Bach Flower Remedies: Healing Emotional Patterns with the Wisdom of Flowers
In the early 1930s, a distinguished London physician and bacteriologist abandoned a successful Harley Street practice to wander the countryside of Wales, sleeping rough, living in poverty, and spending his days with an intense, eccentric focus: sitting with wildflowers. Not studying them scientifically. Not collecting specimens. Communicating with them — or rather, letting them communicate with him through a sensitivity to their "vibrations" that he described as a form of direct perception. His name was Dr. Edward Bach (1886–1936). The 38 plant preparations he identified during those years of wandering have since been used by an estimated 50 million people worldwide, have been officially recognized as a complementary medicine by health authorities in dozens of countries, and have generated a global industry while remaining (in their basic form) inexpensive, widely available, and easy to use. The Bach Flower Remedies are not herbal medicines in the conventional sense — the...