Bach Flower Medicine [AKA "Rescue Remedy"]

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On 9/19/2019 at 9:16 AM, EccentricM said:

@retroHelen That is true. His framework was a strange one full of false beliefs. However I do think there is something scientifically genuine to his research (as tests have shown), just that he attributed these treatments to something "beyond science", where as in reality I think he just did not understand the science behind what was going on (and so just said "must be spiritual!"), and even perhaps today, just what chemicals and what have you are in these mixtures that are having an observable effect we are not fully knowledgeable on, since people try these treatments with no prior knowledge of what Bach's beliefs were, and yet find it worked just as they would take any other pill or medicine, which is why they sell it in clinics, yet these clinics do not sell anything else do to with superstition.

 

Just like accupuncture, this came from the belief of "energy" being in the body, akin to the immortal soul, yet the physical treatment works, just that the framework these people were using at the time was the false part as they had no other explantion for it but saw that it worked, but clearly something that is "not spiritistic" is taking place that is having a healing effect, since it does not require foreknowledge or involvement in such spiritistic beliefs or practices, there is no supernatural faith componant, though the creators orginally may have "falsely attributed" it to such. Where as other practices (like cystsals, Reiki, etc) "do" involve and "require faith" in some sort of supernatural force and have no scientically documented benefits at all. 

 

 

I think with this, and similar treatments, the first people to dicover these natural remedies were people who already had religious or supertitious beliefs, and so they simply attached that label to it as they had no other label to attach to explain what they were doing. In history the most educated healers, doctors, herbalists and what have you usually were religious people (which is why in the middle ages tradtional herbalists were labelled as witches and were burned at the stake for it). And I think Bach was simply a herbalist who didn't know any better of what to attribute to his success.

 

We "do" have to be mindful of course of where a line is crossed to going to just pure witchcraft or voodoo healing.

Dr. John Christopher also felt the same about his herbal knowledge, yet we know the herbs work without any mystical reason but on their own qualities. The bach remedies come from plants, as well as many homeopathic remedies that are accused of being placebo. I think the mistake was giving mystical sources the credit for why they worked instead of God creating them with these abilities to heal.