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Bach Flower Remedies

Where Did They Originate?

Dr. Edward Bach (1886-1936) was a British physician who focused his efforts on bacteriology and immunology. He successfully isolated 7 types of bacteria that were commonly found in chronic diseases and prepared various vaccines using these bacteria. Growing increasingly dissatisfied with traditional medicine and its treatment of individualized symptoms, he believed that the emotional state was directly linked to either a state of well-being or ill-health. By tracking down an imbalance/illness to its emotional source, a patient could be healed before physical symptoms manifested.

In July, 1917, Bach collapsed and began hemorrhaging. A malignant tumor was removed from his spleen and he was informed that he had several months to live. Refusing to accept this diagnosis, with the power of his mind and his belief in his sense of purpose for what he had yet to accomplish, Bach underwent a full recovery in 3 months.

After his recovery, Bach took a position at the London Homeopathic Hospital. He had already begun delving into the philosophy of Homeopathy when he read “Organon” by Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy. The idea in Organon of using remedies based on the entire “symptom picture” of the person (a diagnosis based on the "totality of symptoms" including personality, emotional, and physical states) became the basis for his further work. He began to prepare vaccines using Homeopathic methods which meant that they could be taken by mouth rather than by injections. He also matched each group of bacteria to specific inharmonious states.

In 1920, Bach opened a private practice in London, offering free treatments to the poor. Realizing that only certain symptoms could be treated with the 7 groups of bacteria he had isolated, Bach realized that he had to seek out new preparations, and use a more natural and purer method of making these preparations, instead of using bacteria. He focused on replacing the bacteria with plants, using method of remedy preparation similar to Homeopathy. He discovered his first 3 plants in 1928, quickly realizing that these new plant remedies were different – they appeared to work directly on the emotions, which meant they could treat a far greater range of people.

By 1930, Bach had sold his practice to devote himself to the full time research of flower remedies which corresponded to the different personality types and emotional imbalances. Working with his assistant, Nora Weeks (Bach’s successor and subsequent co-author of “Bach Flower Remedies: Illustrations and Preparations”), Bach explored various regions of the U. K. before settling down in Oxfordshire. During a 4-year period, he discovered a further 35 remedies. It had taken Bach only 7 years to develop what are now called the 38 Bach Flower Remedies. Despite threatened expulsion from the medical association for his views, he offered the remedies free of charge to two large Homeopathic pharmacies in London, requesting them to be sold as inexpensively as possible.

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