Question & Answers
Q: What are Bach flower remedies?
A. Bach Flower Remedies are a natural, safe way of bringing inner peace and balance to individuals. First discovered between the 1920s and 1930s by Dr. Edward Bach in England, these flower remedies work by helping individuals balance any negative emotions they might be experiencing, such as feelings of fear, anxiety, worry, uncertainty, or a lack of confidence. These types of feelings interfere with our equilibrium, in turn affecting our health. In today’s modern world, people suffer from various lifestyle diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and stress-related illnesses due to emotional imbalance. Bach Flower Remedies will help restore our true selves and improve our emotional balance, thus giving the body its natural ability to heal itself and restore health. There are 38 different remedies available that help overcome a variety of negative emotions that affect both people and animals. These flower essences help people overcome the negative state of mind, develop positive virtues, and transform negative behavioral patterns for a better YOU.
Q. How do Bach flower remedies work?
A. Bach flower remedies work at the energy level of our subtle bodies, as each flower carries a certain frequency of vibrations that resonates with the human frequency of mental states. When the right flower is taken, the energy of the flower transforms the low vibrating frequencies of our emotional imbalances to a higher frequency, restoring balance and harmony.
Q: Do Bach flower remedies have any side effects?
Bach flower remedies are subtle forms of treatment that influence the energy pattern of the body. The remedies as such have no side effects at all, even in the case of wrong remedies taken or overdosage. But at times, some flaring up of symptoms is reported in a few cases, and in such instances, there is no need to panic but to reach out to your Bach flower consultant to look into the same or to work out a different selection of remedies.
Q. What is the difference between the local Bach Remedies Brands sold at Homeopathy Pharmacies and the 'Treatment Bottle' Personal Mix available with Bach Foundation Practitioners?
A: Homeopathy Pharmaceutical Companies potentize Bach Flower Remedies for commercial reasons, as the availability of the Mother Tincture is scarce and stock concentrates available to prepare the 'Treatment Bottle' are expensive. Potentize here means diluting the remedies for mass production without adhering to Dr. Bach's original method of preparing the remedies. Potentizing does not increase the effectiveness of remedies like classic homeopathic medicines; on the contrary, the energy patterns are broken up by the homeopathic potentization. More over, medicines prepared by homeopathic pharmacies contain 90–92% alcohol, which is not suitable for many. That is why, most of the time, remedies available in homeopathic pharmacies do not work or take years because the dilution of the remedies loses its original strength.
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Q. Are Bach flower remedies prescribed for physical ailments?
A. No. Bach flower remedies are not prescribed for physical ailments. It is recommended that Bach flowers be used as a supportive modality for any physical illness, from the common cold to cancer. Most of the time, it helps in improving the psychological states that often accompany an illness, like resignation, hopelessness, and impatience, so that the body’s natural ability to heal itself is restored. If a therapist prescribes Bach remedies for physical diseases and complaints, it is an indication that he or she is not a qualified therapist.
Q: Does the alcohol content in the remedies have any negative effects?
Healing Works makes personalized remedy bottles only from glycerin-based Original Bach Flower Remedies stock concentrate imported from the U.K. Our stock concentrates and treatment bottles are completely alcohol-free.
Q: Are Bach Flowers remedies habit-forming?
Bach flower remedies are not habit-forming, as they are taken to re-establish harmony and ward off negative emotions. When the balance is restored, the essence has no effect, and the person may naturally stop taking remedies out of lack of interest or forget to take them.
Q: Is there any placebo effect in Bach Flowers?
A: Any healing modality has a placebo effect. However, the real effects of Bach Flower Remedies are seen in children, animals, and plants who do not consciously take the remedies, and the positive effects on them speak for the effectiveness of the remedies. Any placebo effect could be short-term, and long-term effectiveness is only due to the remedies themselves.
Q: Is it possible to combine other medicines with Bach flowers?
A: Absolutely yes. Bach flowers can be safely combined with other medicines and allopathic treatments without fear of any side effects.
Q: What happens if I take the wrong Bach flower remedy?
Nothing will happen if you make the wrong choice of remedy. The wrong flowers will neither negatively nor positively affect you; rather, they will have no effect on you.
Q: Are there standard combinations for specific problems or situations?
A: Except for the rescue remedy combination, there are no specific combinations for situations or problems like what has been publicized these days. Say, for example, that a girl is not married, which is an issue for her and her parents. There are no remedy combinations for'marriage' as every person's emotional state differs in the case of not getting married. Some may feel resentful about their situation, and some may have given up their hope of getting married. So a one-fits-all combination never works, though the issue could be just not getting married.
Q: Can Bach flower remedies be used as preventive measures?
A: Bach flower remedies are used to restore balance and harmony when they have been lost. Bach flower effects will have no effect when a person is balanced emotionally. Having said that, when we are emotionally balanced, a lot of lifestyle diseases can be prevented, and Bach remedies are best known to increase immunity.