Dr Edward
BACH
Dr Edward BACH (1886-1936)
Dr Edward
Bach studied medicine at the University College Hospital, London, and
was a House Surgeon there. He worked in general practice, having a set
of consulting rooms in Harley Street, and as a bacteriologist and
later a pathologist he worked on vaccines and a set of homoeopathic
nosodes still known as the seven Bach nosodes.
Despite the
success of his work with orthodox medicine he felt dissatisfied with
the way doctors were expected to concentrate on diseases and ignore
the people who were suffering them. He was inspired by his work with
homoeopathy but wanted to find remedies that would be purer and less
reliant on the products of disease. So in 1930 he gave up his
lucrative Harley Street practice and left London, determined to devote
the rest of his life to the new system of medicine that he was sure
could be found in nature.
Just as he
had abandoned his old home, office and work, so now he abandoned the
scientific methods he had used up until now. Instead he chose to rely
on his natural gifts as a healer, and use his intuition to guide him.
One by one he found the remedies he wanted, each aimed at a particular
mental state or emotion. His life followed a seasonal pattern: the
spring and summer spent looking for and preparing the remedies, the
winter spent giving help and advice to all who came looking for them.
He found that when he treated the personalities and feelings of his
patients their unhappiness and physical distress would be alleviated
as the natural healing potential in their bodies was unblocked and
allowed to work once more.
In 1934 Dr
Bach moved to Mount Vernon in Oxfordshire. It was in the lanes and
fields round about that he found the remaining 19 remedies that he
needed to complete the series. He would suffer the emotional state
that he needed to cure and then try various plants and flowers until
he found the one single plant that could help him. In this way,
through great personal suffering and sacrifice, he completed his
life’s work.
Dr Bach
passed away peacefully on the evening of November 27th, 1936. He was
only 50 years old, but he had left behind him several lifetime’s
experience and effort, and a system of medicine that is now used all
over the world.
The Dr Edward Bach
Centre
See also : Healing the Emotions by Stefan Ball
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