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Who was Dr. Bach?
Dr. Edward Bach received his formal medical training from Birmingham University and University College Hospital. After which, he began his career as a surgeon and bacteriologist. In 1913 He was appointed Casualty House Surgeon at National Temperance Hospital. As he progressed in his career, he became unsatisfied with his medical education. He noticed that after “curing” his patients they often didn’t stay that way. Some didn’t respond to treatment at all and he realized the doctors are treating the disease and not the person.
He proceeded to become the Assistant Bacteriologist at the University College Hospital, his Alma Mater. Here, he made incredible discoveries about the gut and bacteria present, information that scientists to this day are still just scraping the surface to understand. He observed bacteria is always present in the gut and that patients with diseases, had a greater number of bacteria. He went on to develop a vaccine to combat these bacteria and saw great results. (I would like to add not all bacteria present in the gut is harmful, in fact, there are more bacterial cells present in the gut than there is human). Even with the amazing results from the vaccine, Dr. Bach was still unsatisfied with how patients were being treated. He thought there must be a better way since all vaccines had side effects and left patients with pain, swelling, and other discomforts.
In 1919, he began working at the London Homeopathic Hospital, now called the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine. It was his belief that patients deserved individual treatment. He pulled his inspiration from the founder of homeopathic medicine, Samuel Hahnemann. He stated, “Therefore the rational physician will judge every case of illness brought under his care according to its individual characteristics.” He continued his practice of using vaccines to treat intestinal bacteria by determining what type of bacteria was present in each person and basing treatment off that.
In 1928 he found that seaweed has almost the same vibration as the dysentery-type virus (vibrational healing was much more common before modern day medicine took over). This is similar to how homeopathic remedies work and sparked a new idea for Dr. Bach.
Through his career, Dr. Bach made a few observations: 1. The same treatment didn’t always cure the same disease in different patients. 2. He could tell how well a patient would recover based on how that patient felt about their diagnosis. Lastly, he observed that patients who had similar personalities often responded the same to a particular treatment. He concluded that the personality of an individual was more important to the healing process then that of the physical body.
Pulling inspiration from another big name in medicine, Hippocrates, who stating that healing should be non-invasive, gentle, and painless, he set out to find what we know today as Bach Flower Remedies.
There isn’t much knowledge on the specific methodology Dr. Bach used to discover the flowers or why he chose the 38 flowers he did, some say he used a “psychic intuition” to determine which ones to use. Unfortunately, Dr. Bach was a perfectionist and he destroyed many of his failed attempts, or what he viewed as failed attempts to discover his flowers.
What we do know, is that his final determination was that flower petals, placed in the spring water and left to sit in the sun until they’ve become wilted, transferred the healing energy from the sun and the flower into the water. This water can then be consumed to balance the energy in an individual to harmonize their energy and heal them.
Dr. Bach came up with 38 flowers to use. They are chosen by having a conversation with an individual and choosing the flower combination that matches their complaints. Up to 7 different flowers may be mixed into a bottle.