How do Bach flowers work?

Dr. Bach's flowers have a history spanning more than 90 years. They're 38 floral essences developed to move through emotions that condition our life and our behaviour in negative ways, placing us in experiences that drain our vital energy.

The WHO has recognised Bach flowers as a complementary therapy since 1976, and in my practice and experience as a user, I can say that, in certain cases where the signs of lost wellbeing aren't extreme, they can be a complete therapeutic option.

Bach flowers have no active ingredient. Because of this, they don't create addiction or dependency. They're essences from specific wild flowers, plants and shrubs that resolve mental and emotional states rather than states of physical illness.

My sense of illness is that its final stage is the manifestation of physical disease. But to get there, the signs and symptoms of disturbance have already passed through the energetic, emotional and mental planes before materialising on the physical plane.

In other words, the disruption has already happened on many planes before the physical illness, which only shows the crystallised alteration of the invisible planes.

Bach flowers work through vibrational frequency. This means that, if you're going through a moment of sadness or paralysing fear, taking the flower that regulates the vibration of that sadness or paralysing fear invites, through its vibration, a lowering of the intensity of the dysregulated emotion. It's as if the flower raises the vibration so that the emotion we're experiencing lowers in intensity, and the mental and physical imbalances that emotion causes can resolve.

At the start of a Bach flower treatment, we can experience something that in the field we call "flower hunger": we feel like taking the preparation and we never forget a dose. This happens because we need the flower's vibration to regulate ourselves — the body recognises it, and so do our emotions. So we follow the treatment to the letter.

When the treatment has taken effect, we may start forgetting to take the preparation more than once throughout the day.

That's a clear sign that we're doing better. However, it's very important to finish the treatment (the whole bottle of the preparation) for the effect to be lasting.

Sometimes adjustments and changes are needed in the combination of flowers we're using. That's why fortnightly visits are needed, to see how the emotions are transforming or, alternatively, to detect which emotions, sensations or symptoms aren't responding.

Working with Bach flowers can be short (2 visits over 1 month) or can take a bit longer, depending on the needs of each particular case.

If you haven't tried this therapy yet, I invite you to do so. Especially if you're going through an emotional process where you feel some extra help would do you good.

Bach flowers don't disappoint, and they're very effective.