Dr. Edward Bach

Dr. Edward Bach was born on the 24th September, 1886. He decided on a  medical career and, subsequently, became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1912. He was also awarded the Degrees M.B. (Bachelor of Medicine) and B.S. (Bachelor of Science), together with The Diploma in Public Health Camb. (Cambridge) in 1914. His appointment as Pathologist and Bacteriologist at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, led to his famous Nosode work before later practising as a Consultant Physician in Harley Street.

The Flower Remedies became his life’s work when he discovered how the various plants and trees affected his thoughts and feelings. He came to understand that for each human emotional state or pattern, there is a flower whose essence possesses an equal and opposite pattern. When these plants are used for their complementary (opposite) states, they balance our emotions and, consequently, assist in the prevention and treatment of physical illness.

Dr. Bach was ahead of his time by understanding how emotional states lead to physical illness if they are left untreated. A fact which is now recognised and accepted by today’s medical profession. He spent the last years of his life endeavouring to make this simple, gentle and very effective system of natural medicine available to everyone. By the end, Edward Bach identified 38 different flower remedies, which were categorized into seven emotional groupings for ease of use.