A History of Bach Flower Remedies

Bach Flower Remedies were developed by Dr Edward Bach who was a medical professional working as a house surgeon and in general practice, having a set of consulting rooms in Harley Street, and as a bacteriologist and later a pathologist he worked on vaccines and a set of homoeopathic nosodes still known as the seven Bach nosodes.

Despite being a success in the orthodox medicine field he felt dissatisfied with the way doctors were expected to concentrate on diseases rather than the people who were suffering them. This led him to concentrate on his homeopathic knowledge and to leave his Harley Street practice in 1930, dedicating the rest of his life to finding a new system of medicine from nature.

He used his intuition to guide him and he found the remedies he wanted, each aimed at a particular mental state or emotion. Through research he found that when he treated the personalities and feelings of his patients their unhappiness and physical distress would be alleviated as the natural healing potential in their bodies was unblocked and allowed to work once more.

Dr Bach moved to Mount Vernon in Oxfordshire in 1934 and completed the series of the 38 remedies. He passed away peacefully in November 1936. He was only 50 years old, but he has left behind him several lifetime's experience and effort, and a system of medicine that is now used all over the world.