EXPLORATORY STUDY on

Dr. bach Flower Remedies of England

Their Role & Place in the Daily Life of Every Man

Commentary on the extended uses of the thirty-eight remedies by Dr. V. KrIshnamurthy

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[Results of three decades of practice, study, observation and experiments in the clinic]
SCOPE and LIMITATIONS
BACH FLOWER REMEDIES are not for 'treatment' of ordinary diseases like cough and cold,
though there are complete and permanent cure of many acute and some chronic diseases on
record with the use of these remedies. "Treatment of disease'' is a low-key approach as far as
Bach Remedies are concerned. They are more for 'prevention.' Not for prevention of hepatitis,
polio etc., but prevention of problems in life, like poverty, diseases, deviant behaviour etc.
But, on the other hand, BACH REMEDIES give correct answers and solutions to ALL problems
facing humanity-call it addiction, deviant behaviour, unemployment, insufficient income,
disturbances arising out of broken families etc.
(A) In the system of Bach Remedies the patient himself tells his remedy to us by:(i) either the words used by him in reference to his complaints; or
(ii) by body language; or
(iii) by his attitude/outlook as observed and reported by those around him; or, as observed by the
practitioner using Bach Remedies. For this you need not probe deep into his mental faculties nor
do psychoanalysis.

(B) This is a 'Treat-yourself ' method and no knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology,
psychology etc. are required to learn and practise this system.
In other words, Bach Remedies and Bach Remedies alone give the only correct answer as to why
men get diseases, suffer due to poverty, problems in life etc. By a regular, thorough and
systematic study of Bach Remedies we also get right solutions to incurable diseases and terminal
illness, thus making it different from and superior to other forms of treatment
Those who are not qualified or Regd. Medical Practitioners may ask as to how they can use Bach
Remedies without themselves being a Regd. or qualified medical practitioner. The next chapter
gives the answer.
When there is a gross change in the brain such as growth of a tumour, lesion, atrophy etc.
(pathology) (which form a small percentage of mental illness) Bach Remedies cannot, of course,
cure them. But in respect of behavioural and other disorders (not arising from gross lesions in
brain and not due to side-effects of allopathic drugs which are chemicals capable of damaging
brain permanently) Bach Remedies can certainly cure.
'DRUG', 'MEDICINE', 'REMEDY' defined and explained:
Why do we say that to use Bach Remedies for yourself and others you need not be a Regd.
Medical Practitioner? For this we must understand the difference between 'drug' and 'remedy.'
There are 'Drug Inspectors' appointed by the government, but there are no 'Remedy Inspectors' as
such.
Allopathic Drugs )
Homoeopathic Medicine ) There is not much difference between medicine
Bach Remedies ) and 'remedy'
Allopathic drugs are noxious and poisonous chemicals. If prescribed wrongly or given in
overdose, they would, in most cases, endanger the life of the patient. For example, if a nondiabetic patient takes insulin or any other tablet meant for diabetes, his sugar level would come
down considerably and he may swoon. That is why you find the following caution printed on the
drugs: "To be used by a Regd. Medical Practitioner, Hospital or Laboratory only.''
But a 'Remedy' is different from a 'drug.' Remedies are harmless even if used wrongly. Suppose
you advise a patient to apply castor oil on a sprained neck and do massage; or for 'constipation'
you tell someone to take castor oil internally 1-2 ounce, this is called a 'remedy'. It won't do any

serious harm. At the most the person may have 5-7 times purging or loose bowel movements. For
prescribing a 'medicine' or 'remedy' you need not be a qualified/Regd. Medical Practitioner.
In Bach Remedies, two pills are given for a dose, irrespective of age. If wrongly given or even if
the whole phial of 300 pills are taken at a time, there won't be any side-effects because the
material content is negligible-trace quantity. The effects of Bach Remedies are 'dynamic' and not
physiological. In other words, you cannot harm anyone in any way by so-called overdosing or
wrong prescription.
Again, there are no side-effects or contra-indications. Also, no diet restrictions and can be taken
while you are on other forms of treatment/therapy. (Anything dissolved in sugar base or alcohol
or honey have no expiry date. Bach Remedies are available in the form of tiny sugar pills. Hence
these have no expiry date.)
Let us for example, take the case of 'addiction' and find how Bach Remedies offer the right
solution.
ADDICTION as viewed in the system of BACH FLOWER REMEDIES
[In De-addiction Centres, one and the same allopathic drugs are used to treat all types of
alcoholic victims. The persons thus treated, of course, give up alcohol. But, because of the sideeffects, he becomes dull, stupid, lazy, lethargic etc., and is unable to concentrate in discharging
his official duties as well as his responsibilities at home. Alas! After six months, when the drug
goes out of his body, he starts consuming double the quantity of what he had been taking
originally. It is a stereotyped method in allopathy where humans are treated like animals and thus
the patients suffer from side-effects.]
In Bach Remedies system we do not treat 'addiction' but we treat 'personalities.' Hence no sideeffects nor the person becoming immune to Bach Remedies in future. We individualise the
victims.
The following type of classifications is not anybody's theory but they have been in existence
from time immemorial.
(A) REGULAR (DAILY) DRINKERS/CHAIN-SMOKERS:
Name of the Mind symptom of the victim (addict)
Bach Remedy
WALNUT Here, it is a matter of sheer habit. The question of giving up alcohol/tobacco does not
arise because the victim does not even think of making an attempt to give up this habit. For once,

if he misses his drink, his hand would shake and subsequently suffer from withdrawal symptoms.
This is A CLEAR CASE OF ADDICTION INDEED.
SCLERANTHUS At night he firmly takes a vow that from the next day he won't take alcohol
and even promises his wife too. But the very next day the same old story is repeated. This is not
addiction but "UNSTEADINESS OF MIND'' (Irresolution).
AGRIMONY Does not take alcohol for 'kick' as the above first said Walnut-type persons. But to
forget his worries at home when some dishonourable events has happened like the elopement of
his daughter, his wife living with another person, etc., one day he suddenly starts drinking to
ventilate his suppressed emotions and grief.
VINE Not necessarily drinks for 'kick' like the first said Walnut-type. He wants to put up a show
before others that he does drink imported stuff like Scotch etc., -The status monger. This would
be evidenced by the fact that in his house we find in the hall, empty biscuit brandy bottles are
neatly arranged in a row in the showcase
CHERRY He decides to give up the habit and has completely stopped it. But if
PLUM he happens to see the bottle or someone smoking, he would take a peg (or a cigarette) and
no more after that, till such time he again sees the bottle/cigarette packet. A case of "irresistible
temptation'' indeed.
(B) Occasional Drinkers:
Name of the Mind symptom of the victim (addict)
Bach Remedy
WILD ROSE Again, Wild Rose-type persons are not regular drinkers. They drink to 'enjoy' life
or to celebrate once a while, like for example, on the first of every month when they get their
monthly salary or, on the day of receiving yearly bonus; or, on the date of getting arrears etc.,
and on occasions like promotion, transfer, wedding party etc. (celebration!)
HORNBEAM These types of persons are neither 'addicts' nor are they fond of the 'kick' feeling.
They are tonic-mongers or strength-maniacs. Drinks 'wine' or 'brandy' only, because they have
heard that these two are good for health. (It is said that one drop of wine is equal to one drop of
blood!) They are over-conscious of nutrition, vim, vigour & vitality. They have forgotten that
'health is wealth' and wrongly think that 'strength is wealth.'
CHICORY Here he is a miser and does not drink by buying from the liquor shop. But when it is
available 'free of cost' such as in parties etc., even though he does not know how to drink, he

gulps down as much as possible and comes home and vomits all. (The regular drinker knows his
limit and does not overdose himself.) Examples are waiters working in Army Officers Mess and
top-executives attending parties quite often resort to this type of drinking.
MIMULUS Here is the 'nervous fellow' who has the fear-complex, drinks to become courageous.
These types take liquor just before encountering his rivals.
Thus, we call Bach Remedies as a human medicine because every victim/patient is
individualised. Be that as it may. Let us find the correct answer to the question as to why a
person becomes an addict.
Again, let us reiterate, that we are here not doing any psycho-analysis of addicts, but in the above
table, we have just and only given the classification as it exists and found by us, from time
immemorial. (Mighty Nature cannot be studied or learnt!)
Causes of Addiction / The Real Nature of Disease:
To a chain smoker or to a person who drinks daily without a break-as a matter of sheer habit or
addiction, we give the Bach Remedy Walnut daily 2-4 times. Sooner or later he gives up the bad
habit. But we do not stop the remedy even after he gives up alcohol/tobacco smoke. Why? This
is because we have to find out as to why he became an addict. In the case of 99% of addictions
wherever we had prescribed Walnut and when this was continued even after he gave up the
addiction, sooner or later we noticed that all of them started learning painting or instrumental
music. After 1-2 years of practice he started performing in stages earning 2-5 thousand rupees for
each 2-hour performance compared to his 5-7 thousand rupees which he got by working for 30
days x 8 hours.
Thus, Walnut not only helped him to give up the bad habit but also enabled him to earn more
money.
Let us now examine as to how 'addiction' is related to 'painting' or 'instrumental music.'
In alcoholism or tobacco-smoking, a person does daily one and the same thing repeatedly with
his hands. In learning painting/instrumental music and after some years of learning, while
performing in theatres also, he does the same thing repeatedly over and over again.
Smoking is a sign of disease-'negative' aspect of mind.
Instrumental (music) Painting-'positive' aspect of mind.
In the above situation, the Bach Remedy Walnut takes a person from the 'negative' to the
'positive' side.

