Bach Flower Therapy is a form of energy medicine.  A Bach Flower “Remedy" consists of water that has been patterned with the energetic vibrations of one of 38 different flowers.  The Remedy is added to a cup of water (or other beverage) 4 times a day. Bach Flower Therapy is named after Dr. Edward Bach, whose research led to its development in England in the 1930's.  Like other energetic healing modalities, this treatment seeks to create balance in areas of energetic disruption.  Bach Flower Treatment specifically addresses the emotional body of the energy system. Its purpose is to restore emotional harmony.

What Emotions are Healed with Bach Flower Therapy?

All negative emotions can be addressed with Bach Flower Therapy.  Unlike psychotropic medications (i.e. medicines that treat depression, anxiety or psychosis), Bach Flowers treat specific shades of emotion.  For example, they address sadness, despair, hopelessness, irritability, rage, resentment, panic, worry, concern about family members, uncertainty, self-doubt, shyness, lethargy, overwhelm, pain without physical cause, impulsivity, agitation, procrastination, daydreaming, vague anxieties, specific phobias and any other disturbing emotion.

ABOUT THE FLOWER REMEDIES

There are important differences between Bach Flower Therapy and traditional medical therapy. Bach Flowers are not medicinal. They can be taken along with any food, herb, health product or medicine without causing any interaction.  In this way, they are most similar to water.  Bach Flowers treat the unhealthy emotional tendency, meaning that when the disturbing emotion is no longer active, Flower Treatment is stopped. One does not continue treatment in such a case, because the Flower does not act preventatively like vitamins or medicine. Rather, it operates more like a process that undoes a knot (in the energetic flow). Once the knot is undone, there is no further need to keep undoing it! Bach Flowers can be taken safely by infants, pregnant or nursing women, the elderly, and even those who have flower allergies.  Again, just as water itself cannot harm this population, Bach Flowers cannot cause negative reactions. Indeed, thinking of Bach Flower Remedies as being a collection of harmonious water crystals is really the most accurate way to conceptualize them.

However, these remedies are preserved with a small amount of brandy. Those that are allergic to brandy or who cannot take it for other reasons, can still utilize Bach Flower Therapy.  Remedies need not be taken internally - they can be put directly on pulse points on the skin. (Those who keep kosher may be interested to know that Rabbi Eliyahu Falk of Gateshead England - a major authority in Jewish law - permits the use of Bach Flowers as long as they are dissolved in water. Since this is the normal and preferred way of taking the flowers, kashrut does not interfere at all with treatment.)