The remedy making process

Firstly, through meticulous searching throughout the British countryside (and further afield), we choose the most natural, organic and unspoilt location for making each remedy.

Early in the morning, on a beautifully clear, sunny day, the flowers are carefully selected for their quality, vigour and splendour and are then infused in spring water using the traditional 'Solar' method (where applicable).

During the next few hours the elements of nature combine to release the flowers' unique, positive energy (to learn more about this process please read the 'Water Memory' article - scroll-right).

Once the water is fully charged it is preserved using a quality brandy. This pure, invigorated and potent flower remedy is now ready for bottling.

At 'Creature Comforters UK' we maintain very high standards and adhere resolutely to Dr Bach's specific instructions when making and bottling our remedies and essences. We are one of the few remaining flower essence companies who still use this traditional, natural and (in our opinion) superior method of manufacture.

Our remedies are made the
way Dr Bach intended...

We, at Creature Comforters, passionately believe that Flower Remedies should be made in the traditional way. Therefore, during the entire manufacturing process: flower collection, 'infusion' and bottling, all our products hand-prepared with care, attention and sensitivity. We are also distinct in that we blend all our essences to a traditional stock concentration, direct from the 'Mother' tincture - precisely as stipulated by Dr Bach (the man who discovered the Flower Remedies in the 1930s). This method is reported to give each remedy an extra potency.

We remain resolutely faithful to Dr Edward Bach's original instructions - using the natural, time-honoured and preferable 'Solar' method of infusion (where applicable).

Creature Comforters is a relatively small Flower Essence company, unlike more familiar / ubiquitous Bach Remedy manufacturers (we aren't owned by a large international pharmaceutical company). We also make no products other than Flower Essences and, perhaps because of these two things, we are able to devote the time and effort needed to make each Remedy in the traditional way ~ by hand, using the 'Solar' method, and to the correct concentration. We take no short cuts in the making of our remedies!

Learn more about this process in the following article > > >

To learn more about Dr Bach and his Bach Flower Remedies please click here...

The Power of Flowers
Article by J Stevenson and A Digby
For Blue Skies Newsletter, September 2008

Flower Remedies were first discovered in the 1930s by consultant surgeon and bacteriologist Dr Edward Bach. He studied medicine at the University College Hospital, London, and progressed to Harley Street where he presided over a successful practice for over 20 years. However, despite the success of his work with orthodox medicine, Bach felt dissatisfied with the way doctors were expected to concentrate solely on the diseases that people suffered whist ignoring the people who were suffering them. Inspired by his work with homeopathy he looked to find a simpler remedial method that would focus on the emotional catalysts and consequences of illness rather than the illness itself. He once said: “Take no notice of the disease; think only of the outlook on life of the one in distress.” So in 1930: he abandoned the scientific methods he had previously used; he gave up his lucrative Harley Street practice; he left London and moved to the countryside and he went on a ‘voyage of discovery’. Dr Bach dedicated the rest of his life to finding and developing a new system of medicine that he was sure could be found in nature.

Dr Bach would travel the length and breadth of the meadows and lanes of the United Kingdom (specifically Oxfordshire, Wales and Norfolk) and, using his natural gifts as a healer and his intuition as a guide, he would select individual flowers that he believed could help various negative emotional states. Once he found himself experiencing the negative emotional state that he needed to cure, he would then try various plants until he found the one single plant that could help him overcome that emotion. One-by-one he found the remedies he wanted, each aimed at a particular mental state or emotion ~ he discovered thirty eight in all. Dr Bach found that, when he treated the personalities and feelings of his patients, their unhappiness and physical distress would be alleviated as the natural healing potential in their bodies was unblocked and allowed to work once more. In this way, through great personal suffering and sacrifice, he completed his life's work.

Dr Bach's wish was that everyone, whether medically trained or not, would have the means to use his healing system of Flower Remedies. It was also said he was also keen to develop a straightforward pharmacopoeia and simple method of production so that they could actually be made by others too (by following his precise instructions). Therefore, it is well known, by Dr Bach literarys, that he would have commended - nay celebrated, the situation we have now, over seventy years after his death, where there are hundreds of small, independent Flower Essence Companies, all over the world, making and selling the remedies ~ just like Creature Comforters UK. This was precisely Dr Bach's wish.

Dr Bach passed away on the evening of November 27th, 1936. He was only 50 years old, but has left behind him a lifetime's experience and dedication, and a highly respected system of medicine that is now used all over the world. He also gave us the, now famous, Rescue Remedy™ which is used by millions throughout the world including actors, musicians, politicians, 'celebrities', the military, doctors, vets, Olympic sports men and women and members of the Royal family!

What are Flower Remedies?

