Bach Flower Remedies

For those who worry about others, and have the tendency to over-involve themselves in others' lives. For those who can't stop themselves caring for others, and who project their thoughts and their emotions onto those around them.

Understanding and acceptance of the unknown. Vague, irrational fears of unknown origin. Sudden apprehension and premonitions, fear of hidden forces and powers, fear of going to sleep. Fear of what might happen.

Brings mental calm and a healthy state of mind: for despair, fear of madness, or losing control of oneself. For uncontrollable impulses and obsessive fears. Helps to overcome the fear of being out of control.

Helps to overcome nervousness and fears of known origin: fear of animals, of heights, of storms, of the dark. Helps you to take life as it comes. Helps stammering, shyness, excessive reserve; over-sensitivity to noise, arguments and crowds. Lack of confidence in life.

For courage in the face of danger, for panicky types, intensely frightened, horrified and terrorised. In urgent situations, sudden illnesses, accidents, periods of acute crisis. Neutralises terror, panic, fear of death and fear of losing control of oneself.

Indecision as to the right way to follow, with ill-defined ambition. Dissatisfaction caused by uncertainty. To find out and express one's true vocation. Helps those who don't know which way to go in life, in their career etc, with vague sense of ambition and inability to realise their desires. Often subject to discouragement and uncertainty they seem bored with life, and dissatisfied in general.

Temporary fatigue, lassitude, inability to fulfil one's daily tasks. To bring back strength and vitality. Helps to overcome weariness and lack of interest in things brought about by low energy. For exhaustion without obvious cause, and inability to face up to one's daily obligations.

Despair, resignation, loss of desire to change things. Helps one to go forward, knowing how to face up to one's difficulties. Helpful for those who are resigned, despairing, or who think that nothing can be done for them – who have given up all desire to help themselves.

Discouragement, doubt, disheartened, sadness. To overcome doubt, discouragement and the lack of faith. For individuals who are inclined to melancholy, to sadness, to scepticism and disappointment. Very useful for children who doubt themselves.

Particularly for people who lack constancy and who are incapable of making a decision. Helps one to take a decision with clarity and determination. Brings balance while one finds one's way between two extremities.

To help regain one's innate knowledge. For those who doubt their capacities, who don't have confidence in their intuition, who lack will-power, and don't have the courage of their convictions.

Inability to notice or integrate life experiences; making the same mistakes in life over and over again. To learn from past experiences. For people who find themselves blocked in repetitive situations or behaviours and who from lack of observation or indifference don't learn from what has happened to them, and end up repeating the same mistakes again and again.

Disheartened, melancholy, and sad without any obvious reason. Brings the strength and courage to go forward and to overcome the clouds hanging over one's soul.

Overactive mind, 'chatterbox brain' with circulating, repetitive thoughts. Helps relieve obsessional ideas, and calm the mind, while aiding concentration and developing the creative and intuitive faculties.

Complete exhaustion and lack of strength – either mental, physical, or both. Calms the spirit, strengthens the body and brings back some colour to life. For those who have given too much of themselves and who have exhausted all their energy (excessive caring for others, overwork, tests).

Lack of interest, resignation, apathy, withdrawal. Helps one to develop enthusiasm for life, to involve oneself actively in things again. To overcome lack of interest or resignation, or withdrawal from society; people who have become over-accepting of their condition, and hopeless of change.

These types don't live in the present. Nostalgia and regrets. Helps one to live in the present, to be 'here and now'. Nostalgic types, who live in the past; lost among their memories and regrets, yet who want to escape the present.

Dreamy types, with their heads in the clouds. Lack of concentration and energy. For people who dream their life away, rather than living it, and who think about the future too much. To develop a greater sense of presence, reality and what is going on around them. Helps to increase interest in the present moment, and to take responsibility for what has to be done in daily life. Releases creativity.

For those who are solely concerned with their own lives and their own problems. They have a constant desire for the attention of those around them. These people are often very talkative, and yet timid, and are not interested in what others have to say, and can't listen. The remedy brings an ability to listen and to care for others.

For those who are stressed about everything; active types who can't bear constraints or people with a slower rhythm than their own. Impatient, tense, active and impulsive. Helps in overcoming impatience, restlessness, nervous stress, bad moods and the effects of overwork in order to be able to just go along with things as they are, harmoniously.

