Probably you don’t know, but the scent of flowers can transform a sulky and depressed person, in a positive, optimistic person. Basically, smelling some floral scent, you will feel better. Moreover, whatever pain you have, flower therapy can help improve it. In the petals beauty is hidden a great healing power. The play of colors is a medicine too, if you use flowers by the Bach therapy rules , a less known method to us, but with excellent results in other parts of the world. Flower remedies are cheap, effective, no side effects and easy to use. Now, in floral explosion season, we can try to look at and get drunk with the scent of the flowers that heals.
Drops of health
The principle that floral therapy is based on, is that, most often, the diseases we suffer are just a consequence of psycho-emotional disorders arising from the interaction with what surrounds us or traumatic events that we went through and that we couldn’t forget them. Flower extracts are designed to mitigate these inner conflicts and restore the harmony of the body. The who discovered the virtues of flower therapy is a british, doctor Edward Bach (1886-1936), specialist in immuno pulmonology, pathology and homeopathy. His therapy with flower essences had a high visibility worldwide, but not in Romania. Recently, it was brought to present by few specialists who apply the method in private offices. After a preliminary interview, the patient is given a bottle of essence. The therapist will determine the number of drops required for treatment. Usually, put two drops on the tongue or drink with a little water. We can apply the therapy ourselves, if we know what flowers match our disorder. In no case do not expect miracles, it takes several weeks to eliminate the problem. The effect of therapy is not scientifically proven, but frequent applications were effective in most cases, their success depends a lot of the patient will.
The flowers are collected on dew
Considering that all diseases of the physical body is due to mental states, after six years of study, Bach defined 38 moods which destabilizes the system balance, favoring the appearance of diseases. He divided them into 7 main groups representing as many fundamental conflicts of ourselves: fear, self insecurity, low interest on currency, loneliness, hypersensitivity to external influences and ideas, exaggerated concern for the welfare of others. Each group correspond to certain flower essences derived from plants. The processes for preparation are not simple. The flowers are harvested at dawn, full of dew. Quality of the essence depends on the phases of the moon , the place from which they were collected, atmospheric humidity. Basic material of the essences are the flowers and buds. They are inserted in glass vases filled with spring water, placed three hours in the sun. During this time, the flower essence is extracted by the water, then mixed with grain alcohol for preservation. The method is valid for 20 essences, the other 18 remedies are prepared by boiling. Not everyone can prepare these mother-essences, but only those who have fasted and prayed. Moreover, in the world there are now only two manufacturers of Bach flower essences, in England and Germany.
A 100% natural method
Of the 38 plants used in therapy Bach, only a part is found in the flora of our country. Bach’s main plant in the pharmacy are: bone grass, lady’s mantle, water lily, sea tourists, cerato, scleranthus, tendril, chicory, verbena, berries, centaury and gentian. And the diseases they treat are: dystonia, anxiety neurosis, depression, neuro-asthenia, panic attacks, phobias of all kinds, obsessive compulsive neurosis, Tourette syndrome (tic disorders), psychogenic enuresis, anorexia, bulimia, lack of attention, poor results concentration at school, psychogenic impotence. Also, essences relieves hiperkinestezia, hysteria and epilepsy, mental fortification for exams, interviews or individual activities and is an excellent adjuvant in the treatment of psychosomatics (hypertension, diabetes, asthma, gastritis, hormonal disorders, biliary dyskinesia). For who is recommended the Bach therapy? For anyone, from small children to the elderly. The drops had not, so far, adverse effects. With flower essences are treated people as well as animals, and even plants. Bach Therapy is a very simple, handy, natural method, with no side effects and does not interfere with any other form of medication. There is no danger of overdose or allergic reactions.
Elm for fatigue and discouragement
Here are some of Bach’s plants and diseases that are recommended for. Great tourists (Agrimony) is used as a remedy for those with concerns, problems and mental distress hidden behind a cheerful and smiling guises and for those who maintain their state of joy turning to drink or drugs. Centaury (Centaurium umbellatum) serves those with a weak will, who neglects its own person. It is used when it finds an exaggerated sensitivity to influences and ideas. The patient allow to be abused and avoid confrontations. Chicory is for the possessive, selfish ones, with domineering attitude and those who try to control the lives of loved ones. Essence Cerato treat people who need advice or confirmation from others, lacking confidence in their own decisions. Vita-vine antidote mind is weak, dreamy, helping Individuals who live in imaginary, and wild apple (Malus pumila) is recommended for those who fear the disease, contagion, believe that are hated or are complexed with some moral issues. Elm (Ulmus procera) removes the feeling of overwork, exhaustion, despair, discouragement, abandonment, the feeling that you can not cope with daily tasks and responsibilities.