Addicts are called 'negative' Walnut-type personalities. Walnut type person cannot keep quite
even for a moment and does one and the same work repeatedly over and over again. Just because
the parents refused to send him to a painting or music school (and wrongly thought that he must
first become at least a graduate and so put in an academic school) he got diverted to the readily
available tobacco smoke or liquor.
Thus, we do not 'treat' or 'cure' addicts or addiction; but from their NEGATIVE type (smoking
tobacco/drinking alcohol) the indicated Bach remedy takes them to the positive aspect
(painting/instrumental music).3 We are not here advancing any of our own 'theory' relating
smoking/alcoholism with painting/instrumental music. It is practical. It only exists as it is and we
have simply discovered it from repeated observations.
These remedies have the power to help us preserve our personality.
Successful artists and instrumentalists like Sitar Ravishanker of North India or Mandolin
Shrinivas, Veena Gayathri, Flute Sashank are called POSITIVE-WALNUT type personalities.
Suppose parents of these personalities did the mistake of forcing their children to first complete
their graduation, they would have by now become addicts to liquor/drugs.
From the foregoing analysis we can safely conclude that in de-addiction centres instead of
treating them with drugs as in veterinary practice, painting/instrumental music should be taught.
It is not anybody's theory but we are in direct communion with the mighty Nature. Wherever the
Bach Remedy Walnut was prescribed, the person not only stopped his cigarettes/alcohol but also
simultaneously turned to painting/instrumental music and thus started earning several fold of
what he was originally earning.
START HERE PART II. PART I up to ab;ove sent to talkbach on l2.7.03
WHY SHOULD ALL OF US KNOW & LEARN DR. BACH FLOWER REMEDIES OF
ENGLAND?
"Heuristic" method is a way of learning without a teacher. The student has to find out and learn
things by himself. Perhaps, most of you have not heard of this method.
HEURISTIC METHOD and WHY SHOULD WE KNOW ABOUT what is it ?
Take any subject-psychology, geometry, astronomy. The first person who had introduced that as a
subject of study found out and formulated it by himself and not by studying under any teacher.
Maths wizard Shakuntala Devi, who had not entered a college or university classroom was given
a brand new Benz car (worth Rs.30 lakhs) free of cost when she challenged the latest computer

in Benz car manufacturing company of Germany and did a complicated calculation mentally and
gave the answer speedier than the latest computer. She became a wizard in calculations not by
studying B.Sc. or M.Sc. (maths) in any college but is a mere S.S.L.C. or Tenth Standard.
Nor did Mahatma Gandhi study ahimsa (non-violence) in any college. He became the father of
the nation not because he was a barrister-at-law. Nay, most people do not know that he is a
foreign qualified law graduate!
Nor had Oxford studied English literature in any college to compile world famous and Number
One Oxford dictionary. He studied up to 9th standard and discontinued his school.
Our arts colleges/universities all over the world are not able to bring out a better compiler of
dictionary than Oxford.
Number one author of World History is H. G. Wells. Alas! He was a science student and he did
not study B.A. or M.A. (History) to become No.1 author of world history.
If you want to end up as a mere breadwinner by earning 5-10 thousand rupees per month, you
may mug up notes aspiring to put the title "M.A." etc., after your name. But if you want more
servants to wait on you like Oxford, Shakuntala Devi etc., and if you want to get an income
proportionate to your expenses and requirements, then heuristic method is there for you.
"What should I now do to find a fine new thing/subject by heuristic method?" Some of you may
wonder!
Our answer is, 'For that, you have to free yourself from the undesirable effects of tradition,
descent etc.'
Again your question would be: "How can I do that?"
Answer to this question come from Bach Flower Remedies of England.
HOW CAN WE SAY THAT BACH FLOWER REMEDIES ARE EFFECTIVE IN SHAPING
EVERY ONE'S PERSONALITY?
We have already said that these flowers are available in English forests alone. The aroma of these
flowers carried by the flower dust and spread by winds have been influencing the British people
from time immemorial and making them No.1, in all fields.
How can we say that the British are No.1 in the World ?

The B.B.C. (British Broadcasting Corporation) broadcasts news in Tamil, Hindi etc. This does
not bring any credit to Indians, because the B.B.C. broadcasts in forty-three languages of the
world.
But our All India Radio does not go beyond Indian languages, although the total area of Great
Britain (including England, Scotland and Ireland) is just one-thirteenth of India.
When former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was shot dead, Rajiv Gandhi was touring in West
Bengal. He learnt the news first from B.B.C. radio. The B.B.C. correspondent in Delhi receives
the news immediately and he swiftly sends it to London B.B.C. office, which in turn broadcasts
it all over the world. But Indian officials could not transmit the news from Delhi to West Bengal
quicker than B.B.C.
B.B.C. news is the quickest and the most reliable. When any news is heard in big official circles,
to verify whether it is a rumour or a fact, they would at once crosscheck with B.B.C. news!
The staff strength of the B.B.C. is less than one-fourth of A.I.R. staff in Delhi or Chennai.
Radio stations of many countries relay B.B.C. news, but B.B.C. does not relay news of other
stations.
The highest respectable qualification in medical practice is F.R.C.S., M.R.C.P. etc. These can be
acquired by studying in England alone. The richest Gulf countries have accepted and adopt these
parameters for employing doctors in their hospitals and M.B.B.S., M.D., or M.S. from India
hardly get a place.
To study economics, London School of Economics is the most prestigious institution and to get
admission is not an easy task. And the fees? A whooping twenty lakhs! Again, those Indians who
have studied Law in England (Barrister-at-law) have opened offices all over Europe. This
qualification is recognised internationally.
We are not writing all these to praise Englishmen, but the focus is on something else, something
productive and result-based subject.
Scotland Yard is the world-renowned police force. Even in Indira Gandhi's assassination case,
their help was sought. One of the British cop from Scotland Yard who arrived in Delhi for
investigation spoke Punjabi fluently with Punjabi accent and his dress, behaviour/mannerisms
were exactly that of a Punjabi because the assassins of Indira Gandhi were two Punjabis. This
gives us the impression that they have the enthusiasm and spirit to prepare themselves for any
suitable requirement. But policemen in India are hardly trained to talk English fluently like
British or U.S. nationals.

Leading Tamil cine music composer Ilayaraja received the Maestro award (the highest in the
world for excellence in Music) which, again, was instituted by England. Receiving such award
by Ilayaraja is not a credit for Tamilians or Indians; but it is unfortunate that we in India do not
have one of our own to honour others at international level.
Car race on good road depends upon the driver's skill. But car race on the rough roads is to test
the roadworthiness of the make of the car. In the Himalayan car rally (rough and rugged road),
Dolphin car (English make) came first in endurance test.
How is it possible for the British to be No. 1 in many fields? Even in games, the most popular
and most loved one is cricket. This again is of England's origin.
Again, even among pen, No.1 is Parker or Swan. No.1 Soap is Pears (all these are from England)
English 7' O Clock Blade is No.1 in the world.
And now, the secret of their being No. 1:
It is only because of the effects of thirty-seven wild flowers available in abundance in their
natural habitat in English forests only. The aroma of these flowers has been influencing the
British for thousands of years. (We import these into India and sell in the form of 'ready-to-take'
chewable pills at a cheaper rate of Rs.50 in an easy to carry 10ml pack of 300 pills.)
The medicinal and other effects of these thirty-seven flowers on human personality were
discovered by Dr. Edward Bach, M.B.B.S., M.R.C.S. of London, in 1936. He abandoned his
lucrative medical practice in Harley street (Hollywood of doctors) and like Gautama Buddha
wandered in thick forests and fell upon the thirty-seven wild flowers.
These are not per se for treatment of diseases. They are to solve our problems in life, remove
defects in our personality and help us to increase our income and life-style.
Many seemingly intelligent readers may ask: "How can a pill increase my income or
personality?''
Our answer is: "Do you know to whom the President's Gallantry Award is given on the Republic
Day? If you have learnt swimming (and also rescue operations) and if you save a drowning
person, you won't be given that award.
The award is given to a boy of twelve, who, not knowing swimming, rescues a drowning person
who is above his age, size and weight.
How is this possible?

