Flower therapy is a sweet and natural treatment method created in the first half of the 900 by the English doctor Edward Bach .

He understood that the best way to cure oneself is to make use of the resources that nature makes available to us and dedicated his life to the study and identification of remedies that are a subtle link between us and the flower energy of the plant.

By observing the "character" of a flower, which is the maximum expression of the plant, it is possible to similarly recognize characteristics of the human personality and, through the energy of the flower, rebalance its defects. In this way he perceived the therapeutic properties of wild flowers and identified 38, universally recognized as Bach Flowers.

Orally taken in the form of drops, these remedies act positively by rebalancing those states of mind that make us sick.

These flower remedies, full of healing vibrations, stimulate the vital force and the capacity of each organism to provide for its own healing through an inner transformation process.

Flower therapy is a simple, natural and devoid of side effects treatment method, as, as Bach claimed, everything in nature is simple, so everyone with the adequate knowledge of plants and flowers can autonomously prepare and use them.

Summer is the right time for the preparation of flower essences. The summer months are in fact the most suitable for the collection of flowers that can also be found in our countryside.

There are two methods for the preparation of flower essences: The sun method and the boiling method.

For both methods the corollas in full bloom are used, harvested in their natural habitat in truly uncontaminated areas. The harvest takes place in the early morning hours on a clear and sunny day.

The only ingredients for the production of flower essences with the sun method are: a glass bowl, spring water, sun and the right flowers.

After collecting the flowers, they are placed in the glass bowl filled with spring water, completely covering the surface. The bowl is then exposed to the sun by placing it on the ground near the harvesting plants for about three hours, so that the water assimilates the vital energy of the flower. During solarization it is important that no cloud obscures the sun, even for a moment. When the corollas begin to wither and the water fills with bubbles, the flowers are eliminated and the water is filtered by pouring it into a glass bottle and adding an equal amount of brandy.

The method of the sun is used for flowers that bloom in late spring and summer, when the sun is at the height of its strength, intensity and energy power.

For the flowers that instead reach the maximum bloom in the months in which the sun is less strong, the method of the boiling is used .

In this case it will be the fire of the stove to take the place of the sun, integrating and completing the energizing process.

With the boiling method the freshly picked corollas are placed in an enamel pot filled with spring water, put the pan on the fire and boiled for about half an hour. The mixture is then left to cool and the liquid obtained is filtered with a sieve by pouring it into a glass bottle and adding an equal amount of brandy.

With these two procedures we obtain the mother tincture that is used for the preparation of concentrated remedies, better known as " stock bottle".

The stock bottles are obtained by pouring 2 drops of the mother tincture in 10 ml of brandy and are those bottles that we normally buy in herbal medicine or pharmacy.

For the intake the remedy should be further diluted to the dose of 2 drops of the stock bottle in a 30 ml bottle containing ¾ of water and ¼ of brandy.

It is important for a good preparation of the personal bottle (the 30 ml bottle containing 2 drops of each flower remedy), do not use tap water or distilled water, which is a "dead" element, but a good natural mineral water in a glass bottle .

If you do not want to use the brandy, which is necessary to preserve the remedy, you can replace it with apple vinegar. It is the case of people who cannot take alcohol even in minimal dosages, or children.

Personal care bottles prepared in this way should be consumed within 1-2 months of preparation.

Alternatively it is possible to dilute the remedies only with water with the warning to repeat the preparation every 5 or 6 days.

After preparing the bottle with the personal mixture, the flowers should be taken, unless otherwise specified, in the dosage of 4 sublingual drops 4 times a day, taking them at regular intervals during the day: morning, noon, afternoon and evening.

There are no contraindications to the use of flowers, so much so that they can also be taken by children, the elderly and pregnant women.

Dr. Bach's intention was to create a gentle, natural, effective and affordable method of care.

Thus he presented it in 1936 at the Wallingford Masonic Conference:

"The whole healing principle of this method is so simple that it can be understood practically by everyone and even the herbs themselves can be harvested and prepared by anyone who enjoys this."

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Agrimony (agrimony eupatoria)

Aspen (populus tremula)

Beech (fagus sylvatica)

Centaury (centaurium umbellatum / erythraea)

Cerato (ceratostigma willmottiana)

Cherry Plum (prunus cerasifera)