NOTE!
Vibrational Essences (Bach Flower Essences) do not replace qualified medical assistance if you have a physical illness or disease, however they will complement and help that treatment on subtle levels.

HOW TO TAKE BACH FLOWER ESSENCES and OTHER FLOWER ESSENCES?
For short term problems and immediate stressful situations:
Dilute two drops (four drops for First Aid Remedy, Rescue®) of each chosen Bach Flower Essence in a small glass of water and sip at intervals until there is relief.

Personal formula for multiple use:
Add two drops of each chosen essence (no more than twelve different essences) to a 30 ml bottle and top it up to the halfway point with still mineral or filtered water. Add a teaspoon of brandy or apple cider vinegar as a preservative. Then fill the bottle to the top with more still mineral or filtered water. This is now your personal formula. Take four drops of the mixture, four times a day.

Directly from the stock bottle:
The Bach Flower Essences can be dropped neatly onto the tongue or rubbed behind the ears or on the temples and wrists. Take 2 to 4 drops of concentrate 4 times a day. These methods do not have greater benefit than the diluted essences.

Adding to bath water:
Flower Essences may also be added to bath water (16 drops per use).

Adding to lotions or oils:
Dilute ten drops of each chosen essence (no more than ten essences) in a 100 ml bottle of lotion or oil.

Usage of First Aid Remedy or Rescue®:
All methods mentioned above can of course be used with this special remedy. In case of emergency the best way to achieve instant relief is to use the remedy directly from the stock bottle. Either by applying it onto the tongue or rubbing it behind the ears or on the temples and wrists. Here you can use the remedy every few minutes until signs of recovery are felt.

Combining Bach Flower Essences and other medications:
The Bach Flower Essences are safe and natural. They have no side effects and will not interfere with any other form of treatment including nutritional, homoeopathic, herbal and prescription medications.

Combining Bach Flower Essences and other Essences:
You may combine Bach Flower Essences and other Essences in your mixture.

How often Bach Flower Essences can be used?
Bach Flower Essences can be used as often as desired. In a crisis you may need only one dose but for a continuing emotional problem you can take them for as long as needed. Benefit comes from small quantity and regular use.
Your special mixture is taken until the problem disappears. Once the emotions are stabilized, the flower essences may be discontinued.

Adverse reactions
Don’t worry that an inappropriate remedy might have an adverse reaction. You needn’t fear overdose or error. However they may allow suppressed symptoms to surface. These could include an awareness of emotions which have been denied expression. These are only temporary - they are an important part of the healing process.

The 38 flower essences were discovered by Dr Bach.
On a sunny day, the blooms are picked at their peak of condition. They are prepared by very simple natural means. So that the best results are achieved to preserve the essence for use e.g. in Miriana® or other well-known Bach remedies.

There are two different methods according to Dr Bach to extract the helping properties of the flowers:
The Sun Method
The Boiling Method

The extract of each flower is preserved by mixing it 50/50 with full-strength brandy. These extracts are called ‘mother essences’. Drops of these mother essences are diluted in additional brandy, are bottled and are then called ’stock-bottles’. These are the ones you can purchase and later on dilute for personal use.

The type of brandy used for conservation:
Every established manufacturer uses the best ingredients and selects the brandy used very carefully to receive best results. Miriana® preserves the stock-bottles with clear fruit brandy (22% alc. vol.) and not with wine brandy, often used by others. Miriana® has commissioned an authorized laboratory that found out, that common wine brandy contains furfural and furfural diethylacetal that act as a flavouring agent.

The British Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia provides detailed information about the methods how to prepare the Bach mother tinctures:

Method BR9 preparation of a Bach mother tincture by the Sun Method:

The Sun Method is used to prepare mother tinctures from flowers which bloom during the late spring and the summer when the sun is most powerful. The operation is carried out at the site of the plants or trees, starting at around 9am on a sunny settled day. 50 parts of water are added to a suitably sized glass container, ensuring the level of water reaches the brim. 1 part of flower-heads, picked just below the calyx or the flowering spikes, is floated on the surface of the water in the glass container. This is left for 3 hours in full sunshine. The flower-heads are then removed and the water filtered into a glass bottle. This is the basic Bach mother tincture, prepared by the Sun Method. It is mixed with an equal volume of Brandy and vigorously shaken. It should be stored in a cool dark place.

