What are the Flower Remedies? How do they work?
Dr. Bach discovered 38 remedies to be used to balance specific emotional and mental states. He also created a combination of remedies for difficult situations which he called Rescue Remedy. Thirty-seven of the thirty-eight are wild flowers or tree blossom extracts. The thirty-eighth is Rock Water, which is made of natural spring water with healing properties. As with other forms of natural medicine the individual is observed, not the disease or its symptoms. The focus is the emotional condition of the person. The result is that two people with the same disease may benefit from different remedies because they will each perceive their situations differently. A person with arthritis may be impatient with their condition while another may just be resigned to their fate. Different remedies would be suggested for each client. The effect of the remedy is to transform the negative to a positive not suppress it. Therefore a negative attitude may transform into a positive one stimulating the ind