WHERE DID THE BACH FLOWER REMEDIES COME FROM?

The late Dr Edward Bach was a prominent physician who practised for over 20 years in London as a Harley Street consultant and as a bacteriologist. Dr Bach gave up his practice in 1930 to devote all of his time to finding the Bach Flower Remedies.

He discovered and developed and utilised the flower remedies between 1930-1936. He believed and taught the basis of disease was to be found in disharmony between the spiritual and emotional aspects of a person. Whenever conflicting moods produced unhappiness, mental torture, fear or an abnormal giving up on life, they caused disharmony and lowered the body’s immune system and allowed disease to overtake the person.

“Health is our heritage, our right. It is the complete and full union between soul, mind and body; and this is not a difficult far-away ideal to attain, but one so easy and natural that many of us have overlooked it”. Dr Edward Bach

The remedies he discovered and perfected were to treat the emotions, moods and temperament of the patient. They were not aimed at the patient’s physical illness. After taking the remedy, the individual becomes more herself/himself and as their vigour increased they were able to draw from this restored well of inward spiritual and emotional strength to restore health. The person keeps on feeling better and better.


Thus the Remedies are complementary to any medical treatment and are not in any way in competition with them. Medical treatment works on the symptom/s of the disease whereas the Remedies work on the underlying cause of the malaise – the moods, emotions, feelings and mental state.


In order to treat a patient you must consider each person as an individual and each individual must be treated for their personal mood and need of the moment.


With this method of treatment you are not treating the apparent physical disease of the moment, as the physical disease will depart when the emotional and spiritual state regains a balanced condition.

As the mood changes, the remedy may need to be changed too. As the person is treated and becomes well, the physical disease disappears.

Dr Bach emphasised that the simplicity of this method should not prevent the practitioner from using these remedies. He believed there was simplicity in all creation.

“Take no notice of the disease; think only of the outlook on life of the one in distress” Edward Bach

My next post will be about an area of very serious concern for our children.

Good health

CC