Books
A collection of essential books for the study and practice of flower essence therapy.
Curated Content
High-quality, foundational, and distinctive works from across the flower essence literature.
A Map of the Field
The literature organized by major areas of study to reveal the breadth & diversity of flower essence therapy.
Historical Development
Books arranged chronologically to show the development of ideas and approaches over time.
Edward Bach
Original Writings
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Collected Writings of Edward Bach
The most comprehensive collection of Bach’s books, articles, lectures, letters, medical papers, and case histories, tracing the development of his ideas in his own words.
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The Original Writings of Edward Bach
A selection of Bach’s original writings compiled by the Bach Centre, including early medical material, correspondence, and lectures, offering insight into the development of his ideas.
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Chronic Disease: A Working Hypothesis
The one book not included in the existing collections of Bach’s writings. Co-authored with Wheeler, it presents their homeopathic work on chronic disease and the Bach nosodes.
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The Essential Writings of Dr. Edward Bach
The two works Bach most wanted to leave to posterity: Heal Thyself, outlining his philosophy of health and healing, and The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies, describing his 38 flower remedies.
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The Bach Flower Remedies
An edition of Heal Thyself and The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies, plus the first Bach flower repertory, published by Bach’s colleague and friend Francis J. Wheeler in 1953.
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Bach Centre Free Downloads
Free downloads from the Bach Centre include the following texts by Edward Bach: The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies, Heal Thyself, Free Thyself, Ye Suffer from Yourselves, The Wallingford Lectures, The Story of the Travellers, and Bach’s Early Research Papers.
Edward Bach
Biography & History
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To Thine Own Self
Published two years after Bach’s death, this philosophical roman-a-clef by his collaborator and partner Mary Tabor presents a fictionalized portrait of Bach, the people around him, stories from their time together, and insights into his philosophy.
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The Medical Discoveries of Edward Bach Physician
This classic 1940 biography of Edward Bach by his friend and collaborator Nora Weeks recounts the years of his medical career, his discoveries, and the development of the flower remedies.
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Vitalism: The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences
Originally published as The Magical Staff (1992), this history of the vitalist tradition in Western healing traces ideas and individuals across herbalism and homeopathy, culminating in Edward Bach and the development of flower essences.
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Bach Flower Remedies: Form & Function
This masterpiece in Bach studies contains a biographical account of Bach’s journey of discovery and an in-depth botanical examination of the remedy plants, including their structure, function, growth patterns, and indications.
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Soy Bobbie: Memorias de la Hija de Edward Bach
Based on interviews with Edward Bach’s daughter, Evelyn Bach Varney, this bittersweet biographical account offers personal recollections of Bach as a father, their family life, and their complex relationship. Not currently available in English.
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After Bach: Another Side to the Story
Julian Barnard’s account of his work in the field of the Bach flower remedies, including his involvement with events in the history of the Bach Centre and the legal status of Bach flower remedies in the 20th century.
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The Secret Life of Dr. Edward Bach
A groundbreaking, meticulously researched four-volume biography uncovering previously unknown details about Edward Bach’s family, relationships, personal life, and the people and events that shaped his life and work.
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The Life and Times of Dr. Edward Bach
A biography by Spanish historian Ricardo Mateos Sáinz de Medrano, placing Bach’s life and work within the wider historical, social, medical, cultural, and esoteric context of his time that draws on themes explored in his earlier Spanish-language work.
Bach Flower Essences
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Handbook of the Bach Flower Remedies
Also found as Illustrated Handbook of the Bach Flower Remedies, this classic guide includes remedy descriptions and case histories from Nora Weeks’s notes and the Bach Remedy News Letter.
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A Guide to the Bach Flower Remedies
Julian Barnard’s first book on Bach flower remedies is a concise beginner’s guide for getting started that includes general guidelines for using the remedies and a brief materia medica.
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Bach Flower Therapy: Theory & Practice
A foundational modern guide to Bach flower therapy, covering the philosophy behind this work, the 38 remedies, their psychological concepts, remedy selection, and their practical application in treatment.
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Questions & Answers: Explaining the Basic Principles …
Written by John Ramsell, who with his sister Nicki Murray succeeded Nora Weeks at the Bach Centre, this question-and-answer guide outlines the Bach Centre’s core teachings on the Bach flower remedies and general principles and practices for their use.
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Bach Flower Remedies to the Rescue
A collection of case histories and personal accounts illustrating the use of Bach’s Rescue Remedy in a wide range of situations involving adults, children, animals, and plants.
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Flower Essence Repertory
An important early contribution to flower essence studies presenting an introduction to flower essences and an extensive thematic repertory and materia medica of the 38 Bach flower essences and FES’s North American essences.
