Bach Flower: Chicory

Chicory And Conditional Love

The Bach flower remedy Chicory is about loving without conditions in its perfect positive state. In its negative state when it is absent however, the
person is the classic case who never lets you forget what you owe him and what he’s done or keeps doing for you. Their constant complaint is they
have done so much for you and after all that, look at the way you repay them. It’s almost as though every little gesture were a calculated attempt at keeping score of how much you owed him. He can be expansive and seem very generous but there will come a time when he comes around to collect what he feels is a fitting exchange for what he gave.

Physical

Never mind how self interested they are, in the beginning they come across as warm and very helpful folk. You usually never suspect in the beginning that everything they give you comes with conditions attached. Then slowly, they start to want  to have a say in everything you do. Followed of course with payback time. With Chicory, they learn to be nice without expecting anything in return – just for the sheer pleasure of being nice. It’s
a great children’s remedy – the sweet child who is nice to everyone and the moment she is thwarted, turns tantrum my and sullen. Just because she feels she is well behaved, she also expects not be checked or corrected for anything.

Mental

When someone needs Chicory, he is constantly assessing and calculating everything he does for everyone in his mind. It’s almost like his mind keeps score and attaches a value to every good deed he does so he can recover it in full measure later. In their minds, there is this tremendous
need for affection and it very often stems from being unloved as a child – and getting attention by making people feel obliged. Chicory makes a person like this more balanced and not feel the need for outside attention to feel good inside. It also teaches him that he cannot expect anything just because he helps or gives.

Emotional

Emotional blackmail is common in people who need Chicory. It’s like a parent who does a lot for a child and then keeps reminding him about it till the day she dies. Or a person who tries to help by giving advice which usually turns into finding fault. This person will always make it out that it is because they love you so much and care for you that they are pointing out flaws in your make-up. Chicory takes away this ‘holding on’ with invisible emotional strings and helps a person to be more self sufficient.

Spiritual

These people, once they get into the positive Chicory state will astound you with their incredible capacity for loving and giving. A woman could become the epitome of motherhood while a man could rise to his full potential in every way, including spiritual growth. They learn to respect
another’s territory and stop wandering into areas that should not be of any concern to them.


Reference: Bach Flower Remedies by Shalini Kagal (2012)
Website: http://ohmtalk.com
e-mail: shalini.kagal@gmail.com

Stand Up Eight

Nausea With Vomiting

Vomiting and nausea can be a sign of serious pathology, and should be investigated. Frequent vomiting is a sign of phosphorus need. It is often with digestive dysfunction. The most common of which is biliary insufficiency or stasis. Other digestive causes include inadequate levels of stomach acid, pancreatibe insufficiency and excess stomach acid. An irritated muscosal lining of the digestive tract can also cause nausea.  One of the problems with persistent vomiting is the potential irritation of the esophageal sphincter, loss of stomach acid and general pH and electrolyte disturbance in the body. The hypochlorhydria caused by persistent vomiting can creat absorption problems, especially for the minerals.

Nausea, with or without vomiting is also a sign of gallbladder dysfunction.


Reference: Weatherby, D. (2004). Signs and Symptoms Analysis from a Functional Perspective. Jacksonville, OR: Bear Mountain Publishing

Bach Flower: Crab Apple

Crab Apple And OCD

The Bach flower remedy Crab Apple stands for perfect order and balance but when there is need for it in the body, the person takes it to an extreme and
wants everything around him to be flawlessly perfect. It gets to a stage very often when he not only wants to walk a certain way, look a certain way and act a certain way but he even starts thinking that certain thoughts are imperfect and he tries to think a certain way. If he can’t live up to these impossibly high standards he sets himself, he gets terribly bothered. Sounds like the character in the TV serial ‘The Monk’? Or Jack Nicholson in ‘As Good As It Gets’? You guessed it – it’s obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD we’re talking about.

Physical

A person who needs Crab Apple is constantly fidgeting, looking around to see if everything is all right. He might suddenly get up and go clean something – like the doorknobs or the ashtrays. He might just go throw away anything that is lying around that he feels is cluttering up the place. He just cannot relax unless everything around him is ordered to his way of thinking. He just cannot
bear to see any blemish in himself either – so he might just get a bit too het up about a scar or a pimple. Very often, these people will keep washing their hands or take many showers during the day. Crab Apple makes them a bit more practical and teaches them that it is all right to have a little dust floating around. For people who are not typically Crab Apple, this essential oil is great when
you want to wash the memory of a dirty feeling off – this could be physically, like after a rather tough nursing job or mentally like after having to put up with a distasteful experience. It relieves skin problems too and can be added – a few drops – to the bath.

Mental

His mind gets caught up in the details – and it’s usually the little, unimportant ones that assume alarming proportions inside his head. It could be a little stain on the carpet or a bit of water or milk spilt on the table. He can think of nothing else till he has put whatever he thinks is wrong, right. So when he is in someone else’s house, it is torture for him to sit through a social evening when
little things like this irritate him and engulf his mind. So he is usually in a state of stress and this could bring on a few health problems. Crab Apple lifts his mind from the petty details to the things that really matter.