These cannot strictly be classified as medicine, we must bear in mind the fact that these are
regulators of the human mind. Treatment of certain diseases is also possible with these remedies,
but its unique feature is that, it alone offers medicines for 'afflictions' otherwise called
'witchcrafts'.
Dear readers, it is now up to you to decide whether you would like to know and learn the subject
of Bach Flower Remedies and improve your income & life-style by taking suitable Bach
remedy(ies) on yourself.
How do we understand the scientificity of the action of the Bach Remedies? For this one has to
carefully study and interpret the following.
When we feel hungry we take food provided by nature; When we feel thirsty, we take water
provided by nature. When we feel chilly we wear woollen clothes, and feel comfortable. Every
time, we feel hungry and thirsty, we do not go to the pathologist to know what the matter is. So
also, when we are sick, Nature has provided us a group of wild flowers so that we may treat and
cure ourselves easily, gently and quickly and without side-effects. Nature constantly works
towards perfection. Science is after all study of things in Nature, but, alas, Nature is to be
admired and not studied or learnt.
These remedies are 'user-friendly' and the system is 'self-complete'.
The reader should not conclude that he must 'consult' an expert to know which remedies he
should take for himself for his problems.
You go to Germany and you do not know German language. You do not every now then ring up
to Chennai asking someone (who knows German and your mother tongue,) what you should say
for buying apple in the shop. etc. etc. Instead, the best way is to learn German language.
When you feel hungry you take food and you do not ask anybody what you should eat.
So also, whatever may be your needs, problems in life, requirements etc, we say that you first
learn the subject, get into that and then everything becomes easy and automatic. This is because a
remedy useful for you in one situation may be useful to another person for a different purpose. In
other words, these are highly individualised.
For example, let us take an actual case of five persons, all of whom developed pain in abdomen,
after taking food from a restaurant. In allopathy, a doctor may treat by prescribing uniformly one
remedy to all the five for treating 'food poison' case.
Shyam: "In hotels they don't meticulously clean the plates. They simply dip the plates in a
bucketful of water and that is all. Probably someone with infectious or contagious disease might

have taken food before us and through the bucketful of water it might have spread to all of us.
That is why we have this abdominal pain".
Wilson: 'They use half-perished vegetables and substandard oil for cooking. They want to make
more money and we are suffering because of them.'
John: 'Hotel food never agrees with my belly. I always try to avoid it. Had I avoided it this time, I
would not have got this pain'.
Rosy: 'Probably I might have committed some sin and I am now paying for my past sins with
this abdominal pain'.
Lusy, on his part, tells: "I am afraid that we may develop diarrhoea and vomiting and consequent
dehydration. Better, we see a doctor immediately."
In the above five instances, though the complaint is uniform in all the five individuals, viz.,
abdominal pain, the reaction or words used by them are totally different from one another.
Practitioners of all other systems would have simply ignored the above statements and they
would have treated all of them for food-poisoning or so and it means hospitalization, taking
medicines for a few days etc.
But, in Bach Remedies, the cure is almost instantaneous. Each herb corresponds with one of the
qualities and its purpose is to strengthen that quality so that the personality may rise above the
fault that is the particular stumbling block.
On reading the above, most readers at once rush to the wrong conclusion that this system is
based on psycho-analysis and they must be expert in psychology to 'probe deep into the mental
faculty of the patients'. No, not at all.
Of course, a patient walks in with a physical complaint, but if we only allow them to continue,
they invariably end up with a mental symptom. It is therefore, the real cause behind the disease
which is of utmost importance, the mental state of the patient himself, not the condition of the
body (Edward Bach).
What we say is that it is more than sufficient if you listen to the patient allowing him to talk;
nothing more and nothing less. The patient details his suffering. Those around him remark what
they have observed about him. The practitioner listens without interrupting him to identify the
mental symptom. Every interruption breaks the train of thought of the narrator, and all he would
have said at first does not again occur to him in precisely in same manner after that.
CASE STUDY - I

A lady walked into my clinic the other morning and pointing to a slight swelling in her left
forearm told, "Doctor, look at this swelling." (After a pause she continued) "I am afraid it may
not be anything like cancer". (here the patient enters with a physical symptom viz., swelling, but
ends up with a mind symptom, "fear of disease (of cancer)".
Mimulus is the name of a Bach remedy for 'fear' and I gave this to her to be taken three times
daily (two pills for a dose) and in a week's time the swelling disappeared completely.
The reader must note that in this case, I did not prescribe Mimulus for "swelling" but for "fear"
(of known things). This method of prescribing Bach Remedies has nothing to do at all with
psychosomatic illness etc. We do not coin any word or use any terminology. Again, we are not
here introducing any system. It already does exist in Nature.
CASE STUDY - II
The other day, a 55 year old person walked in and asked me "Doctor, do you have any medicine
for low blood-pressure". I answered in the affirmative and asked him what the matter was, to
which he said: "Doctor, in the night I would suddenly wake up with fear. I cannot describe what
it is-it is a vague fear; next morning I would go to my allopathic doctor and after checking my
blood pressure he would say that I am having low blood pressure and he would prescribe some
tablets; but this frequent waking from sleep with fear continues. I want a permanent cure."
In this case the patient walks in with the complaint "low blood pressure" but ultimately ends up
with 'vague or irrational fear'. In case No.1 above, it is Mimulus. In the second case another Bach
Remedy, viz.,Aspen cured him. Aspen is for 'vague and unknown fear'. Otherwise called as ''Free
Floating anxiety'' in psychiatry.
CASE STUDY - III
Mr. S., sixty, was admitted for cataract surgery. On the day when he was taken to the theatre he
got frightened on looking at the surgical instruments etc., and his blood pressure shot up. So
surgery was postponed and he was given pills to bring down the blood pressure; on next day
also, the same story was repeated and so on. Mimulus was given three times daily and he was no
more afraid of surgery and his blood pressure remained normal.
In patients needing Mimulus, it is about a particular known thing that they are afraid of.
Some examples are:
. 'Fear of taking an injection'. We call such persons 'nervous types'.
. 'Fear of high places;' 'fear of the boss in office'.

. 'Fear of robbers, accidents, examinations'.

. 'Fear of electric current' and so is afraid of handling electrically-operated appliances. We call
such persons 'nervous types'.
. 'Fear of darkness' (But, if this is ameliorated in company, then another Bach remedy, viz.,
Chicory is to be prescribed).
. Fear of using the razor for shaving, of dogs, of oxen'. When he has to meet a big person, he
becomes nervous.
. Fear of father who is always strict and beats his children often.
To a lady in whose house there were lot of cockroaches of which she was afraid, Mimulus was
given three times daily; after a week she remarked; "I am not afraid of cockroaches now.".
Whenever a patient tells you of his trouble: "I am afraid that it may be cancer" or "Will it
spread?" or "Will it terminate in a fatal or incurable disease?" then, irrespective of the ailment he
is referring to, you can give him the Bach remedy Mimulus. It not only removes fear from the
mind of such persons but also cures the disease about which he refers to with fear. This is useful
in treating certain diseases what the psychologists call as psycho-somatic illnesses.
'Fear of impending disease', 'fear of the disease getting worse or terminating fatally' all need
Mimulus. Often we find this symptom in case of difficult breathing, pain in chest etc.
"I had pain in my chest last night. Will it turn into heart attack or is it connected with the
beginning of any serious heart troubles?" asked a lady. Mimulus cured her.
Nature cannot be studied or learnt. Nature can be admired.
We are still at the entrance gate of Nature.
Rarely we get a glimpse of wonders of mighty Nature.
Dr. Bach Flower Remedies of England is one such rarest things which you would only wish that
you had learnt it much earlier in your lifetime.
Nature constantly works towards perfection.
Nature's ways cannot be improved upon.

If God loves us so much where comes disease and suffering of humans? These thoughts led Dr.
Edward Bach to abandon his lucrative medical practice in Harley Street (Hollywood of doctors)
and go in search of truth, like Gautama Buddha.
We only get astonished at the tremendous and marvellous effects of these remedies.
For example, Rescue Remedy, one of the Bach Remedies is a near-panacea where life is in
danger in medical emergencies arising from traumatic causes-serious accidents (including road
and industrial accidents, extensive burns & scalds, snake/scorpion and other poison bites, electric
shock etc. excepting, of course, fractures.) These are not diseases per se, but endanger the life of
the victim arising from external causes, otherwise called 'trauma' in medical parlance.
Within minutes after accident, put two pills into the mouth of the victim. (Not being a 'doctor' or
'qualified & registered medical practitioner' if you are afraid of giving 'medicine' to anyone, you
may dissolve 5-10 pills in little plain water and apply the solution anywhere on the skin of the
victim. The medicated water applied on the skin gives the same result if taken orally.)
Moments later, after one single dose of Rescue Remedy, we would see
(i) bleeding stops, however long or deep the cut may be and without any need to put up a
bandage; later, the patient may go to a nurse or a doctor for suturing the wound.
(ii) pain, swelling etc. is reduced considerably.
(iii) in case of poison-bites, the poison is neutralized.
(iv) in the case of burns & scalds, burning pain completely stops and next day there is no aftereffects, such as bleb formation, hardening of tissues, discolouration of skin etc. It may be
mentioned here that even if you go to any qualified doctor he has no medicine to stop the burning
pain nor to prevent the after-effects.
DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR
To a student of psychology each one of the following may appear to be different mental attitudes
1. While travelling in the bus a man cuts off the long hair of a young woman sitting in front of
him;
2. An old man takes a long and sharp nail and punctures all the two-wheelers parked in front of
the flats.

