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Selecting remedies
Dr Bach wanted his system to be easy to use. Anyone can select and
take remedies without professional advice. You don't need special
techniques or mystical abilities. Here's what to do.
Physical problems
Suppose you are suffering from asthma. There is no Bach remedy for
asthma, since this is a physical complaint. So the first step is to forgetabout the physical problem. Instead of concentrating on the asthma,
think about how you feel emotionally, and about the sort of person you
are.
Similarly, when it comes to selecting Bach remeides you should ignore
any physical symptoms. They are not relevant to which Bach
remedies you need.
The remedies work on a emotional level. If you need help with a
physical problem you should consult a qualified medical advisor in
addition to taking Bach remedies.
Your current feelings
Start by thinking about the way you feel at the moment. Perhaps your
son is about to start school and quite without cause you are frightened
that he will be bullied? - Red Chestnut is the remedy for the fear that
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something bad will happen to loved ones. Perhaps you have been
working too hard and are exhausted? - this would indicate the need for
Olive.
Consult the list of remedies - there are only 38 - and see which ones
best match your current feelings.
If you do have a physical problem, consider how it makes you feel
emotionally. Do you feel frustrated, annoyed, resentful, discouraged,
resigned about the condition? Are you always thinking it about it?
Does it make you feel anxious?
As before, look through the list of remedies and find those that best
match how you feel.
Your personality
You could also think about your basic personality - the sort of person
you are underneath everything else.
Perhaps you are someone who tends to be quiet, shy and timid, and
doesn't like meeting new new people? - This might indicate that youare a Mimulus type.
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On the other hand, maybe you recognise yourself as a Vervain
person, full of enthusiasm and energy, and committed to justice for
others? Or you might be something of a loner, liking quiet pursuits and
your own company, reserved and upright? - That would be a WaterViolet personality.
Don't worry if you can't find a personality remedy right away, though.
The important thing is to select remedies for your current emotions.
Narrowing the choice
You can select up to six or seven different remedies in this way. Don't
worry if you make a wrong selection, because if a remedy is not
needed it won't do anything - it certainly won't make things worse.
Experience has shown, however, that too many remedies taken at one
time tends to lessen the effect. This means that there is no point
mixing all 38 to zap everything at once!
If you find you have more than seven or eight remedies in your mix,
you are probably including some that are not needed. Leave out any
that relate to feelings that are in the past, and any that aren't really
needed because another remedy is more accurate.
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For example, if you have several fear remedies in your mix - such as
Mimulus, Aspen, Rock Rose - it may be better to concentrate on the
remedy that most accurately represents the quality of your anxiety.
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Getting help
There is a full list of remedies on this web site; links lead to individual
pages on each remedy. We also have a guide to dosage.
If you need some help to get started, or if you get stuck and would like
an outside opinion, you can always consult a Bach Foundation
Registered Practitioner. BFRPs act as teachers and advisors, and will
give you the confidence to select remedies for yourself, and for your
family and friends.
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Guide to the remedies
Each of the 38 remedies discovered by Dr Bach is directed at a
particular characteristic or emotional state. To select the remedies you
need, think about the sort of person you are and the way you are
feeling.
For more information on each remedy in this list click the relevant link.
It might help to read some case studies first to see how they work.
Agrimony - mental torture behind a cheerful face
Aspen - fear of unknown things
Beech - intolerance
Centaury - the inability to say 'no'
Cerato - lack of trust in one's own decisions
Cherry Plum - fear of the mind giving way
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Chestnut Bud - failure to learn from mistakes
Chicory - selfish, possessive love
Clematis - dreaming of the future without working in the present
Crab Apple - the cleansing remedy, also for self-hatred
Elm - overwhelmed by responsibility
Gentian - discouragement after a setback
Gorse - hopelessness and despair
Heather - self-centredness and self-concern
Holly - hatred, envy and jealousy
Honeysuckle - living in the past
Hornbeam - tiredness at the thought of doing something
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Impatiens - impatience
Larch - lack of confidence
Mimulus - fear of known things
Mustard - deep gloom for no reason
Oak - the plodder who keeps going past the point of exhaustion
Olive - exhaustion following mental or physical effort
Pine - guilt
Red Chestnut - over-concern for the welfare of loved ones
Rock Rose - terror and fright
Rock Water - self-denial, rigidity and self-repression
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Scleranthus - inability to choose between alternatives
Star of Bethlehem - shock
Sweet Chestnut - Extreme mental anguish, when everything has been
tried and there is no light left
Vervain - over-enthusiasm
Vine - dominance and inflexibility
Walnut - protection from change and unwanted influences
Water Violet - pride and aloofness
White Chestnut - unwanted thoughts and mental arguments
Wild Oat - uncertainty over one's direction in life
Wild Rose - drifting, resignation, apathy
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Willow - self-pity and resentment
The original system also includes an emergency combination remedy.
