That’s not the case with Balancing Blooms. Balancing Blooms makes it easy for you by blending essences together before adding a descriptive, easily understandable name so there is no need to buy up to nine bottles of single concentrate essences to mix and dilute. Balancing Blooms saves you time and money with convenient, ready to use bottle for your purse of pocket. Just take it out and drop four drops from the pipette onto your tongue whenever you feel the need.
Bach flower essences were discovered in England in the 1930s by Edward Bach. They have been growing in popularity ever since, and are now used around the world.
The flower essences in Balancing Blooms are prepared to the original instructions that were written by Edward Bach and his helpers. Wild flowers are hand-picked in the English and Welsh countryside (except Olive and Vine which comes from southern Europe). Balancing Blooms only picks a small portion from any plant or colony to ensure it continues to reproduce year after year. And they only make the essence if the weather, flowers and natural environment correspond to Bach’s directions, with half of the essence made by the boiling method, and half prepared by the sun method (delicate flower petals are soaked in small glass bowls of spring water for several hours under a hot sun).
Edward Bach believed that his essences captured the positive mood of each flower, as he himself perceived it to be. He found that they helped him to counter-balance his negative moods – hence our name, Balancing Blooms.
]]>Take your remedy at least twenty minutes away from anything strongly flavoured: food, drink (except water), smoking, toothpaste and any other medication.
Allow one to two minutes between each homeopathic remedy.
Why take them this way?
The effects of homeopathic remedies are thought to be enhanced by absorption through the lining of the mouth and any strong flavours may interfere with this absorption.
Taking your remedy
Contact with the hands should be kept to a minimum as the pills are coated with the homeopathic remedy.
Oral drops should be held in the mouth for ten seconds before swallowing.
Drops can be put directly onto the tongue, under the tongue, onto a clean spoon and sucked or placed in a small amount of water.
Oral liquids should be held in the mouth for ten seconds before swallowing.
Pills should be tipped into the bottle lid or onto a clean spoon and transferred to the mouth. Hold in the mouth for at least ten seconds and then suck or chew. Do not swallow with water.
Pill dispensers may be purchased from the pharmacy, which make it easier to obtain the required amount of pills with minimum contact.
How to use the tubes
Turn the tube upside-down so that the clear cap is at the bottom.
Twist the clear cap until the required number of pills drop into it.
Gently ease the clear cap away from the tube, tip the pills onto a clean spoon or cup and then place in your mouth as directed.
Replace the cap.
Remedies for babies and young children
Pills or tablets can be crushed between two clean spoons and put straight onto the tongue.
Oral drops or liquid can be given on a spoon or placed in a small amount of water before swallowing.
Storage of remedies
Remedies should be stored in a cool, dry place, away from direct sunlight and strong smelling substances such as camphor, menthol, soaps, eucalyptus and perfumes.
Remedies should be stored away from electronic gadgetry, mobile phones and other radiation emitting equipment if possible.
Please keep all medicines out of the sight and reach of children.
How long should you take your remedy for?
This varies for each individual; however, you should hope to see a steady improvement of your symptoms. If your symptoms disappear completely stop taking your homeopathic remedy or follow your doctor’s instructions.
Possible reactions to your remedy
Homeopathy is a very safe and gentle method of healing. The remedies work in a different way to the medicines that you receive from your GP.
Occasionally homeopathic treatment causes a flare up when you start it. This is called an ‘aggravation’ and is usually a good sign; most people who get aggravations go on to get a big improvement.
If you think you might have an aggravation stop the medicine until the flare up settles. If they do not, please contact your homeopathic pharmacy.]]>
During the 16th and 17th century, the principle of ‘similia similibus curentur’ – ‘Let like be treated by like’, was followed by homeopaths. However, Homeopathy as it is practised today, owes its establishment to one person – Dr Samuel Hahnemann, the great German physician, scholar and chemist of the late 18th and early 19th century.
Hahnemann was appalled by the mainstream medical practice, which he believed often did more harm than good. He sought a method which was safe, gentle and effective. He believed that generally, the people should be able to heal their illness themselves and thus the symptoms of illness reflect on the struggle of the body to overcome its illness. Consequently, the homeopath’s job is to discover and, if possible, remove the cause of the trouble, and to stimulate the body’s natural healing power.
In his work, Hahnemann found that remedies obtained from natural substances such as vegetables, minerals, animals, and, rarely, biological matters were more effective in extreme dilute form. He also discovered that something that brings on symptoms in healthy individual can treat an illness with the similar symptoms in a very small dose. This was especially noticeable in the cases of poisons. For example, symptoms caused by poison ivy or bee sting can be treated by using very diluted medication obtained from poison ivy or whole crushed bees respectively.
To prove the validity of his theory, Hahnemann and his followers took small doses of various known poisonous substances themselves, carefully noting the symptoms they produced. These were called ‘proving’. Subsequently, patients suffering from similar symptoms were treated with these substances. The results were usually encouraging and often remarkable.
Hahnemann then worked to establish the smallest effective dose, realising that this was the best way to avoid side effects. Additionally, he found that more the remedy was diluted, more effective it became. With close observation and careful experimentation, he recognised the three Principles of Homeopathy.