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THE BACH FLOWER REMEDIES BY CATEGORY
Decision Making: Heads or Tails
Decision-making, depending on how you look at it, is either a blessing or a curse.
Cerato: "Tell Me What to Choose." This is for people who don't trust their ability to make decisions. They must consult others.
Scleranthus: Seesaw. Scleranthus people are torn between two choices, often very different from each other. They may vacillate between both, choosing first one, then another. They may also experience mood swings.
Wild Oat: Scattered Choices. Wild Oat is useful for those who could potentially choose from a ride array of choices, but who feel in advance that none of them will be satisfying. A fear of commitment underlies this indecision.
Discouragement: Losing Heart
Gentian: "Show Me." For feelings of discouragement and doubt which may be caused by even small obstacles. The cause of depression is always known.
Gorse: Giving Up and Going On. For feelings of hopelessness and despair. For those who give up in the belief that nothing more can be done: often in the case of chronic illness.
Sweet Chestnut: The Darkest Hour. For extreme anguish, the feeling that one has reached the limits of one's endurance
Mustard: The Cloud from Nowhere. Mustard is for depression and discouragement of seemingly unknown origin.
Wild Rose: Abandoning All Hope. For resignation and apathy, for those who make no effort to find joy in their lives.
Domination and Bondage
Chicory: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places. For those who believe that love is expressed by the obedience and geographical closeness of others.
Vervain: Passion Plus. For those who try to dominate through a flood of enthusiasm for a project, cause, or anything that gets them excited.
Vine: Leadership or Lordship? For hands-on dictators, natural leaders who may use mental, emotional, or physical force to get their way.
Heather: "Let's Talk About Me." For those who dominate by speaking only about themselves, especially about their problems.
Centaury: The Cinderella Complex. For those who are easily dominated because they want to please others and because their own sense of purpose is weak.
Water Violet: "I'd Rather Be Alone." For those who resist not only domination but also any entanglement with others.
Faces of Fear
Mimulus: Don't Go Near the Water. For fears of known origin.
Aspen: For Things That Go Bump in the Night. For fears of unknown of nonphysical origin, i.e., religion-related fears, nightmares, psychic apprehensions.
Rock Rose: The Sky is Falling. For terror.
Star of Bethlehem: A State of Shock. For those who are in an acute or chronic state of trauma, often expressed by emotional numbness and avoidance.
Red Chestnut: Out of Sight but not Out of Mind. For fear about the welfare of those to whom one is close.
Larch: "You Do It". For fear of failure, which often translates to low-self-esteem.
Fault Finders
Holly: Fireworks. For anger and jealousy which are actively expressed.
Willow: It's Not My Fault. For feelings of resentment, more passively expressed, often internalized.
Beech: Judgment Day. For intolerance of others and the readiness to find fault.
Impatiens: Faster Than the Speed of Light. For those who act and think quickly, and have no patience for what they see as the slowness of others.
Guilt: Inside and Out
Pine: Guilty Before Charged. For generalized feelings of guilt.
Crab Apple: Color My World Clean. For externalized guilt, often expressed as an obsession with dirt and bodily functions.
Mind Games
Agrimony: Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside. For those who bury their unhappy thoughts and subjects beneath a facade of cheerfulness.
Cherry Plum: Mental Torture. For those who obsess about what they might do, fearing their inner destructiveness, whether directed towards themselves or others.
White Chestnut: Mental Overload. For those who obsess about what they did, replaying lost arguments of recent or ancient origin. "If only I'd said . . ." is their mantra.
Not Here Now
Clematis: A Thousand Light Years from Home. For those who escape from the present, living in a fantasy realm and dreaming hopefully of the future.
Honeysuckle: Memories of Times Lost. For those who regret the lost and often idealized past.
Overburdened
Elm: The Last Straw. For those who temporarily find themselves overwhelmed by more than they can handle.
Oak: Carrying That Load. For those who chronically take on heavy family burdens from a sense of duty.
Right and Wrong
Rock Water: The Straight and Narrow Path. For people who are rigid in their beliefs and behavior and always right.
Chestnut Bud: Wrong Again. For those who always repeat the same mistake, never learning from their errors.
Tiredness: Energy Crises
Hornbeam: Trouble At the Beginning. For tiredness that is mostly mental and which usually occurs at the beginning of the day.
Olive: Running on Empty. For exhaustion that is mental, emotional, and physical, often caused by extended stress.
The Top Two
Rescue Remedy: First Aid Kit in a Bottle. The all-time favorite, all-purpose Remedy combination.
Walnut: Building Bridges. In a world where change is the norm, Walnut helps one to make transitions.