Other pre-mixed combinations are offered by many remedy producers,
but they tend to be ineffective because they are not chosen
individually.
To get help selecting remedies contact a local Bach Foundation
Registered Practitioner.
Case studies
This is a selection of short case reports sent in by practitioners,
showing the remedies at work. Names and personal details have been
changed.
Ten-year-old girl
The other day I had a text book case concerning a ten year old girl.
Her mother came into the health shop where I work and practise, fed
up with the doctors response to her daughters constant tummy ache
and did we have an alternative.
I asked if her daughter was quite sensitive and she started saying how
nervous she gets with the slightest thing and how her schoolwork
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suffers because she has no confidence, and that she often has
headaches as well. She also said she was quite moody, very up and
down.
I asked if she was indecisive and her mother raised her eyes upwards
and told me that she has spent the last few weeks making her mind up
about whether to go on a school trip or not. It was driving her mad.
After a brief introduction to the Bach flower remedies she decided to
buy the 'rescue' emergency combination. I was itching to put together
a mixture for her but she was very sceptical. However, I knew she
needed others so in the end she left with a mixture of the emergency
combination, Larch, Mimulus, Aspen, Scleranthus and Gentian.
Two days later, her mum came back with a bunch of flowers for me,
saying how her daughter had changed overnight. After two doses thatevening she had slept well and the next day had come down saying
that she didnt have any tummy ache and that she had made a
decision about the school trip! And her teacher had come out at the
end of the day and asked her mother what had happened as she had
been really good at her schoolwork that day...
Ten-year-old boy
This is a case I like to mention when giving talks on the remedies,
since it illustrates the physical effects of being out of balance so
clearly. It is the case of a ten year old boy who could not get out of his
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home without having a bad bout of diarrhoea. This condition had
started a little after his father had an almost fatal car accident and had
to spend a couple of months in hospital.
I gave him Star of Bethlehem for the shock, and Aspen for his general
state of apprehension and dread. Chicory was his type remedy, shown
by the fact that he wanted his father all to himself, and was always
seeking attention and bossing his brother around. I also gave him
Larch to help him regain his confidence.
Within a very short time he started to feel better and was soon living a
normal life again.
New mum
I was introducing the remedies to a mum-to-be who was becoming
very temperamental during the last stage of her pregnancy. She lived
in a remote area and, at her request, I flew up to meet her.
This was Ps first baby. It seemed that she was very irritable with
everyone around her and found herself shouting and becoming
difficult to be with. Nobody could do anything to satisfy her and she
was in a hurry for the baby to arrive so that she could get on with her
life.
I felt that Impatiens was the only remedy needed.
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It happened that two days later the weather forecast was pretty grim
and it seemed that heavy snow was on its way. The hospital decided
that P should book in at once, otherwise it might have meant that ahelicopter would have to be used when her labour started, in order to
get her to the hospital.
Once she was in the hospital the staff there decided to induce the
birth. But each time the day came for the procedure to start another
mum-to-be arrived at the cottage hospital, in full labour, who obviouslyhad to be seen to first. Day after day went by and in the end it was a
full ten days before the staff could get around to inducing her baby.
How did this impatient, irritable mother cope with the delay?
Her family, the nursing staff, and P herself, were absolutely amazed at
her patience and good humour. She laughed each time another mum
was brought in, and she was pushed once more to the back of the
queue. They praised her, and she became a talking point amongst the
staff. She told them her secret - Impatiens!
Needless to say, P is now a Bach flower' mum and has the full set of
remedies at home. Her Christmas present last year from her father-in-
law was a beautifully crafted box for her remedies.
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Find out more about giving remedies to the pregnant family...
Recovering
An old friend called for help. Her 30 year old daughter, a new mother
and recovering heroin addict, was enrolled in a methadone program in
a rural area. It included going to the local pharmacy every day for her
methadone.
