What is the difference between the 1936 edition of The Twelve Healers and more recent Bach Centre-authorised editions?
Ever since Dr Bach wrote it, The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies has always been the most important book on the remedies. At the Bach Centre we have always seen it as a working text – not a historical document, but a manual that everyone can use. Every practitioner has a copy – and even now, we go back to the remedy descriptions in The Twelve Healers all the time. Every time we do, we get new insight into the system. As a working text, The Twelve Healers has been added to and edited over the years to try to meet new needs as they arise. This is exactly what Dr Bach did during his lifetime – indeed, the first changes after 1936 were dictated by Dr Bach shortly before his death. Comparing the 1936 facsimile edition and the 2009 Bach Centre ebook edition, for example, the main differences are: • The 2010 version contains the longer introduction dictated by Dr Bach at the end of October, 1936 – after the 1936 edition had been published. • A line of the Rock Rose description referring to