Bach flowers in natural medicine

The history of the Bach flowers - or: "Bach flowers bloom by the stream?"

The use of Bach Flower essences is a popular way to promote healing and development for children and adults. The erroneous assumption still circulates that there is talk of blooms, which are to be found preferentially at brooks. But where did the Bach flower really have its name and who recognized its healing effect on the mind?

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• The history of the Bach flowers - or: "Bach flowers bloom by the stream?"
• Discoverer of Bach flowers: Edward Bach
• From the Bach Nosode to the flower essence
• Bach's system of flowers

Discoverer of Bach flowers: Edward Bach

The discoverer and founder of the Bach flower therapy was the British doctor. Edward Bach (1886 - 1936), who came from the area around Birmingham and first completed a manual apprenticeship in the operation of his parents. Afterwards, he decided to study medicine and devoted himself to bacteriological research, but always felt the urge to seek a "most straightforward, accessible to anyone healing process, to help the suffering humanity." This principle, with which he is the medical layman turned, brought in again and again sharp criticism from the medical profession of the time.

In numerous conversations he felt the inner emotional difficulties of his patients and tried to get to the bottom of the real causes of the physical illness. His principle was to treat not the illness but the human being. He was strengthened by the contact with the homeopathic principles after Samuel Hahnemann.

From the Bach Nosode to the flower essence

At the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, he explored the human intestinal flora, discovering seven important groups of bacteria. Each predominant group of bacteria wrote Dr. Bach to a very specific human personality structure. Now the dedicated doctor developed from the bacteria a homeopathic oral vaccine therapy, the well-known "seven Bach nosodes". He prescribed these patients according to their acute emotional and psychological difficulties, without paying attention to the different physical symptoms. Success proved him right and once again cemented his conviction that physical illnesses could be cured through the human psyche.

Finally, in 1930, Dr. He started his practice to replace the bacterial nosodes with wild flowers and flowers, in which he recognized the most effective healing powers. He went into nature and felt the effect of medicinal plants and spring water (Rock Water). At the same time, the methods practiced to this day, namely the sun or the cooking method, with which the doctor produced the flower essences, developed.

Bach's system of flowers

In the last years of his life, he died of heart failure at the age of fifty. Bach first the famous "twelve healers", which he was able to expand to 38 essences until his death. These described 38 mental states, which he describes as virtues in the positive state, but the other way around as negative mental states can inhibit our development and potentials to the physical disease. Bach divided these 38 soul images into seven main groups, the "Seven Helpers". This coarse division included fear, insecurity, lack of interest, loneliness, hypersensitivity, despondency and despair, as well as concern for the welfare of others. If the flowers for superficial complaints are good for self-treatment, chronic and deeper conditions can be better addressed with the help of a therapist. Classically after Bach the suitable flowers are also found today by inquiries and observation.

After his death, Bach appointed two longtime collaborators to his successors. In Germany, the Bach flowers were mainly through the publications and seminars of Mechthild Scheffer known, which is still active today with the Institute of Bach flower therapy, research and teaching, Mechthild Scheffer (IMS).

Since then, research has been and is being conducted in the field of healing with Bach flower remedies and further forms of therapy have been developed. In Germany, Dietmar Krämer is best known for the so-called "rail model" and his further development of Bach flower therapy in connection with energetic procedures. The number of flower essences has been extended to many hundreds today. In addition to the flowers according to Dr. Bach especially the Californian and Australian essences. At the same time, however, the domestic flower essences from Germany, Austria and Switzerland are becoming increasingly popular. (Dipl.Päd. Jeanette Viñals Stein, non-medical practitioner)

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Scheffer, M .: Bach Flower Therapy; Munich 1996; www.bachblueten-therapie.de
Krämer, D .: New therapy with Bach flowers 1; Interlaken 1989
Thele, B .: Bach flowers pocket- the vademecum, Börm Bruckmeier Verlag GmbH 20016351a2cc0b08c03