The 'Feel Good' Flower Essences

By Jill R Turland

The Feel-Good Flower Essences was written to give the world the benefit of a number of new flower essences discovered by the author, as well as to provide natural health practitioners with a good flower essences desk-top handbook for quick reference in the busy practice.

• Language: English
• Publisher: CMD
• Release date: Jul 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9781952046711

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Copyright © 2020 by Jill R. Turland

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Making The Essences

Practitioner Usage

Hering’s Laws Of The Direction Of Cure

Materia Medica

Agrimony

Apple Gum

Black Boy

Bleeding Heart

Blue Gum

Brown Boronia

Cactus

Cattlebush

Cedar

Chicory

Comfrey

Crab Apple

Dagger Hakea

Dandelion

Date Palm

Echinacea

Flannel Flower

Full-Blown Rose

Furry Hibiscus

Ginger Flower

Ginkgo

Green Rose

Guineaflower

Gymea Lily

Hawthorn

Justicia

Lavender And Lavender By Moonlight

Lotus

Manzanita

Mint Bush

Moreton Bay Chestnut

Mountain Devil

Passionflower

Petunia

Redwood

St John’s Wort

Snapdragon

The Sundews

Sunflower

Sunshine Wattle

Teak

Viola

Water Ribbons

Wax-Lip Orchid

Wisteria

Yarrow

Zinnia

Prescribing And Dosage

Combination Essences

Miasms

Keynotes

Australian Bush Flower Essences

North American Flower Essences

The Bach Flower Remedies

Repertory

Base 10 Remedy Rates For The Feel Good Flower Essences

Further Reading

Remembering The Rose

Acknowledgements

Much gratitude is expressed here for the assistance given in the creation of this manual. For the material, I gained much from the knowledge of my Herbal Medicine teacher, the late Dorothy Hall (lectures on the Bach Flower Remedies) and Ian White (workshops and books on Australian Bush Flower Essences), with some added snippets from Vince Halpin’s ‘The Healing Essence of Australian Flowers’ and Vasudeva Barnao’s little handbook, ‘Healing with Australian Flowers’ and ‘Walkabout Healing Handbook’ (Vasudeva and Kadambii Barnao). Some guided information was presented in Gurudas’ ‘Flower Essences and Vibrational Healing’ on US flower essences, and I gained also, some help from the (Californian) Flower Essence Society’s Handbook and the Flower Essence Repertory (Patricia Kaminski and Richard Katz).

My own essences were discovered, as have all flower essences been discovered, through the guidance of unseen workers for humanity to whom we all owe so much.

The flower paintings, including the cover picture, were a gift of love from my late friend Sidonie Scott, who also named them The ‘Feel Good’ Flower Essences. Her great love for the Flower remedies was the main stimulus for my finally bringing this book to fruition.

Introduction

This handbook was born out of several desires. I needed to put into print the various essences I myself had discovered; and I wanted to provide the keynotes of a good, workable number of essences in a readily accessible and understandable document. It was necessary to repertorise the remedies for the benefit of manual therapists who do not have much time to delve into books in their practice. The repertory section bears expansion and practitioners will find their usage of the book will give them further additions; space has been left for such pencilling-in. Space has also been left between remedy information blocks for further comparisons or references to be jotted in as experience reveals them.

My own insights and experience are the foundation of the book, and some remedies previously documented by other people will be found to have some differing information in these pages.

This is not to say that any other insights are considered wrong, but that there are aspects to remedies that are not fully brought out in the first insights, and time and experience have led to wider understandings in these instances. My descriptions are but extensions of the previous ones.

By no means is this book to be considered definitive or complete in its explanations, and users of flower remedies are advised to read also and use regularly, the books listed on the back page, and to seek out essences from other sources, of which there are a vast number. I have tried to keep the book’s information as brief as is practicable, while giving, in the Keynotes section, glimpses of many other essences.

I refer to remedies in the Repertory that are not defined in this book, so I have provided a list of brief Keynotes for these.

The first flower essences, the Bach Flower Remedies, were developed in the 1930’s by an English Bacteriologist and Homeopath named Dr Edward Bach. Bach was seeking to heal more holistically by resolving moods, emotions and attitudes, which would then, he said, allow physical healing to follow.

Bach believed that disease is a function of negativity of the self. Disease should tell you that you are not going according to your (maybe subconscious) plan for yourself - out of tune, out of balance, on the wrong track. Disease is the universal disharmony. Find the cause of the dis-ease, and restore to wellbeing, homoeostasis. ‘To struggle against a fault increases its power and increases its ability to unbalance you, until the only remedy seems to be in suppression,’ he wrote. Bach sought to avoid the need for suppression by resolving the disharmony at a subtle level.

