Edward Bach

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Dr Edward Bach
Dr Edward Bach
Born 24 September 1886
Died 27 November 1936
Nationality English
Education University College Hospital
Occupation Medical Research
Known for Bach Flower Remedies
Medical career
Profession Medical Doctor
Field Medicine
Research Plants Vibration Remedies

Edward Bach (/ˈbætʃ/ BACH; 24 September 1886 – 27 November 1936) was a British physician,[1][2] homeopath, bacteriologist and spiritual writer, best known for developing a range of remedies called the Bach flower remedies, a form of alternative medicine inspired by classical homeopathic traditions.

Biography

Bach grew up in Birmingham. At the age of 20 he entered Birmingham University, going on to University College Hospital in London to complete his studies.[3] He studied medicine at the University College Hospital, London, and obtained a Diploma of Public Health (DPH) at Cambridge.

In 1917 Bach had a malignant tumor removed from his spleen. It was predicted that he had only three months left to live, but instead he recovered. Bach died in his sleep on 27 November 1936, at the age of 50.[4][additional citation needed]

Last House where Dr. Edward Bach lived in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell now privately owned by the Ramsell Family.[5][6]

Bach flower remedies

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Main article: Bach flower remedies

In 1930, at the age of 43, he decided to search for a new healing technique. He spent the spring and summer discovering and preparing new flower remedies – which include no part of the plant but simply what Bach claimed to be the pattern of energy of the flower. In the winter he treated patients free of charge.

Rather than being based on medical research, using the scientific method, Bach's flower remedies were intuitively derived[7] and based on his perceived psychic connections to the plants.[8]p. 185 If he felt a negative emotion, he would hold his hand over different plants, and if one alleviated the emotion, he would ascribe the power to heal that emotional problem to that plant. He believed that early morning sunlight passing through dew-drops on flower petals transferred the healing power of the flower onto the water,[9] so he would collect the dew drops from the plants and preserve the dew with an equal amount of brandy to produce a mother tincture which would be further diluted before use.[10] Later, he found that the amount of dew he could collect was not sufficient, so he would suspend flowers in spring water and allow the sun's rays to pass through them.[9]

While he recognized the role of the germ theory of disease, defective organs and/or tissue, and other known and demonstrable sources of disease, Bach wondered how exposure to a pathogen could make one person sick, while another was unaffected, when to all appearances and analysis they were in equal states of health. He postulated that illness was the result of a conflict between the purposes of the soul and the personality's actions and outlooks. This internal war, according to Bach, leads to emotional imbalances and energetic blockage, which causes a lack of harmony, thus leading to physical diseases. Bach's remedies focus on treatment of the patient's personality, which he believed to be the ultimate root cause of disease.

Bach nosodes

Starting in 1919, he worked at the London Homeopathic Hospital, where he was influenced by the work of Samuel Hahnemann.[8]p. 186 In this period, he developed seven bacterial nosodes known as the seven Bach nosodes. Their use has been mostly confined to British homeopathy practitioners.

These Bowel Nosodes[11] were introduced by Bach and the British homeopaths, John Paterson (1890–1954)[12] and Charles Edwin Wheeler (1868–1946)[13] in the 1920s. Their use is based on the variable bowel bacterial flora associated with persons of different homeopathic constitutional types.[14]

The Bach Centre

The Bach Centre house at Mount Vernon, is owned today by a Registered Charity controlled by the Ramsell Family set up by John Ramsell in 1989.[6] The running of the Centre is carried out by two private companies. Both are privately owned by the Ramsell Family.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Matthew Wood Vitalism
  2. ↑ Frankie Hutton Rose Lore
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  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://www.bachcentre.com/centre/faq.htm
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 http://www.bachcentre.com/disclaimer.php
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  11. ↑ John Paterson The Bowel Nosodes
  12. ↑ John PATERSON (1890–1954) PHOTOTHÈQUE HOMÉOPATHIQUE Homéopathe International
  13. ↑ Charles Edwin Wheeler PHOTOTHÈQUE HOMÉOPATHIQUE Homéopathe International
  14. ↑ Prescribing on the basis of Nosodes & Bowel Nosodes Homoeopathy Clinic website

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