A new pharmacist took over dispensing to her, did not measurecorrectly and overdosed her. She left the pharmacy feeling very sick
and was taken at once to the local hospital.
We are experiencing major cutbacks in funding for medical services in
our area so there is not the time, compassion and technical skill that
there used to be. The idea is to treat as quickly as possible and
discharge patients, especially those with unsavoury difficulties like
drug addiction. Even though she was the victim of her recovery
program they fed her charcoal and sent her home.
She was still very sick and felt like she was losing her mind. Her
mother at this point called me and we put her on the crisis formula and
Crab Apple. In a short period of time she started coming down and
feeling better, and was fine by morning. Both mother and daughter
were very grateful for the remedies.
A legal case
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In August last year I took a holiday in Geneva where I used to live and
work for the UN. Friends in the UN agencies arranged for me to give a
talk/workshop on the remedies to about a dozen people. All of themwere English-speaking and some of them had been experimenting
with the remedies.
I took over with me lots of Bach information and had a wonderful
evening telling them all about the remedies. During the course of my
holiday I prepared many treatment bottles for friends and formercolleagues.
A lawyer in the World Intellectual Property Organisation assured me
that the treatment bottle I made her had saved her from a certain
mental breakdown as she faced what seemed like an impossible
deadline on a high profile legal document. She was so impressed with
the remedies that she bought a whole set and is planning to get back
to the UK to take a weekend course.
Indecision
A girl friend of mine was visiting me for a coffee and was in the
process of deciding whether to visit her homeland in Africa. She wascompletely indecisive. She has two children; organising to leave the
family for three weeks seemed difficult, but she really wanted to go.
She knew of the remedies, but had never taken any.
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During our conversation my youngest daughter got hold of a stock
bottle. She let it fall, and it broke. I cleared it up, mourning the
precious loss, and making a mental note which remedy had just been
killed. The smell of the alcohol filled the room, along with the essenceitself.
Twenty minutes later, after she had left, the phone rang. It was my
friend: Im at the travel agents, Ive just booked my flight!
What was the stuff that my daughter broke? Youve guessed - it really
was Scleranthus.
Wendy
Wendy had undergone a masectomy. For the first two weeks her
recovery went well, but then all of a sudden she seemed to lose her
appetite and her resistance to pain. She also felt lethargic and weak -
she couldnt even keep her eyes open to read a book.
When Wendy next visited her doctor the nurse who was changing the
bandages noticed her blacking out. She told Wendy not to give in and
said that there were some drops that could help her. She
recommended the crisis formula. Soon after taking them Wendy felt a
little better.
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She continued to take the remedy on and off for the next 48 hours,
whenever things seemed to be getting worse, and every time only a
few sips were needed to calm her and help her come back to herself.
Tom
Tom worked in a stuffy office with very little ventilation. As a result the
windows were often left open, even in winter. Tom sat with his back to
the window and seemed to have little resistance to the draft. He was
forever suffering from vague head colds, with tiredness, heavy eyes
and catarrh, but the doctor told him there was nothing wrong with him.
He was given Olive for the tiredness and lack of energy and Crab
Apple because he felt contaminated and full of sickness. Soon the
vague symptoms faded, and he reported that instead of collapsing in
an armchair at the end of every day he was able to keep going for
longer and get more things done.
Two children
There are two incidents that I would like to describe.
The first was a small girl aged three who came with her mother to theconsultation. She was peacefully playing with some blocks I gave her
while her mother explained to me what was going on in the family.
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All at once the mother told me she was intending to divorce the childs
father. Suddenly the little girl turned towards me and started throwing
up.
I took the crisi formula stock bottle and made her smell it and then put
a few drops into her mouth. She immediately recovered and her
mother took her to the bathroom to wash her. When they returned the
little girl was shivering and frightened so I put more drops on her
temples while I talked to her gently. Three minutes later she was
sitting on my lap, drawing as if nothing had happened.
The second case was a friend of mind whose two-year-old daughter is
always on the go. Despite her age she will not stop talking to us and
trying to persuade us to do what she wanted. (If it werent for the fact
that she was only two she would make a perfect politician.)
