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Bach Flower Remedies: Form and Function
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3275496 in Books
- Published on: 2002-11-15
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
This title is an account of the work of Dr Edward Bach who discovered the Bach Flower Remedies in the 1930's. It provides insights into the plants used in this form of complementary therapy and how they help to transform negative emotional states.
Customer Reviews
Julian Barnard needs 6 stars
The synopsis is accurate. In addition the book clarifies the relationship between homeopathy and the Bach flower remedies. There isn't one. Julian has single mindedly pursued this issue through to the highest courts in the land (UK) until this has been settled. In the book it is now explained how the Bach method is not the same as homeopathy and how they differ. Homeopathic pharmacies cannot hijack any trademark for these remedies. The overlap is that both healing methods stimulate the human vitality to healing. But Bach remedies are not 'proved' they have been created by Edward Bach. Just how close is the relationship between Bach's troubled life and the uses of the remedies I never realised before. Missing is a bibliography, which has to be inferred from the references. And missing is a statement about how the many other flower remedies from around the world fit into the Bach system. How can the Bach system be complete if Bach died tragically at the age of 50 at a time when he was creating remedies in fast succession?
This is a well written literary work, the clearest most humane account of the Bach remedies ever written, much better than some of the railway timetable books which repeat half digested psychobabble.
Bringing it back to the plants
This is a wonderful book, thoughtful and full of insight, but what makes it stand out from other equally useful books about the Bach Flower Essences is that Barnard moves the focus away from those little bottles, and from descriptions of character types and applications, and returns to the source of the remedies - plants.
After all, it was through close observation, communication and listening to the flowers and their gestures that Dr Bach evolved the remedies.
Barnard encourages us to look anew at the remedy giving plants themselves, and thereby to repeat Bach's own journey of discovery, so that we see in the morphology of each individual plant, and its growing habitat where its energetic activity comes from. Then we can really begin to understand the remedies and their application
New Insight into Bach Remedies
Julian Barnard's book provides a different approach to Bach Flower Remedies.
He gives detailed information about each Remedy with some emphasis on the plant from which it is derived. He also provides extensive detail about Dr Bach and his life.
Perhaps not for the novice, but a useful addition to the experienced Bach Remedy user's collection.