3. When the daughter tells her father that she had passed her 12th standard in first class, he is not
in any way affected by the news. At the most he may sigh saying that he has to now run from
pillar to post of get college admission for her.
Any psychology student may call the first two behaviours as 'impulse' or 'hidden irrational
motives for action.' And the third as 'joylessness' or feeling that life is a burden.
In the system of BACH FLOWER REMEDIES one remedy covers all the above mind symptoms
viz.,Wild Rose. The keyword for this remedy is MISANTHROPY or 'Indifference to
living/mankind.' The characteristics of person needing the remedy Wild Rose are given below:
(1) When he buys a thing worth twenty rupees from a shop and pays a one-hundred-rupee note
and when the shopkeeper pays the balance he puts the money into his packet without counting it.
(2) When someone sends New Year Greetings he drops it into the waste paper basket without
caring to know who had sent and what is written inside. Does not send Pongal or New Year
Greetings to any one.
(3) This Wild Rose-type mentality can be found in any average government servant where
promotion is only once in ten years after he reaches the highest in his pay-scale and so promotion
does not mean extra income. (But in private company if one works hard he gets double
promotion etc.)
(4) When the country's general elections results are announced he does not care to know which
political party won.
All the above are classified under the following category and the remedy is Wild Rose.
Misanthropy-no 'thrill' in life-indifference-feels that life is a burden- just eats because he feels
hungry, does not care to 'select' dresses; puts on some dress or other merely because he cannot go
on the street or to the office without putting up a shirt-does not care to shave his face daily nor to
do haircut once in a month; does not even comb hair nor applies oil on head daily.
CRISIS MANAGEMENT
The greatest benefit that we get from Flower Remedies is seen when we come to this topic Crisis
Management.
1. You are flying in an aircraft and in mid air it is being hijacked.
2. A child is kidnapped and ransom is demanded over phone.

3. Daughter-in-law is ill-treated by husband and mother-in-law and even knowing these the
parents of the girl cannot challenge the in-laws because, in India, divorce, remarriage etc. cannot
be thought of in many families, because they are considered as a social stigma.
In all the above situations you take a dose of the Bach Remedy Rock Water and
(i) the hijacker would release you only;
(ii) the kidnapper surrenders.
(iii) Give the Bach Remedy Rock Water to the girl and the in-laws start behaving rationally
towards her.
Haughty, arrogant, dominating husbands who drink liquor daily in the evening and come home at
night and beat their wives are common these days. If the wives take Rock Water their husbands
calm down.
A very poor Brahmin purohit (priest, who performs poojas etc. at houses and get a meagre
income that too on festivals days and when religious rites are performed) with great difficulty
sent his only son to the school and college and made him a graduate. Then by paying a bribe of
ten thousand rupees got a job also for the boy. But the latter stopped going to work saying that
since the father is earning he won't go to office. Rock Water was given to the father and the son
started behaving humanely.
-----another bach remedy - chestnutbud; Its multiple uses:
In the 'negative aspect' of this remedy we find
(i) unable to learn from repeated experience/training. (So, as a result, he tries to escape from that
subject)
(ii) escapist mentality
Any thief, criminal or offender would only try to 'escape.' That is why we have police station,
third degree manners in lock-up resulting in death in some cases, court, prison etc. etc.
Whether it is one who has committed a murder or the maidservant working in your house who
had stolen your gold chain, give a few pills of the Bach remedy Chestnutbud mixed in
water/coffee/tea or juice. If she or he had stolen, they would, of their own, voluntarily accept the
theft and return the stolen thing to you.

Chestnutbud is not a 'truth finder'. It simply and only removes the negative aspect of the
mind-"escapist mentality." Therefore, lock-up deaths, court etc., go out of terminology and the
poor newspaper men would have no work to do.
If the maidservant does not do her duties properly but is marking time and shirking
responsibility, add a few pills of Chestnutbud to her coffee that you give her daily and see the
result. She does all the household chores correctly.
The convicts, upon completion of their term of punishment, when they are released from prisons,
as a rehabilitation measure give them daily 1-2 doses of Chestnutbud. Will it remove their
thieving mentality? No one has so far given the correct solution for the culprits as rehabilitation
method. These so-called convicts had been sent on earth to learn a particular unique subject
(distinct and different from all others, who, like herds of animals are studying commerce,
computer, literature etc. etc.) Because he could not find the teacher to teach him that unique
subject or trade, his mind gets diverted to the readily available burglary, pickpocketing etc.
As a rehabilitation measure, give all these convicts the Bach remedy Chestnutbud and we would
be surprised how they learn a hitherto unknown unique trade/subject/profession and become
No.1 in that and would really be earning in a very decent manner more than the judge or police
superintendent who had sent him to jail.
Whether you are going to use these remedies (on yourself or on others) or not, after mastering
the subject, you would have in fact, mastered the 38 remedy-types or personalities. Thus, it
would enable you to know how to behave with each type or what to expect from each of them.
For example, let us take the case of those persons who are over-conscious of cleanliness and are
sensitive to filth, contamination, contagion etc. and washing their hands even after shaking hands
with any one. we call these persons as Crab Apple types. After learning Bach remedies, you
would know that the best place for Crab Apple type persons to work is the kitchen where hygiene
is paramount.
Shyam "In hotels they don't meticulously clean the plates. They simply dip the plates in a
bucketful of water and that is all. Probably someone with infectious or contagious disease might
have taken food before us and through the bucketful of water it might have spread to all of us.
That is why we have this abdominal pain" Keywords (Symptom) : over-conscious of filth,
contamination, contagion etc. Relevant Bach Remedy : Crab Apple
Wilson "They use half-perished vegetables and substandard oil for cooking. They want to make
more money and we are suffering because of them" Keywords (Symptom) : Blaming others for
his difficulties Relevant Bach Remedy : Willow

John "Hotel food never agrees with my belly. I always try to avoid it. Had I avoided it this time, I
would not have got this pain" Keywords (Symptom) : Regret
Relevant Bach Remedy : Honeysuckle
Rosy "Probably I might have committed some sin and I am now paying for my past sins with this
abdominal pain" Keywords (Symptom) : Guilt complex or self-contempt Relevant Bach Remedy
: PINE
Lusy "I am afraid we may develop diarrhoea and vomiting and consequent dehydration. Better,
we see a doctor immediately" Keywords
(Symptom) : fear of known cause Relevant Bach Remedy : Mimulus
STUDENTS GETTING POOR MARKS or low I. Q. (We must keep in mind that the following
can be cured only if C.T. scan shows no abnormality in the brain.)
(1) The boy himself studies well for hours; goes for tuition for different subjects by separate
teachers; parents too teach him. In spite of all these he scores single digit marks. We say that he
has low i. q. Just because till date we have no remedy to cure this type of slow or difficult
learning we had easily coined the word low i. q. This is escapism. In these types of cases the
Bach Remedy Chestnutbud is given; (give for 2-3 times a day and proportionate to the
improvement, gradually increase the duration between the doses) and the boy scores first rank in
the next exam.
We must here carefully note that the remedy Chestnutbud does not increase anyone's brain power
or capacity. It only and merely removes 'lack of interest' and 'inattention.'
Now, you cannot go about to all the schools and colleges and start giving Chestnutbud to all the
boys and make them score first rank or class first. Such a stereotyped method or routinism of
treating students like animals cannot be tolerated by Bach Remedies System.
In the case of the remedy Chestnutbud it is mainly for those getting single digit marks in spite of
tuitions etc., and hard study by himself.
(2) Let us now turn our attention to another set of students where the mother says,
"Doctor, if he sits and studies well, he would no doubt score first rank. But the problem with him
is that he does not study much, but takes more interest in watching TV, playing games etc.
In this case it is laziness or indifference to important things. These boys study late hours just 1-2
weeks before examination. For these class of boys the Bach remedy is Scleranthus and when it is
given they become prompt and score first rank.

(3) Let us now turn away from the above two categories of boys and examine another type.
A boy scores anywhere between 46 to 74% and you ask him why he is not getting first rank like
the boy who stands first in the class. Listen to his reply,
"I cannot be like him. He is all great."
Here he unnecessarily praises the first rank boy and comparing himself with him he says that
cannot be like him. A case of lack of self-confidence. Larch is the Bach Remedy for this boy and
this remedy will make him to score the first rank.
You should not hastily conclude that by giving all the above three remedies, (viz., Chestnutbud,
Scleranthus and Larch) to all students we may make everyone get first rank. That is routinism
and bad practice. You have to individualise each student by learning the symptom of various
Bach remedies.
(4) To a boy who was getting average marks, the above three remedies viz., Chestnutbud,
Scleranthus and Larch were given (to be taken together, daily one dose before going to the
school). In the following examination he failed (a thing never happened in his case.) The teacher
came to us running in excitement and asking whether the remedies would act in a reverse (or
negative) way. We asked the boy to be brought before us, along with his parents. From the
description of parents we could easily conclude that he was neither a Chestnutbud-type nor
Scleranthus-type nor Larch-type.
We simply asked the boy as to why he failed. His reply,
"Fellows who do not know the subject have come to the school to cut my throat."
Here, he "blames" the teacher for his failure in the examination. (When a person is of a remedy
type and if a wrong remedy is prescribed, the latter would make his remedy-type-symptoms
more prominent.)
Willow is the name of another Bach remedy for "blaming others for our faults." This was
prescribed to him and he got first rank in the following exam.
Like this you must know the classifications of the 38 remedy-types. Then prescription becomes
easy.
Learn the subject first and then start prescribing for addiction, for boys poor in studies, for
increasing one's income, strategies, dimensions etc.

