Dr Bach now felt he could devote his time and his life to the search for the pure remedies which would help the sufferer to rise above his unhappy thoughts. These new remedies he knew must be there for the finding in nature, amongst trees and plants, for all our needs are provided for in nature by our Creator.
He already knew the principles of the new method of treatment: 'Treat the patient not his disease', for when the negative thoughts had been overcome, the body would also respond.
So in 1930 he gave up his work in London without a backward thought and went to live in the country.
Throughout all those years in medical practice he had been seeking for scientific proof of all his findings and using his intellect, but now a change occured in himself. He became very sensitive in mind and body.
Before finding a particular flower, he would suffer in himself and very acutely, the negative state of mind for which that flower was needed and, at the same time, he was privileged, as he said, to suffer from some of the physical complaint. Then he would wander about the fields and lanes until he found, or was led to find, the flower which would immediately restore his serenity and peace of mind, and within a few hours the physical complaint would also be healed.
In this way he found 38 flowers to cover the 38 negative states of mind from which mankind can suffer. These flowers, with three exceptions, are all simle wild flowers of the countryside. He prepared the flowers only, for they frow above the ground in the sunlight and the air and contain in their hearts the embryo seed, the continued life of the plant. You will know of course, many of them - gorse, heather, honeysuckle, wild rose, chicory, agrimony - and the flowers of our well-known trees - oak, beech, willow, larch.
Dr Bach placed the 38 remedies in seven groups. Those for fear; for uncertainty and indecision; for loneliness; for insufficient interest in present circumstances; for oversensitiveness to ideas and influences; for dispondency and despair; for over-care for the welfare of others.
In his little booklet 'The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies', he describes very simply the negative state of mind of each of these remedies."
Nora Weeks 1973
For further reading on Dr Bach's life there is a book by Nora Weeks called "The Medical Discoveries of Dr Edward Bach Physician"
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