We were having a cup of tea at home while she ran and jumped
around us. She couldnt stop moving about and gesturing with her
arms. Suddenly, in a matter of seconds, the little girl stood up on a
chair and fell down, hitting her eyebrow on the edge of the wooden
table. When her mother picked her up her face was all red with blood.
I ran to the stock bottles, took Star of Bethlehem, and after her mother
cleaned the small wound (which continued to bleed copiously) I put a
drop of the Star on it. In seconds the flow of blood slowed. I put on
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another drop - her mother couldnt believe her eyes because
immediately after the second drop the bleeding stopped.
She looked at me in surprise and asked: Are you a witch? What
could I answer? I said nothing, and just thought: Thank you, Dr Bach.
Some days later my friend told me that her little girl was telling
everybody that I had some little drops that cure you when you hit your
head against something, and it doesnt hurt any more.
Sold!
On a recent air trip I was packed like a sardine into a large airliner that
barely gave one space to breathe. And then, to top things off, a baby
in the seat behind me was screaming non-stop, stretching the
patience of the already overworked stewardess in my section, and I'm
sure irritating the nerves of most of us sitting nearby.
Suddenly I got an idea. I called the stewardess over to me and asked
her if she had heard of the emergency 'rescue' formula. No, she had
not. That made things a little more difficult, but I briefly told her about
it, and asked her to see if the mother of the baby would agree to put
some on the pulse points of the baby's wrists. What did she have to
lose? She agreed.
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I explained as simply as I could about the remedy to the baby's
mother. There was a little hesitancy, but the screams of the baby
quickly made her change her mind, and she too agreed it was worth a
try. I put a few drops onto the fingers of the baby's mother, and shegently rubbed it on to the baby's little wrists.
Within a few minutes the baby stopped crying and soon was fast
asleep. I looked back and we exchanged smiles of relief.
The stewardess was 63 years old and had been on the airlines for 40
years. Jokingly, she called this the Dinosaur Flight. We chatted a
while, and she said that in the last few years a strange phenomenon
was occurring. She called it "Airline Rage". She said people were
more irritable, impatient, surly and angry, with an "in your face"
attitude the likes of which she had never experienced before. Babies
cried more and longer, and the things the stewardesses had to cope
with were beyond the call of duty.
I talked to her at length about Dr. Bach's flower essences, and
suggested she keep a bottle of the emergency mix with her at all
times. Looking down upon the sleeping baby she said, "Sold!"
Alison and Michael
Alison
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Alison and Michael were having counselling to help them through
some problems between them.
Alison was a quiet person who knew her own mind. She found it
difficult to handle his indecision and apparent lack of direction. She
was also becoming quite insecure and threatened by people on the
edge of her space - children playing outside the house were getting to
her. And getting up in the morning to go to a job she didn't enjoy any
more was becoming a real burden.
Alison described herself as totally self-reliant and said she had always
been a loner. Yet she had always worked in fashion retail - a field
requiring constant interaction with other people. She had been given
her own shop, and was very good at her job. Her colleagues thought
that she was very energetic and a real live wire.
The conversation revealed quite a conflict between the two people
inside her - the quiet, self-reliant Alison who needed her own space
and became unhappy if she couldnt get it, and the lively, bouncy
Alison who kept everyone else going with her energy - a conflict
between Water Violet on the one hand and Agrimony on the other.
We thought it probable that on leaving the safety of childhood Alison
had felt, however unconsciously, that she needed to protect her inner
nature from the outside world and had used the coping strategy of
hiding herself completely behind the live wire exterior.
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From the beginning she took Water Violet and Agrimony. We also
used other remedies to address her feelings about her husband and
their situation.
After two months' taking the remedies Alison was waking refreshed.
She felt she had put herself back together without the hardness, and
that the shell had gone. Things had also changed for her husband and
this, combined with her own progress, meant that she felt much more
relaxed, less emotional; she felt 'at peace'.
Michael
Michael was finding the counselling sessions very enlightening. He
discovered he needed other people's permission to do and be what he
wanted. He also understood how much of a worrier he was, how afraid
of getting it wrong - in fact, his worry had led him to irritable bowel
syndrome, depression and a number of other stress-related
conditions.
A gentle person, Michael worked in finance with colleagues made
hyperactive by the pressure of work. He was good at his job, but at
great cost to his quiet nature. He had always been interested in the
complementary therapy field, especially reflexology.
