“Flower essences are a unique and subtle form of vibrational medicine that has become increasingly popular over the last sixty to seventy years. Although most people familiar with this healing approach think that flower-essence therapy originated during the beginning of the twentieth century, there is evidence suggesting that flower essences are an extremely ancient healing modality. While flower essences may be foreign to most American doctors, they have been successfully used throughout Europe (especially in England) by many health-care practitioners. This unique form of vibrational medicine can be quite powerful in rebalancing the many subtle-energy systems of the multidimensional human being.” (Gerber, Vibrational Medicine for the 21st Century: 198)

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“The development of flower essences as a healing modality is often credited to an English physician by the name of Dr. Edward Bach, who lived in the early 1900s. Bach was actually a bacteriologist. His field of study today would be comparable to that of an infectious-disease specialist. He studied diseases that were linked to infections caused by specific types of bacteria. Bach had worked for years trying to find treatments for patients that were less toxic that the therapies of his day had to offer. During his search, he came across the idea of giving liquid tinctures prepared from flowers. Bach was a radical for his time because he strongly felt that the mind and the emotions played a substantial role in most illnesses. Bach came to believe that if one could rebalance a patients’ emotions, then their illnesses, regardless of the cause, would most likely improve. It seemed to Dr. Bach that remedies borrowed from nature might hold the answer to the less toxic emotional-rebalancing therapy he sought. As it turned out, Bach was not only a trained physician, he was also an intuitive or “psychically sensitive” human being.

One day, during a morning stroll through the English countryside, he happened upon what eventually came to be known as the Bach Flowers. As he stopped in front of a particular flower, he suddenly became overwhelmed with strong emotions that seemed to come from outside himself. Based on an intuitive hunch, Bach spread some of the morning dew that had collected upon the flower directly on his lips. As the dewdrops from the flowers touched his mouth, the strong emotion quickly vanished, returning him to his previous state of calm. It appeared that Bach could sense from different flowers the kind of emotional disturbances which each specimen was capable of neutralizing and rebalancing. He soon discovered that by ingesting a small amount of a flower’s sun-drenched dewdrops, that flower’s healing and balancing properties could be easily transmitted to an individual.” (Gerber, Vibrational Medicine for the 21st Century: 200-201)