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The Healing Herbs of Edward Bach
An illustrated guide to preparing Bach remedies and identifying and sourcing the plants, as well as brief explanations of the remedy states. More comprehensive than Nora Weeks and Victor Bullen’s reference.
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The Bach Flower Remedies Step by Step
A concise beginner’s introduction to the Bach flower remedies, explaining the principles behind selection and use and presenting a brief materia medica of each of the remedies.
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New Bach Flower Therapies
Introduces Krämer’s system of twelve remedy “tracks,” grouping the Bach essences into inner and outer flowers and exploring their relationships, with case examples and guidance for remedy selection.
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Mastering Bach Flower Therapies
A practical companion to Scheffer’s earlier work, featuring case reports that illustrate the course of Bach flower therapy, along with discussion of treatment and remedy selection.
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Advanced Bach Flower Therapy
A detailed clinical reference to the 38 Bach remedies, with psychologically oriented descriptions, more than 200 remedy combinations, and an extensive therapeutic repertory.
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The Encyclopedia of Bach Flower Therapy
An expanded reference work incorporating Scheffer’s earlier materia medica, with additional material on remedy selection and practical uses, illustrated throughout with color photographs.
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Bach Flower Remedies: Form & Function
This masterpiece in Bach studies is an in-depth biographical exploration of Bach’s journey of discovery and the remedy plants that examines their structure, function, and remedy indications.
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The Bach Flower Remedies Workbook
A workbook-style introductory self-study course on the 38 Bach flower remedies and their uses, intended for the beginner.
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The Healing Bouquet
An exploration of the Bach flower remedies covering their history, philosophy, materia medica, and practical use, with discussion of Bach’s medical background and connections with homeopathy.
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Cuaderno botánico de Flores de Bach
A pioneering study of the signatures of the Bach flower plants by a biologist and botanist, integrating morphology, growth, ecology, botanical characteristics, and other observable features of the plants to deepen understanding of their corresponding flower essences. [Spanish]
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Bach Flowers for Crisis Care
A self-help guide organized around 50 common crisis situations and an extensive questionnaire-based system for identifying emotional reaction patterns and selecting individualized Bach flower combinations.
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Bach Flower Remedies: The Essence Within
A beautifully illustrated guide to the 38 Bach essences, combining photographs of the remedy plants with their identifying features, habitats, preparation methods, and corresponding emotional states.
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Advanced Flower Essence Healing
A contemporary exploration of flower essence therapy that draws on Bach and other essence systems, extending into elemental energies, plant signatures, trauma, and other areas of practice.
Other Flower & Vibrational Essences
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Flower Essences
Also published in its revised form as Flower Essences & Vibrational Healing, this work is an early exploration of flower essences and vibrational healing drawing substantially on channeled material.
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Flower Essence Repertory
An important early contribution to flower essence therapy that includes an introduction to flower essences, an extensive thematic repertory, and a materia medica of the Bach essences and the Flower Essence Society’s Quintessentials line of North American essences.
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Flower Essences
An introduction to the Perelandra flower essences by their founder that explains her broader approach to health and provides essence indications, principles of selection and use, and case examples.
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Australian Bush Flower Essences
An illustrated introduction to the Australian Bush Flower Essences, presenting 50 individual essences with descriptions of their qualities, preparation, and use, alongside photographs of the Australian plants.
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Flower Remedies Handbook
An illustrated guide to Bach and other flower essences that profiles thirty plants, exploring their characteristics, folklore, therapeutic qualities and uses.
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The Essential Flower Essence Handbook
An in-depth guide to the author’s 20 Spirit-in-Nature Essences made from the blossoms of fruit trees and vegetable plants and inspired by Paramhansa Yogananda’s teachings on the psycho-spiritual qualities of foods.
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The Essence of Healing: A Guide to the Alaskan Essences
A guide to the Alaskan Essences written by their creator, the late Steve Johnson, covering flower, gem, and environmental essences, and principles of essence selection and use.
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The Encyclopedia of Flower Remedies
A wide-ranging reference to flower essence systems from around the world, bringing together information on more than 2,000 essences from numerous producers and traditions, with guidance on selection and use.
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Flower Remedies
A broad introduction to more than 200 flower essences, with individual chapters each covering a concise materia medica of Bach flower remedies and other systems from California, Alaska, Australia, and beyond.
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The Complete Floral Healer
Also published under the title Flower Power (US), this illustrated guide includes more than 100 flowers and their therapeutic uses, comparing applications in herbalism, aromatherapy, homeopathy, and flower essence therapy, with particular attention to Bach, Californian, and Australian Bush flower essences.
