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A flower essence works to balance our emotional response according to the properties of the flower from which it is made. For instance, Five Flower (also known as Rescue Remedy) bring calmness and stability in an emergency or a situation of severe stress. Made from the flowers of Cherry, Plum, Clematis, Impatiens, Rock Rose and Star of Bethlemen, Dr. Bach used an early version of his remedy to save the life of a near-frozen and half-dead shipwrecked sailor washed ashore in Cromer on the east coast of England.

 

Five Flower and all the English essences developed by Bach are part of the flower essence library in my practice. I use the Bach essences that are made in England by Healingherbs English Flower Essences and offered in the U.S. by Flower Essence Services.

 

If Dr. Bach were here today he would be enchanted by Cimarron-Maz Collective’s work listening to Ginseng and other healing plants. A Telling of Ginseng brings us human stories of Panax Quinquefolius. The Collective also, with great sensitivity, listens to and electronically records Ginseng and brings us that music.

 

I imagine that Bach would immediately observe that both flower essences and plant music are derived from botanical electrical patterns. And certainly he would notice the kinship of the Collective’s research methods with his own: listening to nature with the means available. In his instance, his own finely developed intuition and in the Collective’s instance an electronic recording device paired with imagination, intuition, and storytelling.

 

Also in my imagination, Dr. Bach would agree that the next generation of flower healing may be just around the corner: libraries of plant and flower sound.