They are a complementary therapy in liquid~herbal form made from the ‘flowering’ organs of a select variety of wild plants ~ of their flowers, catkins and tree buds. Flower Remedies are a natural and gentle therapy that, as literature suggests, can be used alongside other treatments without affecting other medicines or therapies, they also have no known side effects. Each remedy bottle usually contains roughly 50% spring water, 50% Brandy (used as a ‘natural’ preservative) and the ‘energy signature’ of a particular plant. [Stock bottles are preserved in 100% brandy]. Taken internally, the remedies are used to help gently address transient emotional and behavioural problems ~ naturally. For example; a person may have suffered a bereavement or loss and therefore may be finding it difficult to ‘move on’ and look to the future with hope and enthusiasm. In this instance they may be prescribed a course of Honeysuckle and Walnut which, as Dr Bach found, can help to alleviate feelings of grief, regret or wistfulness, e.g. ‘longing for times past’.

How do they work?

Although Homeopathic Medicine is different to Flower Remedy Therapy, they both use the stored ‘vibration’ or, what’s commonly known as; ‘energy signature’ of a specified plant to unlock the healing potential of that living material. With Flower Remedies this is done 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 the vibration of particles or flowers that have been placed into it for a specified period of time and by a specified means (to learn more about this process read additional Water Memory articles).

Therefore the ‘source material’ could, for example, be a Verbena officinalis flower that, using Dr Bach’s traditional method, is first submerged into fresh spring water and is then left in the sunlight for a few hours to ‘infuse’. Once the water has collected the memory of Verbena officinalis its’ unique ‘energy signature’ will be stored forever within that spring water. The next step is for the infused spring water to be preserved (usually using brandy) and thus it becomes a Flower Remedy that is used for the unique emotional or behavioural problems that Verbena officinalis is understood to address; in this case – fanaticism or intensity.

The notion of water having the capacity to retain a ‘memory’ has proven to be a controversial one amongst many members of the scientific community (and often an inconceivable one to the layman!). However, recent studies by some eminent scientists have shown that, although still not fully understood, there is some validity to this ‘concept’. When studying the water that it has been placed into: each flower (for instance) imparts a unique ‘fingerprint of energy’ into the water – these subtle, yet distinct changes can be observed through a powerful microscope, and, when frozen, can be seen as thousands of beautiful and identical geometric crystals (similar to magnified snow flakes); all totally unique to that particular plant. And therefore, as one would expect, microscopic photographs have also shown that the molecular structure of water changes when infused with particular particles, however, much more significant is the fact that these changes can still be observed 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 and is apparently in contradiction to the laws of known science. However, despite any conclusive scientific explanation, many, many people who have used the Remedies over the past 75 years have reported positive effects from taking them. Some may say that this could simply be the ‘placebo effect’ (in other words: a sense of benefit felt by the patient that arises solely from the knowledge that treatment has been given), however, many practitioners and pet owners have also reported some amazing results when the Remedies are given to animals, so there can be no question of the placebo effect being at work in those cases. Therefore, we don’t really know how they work but we know that they do!

© Jane Stevenson and A. Digby

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Water Memory
How we capture the Energy Signature of the Flowers

Although Homeopathic Medicine is different to Flower Remedy Therapy, they both use the stored energy signature or, what’s commonly known as; ‘vibration’ of a specified plant to unlock the healing potential of that living material. With Flower Remedies this is done 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 the vibration of particles or flowers that have been placed into it for a specified period of time and by a specified means.

Therefore the ‘source material’ could, for example, be a Verbena officinalis flower that, using Dr Bach’s traditional method, is first submerged into fresh spring water and is then left in the sunlight for a few hours to ‘infuse’. Once the water has collected the memory of Verbena officinalis its’ unique ‘energy signature’ will be stored forever within that spring water. The next step is for the infused spring water to be preserved (usually using brandy) and thus it becomes a Flower Remedy that is used for the unique emotional or behavioural problems that Verbena officinalis is understood to address; in this case – fanaticism or intensity.

The notion of water having the capacity to retain a ‘memory’ has proven to be a controversial one amongst many members of the scientific community (and often an inconceivable one to the layman!). However, recent studies by some eminent scientists have shown that, although still not fully understood, there is some validity to this ‘concept’. When studying the water that it has been placed into: each flower (for instance) imparts a unique ‘fingerprint of energy’ into the water – these subtle, yet distinct changes can be observed through a powerful microscope, and, when frozen, can be seen as thousands of beautiful and identical geometric crystals (similar to magnified snow flakes); all totally unique to that particular plant. And therefore, as one would expect, microscopic photographs have also shown that the molecular structure of water changes when infused with particular particles, however, much more significant is the fact that these changes can still be observed 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 and is apparently in contradiction to the laws of known science. However, despite any conclusive scientific explanation, many, many people who have used the Remedies over the past 75 years have reported positive effects from taking them. Some may say that this could simply be the ‘placebo effect’ (in other words: a sense of benefit felt by the patient that arises solely from the knowledge that treatment has been given), however, many practitioners and pet owners have also reported some amazing results when the Remedies are given to animals, so there can be no question of the placebo effect being at work in those cases. Therefore, we don’t really know how they work but we know that they do!

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).

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