I just started looking into these in my studies and am curious if any of you use them and the results. Apparently they are much safer than homeopathy - any comments?

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I've used them. They take the edge off various emotions. I haven't found them to be anywhere near as good as homeopathy. They seem limited to emotional things and seem to only balance things in the moment, rather than make permanent changes.

I'm sure there will be people who disagree, but that's my experience with them.

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Barb, I think they are just wonderful! I make a lot of them and even they work! The rule is to wear a lovely long white dress, a wide brimmed straw hat, a cup of fine herbal tea....pay homage to the plant and ask if you might share it's glory. Reality (for me) is ratty old jeans, baseball cap, strong black coffee and not a really good homage line. Yet, the stuff still works.

I've read that FEs work faster than homeopathy. Something to do with the vibrations.....going more quickly to the brain, more like remedy olfaction, maybe? Can't comment on that as I've seen some pretty fast acting homeopathic remedies.

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HI BArb,
I've used them a lot and they work very well. They require a LOT of repetition, but if I'm stumped in a case, I sometimes resort to them to help things out in the interim. The important thing is to understand the spiritual depth of these remedies otherwise one may not use an accurate remedy in a case.

Homeopathic remedies, the similimum, to be exact, are much deeper though, so I wouldn't consider these as an alternative to homeopathy, but definitely supplementary.

warm regards,
doctorleela

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Yes, they do seem to work almost instantaneously and need to be repeated.

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From what I have read there seems to be little or no risk of proving or aggravating or any negative effects if giving the wrong one - can this be so?

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Hallo
It's worth while to read Scheffler's introduction to the Bach flower remedies. Bach advises us to test=prove them one by one ourselves and particulariliy take note of the change in the mental sphere, the isssues, the dreams and so on.
once we have internalized this, we can easily identify in others the flower, which will bring them forward. the more one gets experienced, the lesser the combinations one recomends. i would not mix them with homeopathy,and use them rather at a point, where there is no diseasepicture, but live issues, issues of personal growth, there i would use them.
Robert Bach was not very clear about repetition. my experience is, that the suitable flower remedy does not need any repetition. Even just sniffing from the bottle once has worked marvelous.
i have seen bach flower remedies work in a single dose for more than half a year. Too quick of a change can prevent the final result and confuse things.
I respect them like high C-potencies.

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Now I'm embarrassed. I didn't mean to imply that I made flower *remedies*, just flower *essences*. Reading Hans' post brought to my attention that I must have misunderstood.

I do know the *essences* work and I don't think I've ever used more than one at a time, though they say you can combine quite a few. I haven't used them at the same time as homeopathy other than Rescue Remedy when there were real, truly life threatening, emergencies. Once, it was of no help but was effective the other times for emergencies. I use RR all the time with new injured wild animals. Just to give a window of opportunity to calm them enough to be able to get a better look at them. I can just drop it into the container they are in without disturbing them. Gives me a few minutes to move them into a more permanent cage without them being so frantic.

I don't know about the flower remedies in potency. Glad Hans' straightened this out.

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I also use flower remedies but prefer the Australian Bush essences- they seem to have more energy than Bach ones.

Dear GPM,
BAch Remedies do not have any potency.
I think Hans said he just respected them like a C potency.

BUT the most common experience here is that they bear repetition. OF course individual sensitivities have to be taken into account, as in any case for prescription. BUt a remedy dose to act for months?! Well anyway, each one to his own.

All the famous books advocate repetition, and there are various other methods of administration as well.

doctorleela

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