What are Chinese Medicine and Qi?
Chinese Medicine is a science and an art, developed over thousands of years, for treating the mind and the body. Mapping specific relationships between organs, emotions, senses, seasons, body fluids, behaviors and attitudes, and much more, Chinese Medicine offers a framework for understanding, preventing and treating illness, and for health maintenance.
Chinese Medicine acknowledges the existence of Qi ("chee") which translates to energy, vapor, breath, or life force. Lightweight Qi, like breath and thoughts, and heavy Qi, like body fluids and organs, are in constant dynamic relationship with one another, transforming and metabolizing into one another like the change of seasons, like in the yin-yang fish symbol of my logo.
What are Flower Essences?
Flower essences are a water-based form of plant Qi and are excellent for regulating Qi in the body and mind. They are similar to homeopathy and quite different from essential oils and aromatherapy.
Flower essences are odorless, water-based remedies that are usually ingested but may be applied topically. They carry the Qi imprints of specific plants, like blueprints photographed into water.
Flower essences resonate with and help regulate Qi and Shen (spirit/mind) in our emotions, organs and tissues. They are sort of like acupuncture in a bottle. Or like one teacher said, "liquid emotional intelligence". They catalyze shifts both in a person's constitution and in situational stuck conditions.
Flower essences are 100% safe and compatible with any other treatment. They are effective and scientifically proven, though still of marginal use in the United States compared to advanced psychotherapeutic and medical use in Europe and Latin America.
What are Bach Remedies?
Humans have been using flowers and flower-infused water for emotional healing since ancient Egypt, Aboriginal Australia, and undoubtedly throughout the world. Dr. Edward Bach was the respected Welsh surgeon and bacteriologist who, in the 1930's, developed modern day flower essence therapy.
Dr. Bach was particularly interested in understanding why different individuals with the same disease receiving the same medical treatment experienced different outcomes. After developing homeopathic vaccines from intestinal bacteria, he moved on to develop the 38 Bach Remedies, 38 flower essences that address those medical quandaries that he faced.
Dr. Bach was both a very sensitive healer and also a methodical scientist and Western medical doctor who understood the complexity of humanity. Flower essence descriptions are commonly simplified for marketing purposes, making the therapy seem simplistic, when in fact it is richly complex. Choosing the wrong remedy will have no affect, adverse or otherwise, which is why self-diagnosis and self-prescription without training, or taking ready-made formulas, might not achieve desired results or go as deeply as we might go in a therapeutic setting together.
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