Otherwise, if you think that you are doing an intelligent or a clever job by asking us names of
remedy for 'memory power' etc., you would fail miserably.
You cannot make Bach Remedies to fit into your classifications, et hoc genus omne, but learn the
classifications here in Bach Remedies System and use them accordingly.
FLOWER REMEDIES IN PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS:
Best results are achieved in those cases of patients who complain of vague sensations (not
described in any medical texts under any category of disease) and excluding hypochondriacs, in
all cases where patients are declared as 'clinically alright' by the specialist and ultimately referred
to a psychiatrist. These cases are easily cured by Bach Remedies. In other words these are
''Sensation as if...'' (delusions, illusions, hallucinations).
E.S.P. (Extra Sensory Perceptive Power), thought reading etc.
Allopathic drugs (chemicals) acts both on diseased as well as healthy tissues. Hence side-effects.
Bach Remedies acts on diseased tissues only and does not touch healthy tissues. Hence no sideeffects.
Therefore, if a symptom (let us call E.S.P.) disappears with Bach Remedies we can then certainly
say that it is a symptom of disease and not a 'super health'.
Case: Mr. Narayanan could tell the number of the currency note in the pocket of the person
standing before him. (This is called as Extra Sensory Perceptive Power). Mr. Narayanan was also
suffering from periodical occurrence of abdominal pain which no doctor could cure. The Bach
Remedy White Chestnut is for periodically appearing complaints. This was prescribed for him
and apart from curing his colic, his faculty of telling currency note number also disappeared.
From this we deduce that E.S.P. is not a symptom of extra or super health but a symptom of
disease only.
It is not our 'theory' when we say that E.S.P. is a symptom of disease, but in these so-called ESP
powers the patient was invariably having the symptoms of the Bach Remedy White Chestnut
(vague sensation or periodically appearing complaints) and even without our knowing that the
patient was having ESP powers when we prescribed White Chestnut and when his bodily
complaints got cured, simultaneously his ESP powers too vanished.
For Professionals in various walks of life who guide people at large under their leadership :

There are certain Bach Remedies which can be said almost specifics or tonics for the abovesaid
persons. They are required to possess the following characteristics:(i) thorough in their subject they are dealing with; for this, the Bach Remedy Chestnutbud would
help everyone master their subjects quickly, thoroughly and deeply;
(ii) good in communication. You should not only be able to deliver messages but also equally be
alert to receive good things from whatever quarter they may come. Heather is the Bach remedy
to improve upon ourselves where 'talking' or 'speech' is involved;
(iii) each one under you may be having some problem/difficulty and the cause would be different
from one another; so also, you cannot tackle one and the same problems of many persons in a
stereotyped manner. This is because no two individuals are alike. One man's meat is another
man's poison. This is otherwise called D. D. in medicine (Diagnosis & Differential Diagnosis).
Cerato helps you to manourve this. It is an excellent P.R.O. indeed! Variety, dept., filing system,
enquiry counter, information bureau, vocational guidance are the words to describe the uses of
this Bach remedy Cerato;
(iv) able to handle and steer each person so as to bring the best in each individual. The poor
negative Elm-type Personnel or Factory Manager wrongly thinks that all he has to do is to extract
eight hours work from his subordinates. No! Not necessarily so. Each person would be having in
him a unique talent which, if the Manager can bring out and make use of, the organisation would
grow up speedily and reach the top. Thus, not only the organisation earns more but the worker is
also rewarded suitably by way of double increment, promotion, bonus, incentives etc. It is a twoway relationship and not merely treating them as bonded labour. (It is said, there is something in
air in America which would bring out the best in each individual. That is why America has
become No.1)
If any person (dealing with public at large or a group of person or community or citizens) daily
takes the above four Bach flower remedies viz., Elm, Chestnutbud, Cerato and Heather, daily one
dose (say, after breakfast) he would become No.1 in his field and thus admired by all. Soon
Awards, Rewards, etc. would knock his door.
This is the only way to make our colleges in Chennai known at international level like the
Cambridge. Ye Indians! Awake! arise! the hour is late, the hour is late! The time has come!
Routine uses of BACH REMEDIES in DAY-TO-DAY LIFE
by those who have attended our 5-day PERSONAL COURSE
CHERRY PLUM: Unbearable thirst, unbearable pain making the sufferer weep or scream with
pain. Suicidal disposition. Mind giving way. Fear of loss of reason. Violent anger. In hot summer

before going out in the sun, a dose of Cherry Plum taken orally, enables us to bear the heat and
so soft drinks are not needed.
Irresistible temptation: Unable to observe diet restrictions and cannot observe fasting.
CHESTNUTBUD: If the maidservant had stolen anything in your house, give a few pills in her
tea/coffee and open the topic and she accepts the theft.
Marking time and shirking responsibility (Escapist mentality): If the maidservant/subordinates
are not doing their duties properly give them daily one dose Chestnutbud and they do the work
well.
Chestnutbud is very good to learn any subject thoroughly and fully.
CHICORY: Before going out for shopping if we take a dose, we automatically avoid useless
purchases. Also a greedy shopkeeper won't cheat us.
GORSE: To get a berth in long distance train journey at short notice when prior reservation is not
possible, buy an ordinary ticket, take a dose of Gorse and get into the reserve compartment.
When the T.T.E. comes he talks politely and allots a berth to you, available due to last minute
reservation. You may say that last-minute cancelled berths would be made available to a few
persons. But what if twelve persons go to the railway station and take Gorse? In such a case the
Rly. People would attach one more compartment. Try that. That is what happened in the case of
Dr. L. Ramamurthy, MBBS, D.Ortho.
MIMULUS: In Chennai city the publics are afraid of engaging auto because the drivers always
misbehave and fleece the customer. Before engaging an auto, take a dose of the Bach remedy
Mimulus and the auto man talks politely and does not overcharge.
Fear of going to the dentist. There are persons who avoid or postpone open-heart surgery due to
fear and if they take Mimulus they undergo surgery.
OLIVE: Tiredness from over-exertion. When you go on tour you have to carry heavy luggage.
Start taking this remedy a day in advance daily 1-2 dose and you do not feel the strain.
RED CHESTNUT, ROCK ROSE, Sweet chestnut and GORSE: When someone near and dear to
your heart is admitted in the Intensive Care unit in a hospital, you may take a dose of these four
remedies every four hours and however critical the condition of the patient may be, he shows
rapid improvement much to the surprise of the attending doctors and the patient is sent to the
wards in two days. In the next two days he is discharged and comes home.

RESCUE REMEDY: Just one single dose (2 pills) given anytime within two hours of major
surgery prevents 150 to 200 ml loss of blood, the wound heals so rapidly and the patient recovers
speedily, according to Dr. Madanagopal, MBBS, D.A., Anaesthetist, Palani. After open-heart
surgery the patient is kept in the Intensive Care Unit for 4-5 days and even more, and then sent to
the wards. But in cases wherever we gave one single dose of Rescue Remedy anytime within two
hours before surgery, the patient improves so speedily and he is sent to the wards in two days.
RED CHESTNUT: The child is late in the evening in coming home. A dose of this remedy taken
by the anxious parent, makes the child return quickly and safely.
When we take a seriously ill patient (our relative or close friend) to a doctor, if we take on
ourselves a dose of Red Chestnut and Gorse, we get the right doctor who quickly does all the
needful.
RED CHESTNUT, ROCK WATER, ROCK ROSE, GORSE: Your child is kidnapped for money;
or, your close relative/friend is kept as a hostage inside the aircraft that is being hijacked. Now,
you take a dose of these four remedies on yourself every 2-4 hours and soon (may be in 8-24
hours), your relative alone is released by the hijackers. In case of kidnapping the child returns
safely without your paying any ransom.
ROCK WATER: If you are kidnapped for money or if you are travelling in an aircraft that is
being hijacked, take a dose of Rock Water and soon you are relased. You alone are released.
Suppose you give this remedy to your co-travellers all those who have taken this remedy would
be released by the hijackers.
Suppose the senior police officials in hunt for the forest brigand Veerappan in Karnataka forest
take a dose of Rock Water 2-3 times daily, in 1-3 days Veerappan would surrender to them
unconditionally.
SWEET CHESTNUT: Take a dose before prayer and your prayers are answered. If you have to
bless anybody, before blessing them take a dose; your blessings come true. In terminal illnesses
and mercy killing cases where doctors say that they cannot do any more, this is a boon to the
patient. Also relatives should take a dose twice daily .
WALNUT: During tours take a dose daily once and you do not get fever, cold or diarrhoea
caused by change of food, water or climate. That group of 50-100 persons who go on North India
tour from Chennai would invariably take a doctor also with them. Some cases become serious
needing hospitalisation. In each conducted tour all persons do not successfully complete the trip.
But if all of them take Walnut daily once, no need for a doctor for complaints arising from
change of food, water or climate.

