The Bach flowers - natural remedies or quack medicine?

The Bach flowers - natural remedies or quack medicine?

Long before Dr. Edward Bach discovered and developed hisBach flowers, Plato stated that:

"The healing of the part should not be attempted without treating the whole. No attempt should be made to heal the body without the soul, and if the head and body are to be healthy, you must first heal the mind. For this, the great mistake of our time in treating the human body is that doctors first separate the soul from the body."

-Plato, the Republic

Science has long tried to separate the human soul from the human body. It denies the existence of the soul and this viewpoint is strongly reflected in the training of medical personnel in most parts of the world. Every medical student is trained to believe that a strictly scientific approach is the only valid approach, and anything else is just quackery, condemning practitioners of naturopathy, homeopathy, reflexology (and other therapies that are more metaphysical than scientific) as witches, charlatans and snakes. Oil salesman.

I cannot deny that there are people who take advantage of people to practice mumbo jumbo and tricks. However, this applies equally to both sides of the treatment debate. Consider the number of scientifically trained Western doctors who are found guilty of misconduct and fraud of all kinds every day. Let's be clear: science isbig business. Just try to contradict a seriously held scientific belief and watch the money men spring into action.

Science, in its own way, is as much a religion as any other. It requires its adherents to make leaps of faith to fill gaps in empirical knowledge and ignore any evidence that contradicts ideology. Sounds like a definition of a religion to me.

Now many of our wars are being fought with spin doctors, ad agencies, media and lawyers as soldiers, in a battle for the minds and money of the average consumer. If they have your brains, they have your money. That's why the advertising business isHUGE.

The scientific approach separates the symptoms from the patient and rejects as invalid what does not fit a purely scientific framework.

(What you can't see and can't prove doesn't exist. Right?)Incorrect!

Dr. Edward Bach was a very highly qualified doctor; Harley Street consultant and bacteriologist who believed that standard medical theory did not go far enough in treating the individual. What was needed was a'holistic'Approach to treating each person and not just treating the symptoms as if they were independent components.

In 1930, he gave up his lucrative medical practice to work full-time on developing a range of herbal and flower-based remedies designed to restore harmony between soul, mind and body. He said:

"Health is our inheritance, our right. It is the complete and complete union of soul, mind and body. This is not a difficult, distant ideal, but one so simple and natural that many of us have overlooked it." .

-Dr Edward Bach

Dr. Bach developedThe Bach flowersin the 1930s to support a person's fight against illness by paying attention to and dealing with melancholy, fear, suffering, anxiety and other emotional factors that are the root cause of illness, disease and illness.

By 1936, Dr. Edward Bach discovered 39 remedies, 38 of which were intended for a specific emotional and mental state. His 39th remedy was a combination of five of the remedies designed for complex and stressful situations, which he called “rescue remedies.”

The remedies are designed to stimulate our self-healing mechanism and bring it into battle, fully engaged and fully armed, to ward off illness and disease.

You don't have to be sick to use the remedies. Everyone experiences times of anger, stress, and fatigue when you allow negativity to creep in and overwhelm you.The Bach flowersare very successful in restoring balance before physical symptoms appear and are particularly helpful for those who generally feel tired and under the weather without an accurate medical diagnosis.

There are no scientific papers or clinical studies that I have been able to discover that address the effectiveness ofThe Bach flowers.What I can tell you, however, are the many thousands of anecdotal testimonies from people who have used or are currently using the flower remedies. I can also make personal statements.

I was skeptical of natural and/or metaphysical approaches and practices. Even now I am wary of many esoteric practices. However, I have itBach flowersUpon testing and after two weeks of taking the medication prescribed to me, I noticed a huge improvement in my emotional response and overall well-being. I can only report on my personal experiences. I'll include those nowBach flowersin my personal medical cabinet along with the scientific community's headache pills.

In summary, the tug of war between the ideology of the scientific approach that disregards all but symptoms on the one hand and those who desire a more holistic approach to treat the individual as more than just a collection of symptoms is a persistent discordant rumbling in the belly of humanity, occasionally breaking out into skirmishes and wars.

My suggestion is: investigateThe Bach flowersfor yourself. Do not allow yourself to be brainwashed in any way, but do your own research, talk to people with personal stories to tell and decide for yourself. And finally, try them out.

Treat the whole person or treat the symptoms? You decide.