Self-Help Guide to the Bach Remedies

AGRIMONY - For those not wishing to burden others with their troubles and who cover up their suffering behind a cheerful façade. They are distressed by argument or quarrel, and may seek escape from pain and worry through the use of drugs and alcohol.

ASPEN - For those who experience vague fears and anxieties of unknown origin, they are often apprehensive.

BEECH - For those who while desiring perfection easily find fault with people and things. Critical and at times intolerant, they may overreact to small annoyances or idiosyncrasies of others.

CENTAURY - For those who are overanxious to please, often weak willed and easily exploited or dominated by others. As a result they may neglect their own particular interests.

CERATO - For those who lack confidence in their own judgement and decisions. They constantly seek the advice of others and may often be misguided.

CHERRY PLUM - For fear of losing mental and physical control, of doing something desperate. May have impulses to do things thought or known to be wrong.

CHESTNUT BUD - For those who fail to learn from experience, repeating the same patterns or mistakes again and again.

CHICORY - For those who are overfull of care for others and need to direct and control those close to them. Always finding something to correct or put right.

CLEMATIS - For those who tend to live in the future, lack concentration, and are daydreamers, drowsy or spacey and have a halfhearted interest in their present circumstances.

CRAB APPLE - For those who may feel something is not quite clean about themselves, or have a fear of being contaminated. For feelings of shame or poor self image. For example, thinking oneself not attractive for one reason or another. When necessary, may be taken to assist in detoxification, for example, during a cold or while fasting.

ELM - For those who at times may experience momentary feelings of inadequacy, being overwhelmed by their responsibilities.

GENTIAN - For those who become easily discouraged by small delays or hindrances. This may cause self-doubt.

GORSE - For feelings of hopelessness and futility. When there is little hope of relief.

HEATHER - For those who seek the companionship of anyone who will listen to their troubles. They are generally not good listeners and have difficulty being alone for any length of time.

HOLLY - To be used when troubled by negative feelings such as envy, jealousy, suspicion, revenge. Vexations of the heart, states indicating a need for more love.

HONEYSUCKLE - For those dwelling in the past, nostalgia, homesickness, always talking about the good old days, when things were better.

HORNBEAM - For the Monday morning feeling of not being able to face the day. For those feeling that some part of the body or mind needs strengthening. Constant fatigue and tiredness.

IMPATIENS - For those quick in thought and action, who require all things to be done without delay. They are impatient with people who are slow and often prefer to work alone.

LARCH - For those who despite being capable, lack self-confidence or feel inferior. Anticipating failure they often refuse to make a real effort to succeed.

MIMULUS - For fear of known things, such as heights, water, the dark, other people, of being alone, etc.

MUSTARD - For deep gloom which comes on for apparently no known reason, sudden melancholia or heavy sadness. Will lift just as suddenly.

OAK - For those who struggle on despite despondency from hardships, even when ill and overworked, they never give up.

OLIVE - For mental and physical exhaustion, sapped vitality with no reserve. This may come on after an illness or personal ordeal.

PINE - For those who feel they should do or should have done better, who are self-reproachful or blame themselves for the mistakes of others. Hardworking people who suffer much from the faults they attach to themselves, they are never satisfied with their success.

RED CHESTNUT - For those who find it difficult not to be overly concerned or anxious for others, always fearing something wrong may happen to those they care for.

ROCK ROSE - For those who experience states of terror, panic and hysteria; also when troubled by nightmares.

ROCK WATER - For those who are very strict with themselves in their daily living. They are hard masters to themselves struggling toward some ideal or to set an example for others.  This would include strict adherence to a living style or to religious, personal or social disciplines.

SCLERANTHUS - For those unable to decide between two things, first one seeming right then the other. Often presenting extreme variations in energy or mood swings.

STAR OF BETHLEHEM - For grief, trauma, loss. For the mental and emotional effect during and after a trauma.

SWEET CHESTNUT - For those who feel they have reached the limits of their endurance. For those moments of deep despair when the anguish seems to be unbearable.

VERVAIN - For those who have strong opinions and who usually need to have the last word, always teaching or philosophizing. When taken to an extreme they can be argumentative and overbearing.

VINE - For those who are strong willed. Leaders in their own right who are unquestionably in charge. However, when taken to an extreme they may become dictatorial.

WALNUT - Assists in stabilizing emotional upsets during transition periods, such as puberty, adolescence and menopause. Also helps one to break past links and emotionally adjust to new beginnings such as moving, changing or taking a new job, beginning or ending a relationship.

WATER VIOLET - For those who are gentle, independent, aloof and self-reliant, who do not interfere in the affairs of others, and when ill or in trouble prefer to bear their difficulties alone.

WHITE CHESTNUT - For constant and persistent unwanted thoughts, such as, mental arguments, worries or repetitious thoughts that prevent peace-of-mind, and disrupt concentration.

WILD OAT - For the dissatisfaction with not having succeeded in one’s career or life goal. When there is unfulfilled ambition, career uncertainty or boredom with one’s present position or station in life.

WILD ROSE - For those, who for no apparent reason, have resigned themselves to their circumstances. Having become indifferent, little effort is made to improve things or find joy.

WILLOW - For those who have suffered some circumstance or misfortune, which they feel was unfair or unjust. As a result they become resentful and bitter toward life or toward those who they feel were at fault.