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Bach Flower Remedies
In this chapter you will be learning about Bach Flower Remedies.
You will be looking at who Bach was, what his remedies set out to achieve and
how they can be used. You will also be looking at the sceptic’s viewpoint about
these preparations.
Introduction
One of the most famous medicinal preparations that utilises herbal material are
the Bach Flower Remedies. Akin to homeopathic cures (although with a number
of important differences) the remedies have been present in high street and
specialist health shops since the 1930s and today are more popular than ever.
Edward Bach
Disease will never be cured or eradicated by present materialistic methods, for the simple reason
that disease in its origin is not material . . . Disease is in essence the result of conflict between the
Soul and Mind and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort [1].
Edward Bach was born on September 24, 1886. He spent his early years in
Birmingham, and as a teenager worked in his father’s brass foundry. Unwilling to
stay in the family profession he pondered entering the Church before deciding on
becoming a doctor.
Bach studied medicine at the University College Hospital, London. Here he began
to develop the notion that patients' illnesses were exacerbated or brought on by
their mental states. For example, he observed that a woman who was apparently
suffering from acute asthma had been extremely worried about the safety of her
son whom she had not heard from since he had left for Northern England in
search of work. When eventually he did contact her, the symptoms she had been
suffering disappeared almost immediately. Similarly, a man with stomach ulcers,
who had lost his job and was unable to support his wife and children, quickly
recovered when he found work again.
Bach went on to study at Cambridge where he acquired a Diploma of Public
Health and during World War I was in London again in charge of 400 beds at the
University College Hospital. Around this time it was predicted that Bach had just
three months left to live as he had a malignant tumour in his spleen. Fortunately,
this was successfully removed and Bach went on to employment in the national
Temperance Hospital and then later became a successful Harley Street
practitioner.
Bach felt that vaccines current at the time could be improved upon. In 1919 he
took on a new post at the London Homeopathic Hospital where he personally