What is the history of Flower remedies?
In the 1930s Dr. Edward Bach undertook a quest to find a method of treatment that would embrace the mind and spirit of a person. Before that, written records can trace this attitude back to Plato in the forth century BC – though no doubt the practice of using sacred and healing plants is as old as humankind. But Edward Bach went further than anyone had gone before in recorded times. During his practice as a homeopath he came to realize that stress from long held emotions such as anger, fear and worry lowered a person’s resistance to disease. And further, that an individual’s emotional outlook influenced the course, duration and severity of the illness. Whilst this would not surprise most health practitioners in any time, Bach had also found that people suffering from the same illness did not always respond well to the same remedy, unless they also shared a similar temperament and attitude. Bach came to believe that disease is in fact the consolidation of long term negative attitudes of
