The emotions play a significant role in the health of the physical body. Flower remedies directly address a person's emotional state in order to promote both psychological and physiological well-being. By balancing negative feelings and stress, flower remedies can effectively remove the emotional barriers to health and recovery.

  In the early 1930s, english physician Edward Bach, M.B., B.S., D.P.H., wrote that behind all disease lies our fears, our anxieties, our greed, our likes and dislikes. Dr. Bach based his revolutionary belief upon his personal observations of patients whose physical illnesses seemed to be predisposed by negative psychological or emotional states such as fear, anxiety, insecurity, jealousy, shyness, poor self-image, anger, and resentment. Today, numerous studies conducted at major universities and medical centers have verified Dr. Bach's early conviction, revealing a definite connection between negative emotional states and a reduction of the body's natural resistance to disease.

  Dr. Bach said that true curing involves treating the very base of the cause of the suffering. That's why no effort directed to the body alone can do more than superficially repair damage. People's emotional unhappiness needs treatments as well.

  In Dr. Bach's day, conventional medicine had no real methodology to address the link between emotional and physical illness, relying instead upon the use of drugs which often did more harm than good. In an attempt to fill this void, he began to investigate the healing potential of the wildflowers native to the English countryside. After several years of extensive research and testing, he was able to identify thirty-eight flowering plants and trees, which, when prepared according to a specific homeopathic process he developed, had a profound effect on the underlying psychological and emotional states that influence physical illness. These special preparations became known as the Bach flower remedies.

  Since the late 1970s, companies have researched and produced additional flower essences derived from flowers native to America, Hawaii, and Australia, but the original thirty-eight remedies discovered by Dr. Bach still remain the core of all flower remedies today.