This is further diluted 1 part in 500 with ethanol (22%) w/w.
This final dilution approximates to the homoeopathic potency 5X

Method BR10 preparation of a Bach mother tincture by the Boiling Method:

The Boiling Method is used to prepare mother tinctures from flowers and twigs of the trees, bushes and plants which bloom early in the year before there is much sunshine. At about 9am on a sunny settled day, sufficient flowering sprays and leaves are collected to provide 1 part of plant material, which is placed in a glass vessel and 10 parts of water added. This is boiled for half an hour then allowed to cool. The solution is then decanted and filtered into a glass bottle. This is the basic Bach mother tincture, prepared by the Boiling Method. It is mixed with an equal volume of Brandy and vigorously shaken. It should be stored in a cool dark place.

This is further diluted 1 part in 500 with ethanol (22%) w/w. This final dilution approximates to the homoeopathic potency 5X

Bach flower essences (remedies) form a part of alternative medicine. They comprise a therapeutic system that uses dilutions of flower essences developed by Dr.Edward Bach to balance physical and emotional disturbances. In the world of flowers Dr. Bach found resonances of the conditions he found in his patients. He believed the right essence can help to bring back the patient to a positive, happy condition. Dr. Bach distilled the essence of certain flowers, and choose the right ones for the state of being of a patient.
Dr. Bach knew, that the human being is more than a physical body. The human being incorporates a body of life energy, a body of sensitivity and feelings, and a spiritual body. Flower essences are energetic imprints of the life force of plants. Dr Bach believed that the flower essences interact with the subtle bodies and so can help people with physical illness by addressing the emotional responses to their illness.

Bach flower essences (remedies) are similar to homeopathy in many respects. Bach flower essences are not dependent on the theory of successive dilutions, and are not based on the homeopathy’s defining principle the ‘Law of Similars’ (’Like cures like’). Another difference between homeopathy and Bach flower remedies are the methods used to produce them. The production of Bach flower essences is handled in two ways, called ‘potentization’: the sun method and the boiling method, both invented by Dr. Bach.

There are 38 original Bach remedies plus ‘Rescue RemedyTM’ (First Aid, Five flower remedy), each prescribed for certain mental and emotional problems. They form a complete therapeutic system. Practitioners treat every variety of human emotional imbalance with the 38 Bach flower essences.

Dr. Bach System:
The 37 plants are classified in three categories:
The ‘twelve healers’: Agrimony, Centaury, Cerato, Chicory, Clematis, Gentian, Impatiens, Mimulus, Rock Rose, Scleranthus, Vervain, Water Violet
The ’seven helpers’: Gorse, Heather, Oak, Olive, Rock Water, Vine, Wild Oat
The ’second 19′: Aspen, Beech, Cherry Plum, Chestnut Bud, Crab Apple, Elm, Holly, Honeysuckle, Hornbeam, Larch, Mustard, Pine, Red Chestnut, Star of Bethlehem, Sweet Chestnut, Walnut, White Chestnut, Wild Rose, Willow

There are numerous anecdotes about successful treatment with Bach flower remedies, although published scientific research is limited.

Edward Bach (September 24, 1886 - November 27, 1936) was born in a village called Moseley, near Birmingham, England.

Edward studied medicine at the University College Hospital, London and obtained a Diploma in Public Health at Cambridge. He was a house surgeon and a casualty medical officer at University College Hospital. He worked at the National Temperance Hospital and practiced for over twenty years in London as a Harley Street consultant and bacteriologist. After research in immunology, he developed an interest in homeopathy, and joined the laboratories of the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital in 1919. He developed seven bacterial nosodes (the seven Bach nosodes), which have received only limited recognition.

Despite the success of his work with orthodox medicine he felt dissatisfied with the way doctors were expected to concentrate on diseases and to ignore the people who were suffering them. He turned to alternative therapies. He believed that illness is the effect of disharmony between body and mind. Symptoms of an illness are the external expression of negative emotional states. In 1928 he began work on his own remedies made from plants. At the age of forty-three (1930), he gave up his lucrative Harley Street practice and left London in order to concentrate on finding a new system of healing involving plant remedies. He was sure a new system of medicine could be found in nature and so he left to work in Wales and the English countryside. In spring and summer he discovered and prepared new herbal remedies, and in winter he treated patients for free.

By 1932 he had discovered the first of his 12 remedies. These he used on the many patients who came to him for treatment.

In 1933 he began making the second group of remedies, the 7 helpers.

Bach decided to spread his knowledge among the people. Dr Bach published his work, principally in public lectures and in magazine articles. In particular, he wrote articles and gave lectures between 1933 and 1936 in relation to the remedies. He advertised his herbal remedies in two of the daily newspapers. This brought him numerous inquiries from the public, but the General Medical Council disapproved strongly of his advertising.

In 1934 Dr Bach moved to a cottage called Mount Vernon in the village of Sotwell in Oxfordshire. There he found the remaining 19 remedies that he needed to complete the series (the second nineteen).

Dr. Bach passed away on the evening of November 27th, 1936, only 50 years old.