A Short History of Bach Flower Remedies
Edward Bach (1886 – 1936) was born in Moseley near Birmingham into a family of
welsh extraction. He trained as a Dr and qualified in 1912. He went onto develop a
private practice near Harley Street, London. But slowly he became dissatisfied with
the results of orthodox medicine.
His health was poor and was refused service for WW1 and became very ill himself in
1917. He was determined to continue his work which led to a complete recovery.
From 1919 – 1922 he worked as a bacteriologist at the London Homeopathic
Hospital.
He discovered the work of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Homoeopathy, and
recognized the importance of personality and disease. Dr Bach was already
convinced following one’s true vocation is essential to spiritual and physical health.
He still had his Harley Street practice and in his spare time continued to search for a
simple method of treatment. In 1928, at a dinner party, he realised people fell into
several distinct groups. He realised each group of people would react differently to
illness.
In the autumn of 1928 he visited Wales and came back with two plants, Mimulus and
Impatiens and used them on patience after preparing an oral vaccine in the usual
way for that time. He had immediate success. He prescribed according to
personality. Later that year he added Clematis.
In 1930, aged 43, he closed his practice and went to Wales to find more plants from
the countryside. Walking one day he realised intuitively the dew on the flowers
heated by the sun would transmit the healing properties from the flower into the
dew giving him the ‘sun method of preparation’ using natural spring water. From
August 1930 to 1934 Dr Bach live in Cromer, Norfolk, finding more flowers for his
system.
In 1934 he moved to Mount Vernon, Oxfordshire to continue his work. At that time
he suffered himself mentally and physically before finding the next appropriate plant
to affect his condition. He developed the 38 remedies and Rescue Remedy before his
peaceful death there in 1936.
Mount Vernon is still the home of the Bach Flower Remedies and remains the centre
of the training programme today.
“Health can be no more obtained by payment of gold than a child can purchase his
education: no sum of money can teach the pupil to write, he must learn himself,
guided by an experienced teacher. And so it is with health.”
Edward Bach.
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Filed under Health & Healing by on Sep 16th, 2009. 
