Flower therapy uses among Bach Centaury flowers, to cure the tiredness and the physical exhaustion that derive from the desire to help and support the needs of others, abusing their own strengths and energies. They are very selfless and generous people who wish to serve and support others, to the point of becoming more " servants " than helpers. Too available, they forget to take care of themselves and their lives; for excess of generosity, they exhaust all energies, without obtaining any recognition for their own efforts and qualities.
The sense of inadequacy and fatigue, which warns those in need of Centaury (combined with masochism and inferiority complexes), is the result of servile and submissive attitude : of taking on too much work, neglecting one's own needs and one's particular mission in life.
For this reason, these people get sick easily, for no apparent reason. They suffer from exhaustion, chronic fatigue, energy weakness due to lower defenses. They may experience tachycardia, arrhythmias, gastritis, dyspepsia, and back pain .
The personality of Centaury : Centaurium Umbellatum
Edward Bach, the father of flower therapy, to identify plants to be associated with altered moods, made use of the Theory of Signatures, used until then to connect the organs to be treated to the plants capable of healing those organs, through the form of the vegetable or its functions. Bach went further. He related the plant's personality and its behavior in nature with the characters of men and their ways of acting, which are the basis of the alteration of emotional states, on which his flower remedies act.
The centauris are annual, biennial or perennial herbaceous plants, with alternate leaves . As with all Compositae, the flowers are arranged in flower heads, wrapped in a wrapper of bracts; the color ranges from pink to purple and violet, but there are also species with yellow flowers. They bloom between May and September and open only in good weather. The fruits are achenes.
Widespread in Asia and Europe, it grows in moist soil, hidden among the maquis, making it difficult to observe. It rises erect from 5 to 35 cm in fields and dry meadows, at the edge of roads and in deforested areas. It is a small and modest plant that grows in the shade of other plants and therefore does not attract attention. The centaurea is characterized by a great delicacy and fragility, as well as sensitive, vulnerable are the people who need this remedy: little inclined to assert themselves, they are always ready to express feeling and affectivity, those qualities that a harmonized Centaury knows how to manifest in the manner best.
The personality of Centaury in humans
Considered the flower of the "people-doormat ", the Bach Centaury flower helps defend and protect itself from those who tend to exploit generosity and excessive availability: in a nutshell, it teaches to "say no"!
Like the plant, the individual is fragile and submissive, lacks initiative and lives in the shadow of others, in symbiosis with someone, with a strong and dominant character that acts as his guide and master, but ends up exploiting him. Hypersensitive to the needs of others, it is incapable of imposing itself on others, it needs the pleasure of others, so it is easily used by other more opportunistic and less scrupulous characters, ending up taking on more responsibility than it owes or can support, abusing and demanding too much of their own strength. He lets himself be influenced both by compliments and criticisms: he blushes, hides, stutters, isolates himself. He does not feel strong enough to solve his problems and thus commits to solving those of others.
Centaury helps to develop the will, which serves the individual to express his identity and realize his mission. With his assumption, one does not change one's nature as a generous and selfless person, but it is directed towards a higher end, developing the energy to serve a valid cause, a high ideal, rather than the selfish interests of someone else . Thus it is possible to affirm one's own personality, adopting a more balanced attitude towards others. Personal dignity and a sense of proportion are recovered, determination, determination, vitality, energy and the ability to express one's point of view triumph.