In pursuit of this ideal, Dr Bach gave up his London homeopathic practice and took up residence in the country. He proceeded to explore many parts of England’s wilderness areas, using intuition and divination to find appropriate healers for the spiritual ills of mankind.

Bach was the first to have this insight, and his remedies were the only flower essences available to us for nearly fifty years. With the expansion of world consciousness in the seventies, essences began to be discovered in California, followed by Australia and New Zealand. Flower Essences are now available from Africa, Alaska and many other areas.

No book of this nature is ever complete or fully comprehensive. This volume contains some Bach Flower Remedies, many of Ian White’s Australian Bush Flower Essences, a selection from the (Californian) Flower Essence Society and some recommendations given in the book ‘Flower Essences and Vibrational Healing’, by Gurudas.

The Gurudas remedies are especially valuable as they include a number of essences that work on specific physical complaints (through their action on the subtle bodies) without need for analysing mental or emotional aspects of the sufferers.

My own discoveries, which were the foundation of the ‘Feel Good’ Collection, were found during the years 1990 - 2000, some of which had also been included in other collections.

The essences discovered by me are marked in the text section by my initials, JRT, the Australian Bush Essences by ABFE, Bach Flower Remedies by BFR, the Australasian Flower Essence Academy by AFEA, Gurudas’ essences by GUR, and the (Californian) Flower Essence Society essences by CFE.

Throughout the book, I use the words ‘essences’ and ‘remedies’ interchangeably - probably the best term would be ‘remedial essences’. You will also notice that I use the word ‘guilt’ quite often, and I do so because it covers all the other unresolved emotions (sometimes suppressed) – we feel guilt about feeling frightened, guilt over causing harm, over not looking good, over lying or stealing, over loving the ‘wrong’ person, over not doing what others expect of us, of feeling grief or disappointment, or of feeling angry, disheartened, letting someone down. We are a kaleidoscope of guilts.

Knowledge of the subtle anatomy of the human being, the chakras and layers of energy bodies, is helpful in understanding the book and getting the best out of using the essences in a healing practice of any kind. There are many books available from specialist new-age bookshops, on-line, and some also, through the chain bookstores, or in e-book formats.

I made a fascinating discovery on finishing this compilation: Agrimony, the first remedy in the Bach Flower Remedies, is for guilt over lack of joy in life - Agrimony people always try to fill life with happiness, pleasure and laughter, and feel guilty if it is not so; Zinnia, the last Californian essence, is for people who feel guilt over happiness - Zinnia people find it hard to enjoy even the very best of experiences, whether their own or others’, and begrudge others any pleasures. The Alpha and the Omega.

Making The Essences

Processing the essences is very easy, and any bright, healthy flowers may be used. Where plants are not native to an area, it helps if the plant has been acclimatised to the local vibrations for two years. Many of the new essences are garden favourites and domesticated fruits, thus the old belief that only wild plants had great enough energy for healing does not hold water. Feel free to make essences from any strong, healthy plants with fresh, bright flowers.

Herbaceous essences: Take a 10 -15 cm glass bowl, ideally never used before; use the purest possible water, e.g. from the top of snowy mountains, or melted hail stones, distilled water, or at the very least, boiled and filtered rain water, kept in a clean unused glass container, well sealed.

Fill the bowl with water, pick the flowers by using a leaf of the plant or clean stainless steel scissors and tweezers, not touching the plant with your fingers; ideally, collect enough to cover surface, in the early morning before dew has dried from the plant (dew itself may be a potent factor); leave in the sun beside the growing plants, no shadows, for 2-4 hours (depending on the strength of the sun), then use a leaf from the same plant to flick the flowers from the water. This water is then bottled with an equal quantity of finest brandy and labeled ‘Mother Essence’ plus the name of the plant and the date and any other desired details (location etc.).

The gyroscopic kinetic energy created by gentle warming of the water and air currents around the flowers, combined with refraction of light entering the water, creates a magnification of the vibrational energy being emitted by the flowers, which becomes stored in the water, each molecule receiving and resonating to this vibration - the influence of the four elements: earth (plant), air, fire (sunlight) and water.

Tree remedies (without flowers): Boil the branch tips for a few minutes in a stainless steel or hardened glass saucepan. Use the same care not to handle the plant material; after removing it, cool and bottle the water in an equal amount of finest brandy and label properly. The alcohol ensures preservation of the vibrational energy in the essence, which should then last for years. After processing, the water is known as ‘mother essence’, or primary essence.

Water-soluble minerals of any kind can be made in the manner with which Dr Edward Bach made the wonderful Rock Water, and prescribed as essences. Dr Bach knew homeopathy well and derived