The Bach Original Flower Remedies were developed by Dr Edward Bach a
Harley Street doctor and well known Physician, Bacteriologist,
Homeopath and Researcher. Despite the success of his work with orthodox
medicine he felt dissatisfied with the way doctors were expected to
concentrate on diseases and ignore the people who were suffering from
them. He was inspired by his work with homoeopathy but wanted to find
remedies that would be purer and less reliant on the products of
disease. So in 1930 he gave up his lucrative Harley Street practice and
left London, determined to devote the rest of his life to a new system
of medicine that he was sure could be found in nature.
Dr Bach
believed that attitude of mind plays a vital role in maintaining health
and recovering from illness and wanted to find something that treated
the cause rather than the symptom. After identifying 38 basic negative
states of mind and spending several years exploring the countryside, he
managed to create a plant or flower based remedy for each one.
In
1934 he decided to settle down and create a centre for his work, and
chose Mount Vernon, a small cottage in Sotwell, Oxfordshire.
He
spent the last years of his life at Mount Vernon, also known as the
Bach Centre, and it was here that he completed his research.