WILD ROSE: Power (electricity) goes off. Telephone becomes dead. Or, you don't get sufficient
water through metro water pipes. No need to complain to anybody. Take a dose of Wild Rose and
in twenty minutes power supply is restored; the telephone starts working. In case of deficient or
nil water supply take Chicory, Gorse along with Wild Rose together daily 1-2 times and in a day
you get sufficient supply. Try this.
'Prevention is better than cure' so tells a saying. This applies in toto to this system. But, here, we
don't find preventive for polio, another preventive for hepatitis B, yet another for AIDS etc. But
Bach Remedies are for prevention of all diseases; not only this. More particularly, prevention of
problems in life, call it financial, domestic disharmony, interpersonal clash in the family or work
place, or even spiritual questions.
In fact, Bach Remedies give true answer or solution to problems concerning human life on earth.
I shall now illustrate how this is being done:
Let us first of all, take the case of addicts-chain- smoking, or drinking liquor daily in large
quantity, or taking several cups of coffee or tea, pan parag, ganja, hashish etc.
All of you might have heard of or read about de-addiction centres. To cure alcoholism, allopathic
doctors give certain drugs for a course of 1-2 weeks and after this treatment is over, the person
does not take liquor even when offered to him. The relatives of the addict are greatly satisfied.
But, after coming out of the de-addiction centre, as the side-effects of the drugs, he becomes dull,
stupid, lazy, lethargic, indifferent etc. (and not active as he used to be before.) After a few
months, he starts consuming double the quantity of liquor! Be that as it may.
In the system of Bach Remedies, the name of the remedy to cure addictions is Walnut. This is
given two pills for a dose, chewable, any time, 2-3 times daily. After a few weeks he stops
drinking (without becoming lazy, dull, or lethargic as in the case of allopathic treatment
mentioned above.)
Even after the addict completely stops the liquor, we do not stop the remedy (Walnut.) This is
because we have to find out the reason for his having become a victim to alcohol.
After he stops liquor, we reduce the dosage of the flower remedy Walnut, say one dose once in
one or two days and we continue to observe him. After a few months he starts learning
instrumental music, say, violin or flute.
Let us now consider what 'learning of instrumental music' has to do with 'addictions.'
In chain-smoking or drinking liquor, the person does one and the same thing daily and
repeatedly. (Let us call this 'A')

In learning instrumental music (and, after becoming an expert in it, when giving performances in
the stages to the audience of music lovers), one does the same thing repeatedly, over and over
again. (Let us call this 'B')
In 'A', it is loss of money and health;
In 'B', he earns more money, say a few thousand rupees for every 2-3 hours performance
compared to his formerly earning a few thousand rupees once a month only (after working for
thirty days in his office.) Moreover, music is sweet to listen; it is said that music even cures
diseases.
In Bach Remedies system we call the above 'A' as 'negative' and 'B' as 'positive.'
In our clinical practice wherever this remedy Walnut cured addicts (be it ganja, pan parag, taking
several cups of coffee or tea, chain-smoking, liquor etc.) we continue to give the remedy and
they soon start learning instrumental music.
We call these persons 'Walnut-type.' Walnut-type persons are those who do a thing repeatedly
over and over again. They cannot keep idle. When we examined the childhood life of these
persons (addicts), they were reported to have frequently used the word 'boring' 'bore' etc.
So, whenever a child or student uses the word 'boring' quite often, the parents should send him or
her to instrumental music class. If they do not do this, the possibility is that the child may get
hooked to drugs etc.
Thus, Bach remedies, not only cure diseases, but also turn the person into a positive type which
alone is the permanent solution to prevent addictions or for that matter, diseases. Therefore, Bach
Remedies alone can be said to be a true medical system.
Let us now learn about the remedies one by one.
Why do men suffer from Diseases, Problems in Life and insufficient Money?
God or Nature has been sending men on earth by classifying them into 38 broad personalitytypes, each one to do a 'particular' work.
(A) Those doing their work (for which they have been sent on earth) get no disease (even if they
get, it is quickly cured by medicines), develop no problems in life and as a bonus for doing their
"particular' work, get money several times more than they need/require.
Let us call these persons as "positive types''

(B) Those who do not do their work (for which they have been sent on earth) suffer from
diseases, difficulties in life and earn money which is hardly sufficient for all their needs. In fact,
God or Nature gives these sufferings just to remind them of their particular work.
Let us call these persons as "negative types.''
The work that each one of us has to do is highly individualised (unique); no two men are alike;
so also, no two persons, either living or dead, are to do one and the same work.
The type of work that each one of us has to do - our particular type of work-cannot be learnt
from any school, college or institute.3 Mighty Nature has already provided an in-built
mechanism or I.C. (Intergrated Circuit) unit in our body to automatically do that work without
any previous education or training.
3We are not here making outright condemnation of educational institutions. It is, ofcourse, useful
for three percent of population only. But, unfortunately more than ninety percent are going to
educational institutions.
For example, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Theresa and mathematician Shakuntala Devi simply and
merely allowed to play this I.C. unit in each one of them.
Ahimsa was the in-build I.C. unit for Mahatma Gandhi; carrying for orphan children was for
Theresa and making calculations faster than the latest computer was the in-built I.C. unit in the
personality of Shakuntala Devi.
So also, if you allow your in-built mechanism to play its role, you won't get disease, problems in
life and you will be able to earn money propoortionate to your requirements or expenses.
What are the advantages of being "positive type?''
If your or my photograph (both of us are "negative type'') is to be published on the front cover in
any journal, we have to pay in thousands.
But the photo of Shakuntala, Mahathma Gandhi and Mother Theresa have been printed on the
front cover in almost all journals, that too more than once, without their paying any money or
even asking for it to be printed.
Why is this?
That is the effect of being "positive''.

"More servants wait on men than he will take notice of,'' so says Ralph Waldo Emerson in his
Essays. That is in respect of "positive type'' persons.
Suppose you are taking a 48-day course of ayurvedic medicine to be taken with cow's milk and
in between the course if you have to go out of station; you will be inquiring whether cow's milk
will be available in that new place. Suppose, someone in that town (on hearing about your visit)
buys the best cow, start feeding it with nutritious feed like almand etc. and on your arrival gives
you milk from that cow daily, will it not be a surprise? This is not a matter of pure imagination or
sheer phantasy.
When Mahatma Gandhi or Morarji Desai went to any town/city, the above thing happened.
Because, they were living a positive life.
If you want to go Switzerland, you have to stand in the queue before the office of Swiss embassy
or high commission for visa; then you have to look into your bank balance, make calculations
about the return air ticket and go to the travel agent etc. etc.
Suppose someone arranges all these things without your paying any amount? No, sir, it will not
happen in your or my case, so long as we remain as we are "negative types.''
In case of Mother Theresa whenever she decided to go out, everything was arranged
automatically; even the five star hotel won't charge her room rent etc. because it was a privilege
for them to have Mother Theresa as their guest.
If you can become positive, in your case too, all the above things would happen.
By this, I do not mean to say that you should start caring for orphan children or follow ahimsa of
Gandhi or start learning to do mathematical calculations quicker than any computer. These
individual missions were suitable for each one of them, respectively, but they are not for me or
you.
We must find 'our particular' work on earth and do it; then, we too would become positive type
persons.
We have said that God has divided men into 38 broad types.
So also, to those who are not doing their particular work, mighty Nature is giving corresponding
thirty-eight different kinds of diseases/life's problems/shortage of money, to remind their work.
Again, Nature has also provided 38 different kinds of medicinal flowers in English forests3
which corresponds to the 38 type personalities.

The list on the next page gives 38 types, their positive and negative qualities, and the
corresponding flower remedy.
Each one of us can find from the following table, which one of the 38 types we belong to and
also know whether we live positive or negative life.
If negative, we may start taking the Bach remedy given against our type. That remedy would
soon not only remove our negative qualities but, at the same time, enable us to automatically
become positive. 'To acquire positive qualities' may not be a suitable expression. To put it
correctly, let us say "Our type remedy when taken by us, allows us to play the in-build I.C. unit
in us.''
Cherry Plum
Whenever a person weeps, screams or shrieks with pain, or for that matter with any problem in
life, we give this remedy. It not only stops the pain but also cures the underlying pathological
condition that caused the pain. Again, in those who weep with their financial problems in life, the
same remedy simultaneously enables their mind to find ways and means to earn money to
remove their poverty.
We started with treatment of pains and aches, and now take you to solving problems in life.
Because all along we only know that medicine means for diseases only.
In the case of female children who quite often whimper or weep even for petty things as reported
by the mother, we give Bach Remedy Cherry Plum; the child not only stops weeping but soon
asks the parents to permit her to join classes for vocal music and they learn music very quickly
compared to other children.
The best time and place when this remedy Cherry Plum is most useful is in cases of painful
childbirth where the expectant mother screams with labor pain when the mouth of the uterus fail
to dilate to allow the child to come into this world. If you go to the maternity ward and stand
outside in the verandah in the midnight, you can hear the screamings and shrieks that continues
for hours. About three per cent of expectant mothers have terrible pain with undilated os while
the child pushes its head downwards at the time of delivery. The screaming of the mother is so
pathetic to make us think that as if somebody's neck is being strangulated. To these mothers we
give one single dose (two pills) of the Bach remedy Cherry Plum and in moments they stop
screaming. The remedy is thereafter repeated every 10-30 minutes and after the second or third
dose it is a safe delivery with bearable pain.
Here we must carefully note that Cherry Plum is not a remedy for 'pain' or 'difficult labor,' but
when a patient is screaming or shrieking with pain or suffering Cherry Plum is indicated,

irrespective of the disease from which he or she is suffering and when given, it cures the
underlying pathology also.
To the mother who had been shrieking with labor pain, though she gets easy child birth with a
few doses of the remedy Cherry Plum, we continue to give her once in two days. Why?
The point is we have to discover why she had difficult and most painful labor. Irrespective of her
age, after 2-3 months of taking this remedy she starts learning vocal music and in a year or so she
starts performing on the stage, earning a few thousand rupees for each performance, compared to
her formerly earning a few thousand rupees once in a month by working in an office.
Weeping or screaming with labor pain for hours or shrieking with pain in any disease is
'negative-type' of the Bach remedy Cherry Plum. Singing continuously in high pitch is 'positivetype.'
Thus, we find that in Cherry Plum, voice is involved. Both in negative and positive Cherry Plum
type persons the use of voice comes in, but in entirely different way:
Negative Positive
Screams or shrieks for hours with Uses loud voice continuously that
pain or problem in life too in high pitch, i.e., vocal music
We say that Madonna, Michael Jackson etc. are positive Cherry Plum type persons. In other
words, they have been doing the specific work that suited their personality or make-up of body
and mind. Had these persons not taken to vocal music, by now they would have developed grave
diseases making them weep and scream with pain.
Let us now look at some more Cherry Plum negative type persons (who too would become No.1
singers after a course of Cherry Plum).
1. Those taking more soft drinks every time they go in the hot sun; ('unbearable' thirst)
2. Those short-tempered persons who shout and scream in anger. 'Uncontrollable' thirst,
'uncontrollable' anger, appetite etc. are the symptoms of Cherry Plum.
3. Those who cannot observe diet restrictions. "Irresistible temptation''
4. Those resorting to suicide to put an end to their pain in abdomen when the best doctors failed
to cure them with their medicines.

