Dr. Edward Bach

 Dr. Edward Bach was born on September 24, 1886 in Moseley England. From 1906-1912 he studied medicine at the University College Hospital in London and trained to be a Doctor. By 1922 Dr. Bach worked in a general practice out of consulting rooms in Harley Street, having also studied bacteriology, immunology, and homeopathy during his career. 

Over the years, he realized that people reacted differently to illness, so he wanted to treat the person as a whole rather than what they were physically suffering from. Dr. Bach became dissatisfied with orthodox medicine and was convinced there must be a system of healing based purely in nature. In the late 1920's he gave up his lucrative Harley Street Practice and spent many years searching for and developing his new system from non-poisonous plants and flowers.  

He was a man with a vision.  He wrote about a hospital of the future where doctors would treat their patients as individuals, where patients would understand the nature of their discomfort, and where the healing medicine of nature would nurture their feelings including their inner self.  

Through years of trial and error, which involved preparing and testing thousands of plants, he found one by one the remedies he wanted. Each was aimed at a particular mental state or emotion. He found that when he treated the personalities and feelings of his patients their unhappiness and physical distress would be alleviated naturally as the healing potential in their bodies was unblocked and allowed to work once more.

A year after announcing that his search for remedies was complete, Dr. Bach passed away peacefully on the evening of November 27th, 1936.  He left behind a system of medicine that is used all over the world.   Each of the 38 remedies hold the positive and balancing energies for a negative emotional state. Dr. Bach found that as negative moods improved, the person would return toward better health. He saw a person as much more than just a physical body that is treated in conventional medicine; he saw that the body is just part of the picture. Illness, he suggested, was a message from our inner self for a change in our way of living and our mental outlook. The primary purpose of the flower essences is to help us to change and bring us back to the genuinely happy experience of life.

"I want to make it as simple as this: I am hungry, I will go and pull a lettuce from the garden for my tea; I am frightened and ill, I will take a dose of Mimulus."         Dr. Bach