Reference: Bach Flower Remedies by Shalini Kagal (2012)
Website: http://ohmtalk.com
e-mail: shalini.kagal@gmail.com

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Bach Flower: Gorse

Gorse and Hopelessness

The Bach flower remedy Gorse in its positive state spells hope in the face of the worst adversity. So even if a person is very ill or caught in some
terrible situation, the glimmer of hope keeps him alive and very often pulls him through and back from the edge. When there is a need for Gorse, you’ll find that the person loses all hope and there is abject hopelessness. So even if there is a way out of any situation, the person just lies back without looking for it.

Physical

The negative Gorse state is most evident when a person is ill. When the illness is serious, there seems to be no will power left in the person and he just resigns himself to what he believes is his fate. There is no attempt or will power to fight against what is ailing him in order to try and get well. So when a person like this gets ill, it requires that much more effort by the medical people attending on him to pull him through as he does not help in the process at all. Gorse gives him that little bit of fillip to fight and to try and come back to normal.

Mental

The basic problem that these people have is in the mind. The mind tells someone like this that there is really no way out of whatever it is that befalls them – that there is no hope of things getting better. So they give in and don’t look for a way out of the tunnel they are in. With Gorse, the person believes that there should be a light at the end of the tunnel and they keep trying till they find it.

Emotional

Emotionally too, these people give up far too easily because they feel that there is no way forward. In relationships, any roadblock is seen as the end of the road and there is a strange sense of despair and the feeling that things have come to an end. It is this feeling that makes them not want to
even look at the possibilities of things changing and getting better. Theirs is a downward spiral – never an uplifting way of thinking which is what Gorse brings along with it.

Spiritual

When a person is in a state of hopelessness, they tend to lose faith in everything – even the divine. There’s an all-pervading sense of doom and when Gorse is given, it helps the person get spiritually stronger and believe – in life getting better if not immediately in miracles. Their faith becomes more balanced – with hope pervading it.


Reference: Bach Flower Remedies by Shalini Kagal (2012)
Website: http://ohmtalk.com
e-mail: shalini.kagal@gmail.com

Headache After Exercising

A headache after exercising is associated with hypoadrenal functioning. You may need to have your provider run an Adrenal Street profile test for cortisol/ DHEA ratios to find out the actual stage of decompensation you are in.  Chronic stress will cause the cortisol levels to drop leading to a decreased ability to control the blood sugar, which leads to hypoglycemia, irritability, headaches, etc. Headaches after exercise are a strong indicator of the above scenario.  Exercise will cause the blood sugar to drop. If the cortisol output is not sufficient, the blood sugar will not be able to be regulated properly leading to all the symptoms of hypoglycemia.


Reference: Weatherby, D. (2004). Signs and Symptoms Analysis from a Functional Perspective. Jacksonville, OR: Bear Mountain Publishing

Bach Flower: Holly

Holly And Love

The Bach flower remedy Holly is all about love. It brings peace and harmony where there is strife – and caring where there is hatred and anger. This flower remedy has the incredible power to turn negativity completely around and instill positive feelings in its place. It is called for when hearts have got hardened with months, even years of anger, hate, mistrust and envy. This is the remedy that spells a gentle love which erases past wounds and rage and lets love grow.

Physical

His eyes are always full of suspicion and mistrust. He’s always looking for a cause to get angry and be hateful. This translates into physical problems like high blood pressure and the possibility of strokes. He might be sporty but his body is usually tense, not supple. This will change only when he has learned to give up his hatred and relax with love. Holly opens the doors to a more healthy body by getting  rid of this baggage of rage and ill-feeling.

Mental

He loses his temper not just at people but also at ideas. There is a latent anger that is just below the surface all the time and never goes away, waiting to lash out at someone or something. It could be a colleague, it could be a family member it could even be a book or a movie. In his mind, it is a waiting game – who or what do I annihilate next? Holly calms his down and teaches him that he does not have to be one-up on everyone – it is fine to just accept and appreciate without tearing down.

Emotional

He cannot give love freely – his love is always conditional. The recipient of his love has to conform to what he wishes them to be otherwise he loses his cool. This is a great remedy for the raging control
freaks of this world – not the cold, calculating person who controls but the bully who controls with a loud voice and sometimes violence. This is not a once in a way losing of his temper but a constant state of mind. Holly makes him love as he should – by giving first.

Spiritual

Even though he might belong to a religious group, he is the one who will argue and shut whenever there is a getting together of a group. He will want his voice to be heard and he will make it a point to be spiteful. He can rarely be happy in the spiritual commonality that has brought the group together and tries to disrupt things with arguments. Holly makes him feel one with a group that espouses love and helps him be drained of his spiritual pride and envy.


Reference: Bach Flower Remedies by Shalini Kagal (2012)
Website: http://ohmtalk.com
e-mail: shalini.kagal@gmail.com

Low or Reduced Fat Diet (Past or Present)

Low fat diets are a very good way to become deficient in essential fatty acids. This person needs to be assessed for essential fatty acid deficiency, and supplement them with the correct essential fatty acids and co-factors for optimal absorption and utilization. 

Lifestyle Changes
Avoid all sources of hydrogenated oils and deep fried foods, which rob the body of essential fatty acids.

Reference: Weatherby, D. (2004). Signs and Symptoms Analysis from a Functional Perspective. Jacksonville, OR: Bear Mountain Publishing