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He and his wife dreamt of living in the country where they had a little
house, but Michael could not bring himself to a decision on whether to
break away from his regular job.
For about six weeks he took Larch to boost his confidence, White
Chestnut to relieve the worry, Scleranthus for the indecision as well as
the problems he was having with balance and co-ordination, and
Mimulus for his fears about doing what he wanted to do.
Then they went to their cottage on holiday. On his return he said the
holiday hadn't recharged him. He felt so unwell that he had taken time
off work - something unusual for him. He had lost his appetite
completely and felt tearful. 'I've been here before,' he said.
We identified a lack of trust in life, a continual fear of things going
wrong. We talked about how his sensitive nature found it hard to copewith the cut and thrust of his work environment, how in fact his whole
system was crying out to live differently. We also discussed possible
ways forward that would be more fulfilling for him.
In his treatment bottle this time he had Chestnut Bud to help him move
forward, Centaury and Walnut to strengthen and protect his resolve,Pine to ward off any guilt feelings about doing things his way, Larch to
give him the confidence to go for it and White Chestnut to stop him
worrying.
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Next day Alison came for her appointment saying 'I have a new
husband'. Michael had already handed in his notice and had booked a
place on a reflexology course. He was full of life, could see his path
ahead clearly, was decisive and very positively moving along it. Theyare now planning to take the leap and move permanently to the
country.
Starting school
My son started full-time school last autumn. When we went to view the
school in the summer he was the only child who would not leave hisparents to go into the classroom for a half hour story. He was
extremely nervous and clung to my husband as if he was about to be
abandoned.
I spent the rest of the summer working out what I would do in
September when he refused to go in to class on his first day. I made
up a treatment bottle for what I thought he might need and started him
on the drops about two weeks before the first day of term. It contained
Mimulus, Larch and Walnut. (Normally the last things he needs are
Mimulus and Larch!)
The first day arrived. After a quick kiss goodbye he ran straight into
the classroom on his own. Every morning he races in ahead of all the
other kids, and has apparently been looking after those that are still
upset. I helped out in the classroom last week and have now put him
on Vine!
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Asterix
My Weimaraner dog Guy died. He had a serious heart condition and
we were told over two years ago that he had three months to live, so
we were very grateful that we had him for so long. He was 13 years
and 5 months, which is a good age for a Weimaraner.
This has left us with Asterix the English springer spaniel. He is now 12
years and 8 months, although mentally he is probably only about eight
months old.
Asterix has always lived with other dogs, as we originally had two
Weimaraners and Asterix. After Guy died Asterix wasnt too bad at
first, but after about five or six days he started to really mope. He
wouldnt eat properly, wouldnt come out of his bed and more
disturbing he didnt want to go out for a walk. This was not like Asterix.
I decided to try the Bach remedies with him, as I have used them in
the past with all my dogs. The remedy I made was as follows:
Vine - for his personality
Walnut - for the change in his lifeMimulus - for known fear, and the now timid Asterix
Gentian - for known depression
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Crab Apple - I used this as he was bothered by an irritation on one of
his back legs, which was where a grass seed had to be removed in
the past
The remedy was added to his water bowl, and some titbits that we
used to entice him to eat. The change was almost immediate. I
continued for about a week after this with the remedy, and we now
have our old Asterix back.
How do the remedies actually work?
Dr Bach used a metaphor to describe how the remedies work. He
said, they are able, like beautiful music, or any gloriously uplifting
thing which gives us inspiration, to raise our very natures, and bring us
nearer to our Souls: and by that very act, to bring us peace, and
relieve our sufferings. Just as a beautiful sunset or a photograph can
move us so that we feel more at peace, so taking a remedy uplifts us
in a gentle way and helps us be the best we are.
There are many theories about the mechanism the remedies use to
achieve this. Most believe the active ingredient in the remedies is a
kind of energy or vibration that is transferred from the living flower to
the water during the process of making the mother tinctures. Some
believe the energy forms a pattern in the water; others talk of quantum
mechanics and spiritual vibrations. Attempts to capture this energy
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can be seen in that context: not as something outmoded but as
something eternally renewed and timeless.
The 38 remeides put us in touch with our higher, spiritual self - and in
this way give us the freedom to develop at our own pace, whatever
that pace may be, in perfect freedom from our ego's greed for
immediate enlightenment.
Why doesn't the Bach Centre support dowsing and kinesiology as
ways of selecting remedies?
