 Bach
Flower Remedies
Form and Function
by Julian Barnard
The thirty-eight
flower remedies discovered by Dr Edward Bach were described by him
as bringing courage to the fearful, peace to the anguished and
strength to those who are weak. Julian Barnard's Bach Flower
Remedies – Form and Function is a book about the way these
remedy plants grow and how they relate to human emotional states.
It has been a long
time in the making, representing the summation of over twenty years'
work, study and practice. Taking the storyline of Dr Bach's
discoveries of the Bach flower remedies it is both a reappraisal
and a strikingly original account of the relationship between
plants and mankind. Bach spoke of the Grand Design which is behind
the physical world of living things. A Grand Design and a Grand
Designer. Here we see aspects of that design at work.
Barnard
presents the thirty-eight Bach remedies in a straightforward manner
so that anyone can make sense of them and appreciate their different
qualities. His presentation uses the schema used by Bach himself in
the unfolding story of their discovery. It is the system of 12:7:19,
the Twelve Healers, the Seven Helpers and the Second Nineteen. The
Twelve Healers are the twelve soul types, the type remedies; the
particular nature with which we are born. The Seven Helpers are
chronic conditions, emotional states which have developed over time,
which have become habitual and may mask the true type. The Second
Nineteen are reactive emotional and mental conditions which can
occur as a response to life traumas. Such conditions may be long
lasting and deep-acting but can be traced back to a particular event
which triggered the reaction. An understanding of these three kinds
of remedy is supported by understanding the difference between the
two ways of preparing Bach remedies: the sun method and the boiling
method.
Flower
Remedy Programme
341pp; hardback; illustrated; 25.5cm x 18.0cm
ISBN: 0 9506610 7 4
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349pp; paperback; illustrated; 25.5cm x 18.0cm
ISBN: 1-58420-024-3
 Julian Barnard has
lived and worked in Walterstone on the Welsh border for the past
twenty years. Born in the Thames Valley in 1947, he was brought up
with a love of plants and has family connections with the great
botanists Henslow and Hooker. He went to school in Oxford and
trained at the Architectural Association, London.
Finding a copy of
The Twelve Healers led Barnard to contact Nickie Murray at the Bach
Centre who encouraged his interest and enthusiasm. He trained in
herbal medicine in Australia with Dorothy Hall. The author of a
series of books about Dr Bach's flower remedies, he has also edited
and published Collected Writings of Edward Bach, the first complete
edition of Bach's texts.
In 1986 he was
instrumental in setting up the Bach Educational Programme to bring
flower remedies to a wider public. This led to the creation of
Healingherbs, a company which is dedicated to the production of
Bach's remedies by the original and traditional methods. Still
actively engaged in education he has given talks and workshops in
more than a dozen countries: in Europe and both North and South
America.
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