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Edward Bach ( ; 24 September 1886 – 27 November 1936) was a British medical doctor, bacteriologist, homeopath, and spiritual writer, best known for developing the Bach flower remedies, a form of alternative medicine inspired by classical homeopathy traditions.
In 1917 Bach had a malignant tumour removed from his spleen. It was predicted that he had only three months left to live, but instead he recovered. Bach died in his sleep on 27 November 1936 in Wallingford, Berkshire, at the age of 50.
Many of the Bach Flower remedies were designed whilst living in the Norfolk coastal town of Cromer in the 1930s.
These bowel nosodesJohn Paterson The Bowel Nosodes were introduced by Bach and the British homeopath John Paterson (1890–1954) John PATERSON (1890–1954) PHOTOTHÈQUE HOMÉOPATHIQUE Homéopathe International and Charles Edwin Wheeler (1868–1946) Charles Edwin Wheeler PHOTOTHÈQUE HOMÉOPATHIQUE Homéopathe International in the 1920s. Their use is based on the variable bowel bacterial flora associated with persons of different homeopathic constitutional types. Prescribing on the basis of Nosodes & Bowel Nosodes Homoeopathy Clinic website
Rather than being based on medical research, using the scientific method, Bach's flower remedies were intuitively derived and based on his perceived psychic connections to the plants. If he felt a negative emotion, he would hold his hand over different plants, and if one alleviated the emotion, he would ascribe the power to heal that emotional problem to that plant. He believed that early morning sunlight passing through dew-drops on flower petals transferred the healing power of the flower onto the water, (2025). 9780310269991, Zondervan. ISBN 9780310269991 so he would collect the dew drops from the plants and preserve the dew with an equal amount of brandy to produce a homeopathy which would be further diluted before use. Later, he found that the amount of dew he could collect was not sufficient, so he would suspend flowers in spring water and allow the sun's rays to pass through them.
While he recognised the role of the germ theory of disease, defective organs and/or tissue, and other known and demonstrable sources of disease, Bach wondered how exposure to a pathogen could make one person sick, while another was unaffected, when to all appearances and analysis they were in equal states of health. He postulated that illness was the result of a conflict between the purposes of the soul and the personality's actions and outlooks. This internal war, according to Bach, leads to imbalances and energetic blockage, which causes a lack of harmony, thus leading to physical diseases. Bach's remedies focus on treatment of the patient's personality, which he believed to be the ultimate root cause of disease.
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