Dr Bach made his system simple and easy to understand. He wanted
people from all walks of life to use by as a way of healing themselves.
When a practitioner uses the basic consultation technique for
selecting remedies - which amounts to listening to what the client has
to say - this is something that everyone can understand. Once the
client sees that the remedies are chosen on the basis of how he feels
and the sort of person he is, then he can go on treating himself in the
future.
When dowsing, kinesiology or any other mechanical or purely intuitive
selection method is used this introduces a barrier. Most people do not
know how to dowse or muscle-test, so they feel obliged to go back to
the practitioner every time they want to select a remedy.
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Also, if the dowsing etc. works it will go straight to the heart of the
problem before the client is necessarily ready to go that far. This
means that self-knowledge, which is one of the aims of treatment with
the remedies, is never attained properly.
We believe treatment should go at the client's speed, not the
practitioner's, and this is why all practitioners registered with the Bach
Centre have signed a Code of Practice which commits them to select
remedies using the classic interview technique that Dr Bach preferred.
Why doesn't the Bach Centre approve the use of other flower essencesystems?
Dr Bach wanted his work to be kept simple so that everyone could use
it. Before he died he warned that attempts would be made to change
his work and make it more complicated, and his assistants promised
always to uphold the simplicity and purity of his methods.
We believe the 38 remedies are enough when used in combination to
treat every conceivable range of human emotions. This is why the
current team at the Centre continue to work only with the 38 remedies
in the original system.
This isn't a criticism of other flower remedy systems; everything useful
will find its place. But we believe the simplicity of the original system is
something worth preserving.
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What promises do Bach Foundation Registered Practitioners make
regarding how they work?
The full answer to this lies in reading the full Code of Practice, but a
short summary of the main points is that BFRPs promise to:
Work with the remedies using Dr Bach's own methods
Present the 38 remedies as a separate system - i.e. not confuse it with
other approaches to health, including other flower essence systems
Teach their clients how to use the remedies for themselves
Talk about and use the remedies in a simple, straightforward way
All of these promises reflect Dr Bach's ideals of self-help and
simplicity.
I've read things Dr Bach wrote about helpers and healers and possible
links between remedies and astrology - why doesn't the Bach Centre
talk about these things or republish these writings of Dr Bach?
Dr Bach considered many theories and ideas during his career, and
wrote notes, articles and letters on them. But at every stage of his
work he was keen to leave behind anything that was no longer
relevant.
For example, he discontinued the use of succussion in preparing
remedies, investigated and discounted links between remedy types
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and astrology, gave up diagnosis by physical symptom, and
abandoned as unnecessary the idea of different remedies working on
'higher' and 'lower' planes.
He could be quite emphatic about such excess baggage! When he
decided in 1930 to leave London and devote himself to flower
remedies, he made a bonfire of all his outdated pamphlets and
papers. Later, at Mount Vernon, when the system was finished, he
built a further bonfire in the garden here to destroy what he referred to
as 'scaffolding'.
In the same vein, he issued strict instructions to his publishers to
destroy old editions of The Twelve Healers each time that a new
edition was ready for the press. He didn't want old editions
republished because they contained remedy descriptions and
concepts that he no longer used in his work. He felt that these
discarded descriptions and ideas would be seized on by people whomight look to complicate the system for their own reasons.
The Bach Centre's role in all this was set out in a letter Dr Bach sent
to Victor Bullen shortly before his death. 'Our work is steadfastly to
adhere to the simplicity and purity of this method of healing,' he wrote.
We try to remain true to our founder's wishes. Books like The Original
Writings of Edward Bach, published with our blessing, are presented
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Having said that, people have done studies on the remedies over the
years, although all of them are of limited value due to their small scale
and, sometimes, significant methodological inconsistencies.
Nelsons have produced a useful overview of research carried out up
to May 2006, which contains information on a number of studies.
Since then a US double-blind study into the emergency formula has
also been published.
About Dr Bach
I have been taught that Edward Bach pronounced his name 'Batch'?
What is the correct pronunciation of his last name, and how does the
Centre pronounce his name and the name of the remedies?
What did Dr Bach die of, and why did he die so young?
Why doesn't the Bach Centre talk more about Edward Bach's personal
life, his marriages and family?
Did Dr Bach meet Rudolph Steiner, who predicted that flowers would
become a great tool of healing?