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The Alchemy of the Desert
A comprehensive reference to the Desert Alchemy flower essences, with detailed profiles of individual essences and composite formulas, background on the Arizona desert plants, and a cross-reference guide for essence selection.
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The Flower Remedy Guide
A comprehensive repertory covering more than 700 flower essences from numerous systems, including the Bach remedies and Australian, North American, and British collections, designed as a practical guide to essence selection.
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Stars of the Meadow
A materia medica of more than 40 medicinal plants used as flower essences, with detailed essence profiles exploring personality patterns and applications for adults, children, and animals, and relationships to the chakra system.
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Rose Flower Essences
A guide to the Rosaflora flower essence system, comprising 65 essences made from organically grown roses, with individual profiles and guidance on making and using rose essences.
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The New Encyclopedia of Flower Remedies
A substantially updated and expanded edition of Harvey’s 1995 Encyclopedia of Flower Remedies, surveying some 2,000 remedies from more than 30 flower essence systems worldwide. Organized geographically, it profiles individual systems and their developers, with information on individual essences, case material, and research.
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Findhorn Flower Essences Handbook
A detailed handbook to the Findhorn system, covering its 48 flower essences as well as combination, gem, and element essences, with an extensive index of indications and color botanical illustrations.
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The Essence Practitioner
A practical guide to working professionally with flower and other vibrational essences, covering essence selection and assessment, methods of use and preparation, and client care and practice.
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The Bloom Book
A contemporary guide to flower essence practice combining intuitive selection and essence making with ritual, case studies, vibrational approaches, and themes of personal, collective, and spiritual development.
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Advanced Flower Essence Healing
A contemporary exploration of flower essence therapy that draws on Bach and other essence systems, extending into elemental energies, plant signatures, trauma, and other areas of practice.
Men, Women & Children
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Bach Flower Remedies for Men
A practical guide to the Bach remedies focused specifically on men, addressing emotional experiences and life stages including relationships, sexuality, work, fatherhood, social pressures, and health concerns.
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Bach Flower Remedies for Women
A Bach flower remedy guide that addresses common women’s issues in the different developmental stages of their lives, including pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, relationships, work, and more.
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Growing Up with Bach Flower Remedies
A guide to using Bach flower remedies with babies, children, and adolescents to address common developmental stages and challenges, including sleep, school, behavioral & other issues.
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Bach Flower Remedies for Children
A parent’s guide to supporting children with Bach flower remedies. Includes remedy-themed children’s stories to help children process their experience in conjunction with the use of the remedies.
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Emma Interviews Doctor Bach
Also appearing as Emma Discovers Bach Flower Essences, this colorful cartoon book follows a girl named Emma & her cat Hanna on a journey to 1930s England, where she interviews Dr. Bach. Written for children but fun for adults!
Plants & Animals
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The Bach Flower Gardener
A guide to using the Bach flower remedies with plants, illustrated with case studies and experiences gathered from practitioners and gardeners.
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Treating Animal Illnesses & Emotional States with Flower…
A guide to using Bach and other flower essences with animals, with examples of emotional and behavioral issues & instructions for preparation and use.
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Bach Flower Remedies for Animals
A guide to using Bach flower remedies with animals, covering emotional and behavioral patterns in domestic, farm, wild, and zoo animals, with case material and animal-specific guidance.
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Flower Essences for Animals
Drawing on decades of animal case histories, Spirit-in-Nature Essences founder Lila Devi presents her approach to using flower essences with animals, addressing personality patterns, behavioral and emotional difficulties, everyday transitions, and end-of-life situations.
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Healing Animals Naturally with Flower Essences & Intuitive Listening
A guide to working with animals using Callahan’s Anaflora flower essences alongside intuitive animal communication, illustrated with examples from her practice.
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Bach Flower Remedies for Animals
A guide to using the Bach flower remedies with animals, with guidance on interpreting animal behavior and case studies involving pets, horses, farm animals, and wildlife.
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Handbook of Bach Flower Remedies for Animals
Written by Bach practitioner and animal behavior educator Enric Homedes, this guide combines Bach essence therapy with behavioral approaches to address common issues in animals.
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Animal Healing with Australian Bush Flower Essences
Written by Australian Bush Flower researcher and educator Marie Matthews, this comprehensive guide applies the Australian Bush Flower Essences to animals and covers emotional and behavioral issues, physical ailments, and end-of-life care, with a repertory for essence selection.
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The Power of Bailey, Bach & Verbeia Essences for Animals
A practical guide to using Bailey, Bach, and Verbeia essences with animals to address emotional and behavioral issues such as fear, grief, anxiety, separation anxiety, and excessive grooming.
