Have the Bach Flower Remedies ever come to your rescue? At the recent ‘Ladies Night’ at Bare Health I asked the room of over 30 people, who had used Rescue Remedy and over two thirds put up their hands. Of all the 38 Bach Flower Remedies, Rescue Remedy is the one that I repeatedly find most people are aware of, having used it themselves or knowing someone who has. Commonly people describe using it for stress, panic attacks or helping a difficult night’s sleep. I have found it a great friend in all sorts of emergency situations. Even using it to great effect for insect bites, applying it directly to the skin and relieving very intense itching!
Yet fewer
people realise that Rescue Remedy is a combination of 5 different Bach Flower
Remedies. Understanding the components
of the Remedy can help us to widen our use of Rescue Remedy and gain a deeper
understanding of the healing potential from the Flower Remedies, first brought
to us by Dr Edward Bach in the 1920s.
The Bach
Flower Remedies are made from the essence of different plants and trees, with
one exception, Rock Water being made from the water of a natural spring. Bach discovered taking these essences in a
diluted form could match different emotional and mental states. By treating the individual’s emotional state
he found balance was restored, increasing the potential for self-healing on all
levels. Dr Bach created the Rescue
Remedy combination for emergency situations with the aim to “restore inner
calm”.
Why does the
combination work so well? The 5
different Remedies are Rock Rose, Impatiens, Cherry Plum, Clematis and Star of
Bethlehem . Each has very different
qualities.
Rock Rose used
on its own has been found to help panic and deep terror. It is the type of panic that is found in
acute situations. It could be used when
waking from a frightening nightmare or the type of panic attack that causes
palpitations and the tendency to freeze in terror. The remedy can balance the feelings of
helplessness with renewed courage and presence of mind.
Impatiens
has a very different quality. It has a feeling
of rushing and acting quickly. In an
Impatiens state, we can find that others move too slowly; everyone seems to get
in the way and a real desire to do a task on your own. It is certainly a great reliever of stress. Taking it when in such a state, can bring
more empathy, understanding and patience.
Cherry Plum
meanwhile has a fear of losing control of thoughts and actions; the fear that they
will explode and harm themselves or others.
Someone in a Cherry Plum state may fear they will becoming abusive or
hysterical. The potential for taking the
remedy is to develop a calmer mind that leads to more rational behaviour.
Clematis in
contrast will appear laid back, but to such an extreme that they are dreamy,
absent minded and ungrounded. A Clematis
state is not uncommon after shock. The
person will find it more difficult to concentrate and could appear ‘spaced out’. When Clematis brings balance the individual
will find greater clarity in their thoughts and be more focused.
All 5 remedy
states can be seen as aspects of different behaviour following a severe shock. With
Star of Bethlehem the shock will come as the result of a traumatic experience,
such as accidents, receiving bad news or bereavement. Star
of Bethlehem helps the person to integrate the shock into their lives. By lessening the effects of shock it thus
enables a speedier recovery. It can also
bring balance to the effects of an event that may have happened years earlier.
Dr Bach
sought a simple system of healing that everyone could access for
themselves. I would encourage you to
seek out the remedies for all types of challenges in life and assess which Remedies
you feel drawn too. Should you need help,
a Bach Flower Practitioner or Homeopath trained in the use of the Bach Flower
Remedies, can guide you to the specific Remedy or combination of Remedies for
your individual emotional or mental state.
Bach Flower Remedies are safe for people of all ages and free from
side-effects. They are a wonderful
self-healing tool.
If you find
that a walk amongst plants and trees lifts your spirits then maybe the Bach
Flower Remedies can equally lift your mood.
They are certainly a great friend in emergencies.
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