Doesn't the Bach Centre make Dr Bach out to be some kind of god, as
if he were the object of a cult?
I have been taught that Edward Bach pronounced his name 'Batch'?What is the correct pronunciation of his last name, and how does the
Centre pronounce his name and the name of the remedies?
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There are three possible pronunciations. Most people probably
pronounce the name 'Bark', the same as J S Bach the famous
composer.
However, the Bach family originally pronounced their name 'Baytch'
(to rhyme with the letter 'h'). When Dr Bach was a medical student his
fellow-students mispronounced his name as 'Batch', and the mistake
stuck. He was known as 'Batch' throughout his medical career, and we
still say 'Batch' at the Centre to this day.
What did Dr Bach die of, and why did he die so young?
Dr Bach had cancer when he died, but in fact died of exhaustion
rather than because of the disease itself.
Because he was only 50 when he died people have sometimes asked
why he wasn't able to cure himself. What this question ignores is that
in 1917 when the cancer was first diagnosed he was given just 3
months to live. From then until his death in 1936 he was curing
himself, every day, for nineteen years - all the time it took for him to
complete his work.
Why doesn't the Bach Centre talk more about Edward Bach's personal
life, his marriages and family?
There are two reasons:
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We don't know a great deal, because Dr Bach didn't leave many
personal papers and Nora Weeks never talked about Dr Bach's
personal life precisely because it was personal
His personal life had nothing to do with the remedy system, and thathas always been our main concern
For the record, though, Dr Bach was married twice. His first wife died.
He had a daughter by his second wife, but the marriage failed some
time before he left London in 1930.
Did Dr Bach meet Rudolph Steiner, who predicted that flowers would
become a great tool of healing?
There are parallels between Bach's beliefs and those of Steiner. But
as far as we know they never met.
Doesn't the Bach Centre make Dr Bach out to be some kind of god, as
if he were the object of a cult?
Absolutely not! Dr Bach was no more (and no less) divine than the
rest of us. He was human, with human faults (a workaholic, a failed
marriage, short tempered sometimes) and human qualities (courage,
persistence, selflessness).
He was a great teacher and found a precious gift that he shared with
others, but that doesn't make him more than human. We tend to think
that 'just human' is more than enough!
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Miscellaneous
I read somewhere that the remedies are approved by the World
Health Organisation. Is this true?
Who owns the Bach Centre?
I read that Nelsons had bought the Bach Centre. Is this true?
What is the Bach Foundation?
Are there any Bach Centre authorised correspondence courses on the
remedies?
Are Bach Foundation Registered Practitioners told which brand of
remedy to use?
Why do remedies have a use-by date now? Should they be discarded
after this date?
What are the sun and boiling methods?
What is the difference between the 1936 edition of The Twelve
Healers and more recent Bach Centre-authorised editions?
How do you get to the Bach Centre?
I read somewhere that the remedies are approved by the World
Health Organisation. Is this true?
This idea seems to come from a WHO report that mentioned the Bachremedies, along with other forms of complementary medicine, as
examples of the kind of complementary techniques that were being
used around the world.
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It seems that somebody misread this passing renfernece as being an
official statement of approval. This mistaken belief ended up being put
in a book. From there, other authors have quoted the same statement
to the point where the idea is quite wide spread, particularly inSpanish-speaking countries.
As far as we know there is no truth in this statement. The World
Health Organisation doesn't approve or licence any treatments, so the
question should not even arise.
Who owns the Bach Centre?
The house and garden at Mount Vernon are owned by the Dr Edward
Bach Healing Trust, a registered charity formed in 1989 to help the
elderly, the poor and the sick.
The Trust in turn is landlord to two companies, Bach Centre Mount
Vernon Ltd. and Bach Visitor and Education Centre Ltd. These
companies run the Centre's day-to-day activities, including the Bach
Foundation International Register of Practitioners.
Both companies are owned by the Ramsell family. John Ramsell, who
passed on in 2008, was brought into partnership by Nora Weeks and
Victor Bullen in the 1970s. His daughter Judy is currently head of the
Centre. Nobody else has any control over or ownership of the Bach
Centre's activities.
I read that Nelsons had bought the Bach Centre. Is this true?
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No.
