Bach Flower Remedies

The Bach Flower Remedies 

• Agrimony - repressed worries, for one who has a cheery outward appearance that conceals internal fears and concerns
• Aspen - apprehension, fear of the unknown, anxiety, foreboding
• Beech - intolerance, being critical of others, narrow-mindedness, feeling annoyed by others
• Centaury - inability to say 'no', trying to please others, easily exploited
• Cerato - lack of trust in own decisions, always turning to others for decisions
• Cherry Plum - for some compulsions and obsessions, fear of impulsively doing something known to be wrong, impulsiveness
• Chestnut Bud - failure to learn from mistakes, destructive patterns of behavior
• Chicory - possessive love, needing to be involved in the lives of others, meddling
• Clematis - daydreaming, withdrawing into a fantasy world
• Crab Apple - feelings of self-hatred, poor self image, shame of physical appearance
• Elm - feeling overwhelmed by responsibility, feeling unequal to a task
• Gentian - discouraged by a setback, making 'mountains of molehills'
• Gorse - hopelessness, despair, feeling nothing can be done
• Heather - self-centered, needs to talk about one's self, unhappy when alone
• Holly - hatred, jealousy, envy
• Honeysuckle - dwelling on the past, expecting to never be happy again
• Hornbeam - procrastination, fatigue due to boredom
• Impatiens - impatience, irritability with slowness in others
• Larch - lack of confidence, expectation of failure
• Mimulus - fear of known things or things encountered in everyday life, such as fear of the dark, fear of growing old, etc.
• Mustard - gloominess, feeling overshadowed by a cloud
• Oak - for one who continues past the point of exhaustion, workaholic, one who continues to fight a battle that cannot be won
• Olive - exhaustion following mental or physical effort, lacking vitality
• Pine - guilt, perfectionist, dissatisfaction with the efforts of others
• Red Chestnut - too much concern for the welfare of loved ones, always anticipating the worst
• Rock Rose - fright, terror, extreme fear in the face of an emergency or accident
• Rock Water - self-denial, repression, being too hard on oneself
• Scleranthus - indecision, mood swings, unable to achieve balance
• Star of Bethlehem - shock, refusing to be consoled, for trauma following receipt of bad news or loss
• Sweet Chestnut - extreme mental anguish, when it seems no hope remains, when you have reached the limits of your endurance
• Vervain - overly enthusiastic, feeling the need to convert others over to your way of thinking
• Vine - inflexibility, dominance, domineering, seeming to have too much self-assurance
• Walnut - protection from change and unwanted influences, for periods of transition and adjustment to new beginnings, protection from peer pressure and negativity from others
• Water Violet - pride, arrogance, for loners who appear aloof, for those who seem unapproachable or distant
• White Chestnut - unwanted thoughts and mental arguments, for when the mind replays the same 'broken record' to distraction
• Wild Oat - uncertainty over one's direction in life, for feeling lost
• Wild Rose - apathy, resignation, accepting what life has in store without an effort to influence it
• Willow - self-pity, resentment, for unjust suffering and the feelings that tend to accompany it, for feeling unfortunate
• Rescue Remedy - Mix of cherry plum, clematis, impatiens, rock rose and star of Bethlehem, used to help deal with any emergency or stressful event