I have mentioned Bach Flower Remedies in a previous article, so here is a list of their usages.

Do you suffer from a lack of interest in life? Or do you over care for others? These remedies could help you find the answer to your problems.

 

FOR A LACK OF INTEREST IN THE PRESENT

CLEMATIS.

For quiet, idealistic unhappy people, who fritter away their time day dreaming of a more satisfying future?  When ill, they lack the resolve or energy to regain health and happiness.

HONEYSUCKLE

For those who allow nostalgia to rule their lives, living too much in the past, and always yearning for what has been, or might have been, refusing to face reality.

WILD ROSE

Helps overcome apathy in people who feel that everything is too much trouble and effort. Allowing themselves to become despondent, often without cause.

OLIVE

An effective remedy for those who are suffering from temporary physical or mental exhaustion, and find it hard to cope.

WHITE CHESTNUT

This can be of immense help to those who find it difficult to concentrate, and free their minds of inessentials, or who fritter their energies away on worrying over trivialities.

MUSTARD

Combats sever and sudden bouts of depression where the cause may be unknown or unexplained. It is exellent for people suffering beareavment, it restores the sufferer’s sense of balance and uplifts their spirits.

CHESTNUT BUD

For those whose inability to learn from past personal experience means that they are inclined to make the same mistakes time and time again, and for those that mistrust the advice of others.

 

FOR OVERCARE OF OTHERS

BEECH

For over critical and dogmatic folk who arrogantly complain about those around them, and need more tolerance towards the imagined shortcomings of other people and themselves.

CHICORY

For people whose concern for the needs and welfare of others leads them to be very possessive of those whom they hold dear. They are often bossy ‘mothering’ types.

ROCK WATER

For those types that deny themselves many of life’s normal pleasures, due to a tendency to subjugate personal happiness to work ethic without thought for others needs.

VERVAIN

Suitable for those strong-willed, courages folk who doggedly pursue their goals in the face of apparently insurmountable odds until they collapse with exhaustion.

VINE

A remedy for those types who are always so totally convinced they are right and they have great difficulty in accepting help from others even when it is needed and given willingly.

FOR OVER-SENSITIVITY

AGRIMONY

For those suffering inner turmoil and torment, hidden worries and anxieties that they are unwilling or unable to share with others.

CENTAURY

A remedy for those types who are always concerned with pleasing others or who are too gentle and kindly for their own good, allowing themselves to be imposed upon by everyone.

HOLLY

Combats envy, jealousy, revenge and suspicion in those that allow such negative and potentially destructive emotions to effect their lives and relationships.

WALNUT

This is very valuable for those individuals who need to learn how to let go of things, who are too nostalgic or over-sensitive to the ideas and opinions of other people.

 

FOR FEELINGS OF DESPONDECY AND DESPAIR

CRAB APPLE

A natural purifier, this can aid all who feel there is something unclean about themselves that must be remedied before they can concentrate on other matters.

ELM

For feelings of inadequacy or incompetence when those who are striving hard to attain difficult or perhaps impossible goals fail to obtain their objectives.

LARCH

For those whose lack self esteem is so marked that they make no attempt to succeed because they are totally convinced that all effort will be met by failure.

OAK

For those who face great difficulties, whether in daily life or in terms of health, and bravely fight these every inch of the way until their strength begins to fail.

PINE

For those who, never content with their efforts or results, suffer a great deal inwardly owing to their failures, real or imagined, for which they reproach themselves.

STAR OF BETHLEHEM

A comfort for those in great distress as a result of shock, whether mental, physical or emotional, due to some sort of traumatic experience.

SWEET CHESTNUT

For those moments of despair, of extreme anguish, when it seems pointless to try and go on and the patient is too distressed to be able to cope with reality.

WILLOW

Offsets despair in those who have become embittered because they feel that they do not deserve whatever misfortune has befallen them and are reluctant to face up to reality.

FOR FEELINGS OF FEAR

ASPEN

Vague, unaccountable fears are aided by this remedy. Often the patient is terrified even to voice their anxiety in case it should make matters worse.

CHERRY PLUM

For desperation and despair caused by fear of losing control, or not being able to resist the impulse to do dreadful things which are known to be wrong.

MIMULUS

A great comforter, this helps alleviate the real fears of everyday life: dread of illness, pain, accident, loneliness, poverty or the loss of whatever is held most dear.

RED CHESTNUT

For people who are too preoccupied with the welfare of others, plagued with anxiety and always imagining that those they love will fall victim to all sorts of misfortune.

ROCK ROSE

The original rescue remedy, for extreme panic, fear or fright, usually due to accident, sudden illness or unexpected bad news concerning the self or loved ones.

 

FOR FEELINGS OF UNCERTINTY

CERATO

For those who lack self-confidence causes them to constantly seek the advice of others, as they are unable to make the simplest decision for themselves.

GENTIAN

Offers encouragement to those individuals who feel that their difficulties are too great to overcome, become despondent and temporarily loose heart due to inadequacy.

GORSE

For counteracting the effects of hopelessness and helplessness: the feeling that everything has been tried, and no more can be done to alleviate the situation.

HORNBEAM

Brings relief for those periods of mental and physical exhaustion when even everyday affairs seem too much to cope with, no matter how misplaced this feeling may be.

SCLERANTHUS

This can help those infuriating people who constantly chop and change their minds, who never seem to make a positive decision, even over the most trivial matter.

WILD OAT

Can benefit anyone, and is normally used when a patient fails to respond quickly enough to other remedies. It has a generally uplifting effect, yet also calms troubled nerves.

FOR FEELINGS OF LONELINESS

HEATHER

For confident and capable folk who do not doubt their competence to help and advice others, but are very impatient and expect everyone around them to respond promptly to their wishes.

IMPATIENS

The perfect antidote to impatience, whether the feeling is aimed at the patient, or others, or life in general, for it relieves the symptoms of tension and stress in people who prefer to work alone, or at their own speed.

WATER VIOLET

This combats aloofness in those that are determined to control their own lives even in the face of adversity, which they approach with courage despite any inner doubts.

These remedies can be purchased from Boots, Holland and Barrett or any health food shop, the dosages are on the bottle.