Dr. Edward Bach's life story
'The light that never goes out'
If this is said about your lab's window, you are surely on to something big!
Dr Edward Bach - medical doctor, bacteriologist, botanist, surgeon, vaccine researcher, homeopath and inventor of Bach Flower Remedies, is in question here.
Dr. Edward Bach completed medical studies in Birmingham and later at University College Hospital, London, where he was also a surgeon. He also ran private practice. As a bacteriologist and pathologist, he did research work on vaccines in his own laboratory.
In 1917, during the First World War, Dr. Bach worked in the wards where wounded soldiers returned from the war front in France.
During his work here, he experienced a breakdown and was diagnosed with cancer. According to the tests, he would live another 3 months.
However, he miraculously recovered and stronger than ever, he believed he still had work to do.
Homoeopathic research
Dr. Bach was dissatisfied with the fact that doctors were expected to focus on the disease, instead of on the entire person consisting of body, mind and spirit.
He therefore strove for a more holistic approach to medicine. He accepted a position at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital.
Here he soon saw the similarities between his work on vaccinations and the principles of homeopathy.
He adapted his vaccines to develop a series of 7 homeopathic nosodes. This work and its publication brought him recognition and a great deal of honor in homeopathic circles. People began to refer to him as 'the second Hahnemann'. (Samuel Hahneman is the father of homeopathy as we currently know it).
A search for something even simpler
Dr. Bach believed that the system of homeopathy was even too complicated for people to help themselves and continued to search for simpler and more natural treatments. As he told his assistant - if he wants to make a sandwich, he goes to get salad leaves from the garden. When he is afraid and anxious, he fetches Mimulus and when he is excessively worried, he picks Red Chestnut. It should be that simple!
Good people expert
He was an extremely careful observer of human behavior, and it was very noticeable to him that different types of people with different emotional approaches to life react very differently to illness. People would also heal more easily when they were emotionally balanced.
Use plants and flowers
He began collecting plants and especially flowers, hoping to develop an even gentler treatment than the nosodes of homeopathy.
By 1930 he was so enthusiastic about the direction his research was beginning to take, that he closed his successful medical practice and left London.
New system of healing
Dr. Bach began to focus on finding a new system of healing, which he believed was available somewhere in nature. He took a radiographer named Nora Weeks with him as his assistant.
Over time and testing hundreds of plants' properties, he came across the treatments he was looking for one by one.
Each was aimed at a specific emotional state that people could be in, which could lead to chronic illness.
Successfully completed
A year after he completed the system of 38 Bach Flower Remedies, he passed away.
How the system works
Here is an example of one of the plant tinctures as quoted directly from the Bach Institute's page.
“Willow
… is for people who feel resentful and bitter about the way their lives have gone.
In a Willow state we begrudge others their success and happiness, and are reluctant to admit when our own lives go well.
We prefer to grumble, and are prone to resentment and self-pity.
The remedy encourages the rebirth of optimism and faith.
It helps us feel more generous towards others and more aware that negative thinking can attract the very ill-fortune of which we complain.
Dr Bach’s description
For those who have suffered adversity or misfortune and find these difficult to accept, without complaint or resentment, as they judge life much by the success which it brings. They feel that they have not deserved so great a trial, that it was unjust, and they become embittered. They often take less interest and less activity in those things of life which they had previously enjoyed.”
Modern Classification
The Bach Institute has classified the plant tinctures in more modern language according to seven groups of emotions that can positively affect people's health, namely:
Find Joy and Hope
Live and let Live
Stand your ground
Face your fears
Live the Day
Reach out to others
Know your own mind
Practical example:
· The following emotions can be treated under “Stand your Ground”:
· You can’t easily say no to people
· Other people’s ideas knock you off course
· You feel wounded, spiteful, or jealous, or want revenge
· You hide your troubles behind a smile.
If you look closely at this, chances are you may become bitter if you never get to exercise your own choices.
This is a form of stress, and your 'fight or flight' system is activated.
If you suppress your natural response for years, and just please everyone, physical conditions such as stress-related diseases can develop.
Blend your own treatment
Up to 5 'remedies' can be selected and mixed in one 30ml treatment bottle. The treatments are effective, gentle and bring relief soon.
It therefore makes more sense to have a treatment mixed with a variety of tinctures at R95, than to buy 5 bottles at a much higher cost each.
Mirre & Kaneel stocks the full range and will be happy to help you blend a treatment.
Kind regards
Carina Falck
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Disclaimer: No complimentary health treatment is meant to replace medical treatment and should be done responsibly in agreement with your general physician. We are not responsible for decisions that you personally make to discontinue any medication.
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