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Bach Flower Remedies for Cats
Written by the founders of the Society for Animal Flower Essence Research, this guide applies the Bach remedies specifically to cats, with discussion of feline behavior, common emotional concerns, end-of-life care, and case examples.
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Bach Flower Remedies for Dogs
Written by the founders of the Society for Animal Flower Essence Research, this practical guide applies the 38 Bach remedies specifically to working with dogs, with discussions of canine behavior and care, practical use, and case examples.
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Bach Flower Remedies for Horses and Riders
A guide to using the Bach flower remedies with horses, addressing both the horse and rider/handler and exploring how emotional states on either side can affect their relationship, with practical guidance and case examples.
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Bach Flower Remedies for Your Horse
Written by animal psychologist Marion Brehmer, this guide applies the Bach remedies to working with horses, with particular attention to emotional and behavioral concerns arising from training, competition, changes of stable, and life within the herd.
Integrative & New Approaches
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An Astrological Study of the Bach Flower Remedies
An astrological interpretation of Bach’s flower remedies, exploring correspondences between the essences, zodiacal principles, and personality patterns and considering astrology as an aid to remedy selection.
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L’accesso iridologico nell’impiego dei rimedi floriterapici: Iridologia e fiori di Bach
An important Italian-language contribution on the relationship between iridology and the Bach flower remedies, proposing an iridological approach to understanding and selecting the essences. [Out of print]
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Applying Bach Flower Therapy to the Healing Profession…
An exploration of Bach flower therapy in relation to homeopathy, psychology, psychiatry, and psychosomatic medicine, with extensive case material illustrating the use of the remedies in practice, plus an extensive repertory.
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New Bach Flower Body Maps: Treatment by Topical Application
Written by a German naturopath and Bach practitioner, this work presents a system of “body maps,” correlating 242 areas of the body with the Bach essences and using topical application to address physical and emotional patterns.
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Bach Flower Massage
Originally published in Italian, this work by Daniele Lo Rito, a physician trained in acupuncture, homeopathy, and iridology, presents his distinctive method of applying the Bach essences through massage to specific reflex areas of the body associated with emotional states.
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Salute e benessere con i fiori di Bach
This important early exploration of Bach flower therapy from a psychosomatic medicine perspective combines a materia medica of the 38 remedies with an in-depth examination of their relationships to body systems and functional disorders. [Available only in Italian]
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Dr. Bach’s Flower Remedies and the Chakras
Written by complementary medicine practitioners and educators, this integrative work relates the Bach flower remedies to the seven chakras and their physical, emotional, and mental dimensions. Revised and republished in 2006 as Dr. Bach’s Flower Remedies: Tapping Into the Positive Emotional Qualities of the Chakras.
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Igniting Soul Fire: Spiritual Dimensions of the Bach Flower Remedies
An exploration of the spiritual dimensions of Bach flower therapy, relating Bach’s remedy groups and concepts of soul development to the chakras, astrology, and other esoteric perspectives. Later substantially expanded as Edward Bach and Your Evolutionary Purpose.
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Floral Acupuncture
Bringing together its authors’ expertise in flower essence therapy and Chinese medicine respectively, this pioneering integration of Bach flower therapy and acupuncture describes the application of specific Bach essences topically to acupuncture points, with treatment protocols, practical instructions & 50+ instructional photographs.
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Edward Bach’s System of Diagnosis and Therapy
This work presents a systematic, psychotherapy-oriented approach to Bach flower therapy that explores the nature of Bach flower remedies, relates them to personality styles and mental health diagnostic categories, and reports on clinical research conducted in Cuba.
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Bach Flower Essences & Chinese Medicine
Originally published in Spanish, this pioneering work systematically integrates Bach flower therapy with Chinese medicine, exploring the 38 essences through the concepts of Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, organs, emotions, and the Psyches.
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The Feel-Good Flower Essences
An eclectic approach to flower essences that brings together selected essences from well-known systems with Turland’s own essences, and explores their use both traditionally and through methods using radionically prepared homeopathic potencies.
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Live Right For Your Remedy Type
Written by classical homeopath Gabrielle Traub, this lifestyle guide explores 21 constitutional homeopathic types, offering individualized recommendations for diet, exercise, relationships, parenting, and other aspects of daily life, including Bach flower essences suited to each type.
Philosophy
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Patterns of Life Force
This booklet explores the concepts of life force, thought forms, and patterns of behavior, and their relationship to health, illness, and the action of the Bach flower remedies, while examining Bach’s ideas about nature, human development, and healing.
