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Use of the Bach Flower Essences in Depression
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The Bach Flower essences
are mild, gentle, but helpful. You cannot hurt yourself with them so they are
safe to self-medicate (though as we can’t see what we don’t want to see it is
often better to have someone you trust/respect prescribe for you). | |
| Agrimony | confrontations are problematic - addictive personalities. |
| Aspen | unidentifiable fears, fear of death |
| Century | trying to please others |
| Clematis | "air head" spacey for grounding |
| Crab Apple | feels unclean, perceives faults in self |
| Elm | overwhelmed |
| Gentian | easily discouraged |
| Gorse | hopeless despair |
| Heather | attention seeking |
| Holly | angry |
| Honeysuckle | lives in the past |
| Hornbeam | burned out, but still functional |
| Impatience | impatient, angry |
| Larch | lack of confidence |
| Mimulus | tangible fear |
| Mustard | sudden gloom of unknown origin |
| Olive | non-functional / no energy left |
| Pine | self blame |
| Rescue Remedy | acute, for short periods only in depression |
| Rock Rose | more acute! |
| Star of Bethlehem | traumatic on-set, chronic depression, locked in |
| Vervain | closed minded |
| Water Violet | withdrawn / loner / lonely |
| White Chestnut | obsessive thinking, stuck circling on some thought |
| Wild Oat | lost, doesn’t know what to do with ones life |
| Wild Rose | indifferent / blank / dazed / unresponsive / withdrawn / apathetic |
| Willow | resentful, "why me?", envious |
| see also Bach Flower Rescue Remedy for a discussion of Bach Flower Remedies | |