Who Discovered The Bach Flower Remedies?

Dr Bach, M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H discovered and developed The Bach Flower Remedies. He studied medicine at Birmingham University in England, completed his training at University College Hospital in London and qualified as a physician in 1912. (His name is pronounced ‘Batch’ the Welsh way and NOT Bach as in Johann Sebastian Bach, the German way)

He became very interested in immunology working at University College Hospital as an assistant Bacteriologist. While he was working as a pathologist and bacteriologist at the London Homoeopathic Hospital he read 'The Organon', written by Samuel Hahnemann (the father of homoeopathy). Using the theory 'treat the patient, not the disease', he began preparing vaccines homeopathically.

He discovered that certain intestinal bacteria were closely connected with chronic disease and its cure and developed a group of seven vaccines from these bacteria which became known as the Seven Bach Nosodes. His methods were published in medical journals and recorded by the Royal Society of Medicine.

Although he continued his research at laboratories in Harley Street until 1919, Dr Bach had always been more interested in the individual needs of his patients as people, believing a safer and more natural way of treating the cause of disease should be available.

Dr Bach reached the conclusion that certain types of people reacted similarly to different illnesses and treatments. He developed a theory of types, dividing people into seven groups, each corresponding to one of the seven nosodes. He found that by prescribing according to his patients' reactions to their illnesses themselves, the diagnoses were more effective than those based on clinical examination.

The treatment, however, was still for the physical complaint, but he knew his work would not be complete until he found a treatment for the negative moods and emotions that were responsible for the breakdown in health in the first place.

It was the search for these new, simpler and more natural medicines that took Dr Bach out into the countryside. In Wales he found Impatiens and Mimulus growing wild. He returned to London, prepared the remedies and prescribed them according to the personality of his patients, with immediate and remarkable results.

“Health depends on being in harmony with our souls.” – Dr Edward Bach

By the 1930's, he had identified 38 basic negative states of mind and created a plant or flower based remedy for each one. It is the total and absolute focus on the mental state alone, which makes Dr Bach's approach to health so exceptional.

The Encyclopedia of Bach Flower Therapy

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