Edward Bach was a particular physician, with one eye always turned to the patient and one immersed in nature. Attentive observer of natural phenomena, sensitive herbalist. He stubbornly sought a method of self-healing based on the remedies that nature makes available to man. And he found it in the flowers.
Edward Bach (1886 - 1936)
Edward Bach was born in Wales and from an early age showed an innate sensitivity and a strong spirit of observation towards natural phenomena. He studies with passion at the University of Birmingham and becomes a doctor; soon, given his extraordinary intelligence and his omnivorous curiosity, he developed an intolerance towards the academic environment.
Edward Bach's approach to the disease
Edward Bach soon understands that illness is not just an isolated manifestation; it is indeed a question that the body advances and that the spirit must listen to, if it does not want to remain trapped in malaise. Not only. Most of his colleagues in lab coat focused on the disease and not on the patient. Bach understands that the isolated symptom reveals very little and therefore begins to study homeopathic medicine and to explore the vast world of experimentation in the field of care.
When the doctor treats himself
Medice, cura te ipsum is a motto that fits very well into the life of our Edward Bach. In 1917 Bach was operated on following a severe bleeding. The operation was successful, but the doctors had told Bach a very low life expectancy. Bach did not give up, he closed the doctor's office in London, threw himself headlong into the study, refused all treatment and started a research that had only one final purpose: to find a therapy that was simple, natural, designed to be usable by anyone .
Listening according to Edward Bach
When you choose yours among the various Bach remedies try to examine as honestly as possible your mental and emotional state; review habits, fears, and discomforts. In a word: listen to yourself. Bach himself, in drawing up the list of 38 remedies, was thinking of cataloging as a precious set of ad hoc remedies, for each remedy corresponds to a precise psychological type. It is not easy to understand which Bach flowers are suitable for one's person: Edward Bach knew this very well and advised his patients to choose those they are initially attracted to and start experimenting with them.
The initial curiosity is then transformed into a form of knowledge that can be spent at any time in order to understand which remedy to dilute and take depending on how we feel. Bach said it clearly, the choice of remedy must be something immediate. If I'm hungry, I eat. If I am experiencing a moment of discomfort, when I fear anyone's judgment and I fear everything, I take a dose of Mimulus .
The Bach Center
The Bach Center was born in England, in Mount Vernon, in honor of the great doctor and bacteriologist. The center is managed by a team of expert therapists, profound connoisseurs of the remedies and authors of books on Bach who hold training courses, organize seminars. The center is open to the public and can be visited on weekdays. If you are thinking about a spring outing, know that at the Bach Center you will see the operators preparing the remedies in the large garden surrounding the building. If instead you want to know the past and future of Bach flowers without moving another part of the body than a finger for a click, there is the BFRP ( Bach flower research program ), an English program of permanent research on Bach remedies.
Edward Bach often repeated to his patients and to himself:
Health is the complete and harmonious union of soul, mind and body; it is not an ideal so difficult to achieve, but something easy and natural that many of us have neglected.
