History
The original Bach Flower Remedies were developed by Dr. Edward Bach in 1930-s. Edward Bach obtained the Diploma of Public Health at Cambridge. After finishing his studies, he became a House Surgeon and a casualty medical offcier at the University College Hospital. Afterwards he has started working at the National Temperance Hospital and he had a quite successfull practice at Harley Street.
Later on, he has started to work in the field of homeopathy and while working in the London Homeopathic Hospital, he and John Paterson and Charles Edwin Wheeler has developed the seven bacterial nosodes known also as seven Bach nosodes, which were further on used mainly by british homeopaths. The use of these nosodes is based on the variable bowel bacterial flora associated with persons of different homeopathic constitutional types.
He was inspired by the holistic approach of homeopathic medicine and he has started search for a more subtle a pure method of healing. He believed, that the attitude of mind plays a key role at the start of a disease. He has seen the cause of diseases as a result of an internal conflict between the purposes of a soul and the personality's point of view. After discovering this principle, he has abandoned his Harley Street practice and he has devoted all of his time to the search of the new healing system. He was sure, that this new system will be found in the nature, so he has spent several years identifying basing patterns of emotional and spiritual problems. After identifying 38 basic patterns of emotional and spiritual problems, he has started to search for a natural remedy that could treat these patterns and he has created 38 flower remedies to treat each one.
In 1934 he decided to settle down and create a centre that could continue in his work, and he chose Mount Vernon, a small cottage in Sotwell, Oxfordshire. He spent his last years at Mount Vernon, also known as the Bach Centre, and it was there that he completed his research.