Decision Making: Heads or Tails
Decision-making, depending on how you look at it, is either a blessing or a curse.
Cerato: "Tell Me What to Choose." This is for people who don't trust their ability to make decisions. They must consult others.
Scleranthus: Seesaw. Scleranthus people are torn between two choices, often very different from each other. They may vacillate between both, choosing first one, then another. They may also experience mood swings.
Wild Oat: Scattered Choices. Wild Oat is useful for those who could potentially choose from a ride array of choices, but who feel in advance that none of them will be satisfying. A fear of commitment underlies this indecision.
Discouragement: Losing Heart
Gentian: "Show Me." For feelings of discouragement and doubt which may be caused by even small obstacles. The cause of depression is always known.
Gorse: Giving Up and Going On. For feelings of hopelessness and despair. For those who give up in the belief that nothing more can be done: often in the case of chronic illness.
Sweet Chestnut: The Darkest Hour. For extreme anguish, the feeling that one has reached the limits of one's endurance
Mustard: The Cloud from Nowhere. Mustard is for depression and discouragement of seemingly unknown origin.
Wild Rose: Abandoning All Hope. For resignation and apathy, for those who make no effort to find joy in their lives.
Domination and Bondage
Chicory: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places. For those who believe that love is expressed by the obedience and geographical closeness of others.
Vervain: Passion Plus. For those who try to dominate through a flood of enthusiasm for a project, cause, or anything that gets them excited.
Vine: Leadership or Lordship? For hands-on dictators, natural leaders who may use mental, emotional, or physical force to get their way.
Heather: "Let's Talk About Me." For those who dominate by speaking only about themselves, especially about their problems.
Centaury: The Cinderella Complex. For those who are easily dominated because they want to please others and because their own sense of purpose is weak.
Water Violet: "I'd Rather Be Alone." For those who resist not only domination but also any entanglement with others.
Faces of Fear
Mimulus: Don't Go Near the Water. For fears of known origin.
Aspen: For Things That Go Bump in the Night. For fears of unknown of nonphysical origin, i.e., religion-related fears, nightmares, psychic apprehensions.
Rock Rose: The Sky is Falling. For terror.
Star of Bethlehem: A State of Shock. For those who are in an acute or chronic state of trauma, often expressed by emotional numbness and avoidance.
Red Chestnut: Out of Sight but not Out of Mind. For fear about the welfare of those to whom one is close.
Larch: "You Do It". For fear of failure, which often translates to low-self-esteem.
Fault Finders
Holly: Fireworks. For anger and jealousy which are actively expressed.
Willow: It's Not My Fault. For feelings of resentment, more passively expressed, often internalized.
Beech: Judgment Day. For intolerance of others and the readiness to find fault.
Impatiens: Faster Than the Speed of Light. For those who act and think quickly, and have no patience for what they see as the slowness of others.
Guilt: Inside and Out
Pine: Guilty Before Charged. For generalized feelings of guilt.
Crab Apple: Color My World Clean. For externalized guilt, often expressed as an obsession with dirt and bodily functions.
Mind Games
Agrimony: Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside. For those who bury their unhappy thoughts and subjects beneath a facade of cheerfulness.
Cherry Plum: Mental Torture. For those who obsess about what they might do, fearing their inner destructiveness, whether directed towards themselves or others.
White Chestnut: Mental Overload. For those who obsess about what they did, replaying lost arguments of recent or ancient origin. "If only I'd said . . ." is their mantra.
Not Here Now
Clematis: A Thousand Light Years from Home. For those who escape from the present, living in a fantasy realm and dreaming hopefully of the future.
Honeysuckle: Memories of Times Lost. For those who regret the lost and often idealized past.
Overburdened
Elm: The Last Straw. For those who temporarily find themselves overwhelmed by more than they can handle.
Oak: Carrying That Load. For those who chronically take on heavy family burdens from a sense of duty.
Right and Wrong
Rock Water: The Straight and Narrow Path. For people who are rigid in their beliefs and behavior and always right.
Chestnut Bud: Wrong Again. For those who always repeat the same mistake, never learning from their errors.
Tiredness: Energy Crises
Hornbeam: Trouble At the Beginning. For tiredness that is mostly mental and which usually occurs at the beginning of the day.
Olive: Running on Empty. For exhaustion that is mental, emotional, and physical, often caused by extended stress.
The Top Two
Rescue Remedy: First Aid Kit in a Bottle. The all-time favorite, all-purpose Remedy combination.
Walnut: Building Bridges. In a world where change is the norm, Walnut helps one to make transitions.