For many years Bach’s flower remedies stood alone, but in the mid-1970s American therapist Richard Katz, looking for ways of dealing with the increasing varieties of stress in people’s lives, established the Flower Essence Society in California.
Katz’s aim was to research new flower essences and gather together those working with various essences to exchange ideas and information.
The Flower Essence Society now has a database of more than 100 essences from different flowers in more than 50 countries.
The newer flower essences are made from a wide variety of flora, ranging from modest hedgerow and alpine flowers to exotic orchids, antique roses, and the blossoms of fruits such as avocado and banana. Some flowers, especially those native to the Australian “bush,” Himalayan mountains, and Hawaii have a long tradition of being used in natural medicine.
The waratah flower from Australia, for example, comes from one of the oldest plant groups in the world, its origins dating back 60 million years to Antarctica. Known by its aboriginal name (meaning beautiful), the waratah is said to be a survival remedy. It is said to embody the Australian bush-dwellers’ qualities of adaptation and the ability to cope with all kinds of stress, especially emergencies.
From the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia comes a family of rose essences that are claimed to help people cope wlth spiritual issues in their lives. Orchids growing in the Amazon jungle are said to have the same effect.
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