Bach Flower Remedies: Form and Function

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SteinerBooks, 2004 - 349 páginas
"Today, disease and death control us ever more strongly with a litany of viruses, cancers, and heart disorders. The causes may be vaccinations, environmental poisons, despoliation of food, or pollution of the elements--earth, water and air. For Bach the cause was clear and it is clear today: 'It is only because we have forsaken Nature's way for man's way that we have suffered, and we have only to return to be released from our trials. In the presence of the way of Nature disease has no power; all fear, all depression, all hopelessness can be set aside. There is no disease of itself which is incurable.'" --Julian Barnard

In the 1920s, the physician and homeopath Dr. Edward Bach made his great discovery of the healing effects of various flower essences. Intense and revelatory, his experiences in nature resulted in thirty-eight "flower remedies." He describes these as bringing courage to the fearful, peace to the anguished, and strength to the weak. But the therapeutic effects of the remedies were never limited to emotional states. They are equally effective in the treatment of physical disorders.

Barnard begins the process of explaining this phenomenon. He describes how Bach made his discoveries and examines the living qualities of the plants in their context and how the remedies are actually produced. The result is remarkable. The author recounts his observations so that readers can experience, in a living way, the complex ways in which the remedy plants grow--their gestures and qualities, ecology, botany, and behavior.

This exciting book is a trumpet call to attend to nature in a new way. Fully illustrated.

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Índice

A Growing Sensitivity
17
Down by the Riverside
31
The Sun Method
59
Heal ThyselfFree Thyself
71
Not the Right Remedy
85
Cromer
93
The Last of the First Twelve
123
The Architecture of the Twelve Healers
137
What Has Got Into You?
227
The Coming of the Light
241
Making the Pattern Breaking the Pattern
247
Apathy Depression and Despair
267
The Pattern in Practice
279
The Story of the Travellers
287
Twelve Ways of Being Unwell
293
Which Plants Come From Where?
295

The Four Helpers
143
The Seven Helpers
171
The First of the Second Nineteen
185
The Boiling Method
199
Holding Back from Involvement in Life
205
Finding Fault with the World Around Us
217
Homeopathy Dilutions and a Numbers Game
299
Chronology from 1886 to 2002
305
Building a Repertory of Plant Gestures
311
Notes
319
Index
339
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Página 246 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 100 - From the earliest period of my recollection, when I can just remember tugging ineffectually with all my infant strength at the tough stalks of the Wild Succory on the chalky hillocks about Norwich, I have found the study of Nature an increasing source of unalloyed pleasure, and a consolation and refuge under every pain. Long destined to other pursuits, and directed to other studies, thought more advantageous or necessary, I could often snatch but a few moments for this...
Página 94 - Which is the gist of all that can be said upon the matter. There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow, to jar on the meditative silence of the morning. And so long as a man is reasoning he cannot surrender himself to that fine intoxication that comes of much motion in the open air, that begins in a sort of dazzle and sluggishness of the brain, and ends in a peace that passes comprehension.
Página 180 - Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord.
Página 231 - Matter itself has been called " frozen force," and, as Boscovich has said, is only known to us as localized points of attraction and repulsion. For membranes soft as silk her kernel bind, Whereof the inmost is of tenderest kind, Like those which on the brain of man we find ; All which are in a seam-joined shell inclosed, Which of this brain the skull may be supposed.
Página 151 - dry and dead, Still clad with reliques of its trophies old, Lifting to heaven its aged, hoary head, Whose foot on earth hath got but feeble hold — " — even such a tree as Spenser has thus described is strikingly beautiful : decay in this case looks pleasing.
Página 215 - ... in such a manner as that every two plants may be brought to intersect each other in the form of a St Andrew's cross. In that part where the two plants cross each other, he gently scrapes off the bark, and binds them with straw thwart-wise.
Página 231 - Wall-nuts have the perfect Signature of the Head: The outer husk or green Covering, represent the Pericranium, or outward skin of the skull, whereon the hair groweth, and therefore salt made of those husks or barks, are exceeding good for wounds in the head.
Página 94 - ... essence ; because you should be able to stop and go on, and follow this way or that, as the freak takes you; and because you must have your own pace, and neither trot alongside a champion walker, nor mince in time with a girl. And then you must be open to all impressions and let your thoughts take colour from what you see. You should be as a pipe for any wind to play upon. " I cannot see the wit," says Hazlitt, "of walking and talking at the same time.

Acerca do autor (2004)

Julian Barnard has lived and worked in Walterstone on the Welsh border for the past twenty years. Born in the Thames Valley in 1947 to a family with connections to the great English botanists John Henslow and Joseph Hooker, he was brought up with a love of plants. He went to school at Oxford and trained at the Architectural Association in London. Finding a copy of The Twelve Healers led to a training in herbal medicine with Dorothy Hall in Australia. The author of a series of books about Dr. Bach's flower remedies, including The Healing Herbs of Edward Bach: An Illustrated Guide to the Flower Remedies, he has also edited and published the Collected Writings of Edward Bach, the first complete edition of Bach's works. In 1986 he was instrumental in establishing the Bach Educational Program to bring flower remedies to a wider public. Still actively engaged in education, he has given talks and workshops in more than a dozen countries in Europe and the Americas.

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