For reserved temperaments, rather independent and distant, quiet and proud. For those who like their own company and feel themselves superior to others. The remedy brings warmth, confidence and openness to the timid person and to those who feel lost in groups and have a tendency to retreat from company for self-protection. Facilitates sharing with others.

Anger, jealousy, envy, suspicion, revenge. A helpful remedy in all profoundly negative states. Facilitates the expression of love.

For those who need protection from outside influences, especially during periods of change and transition. Helps one to throw off the ties of the past, and old ideas which are holding back personal evolution.

Weak-willed, passive, desire to please, docility. This remedy is useful for timid, passive and docile types, submissive by nature, who seek strength of character in others instead of within themselves. Concerned and caring, they want to help; but lacking in will-power they are unable to say 'no'. Brings about a stronger sense of individuality; brings out the real person inside. From this position of strength one can develop compassion rather than living in servitude.

Behind a cheerful and pleasant facade these people are deeply anxious, anguished and tortured by their suppressed emotions. They often abuse alcohol or drugs to numb themselves inside. To help them learn to express their emotions without feeling threatened, or that they are threatening others; to accept themselves as they are, and to allow full and open expression of the 'inner me'.

A sense of impurity, self-disgust or toxicity. For self-esteem; for those with a poor self-image or who tend towards shame, remorse, or guilt. For those who feel toxic or contaminated at some level. Relaxes obsessions about physical imperfections. Liberates the person from feelings of disgust or impurity related to bodily needs, instinct and sexuality. Brings a sense of moderation, whenever the thought processes start to focus on insignificant things.

Strong characters, serious, patient and persevering, who often take on more than they can cope with and end up exhausted. The remedy helps them to learn to accept their limits, and to realise that life doesn't have to be just one long struggle. To learn to share responsibilities.

Dissatisfaction, bitterness, resentment. For those who suffer from resentment, or who have become bitter because of life's difficulties. They feel they don't deserve the injustices of life. Helps one to take responsibility for one's situation in life and to overcome the tendency to blame, bitterness and resentment, and to find happiness again. Helps people to take control of their lives, rather than be victims of them.

Relieves shock, sorrow and distress. Takes away the effects of past or present shocks, including birth trauma, and works on the mental level as well as the emotional. A great harmoniser. Brings relief and calm after a shock or sorrow, or bad news.

Unbearable anguish, despair and desolation. Helps one to overcome the most difficult times in life, the 'dark nights of the soul', without reaching the limits of one's endurance.

For very capable people who take on responsibility, and then push themselves too far and become overwhelmed by the task. For idealists who are looking for an unattainable level of perfection in life. Helps to develop a balanced sense of responsibility.

Self-reproach, guilt, and the tendency to blame oneself for things one is not responsible for. Good for those who feel overwhelmed by their sense of duty to their obligations. To become more present and responsible in the moment, while liberating oneself from the need to control everything. To learn to love oneself.

Hesitation, sense of inferiority. For those who feel themselves less important than others, who lack self-confidence and anticipate failure, making little or no effort to succeed. The remedy helps develop creativity and a sense of self. It gives you the ability to make decisions; to act and to eliminate the fear of failure.

Useful for very strict people, with rigorous attitudes and rigid characters, who are inclined to deprive and reproach themselves. Addicted to perfection, and often with a very strict moral sense they are idealists who can suffer from this extreme self-discipline. To learn to experiment with fair and balanced self-discipline.

For people who are critical and intolerant, finicky, arrogant, cynical and hard on others. Over-sensitive to their environment, they are only able to see the negative side of things. Develops a sense of tolerance and sensitivity towards others; an ability to accept little imperfections and differences and see the good sides of each person and every situation.

For people who are single-minded, wilful, sure of themselves and authoritarian. They are dominant and convinced they will succeed. The remedy helps one to use these leadership qualities in the service of others rather than in dominating them.

Zealous, enthusiastic, ardent, fixed ideas, insistence. Suits authoritarian, energetic individuals with fixed ideas, who want to convert others to their viewpoint. For excessive enthusiasm, which is moving towards fanaticism and extremism. Enables one to understand and respect the opinions of others. To develop kindness and helpfulness, without imposing oneself.

Possessive, tearful types, who take offence easily. Self-pity and egoism. For possessive people who want to control and direct those around them or who demand too much reassurance from others. For dependent children who constantly want attention and who can very easily feel rejected. The remedy develops the ability to love without wanting anything in return.

In all cases of sudden problems, such as physical, emotional or mental shock, sudden illness, burns, cuts, or small injuries.