Poplar banish phobias
Wild barley dispels despair and restore hope and lady’s mantle banish nervous tension, fear of having a known cause (fear of going to the dentist, to climb the elevator, of running out of money etc). Gentian (Gentiana amarella) action on discontent when the patient has a pessimistic attitude, sees only the negative side of things, give up easily after failures. The olive tree is used in physical and mental exhaustion. Poplar (Populus tremula) is useful when the patient has a fear of unknown origin, vague and unexplained anxiety, premonitions, hidden fears of a disaster threatening, is scared because of feeling that something bad will happen. Beech wood essence (Fagus sylvatica) acts over exaggerated critics exhibited on others. Usually, it is used when the patient is intolerant and totally ignore the needs and weaknesses of ones. Wax cherry (Prunus cerasifera) is used when feelings of fear of own emotional reactions occur, such as fear of going crazy. The patient finds it difficult to ignore or to distance itself from things, and has an uncontrollable temper and is afraid to lose control and lose its mind.
Fear goes with wild rose
The essence of tendril (Clematis vitalba) has the role to return the patient down to earth when manifests little interest on currency. Usually, the patient is absent, not interested in anything, daydreaming. Larita (Larix decidua) is used in feelings of self-doubt and fear of failure, when the patient feels inferior to others and always expects to fail in what it does. Mustard (Sinapis arvensis) is useful in feelings of sadness, anxiety, sudden depression, periods of melancholy that appear and disappear for no apparent reason. Oak (Quercus robur) help in the awareness of physical limitations, especially in fighting people who feel tired, yet never give up. Wild rose (Helianthemum nummularium) is used successfully against feelings of panic, terror, paralyzing fear. Vervain (Verbena officinalis) is the cure for excessive enthusiasm, fanaticism manifested to an idea or dogma. Usually, the excessive desire to serve a good cause, the patient has wasted energy, reacts as a missionary or a fanatic.
Spring water is a cure too
Christmas flower (Ilex aquifolium) beneficially influence the feelings of malice, jealousy, mistrust, hatred and envy, when the patient has an exaggerated sensitivity to influences and ideas of others, react aggressively and is vengeful. Essence of honeysuckle (Lonicera caprifolium) awakens patient interest for the present when tends to always escape in the past, continually miss childhood, parents’ home. Spring water is itself a remedy,indicated for the rigid ones with extremist principles. Besides these flower remedies, there is a complex formula: Rescue Remedy, effective in difficult situations. Rescue Remedy is a combination of five Bach flower essences recommended to overcome stress and tension in case of strong emotional shock, accident, receiving bad news. In an emergency, the best way to get instant results essence consists in applying undiluted essence directly on the tongue or rubbing temples, the area behind the ears and wrists arms with this remedy.
What flowers should smell in case of…
Exaggerated ambition : grape-vine, marsh violet, spring water
Apathy: barley, hawthorn, wild mustard
Arrogance: marsh violet, larch, beech
Self-pity: yellow willow, holly, chicory
Apparent calm : great tourists, common beech
Inferiority complexes: pine, oats, centaury
Hesitant behavior : wild oats, wild blackthorn, white grape
Cleaning and order exaggerated : wild apple, siberian, spring water
Depression: mustard, gentian, olive
Exaggerated devotion : red chestnut, chicory, pine
Despair: chestnut, elm, yellow willow
Physical and mental exhaustion: olive, hornbeam, barley
Excess of zeal: verbena, grape-vines, spring water
Phobias: poplar, lady’s mantle, grass bone
Fear of losing self-control: wax cherry, elm
Repeated mistakes: wild chestnut, white grape, skinny
Exaggerated concern: chicory, red chestnut, pine
Fixed Ideas: wild chestnut, pine, vervain
Inconsistency: walnut, centaury, wild blackthorn
Inflexibility: spring water, marsh violet, grape-vine
Intolerance: beech, grape-vines, spring water
Envy: grape-vine, beech, wax cherry
Irritability: skinny, grape-vines, oats
Stubbornly oak, grape-vine, verbena
Lack of awareness of their own values: siberian, elm, autumn gentian, wild blackthorn
Lack of energy: hornbeam, olive, elm
Lack of will: centaury, pine, red chestnut
Melancholy: white grape, honeysuckle
Indecision: wild blackthorn, walnut
Confidence in oneself: cerato, wild blackthorn, walnut
Uncertainty due to overload: elm, autumn gentian, hornbeam
Need to talk much: heather, chicory
Nostalgia: honeysuckle, white grape
Panic: bone grass, poplar, lady’s mantle
Pessimism: autumn gentian, barley, chestnut
Resignation: hawthorn, barley, wild mustard, chestnut
Fear of sure things: lady’s mantle, poplar, grass bone
Shock: holly, lady’s mantle, honeysuckle.