5. Persons committing suicide because of poverty

6. Parents beating their children in anger.
7. Teachers and masters beating their students in anger because the latter is not learning in spite
of repeated coaching.
By now, the reader would have learnt what we mean by 'positive' and 'negative' types. We find
that there are thirty-eight types of persons only in the world. If a person is positive, he need not
take any Bach remedy. Negative type may take his respective remedy to become positive. This is
the secret of Bach remedies and that is why it is able to cure gently, quickly and permanently that
too without any side-effects.
In the Holy Bible, we find the words "Every man is sent on earth for a particular purpose.'' On
the other side, in Bhagavat Gita we read "If you do your duty, I (God) shall supply all your
needs.''
Bach Remedies is the only correct system for human beings. With them we can know what we
have to do and what we should not do, so as to have a disease-free, happy and contented life with
all comforts.
CHICORY (Bach Remedy to increase your financial position)
At the present day, where luxuries have become necessities, every one of us want more and
unlimited money. Herein below we shall discuss Bach remedies for finance.
For those whose earnings by way of monthly salary or income in their profession is not sufficient
for their daily expenses, they have been able to earn sufficient money by taking the following
Bach remedies
Chicory - 2 pills (chewable, any time) once only on Sundays & Thursdays
Hornbeam - 2 pills as above, on Tuesdays & Saturdays.
Good results have been reported within a fortnight to two months.
Flower remedies help us to earn sufficient money in the right way, but not in the way we think or
plan or imagine. If this is kept in mind one can get results with Bach remedies not only for
finance but also for all problems in life.
Case: Dr. Mouli Abdul, Nagapattinam, reports:

"I am a homoeopath and in my town I earn ten to thirty rupees per day. This is hardly sufficient
for anybody's day to day life. After attending your 2-day personal course in Bach Remedies, I
decided to try them and took one dose of Chicory on Sundays & Thursdays and Hornbeam on
Tuesdays & Saturdays. After fifteen days it so happened that one Mr. Srinivasan from outstation
approached me with a request to get our local postman introduced to him. This is because he had
heard that I am intimately acquainted with that postman who had been doing part-time job as real
estate agent. (Mr. Srinivasan wanted to buy fifteen acres of land and so wanted to locate a seller
through the postman). I introduced them to each other and forgot it.
Three weeks later that postman came and gave me ten thousand rupees. He asked me to accept it
and when I asked him what for, he replied that he could finalise the deal regarding purchase of
fifteen acres of land for Mr. Srinivasan who was introduced by me. And Rs.10,000 was the
commission he got for the deal. When I said that he must keep the commission with him, he
replied that he got Rs.10,000 from both the parties (seller and buyer) and since I introduced the
buyer to him, out of gratitude he wanted to pay me one side commission of Rs.10,000. First time
in my life I got ten thousands in my hand!"
The above homoeopath further reports that while taking Chicory & Hornbeam he merely thought
that he would get more patients in his homoeo practice and thus he expected more income. But
the remedies worked in a different way.
This fact must be constantly kept in mind. Flower remedy never fail. It works; it does work; but
not in the way we plan or anticipate. This is more important.
In the majority of poverty-stricken patients, we find the mentality of Chicory or Hornbeam and
so we started with these two remedies. There are other remedies too. If you are able to identify a
person with a particular remedy then that remedy works in a better way.
To be more specific, let us learn in a crystal clear and exact manner the words told by (or
reaction of) persons needing various remedies. (Bach Remedies and Homoeopathy are medical
systems where the patient himself tells us or indicates his remedy to us.)
----RESCUE REMEDY
Accident? Or, extensive burn or scald by accidentally spilling boiling tea on the body that makes
the victim jump in pain and suffering; that would only mean running to the doctor, and in spite of
that, swelling and bleb formation appears the next day; being advised not to take bath for seven
days and so on and so forth; cannot go to office for another three days etc. etc.
Accidents?... But with Bach remedies, NO PROBLEM!

Poison-bite, scorpion sting or snake-bite?. NO PROBLEM!

Within five minutes of the accident, if you take two pills of Rescue Remedy, soon pain comes
down dramatically, and there is no swelling, no after-effects. You are cured permanently,
completely and in just five minutes.
Throw away the first-aid box.
A mixture of five out of the 38 Bach Remedies is called Rescue Remedy.
Rescue Remedy is not a panacea for all ""diseases''. Not to be used in diseases such as arthritis,
pain, diabetes, etc.
BUT THIS IS ALMOST A SPECIFIC OR PANACEA IN MEDICAL EMERGENCIES arising
from trauma - serious accidents, injuries, burns and scalds, all poison bites, electric shock, foodpoisoning, inhaling poisonous gas etc. The earlier you give immediately after the accident the
better would be the effect.
Immediately after any serious or minor accidents, poison-bites, burns, scalds, etc. it has been the
repeated and almost unfailing experience of Bach practitioners, if two pills of this Rescue
Remedy is put into the mouth of the victim (or dissolve ten pills in half-an-ounce plain water and
apply the solution anywhere on the skin or lips):
(a) in less than a minute's time, stops bleeding without any need for bandage, however long or
deep the cut may be;
(b) intense pain is reduced to a tolerable limit;
(c) if the victim is unconscious or pulse / breath is imperceptible, body cold-all these are cured in
just a minutes time, so that he walks home as if nothing has happened (excepting fractures) - the
more danger to life, the quicker the remedy acts.
In poison-bites, snake-bites, scorpion-sting, the poison is neutralised.
In burns and scalds, bleb formation is prevented. In short, all the after-effects of accident is
prevented and you can use the affected limb the very next day (excepting fractures).
No need to confine oneself to bed for days together, going for dressing daily, not taking your
daily bath (in case of burns and cuts) etc.
You are a trauma specialist with Rescue Remedy in your pocket.

RESCUE REMEDY is a mixture of five Bach Remedies as follows:

Star of Bethlehem ... Removes effects of mental/physical shock
Cherry Plum ... Cures all "unbearable'' pain
Impatiens ... Cures "restlessness'' which condition is seen in majority of victims of
accidents/poison-bites, burns etc.
Rock Rose ... Cures "terror/panic'
Clematis ... Victims always think of immediate/distant future as to what would happen to his
affected limb etc. This remedy covers that symptom.
Let us repeat, Rescue Remedy is given in single dose only; (in one per cent of cases where the
relief with the first dose is not complete, you may give 1-2 more doses every 5-15 minutes or 4-8
hours, depending upon the intensity/seriousness of the trauma).
This is NOT TO BE GIVEN DAILY 2-3 doses for ANY 'DISEASES'.
When a pedestrian is knocked down seriously and he falls unconscious with profuse bleeding,
police will keep the driver of the vehicle in lock-up till doctors say that the victim is "out of
danger''.
But, sir, no need to rush the victim to a hospital (excepting fractures). Put two pills of Rescue
Remedy into his mouth; in a minute, the bleeding stops and moments later he walks home as if
nothing has happened.
Unable to believe? To convince yourself you may do the following experiment. In your garden
select two plants with same height. Cut both of them across in the middle into two; then keeping
it back in its original position with a wooden stick tie with a thread. For one plant only, dissolve
ten pills of Rescue Remedy in one ounce water, soak a little cloth in it and apply it around the cut
portion like a bandage. Don't do this to the second cut plant (which is also kept in its original
position with the help of a small wooden stick and thread.)
Next morning you will find the plant (for which you have applied Rescue Remedy) is alive and
the other is dead.
Mr. Ashok from Bombay writes: "My 86-year old father went to the urinal and even after ten
minutes he did not return; So I went to see him and was shocked to find him lying unconscious
with profuse bleeding from head; probably slipped and fell down hitting his head against the tap
violently. I carried him to the bed; I could not know what to do; then I remembered your Rescue

