ‘gut reactions’ were identical within one group and hence also the bowel linings and bowel functioning within the abdomen which is the seat of emotion and individual reaction. For example, the abdomen typically expresses grief by numbing itself of the inner abdominal well-being; anxiety and nervousness by hyper motility of the bowels and increased elimination; mental rigidity by abdominal hardening; changeability of mind by alternating bowel symptoms; and sluggishness and lack of mental interest in a lax and slothful abdominal condition. The intestinal environment also represents the avenue of assimilating the world through nutrients and of releasing to the world through elimination. Whole psychological constructs can be built upon ‘behavior’ of bowels.
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