What are Flower Essences?

Flower Essences are natural, liquid~herbal products made from the flowers of a select variety of wild plants. Taken internally, they are a complementary therapy used to help gently address transient emotional and behavioural problems ~ naturally. They were discovered in the 1930's by respected surgeon, bacteriologist and homeopath Dr Edward Bach (of the Bach Flower Remedies and Rescue Remedy™), and have been used throughout the world for over 75 years by sportsmen/women, doctors, actors, the military, vets, 'celebrities', Royalty & people with their pets.

Flower Essence literature suggests that these natural products can be used alongside other treatments and have no known side effects.

A natural and gentle solution to emotional and behavioural problems.

> Learn more about Dr Edward Bach of the 'Bach Flower Remedies'

> Learn more about How Flower Essences Are Made

> Learn more about the Bach Flower Remedies

Water Memory ~ how we capture the Energy Signature of the Flowers

Although Homeopathic Medicine is different to Flower Essence Therapy, there are similarities in the methods in which the ‘energy signature’ of the source material is stored. This is by means of a phenomenon called: ‘Water Memory’. The rationale for proponents of this phenomenon is that water is capable of retaining a memory of particles that have either been dissolved into it (in the case of traditional Homoeopathy) or of flowers that have been submerged into it (in the case of Flower Essences).

Therefore the ‘source material’ could be a Popula tremula flower, for instance, that is submerged into fresh spring water. Once left in the sunlight for a few hours to ‘infuse’, or in other words; for the water to collect the memory of the plant; the unique ‘energy signature’ (the molecular composition) of Popula tremula will be stored forever within that spring water. The next step is for the infused spring water to be preserved (usually using brandy) and then it becomes a Flower Remedy that is used for the unique emotional problem that Popula tremula is understood to address; in this case – fear.

The notion of water having the capacity to obtain a ‘memory’ has proven to be a controversial one amongst many members of the scientific community. However, recent studies by some eminent scientists have shown that, although still not fully understood, there is some validity to this ‘concept’. Each flower (for instance) has a unique ‘molecular fingerprint’ that can be observed through a powerful microscope when studying the water that it has been submerged into. And Microscopic photographs have also shown that the molecular structure of water does change when infused with particular particles, this is after the water has been diluted so extensively (by thousands of percent of the original concentration) that logic and science would predict that there would be no trace whatsoever of the added particle. In such studies the water behaves in a way that is not fully understood by scientists and is apparently in contradiction to the laws of known science. To learn more about this subject and to read the arguments for and against please click here (and scroll down to the WATER MEMORY articles).