Here you can find a short description of the Bach flower remedies.
Agrimony | One tries to hide haunting thoughts and inner unrest behind a fassade of cheerfulness and carelessness. |
Aspen | Inexplainable, vague trepidations, premonitions, secret fear of any threatening disaster. |
Beech | Criticism addiction, arrogance, intolerance. One condemnes others without any empathy. |
Centaury | Weakness of the own will. Over reaction to the wishes of others. Its good-naturedness is easily made use of. One can't say "no". |
Cerato | Lack of confidence into the own intuition. |
Cherry-Plum | Fear to let go; fear of losing the intellect; fear of psychological panic actions; short-tempered temperament outbreaks. |
Chestnut Bud | The same mistakes are made again and again because one does not process his experiences really and does not learn enough from it. |
Chicory | Possessive personality attitude that interferes excessively and criticizes. One expects full devotion from its surroundings and breaks into self-pity if one does not get his will. |
Clematis | Daydreamer, that is always somewhere else with the thoughts; shows little attention for the surroundings. |
Crab Apple | One feels dirty inside and outside, impurely or infected. "The cleansing blossom." |
Elm | The temporary feeling that its task or responsibility is too much to be handled. |
Gentian | Skeptically, doubting, pessimistically, easily dispiritedly. |
Gorse | Without hope, completely despair. |
Heather | Self obtained, occupies completely with itself, needs permanently audience. "The small needful child." |
Holly | Jealousy, suspicion, hate- and envy feelings at all levels. |
Honeysuckle | Longing for the past; sorry about things passed. Does not live in the present. |
Hornbeam | Tiredness; mental exhaustion as a condition that lasts for a while or longer. |
Impatiens | Impatiently, easily irritably, over shooting reactions. |
Larch | Expectation of failures through lack of self-confidence. Inferiority complexes. |
Mimulus | Specific fears that one can name; timidity, fear of the world. |
Mustard | Periods of deep melancholy suddenly come and go without recognizable cause. |
Oak | The fighter struck down and exhausted, the one who nevertheless continues bravely and never gives up. |
Olive | Total exhaustion, extreme fatigue of body and spirit. |
Pine | Self-reproaches, fault feelings, discouragement. |
Red Chestnut | Exaggerated worries about others. |
Rock Rose | Extremely acute anxiety states, terror, panic feelings. |
Rock Water | Severeness and rigid views, suppressed needs, his personality is sacrificed on the altar of its ideals that were set too high. |
Scleranthus | Irresolute, jerky, unbalanced, Opinion and mood change from moment to the other. |
Star of Bethlehem | After-effects of bodily, psychological or intellectual shocks. No matter whether taking place long ago or recently. "The soul comforter and pain calmer." |
Sweet Chestnut | Deepest despair. One thinks that the limit of this which a human being can bear is reached now. |
Vervain | In the over-zeal to fight for a thing, one over-exploitates its powers. Irritable to fanatical. |
Vine | Dominating unscrupulously, power-hungrily. "The little tyrant." |
Walnut | Temporary annihilation feeling, suggestibility and fickleness during decisive new beginning phases in the life. "The blossom that makes the breakthrough." |
Water Violet | At times: Inner stand-offishness, proud restraint, isolated superiority feeling. |
White Chestnut | Specific thoughts circle incessantly in the head, one does not get rid of them, inner self conversations and dialogues again and again. |
Wild Oat | Indetermination of the ambitions, dissatisfaction because one does not find its life's work. |
Wild rose | Indifferentness, apathy, resignation, inner capitulation. |
Willow | Inner grudge, bitterness. "The victim of the destiny." |