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Vitalism: The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences
Originally published as The Magical Staff (1992), this history of the vitalist tradition in Western healing traces ideas and individuals across herbalism and homeopathy, culminating in Edward Bach and the development of flower essences.
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Bach Flower Essences & the Patterning of Water
Extending the ideas developed in Form and Function, Barnard explores how information from the flower may be patterned into water during essence preparation & considers how that information might act on the physical, emotional & spiritual levels.
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Bach Flower Essences & the Elements of Plant Life
Continuing Barnard’s exploration of plant form and meaning, this reflective work considers the four elements—earth, water, air, and fire—as expressions of plant life and as a way of deepening our relationship with the Bach essence plants.
Repertories
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The Bach Remedies Repertory
The first Bach flower repertory, written by homeopathic physician Dr. Francis J. Wheeler, Bach’s friend, colleague, and collaborator from 1929 until Bach’s death in 1936, and an early supporter of his work.
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Flower Essence Repertory
An extensive thematic repertory and materia medica that covers the 38 Bach flower essences and the Flower Essence Society’s North American Quintessentials line of essences, as well as guidelines for their use.
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Applying Bach Flower Therapy to the Healing Profession…
A homeopath’s approach to using Bach flower remedies within her homeopathic practice, including presentations of multiple cases, a 115-page materia medica, and a 75-page repertory.
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Bach Flower Remedies Repertory
An extensive 74-page Bach flower repertory that includes emotional states, behavioral patterns, symptoms, and life situations. Originally created as a companion to the CD-ROM The Original Flower Remedies of Dr. Bach.
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Beginner’s Guide to Bach Flower Remedies with Repertory
A concise materia medica with short case examples after each remedy, followed by a 45-page repertory for remedy selection.
Plant Study & Signatures
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Bach Flower Remedies: Form & Function
This masterpiece in Bach studies contains a biographical account of Bach’s journey of discovery and an in-depth botanical examination of the remedy plants, including their structure, function, growth patterns, and indications.
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Cuaderno botánico de Flores de Bach
A pioneering study of the signatures of the Bach flower plants by a biologist and botanist, integrating morphology, growth, ecology, botanical characteristics, and other observable features of the plants to deepen understanding of their corresponding flower essences. [Spanish]
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Bach Flower Remedies: The Essence Within
A beautifully illustrated guide to the 38 Bach essences, presenting photos of the remedy plants alongside a discussion of their features and habitats, preparation methods, and corresponding emotional states.
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The Hidden Geometry of Flowers
An extensively illustrated masterpiece exploring the geometry, symmetry, number, and patterns found in flowers, and drawing connections between plant form, nature, and the human experience of beauty and meaning.
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The Plants of Dr. Bach
An illustrated exploration of the plants used for Bach’s remedies, examining their botany, chemistry, traditional and modern uses, folklore, and other aspects of their natural and cultural histories.
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The Botany of Dr. Bach’s Twelve Healers
A botanical exploration of Bach’s Twelve Healers, examining where and when Bach found each plant and how growth, form, habitat, and other botanical characteristics may have informed his understanding of its therapeutic qualities.
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Bach Flower Essences & the Elements of Plant Life
Continuing Barnard’s exploration of plant form and meaning, this reflective work considers the four elements—earth, water, air, and fire—as expressions of plant life and as a way of deepening our relationship with the Bach essence plants.
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El lenguaje de las plantas
An in-depth exploration of plant signature by a biologist and botanist, presenting his method for interpreting the morphology, structure, growth, and other characteristics of plants as a way of understanding the properties of their flower essences. Includes examples from the Bach remedies, El Jardí de les Essències, and other flower essence systems. [Spanish]
Flower Essence Making
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Collected Writings of Edward Bach
The most comprehensive collection of Bach’s books, articles, lectures, letters, medical papers, and case histories that includes Bach’s original writings on how to make the Bach flower remedies.
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Bach Flower Remedies: Illustrations & Preparations
An illustrated botanical guide to the 38 Bach remedy plants, with guidance on identifying the plants and preparing the remedies using Bach’s original methods.
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The Healing Herbs of Edward Bach
An illustrated guide to preparing Bach remedies and identifying and sourcing the plants, as well as brief explanations of the remedy states. More comprehensive than Nora Weeks and Victor Bullen’s reference.
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Bach Flower Remedies: Form & Function
An in-depth biographical and botanical exploration of Bach’s journey of discovery and the remedy plants that includes material on Bach’s essence making process and the significance of the sun and boiling methods.
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Bach Flower Remedies: The Essence Within
A beautifully illustrated guide to the 38 Bach essences, combining photographs of the remedy plants with their identifying features, habitats, and preparation methods.