List and Indications of The Bach Flower Remedies
Type and mood Remedies
The Bach flower remedies are grouped into remedies based on personality type and mood. Each of the 38 remedies can be a mood remedy, meaning that any person, regardless of their personality type can become overwhelmed by a specific mood (fear, doubt, jealousy, anger).
Remedies describing personality types give us an idea how people often or usually react when things go wrong. Once we recognize ourselves in one of the remedies, that information is used to look at who we are and what weak points in our lives need improvement. If impatience is one of our personality traits, it (impatience) will repeatedly, many times in our lives, be the cause of new inner imbalances.
For very practical reasons, Dr. Bach never made a defnitive list of remedies that reflect a Personality type. Working with people he gained experience and realized, like all of us who do similar work, where people are concerned anything is possible and that there are always exceptions. A person would always appear who did not fit the specified profile.
The Seven Groups of Remedies
- For Those Who Suffer From Fear
- For Those Who Suffer From Uncertainty
- For Those Who Have Insufficient Interest In Their Present Circumstances
- For Loneliness
- For Oversensitivity To Influence And Ideas
- For Despondency Or Despair
- For The Overcare For Welfare Of Others
List Of The Remedies And Their Uses
- Aspen — for fear and anxiety of an unknown origin
- Agrimony — for inner suffering and anguish hidden by a smiling or brave face
- Beech — for intolerance towards diversity in others (appearance, behavior, attitudes); enables us to acquire the skill to accept something or someone we neither like nor can change, with serenity
- Centaury — for those who do not know how to say „No“
- Cerato — for those who are not confident in their assessment or decision
- Cherry Plum — for loss of self-control and for fear they could hurt themselves or others;
- Chestnut Bud — unable to understand what causes those bad results or consequences; tendency to repeat errors; the inability to learn from experience
- Chicory — for selfish, possessive, domineering people in relation with closest to them
- Clematis — for dreamers, those who escapes reality by living in their ideas and future
- Crab Apple — for those who are dissatisfied with their appearance; obsessed with order and cleanliness, for cleansing the body and mind
- Elm — for an acute crisis of confidence; when bending under additional duties and/or increased level of responsibility with feeling that it goes beyond one
- Gentian — for discouragement and despondency after failure and before the next step
- Gorse — for hopelessness and pessimism
- Heather — for people obsessed with themselves, self-centered, narcissistic
- Holly — aggression towards others, hatred, jealousy, suspicion, malice, anger
- Honeysuckle — for those who live in the past, mourning for times past, nostalgia
- Impatiens — for impatient, hasty people
- Larch — for lack of self confidence; inferiority complex
- Mimulus — for everyday, common fears and anxieties, when a person knows what they are afraid of; also for shyness and timidity
- Mustard — for sudden depression and dark moods, with no apparent reason in the circumstances where attack occurs
- Oak — for strong, capable people struggling to overcome the limits of their strength
- Olive — for fatigue after exertion
- Pine — for excessive responsibility and tendency to feel guilty
- Red Chestnut — for anxiety, fear and worry that something bad could happen to a loved one or someone close
- Rock Rose — for terror and extreme fear and panic attacks
- Rock Water — for excessive self-control and mental rigidity; perfectionist
- Scleranthus — for inabilities to choose between alternatives, indecision
- Star of Bethlehem — for shock and grief after a personal loss or trauma
- Sweet Chestnut — for „a broken heart“, despair, when there is no escape
- Vervain — for idealists, overpowered by their excessive enthusiasm, over-sensitive to the injustice in the world; always ready to „swim against the tide“, „to right wrongs“
- Vine — for dominant people who tend to rule others with an „iron fist“
- Walnut — for protection from change and outside influences; for optimum adaptation
- Water Violet — for withdrawn, self-sufficient people who may seem proud and even arrogant; incapable to have intimacy and keep autonomy in the same time
- White Chestnut — for concern; haunting thoughts that we would be happy to be rid of
- Wild Oat — for uncertainty in the meaning of one’s existence, lack of overall direction
- Wild Rose — for laziness, resignation for everything that is happening, apathy
- Willow — for self-pity, offensiveness and placing blame on others
- Rescue Remedy — Emergency Formula for acute stress