A judgement issued at the end of the 1990s, after a legal action
brought by Healing Herbs Ltd. against Nelsons Ltd., included the
erroneous claim that Bach Centre Mount Vernon Ltd. had been sold to
Nelsons in 1993. This is not true.
Certainly, a company of a similar name was sold to Nelsons in 1993,as part of the sale of the Centre's remedy production business. But
Bach Centre Mount Vernon Ltd. was not sold, and like the rest of the
Bach Centre continues to be run as part of an independent
organisation. See also the question, Who owns the Bach Centre?
What is the Bach Foundation?
The Bach Centre set up the Bach Foundation (or The Dr Edward Bach
Foundation Ltd, to give its full name) in the early 1990s. Its purpose
was to run education and practitioner registration for the Bach Centre.
In 2007 we decided to run education and registration alongside other
Bach Centre services such as the helplines, the shop, the visitorcentre and so on.
We still use the 'Bach Foundation' name and logo in connection with
our education and registration programmes, but the Bach Foundation
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International Register and course approval are now run direct by the
Bach Centre.
Are there any Bach Centre authorised correspondence courses on the
remedies?
Level 1 is available as a distance learning course. Levels 2 and 3 are
not available in this format.
Are Bach Foundation Registered Practitioners told which brand of
remedy to use?
No. The Code of Practice doesn't mention brands and BFRPs are
entirely free to choose which they use, or can indeed make their own
remedies if they want.
Why do the remedies have a use-by date now? Should they be
discarded after this date?
By law the stock bottles have to carry a use-by date. The five year
period relates to the shelf life of brandy stored in a rubber-topped
bottle.
The remedies themselves will keep their properties indefinitely(although the brandy may begin to taste a little strange after the five
year period).
What are the sun and boiling methods?
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The sun method involves floating flowerheads in a clear glass bowl
filled with natural spring water. This is left in bright sunlight for three
hours, then the flowerheads are removed and the energised water ismixed half and half with brandy.
The boiling method involves putting flowering twigs into a pan of
spring water and boiling them for half an hour. The pan is then left to
cool, the plant matter removed, and again the water is mixed half and
half with brandy.
In both cases the resulting mix is known as mother tincture. This is
diluted at the rate of two drops per 30mls of brandy to make the stock
bottles sold in the shops.
What is the difference between the 1936 edition of The Twelve
Healers and more recent Bach Centre-authorised editions?
Ever since Dr Bach wrote it, The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies
has always been the most important book on the remedies. At the
Bach Centre we have always seen it as a working text - not a
historical document, but a manual that everyone can use. Every
practitioner has a copy - and even now, we go back to the remedydescriptions in The Twelve Healers all the time. Every time we do, we
get new insight into the system.
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As a working text, The Twelve Healers has been added to and edited
over the years to try to meet new needs as they arise. This is exactly
what Dr Bach did during his lifetime - indeed, the first changes after
1936 were dictated by Dr Bach shortly before his death. Comparingthe 1936 facsimile edition and the 2009 Bach Centre ebook edition, for
example, the main differences are:
The 2010 version contains the longer introduction dictated by Dr Bach
at the end of October, 1936 - after the 1936 edition had been
published.
A line of the Rock Rose description referring to it as 'the rescue
remedy' has gone, to avoid confusing it with the well-known brand of
the emergency mix.
The list of chemists supplying remedies has gone. The number of
shops supplying remedies has increased beyond the possibility of
listing them in a book this size. (Prices have also inevitably increased.)
The dosage instructions have been rewritten. They now mention how
to choose remedies and their use with animals and plants, explainhow to use the crisis mix and cream, and give a clearer account of the
minimum daily dose.
The 1936 instructions on how to make remedies have been removed.
Dr Bach aimed this part of the book at people who were making
remedies for personal use. To simplify the description he left out one
of the dilution stages he followed when preparing remedies for
pharmacies - and in practice most people struggled to identify the
plants they needed to use from the Latin names alone. To provide
practical and consistent help to remedy-makers, Nora Weeks and
Victor Bullen instead wrote the book Illustrations and Preparations,
which includes full descriptions and photos of the correct plants.
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Some of the Latin names of the plants have changed. They are the
same plants! - but later editions reflect changes in the International
Rules of Botanical Nomenclature.
The 1936 edition remains, though, the final edition personally
prepared for the press by Dr Bach, so we are pleased to republish it in
a facsimile ebook edition.