Remedy. I put two pills into his mouth; the body which was icy cold and pulse almost
imperceptible became normal in a minute; soon he opened his eyes. The bleeding too stopped.''
Yes, it is an undeniable fact that bleeding stops in a minute with Rescue Remedy.
Mr. Atul from Hyderabad: "Boiling tea accidentally was poured over the face and chest of my
wife. She was crying with pain and was much restless. I immediately took a few pills of Rescue
Remedy but as she did not allow me in her restlessness to put it into her mouth, I dissolved about
ten pills in an ounce of plain water and threw the solution on her; moments later her restlessness
and crying stopped and the burning pain too was reduced to a greater extent.''
Rescue Remedy acts by touching the skin anywhere and it need not necessarily be taken
internally.
If you educate your children about the use of this remedy it will go a long way in helping
themselves in emergencies and you will be saving huge amounts and prevent lot of sufferings.
Leela, a ten-year old girl has learnt the use of Rescue Remedy when his father had successfully
used it earlier in accidents. One day a flying bird entered their house and was hit by the blade of
the fast rotating ceiling fan and it fell down unconscious. Leela took a few pills of Rescue
Remedy, dissolved in little water and sprinkled the solution on the bird; moments later it opened
its eyes, started moving and soon flew away.
Wounds heal without leaving a scar.
Dr. O. P. Vaid is a retired army captain, living in the first floor of a multi-storeyed building a few
yards away from the busy junction of two highways in Ring Road in Rajouri Garden in Delhi.
Accidents were prone to happen almost every second or third day (because in 1985 traffic signals
were not installed there); the badly hit victim (mostly a pedestrian or a cyclist) would be brought
to Dr. Vaid being the nearest available doctor. On earlier occasions Dr. Vaid would give some
first aid and send the patient to a hospital. After he learnt about Rescue Remedy he would take
two pills and rub it on the tongue of the unconscious victim. Bleeding, if any, would stop in a
minute, pulse beat would become normal, the icy cold body would become hot and soon the
victim would get up and walk home as if nothing had happened (excepting fractures).
There is no question of the remedy not acting in certain patients or the remedy showing its
effects after a few doses only.
Occasionally we read in the dailies that a certain person who was burnt extensively in a stove
accident at home or the victim of a serious road accident succumbed in the hospital in spite of
best treatment. Rescue Remedy, if given immediately after the accident would have saved such
lives.

These remedies have no expiry date can be taken while you are on other drugs or treatment.
----Mimulus
Fear of known Things
On superficial reading and study, most readers think that Bach remedies are for psychological
states only, and that it is not useful or physical maladies; this is not at all so.
It is true that many patients do not come to a doctor for fear, restlessness etc. They come with
physical diseases only. But if we allow (and only if we allow) the patient to continue his talk he
will invariably end up with a mental symptom.
The patient details his sufferings. Those around him remark what they have observed about him.
The practitioner listens without interrupting him.
Write this on the wall "Without interrrupting''.
Every interruption would only break the train of thought of the narrator, and all he would have
said at first does not again occur to him in precisely the same manner after that.
A lady walked into my clinic telling a history of two months headache ultimately ended up by
saying that she was afraid whether it may be due to brain tumor.
I prescribed Mimulus to be taken two pills thrice daily; it cured her headache.
Here, this patient walked in with a physical malady viz., headache, but ended up with fear.
Very rare number of cases, wherever a patient does not talk much that in itself is a symptom
called taciturnity and the Bach remedy Agrimony covers it.
One must improve his faculty of listening to the patient. That is all what is required for being a
successful practitioner.
The talkie-talkie loquacious person will be Number One failure and so is unfit to practise Bach
Remedies. The unprejudiced and careful observer who simply listens to the very words coming
from the mouth of the sufferer, without interrupting him, would only wait till he gets what he
wants-some words / phrases calling for a Bach remedy.
THE PATIENT HIMSELF TELLS HIS REMEDY

The remedy Mimulus is for fear of known cause; fear of anything; shyness, timidity-fear of death
during course of serious acute disease; 'fear of cancer' and so on.
In patients needing for Mimulus, it is about a particular known thing that he is afraid; the fear
may be unwarranted also.
Some example are:
"Fear of taking an injection'. We call such persons 'nervous types'.
"Fear of high places;' "fear of the boss in office.'
"Fear of robbers, accidents, examinations'. (For fear of snake see, Rock Rose.)
"Fear of electric current' and so is afraid of handling electrically-operated appliances. We call
such persons 'nevous types'.
"Fear of darkness' (But, if this is ameliorated in company, then Chicory is the remedy.)
"Fear of using the razor in shaving, of dogs, of oxen.' When he has to go out and meet a big
person, he becomes nervous.
To a lady in whose house there were lot of cockroaches of which she was afraid, *Mimulus* was
given thrice daily; after a week she remarked: ""I am not afraid of cockroaches now...''
Some children are afraid of the schoolmaster; some are afraid of a fat person with long
moustache. Fear of father who is always strict and beats his children often.
Whenever a patient tells you of his trouble: "I am afraid it may be cancer'' or "Will it spread?'' or
"Will it terminate in an fatal or incurable disease?'' then, irrespective of the ailment he is
referring to, you can give Mimulus. It not only removes the fear from the mind of such persons
but also cures the disease about which he refers to with fear. "Fear of impending disease'' "fear of
the disease getting worse or terminating fatally'' all need Mimulus. Often we find this symptom
in case of difficult breathing, pain in chest etc.
"I had pain in my chest last night. Will it turn into heart attack or will it be connected with the
beginning of any serious heart troubles?'' asked a lady. Mimulus cured her.
Mr. S., sixty, was admitted for cataract surgery. On the day when he was taken to the theatre he
was afraid by looking at the surgical instruments etc. and his blood pressure shot up; so surgery
was postponed and he was given pills to bring down the blood pressure; next day also the same

story was repeated and so on. Mimulus was given thrice daily and he was no more afraid of
surgery and his blood pressure did not shoot up.
Mimulus and Chicory compared : "Fear of going alone in the dark'. May be it is the thought of
ghosts or robbers which gives rise to fear. But, if the person says that in the company of someone
he can go without fear in darkness, then Chicory is the remedy for him and not Mimulus.
Wherever fear is ameliorated in the company of someone and aggravated while alone, Chicory is
to be considered.
"I cannot sleep alone in a house. But, if there is one or more persons-even a small child-for
company then I can sleep even in a bungalow haunted by ghosts''. Chicory is the remedy for this
state and no amount of Mimulus will help.
Auto fellows in Madras City are just horrible. Every one in afraid of him when they have to
engage an auto. Before engaging auto you may take two pills of Mimulus; he will talk politely
and take us any where we want, without asking for extra money over meter.
A thief is breaking into your house at midnight? Take a dose of Mimulus; when he looks at you
he will flee.
CHESTNUTBUD
(i) SLOWNESS IN LEARNING
(ii) ESCAPIST MENTALITY
Children who are slow in learning; more often found in case of school children. In spite of tuition
for each subject by different teachers and coaching by parents he is getting single digit marks
only.
We call it "low i.q., (intelligence quotent)'' Slowness in learning is due to lack of interest and
attention. Chestnutbud simply removes lack of interest and attention; nothing more and nothing
else. Thus, "low i.q.'' goes out of terminology with Bach Remedies.
Some readers (and most of us) at once rush to a wrong conclusion that Chestnutbud will make all
boys get good or pass marks. No, not at all. (That routinism will not be tolerated in this system.)
For example, let us listen to the mother of a boy: "Doctor, my son will get very good marks if
only he sits and studies; but he does not study much; but takes active interest in cricket and
reading novels.''

Here in the report of the mother we find that "if he studies well, he would get good marks.'' But
he does not study at all. Laziness is seen here. For laziness there is another Bach remedy viz.,
Scleranthus and if Scleranthus is given to this boy he will sit and study and get good marks.
In the case of boys needing Chestnutbud they study well and in spite of studying for hours and
hours they are not able to grasp the lessons.
After reading former edition of this book a certain person came and told the author: "Doctor, my
son is getting single digit marks and your remedy did not help him.''
We just asked him what remedy he gave and he replied that he gave Rescue Remedy. What a
folly! Rescue Remedy is not a panacea, but that is what exactly most Bach practitioners do.
For not-so-much intelligent persons Bach Remedies selection is not at all possible.
Let us now see how "slowness in learning'' operates in some persons:
In learning cycling. daily there should be gradual progress. But even after ten days trial there is
no progress but what learner got was injuries by falling down. What would he say next? "I do not
want cycling.'' Escapist mentality indeed. Chestnutbud would make him learn easily.
Escapist mentality: Every thief would only try to escape. If all thieves would come forward and
accept their crime, there is no need for police stations and courts and prising.
In police stations proportionate to the torture the culprit gets, to that extent only he will accept
the theft committed by him. But third degree manners, torture, and lock-up deaths goes out of
terminology in Bach Remedies system. To the suspect, those sub-inspectors who have learnt
Bach Remedies system would give a glass of water after dissolving ten pills of Chestnutbud into
it. In a few minutes time, the thief would himself voluntarily disclose not only the theft recently
committed by him (for which he has been arrested on suspicion) but all other thefts committed
since long time.
Chestnutbud is not a truth finding medicine. It simply removes "escapist'' mentality which is
undesirable and a disease. When it is removed, he speaks out truth.
Very good indeed in the hands of C.B.I., income-tax and sales-tax officers. No need for raids and
searches and hour-long interrogation. Dissolve ten pills of Chestnutbud into the water and
There are many books on this subject. This long dissertation was meant to whet your appetite.
Let us know what you learn. We can all learn from such postings.
Walt