I have been using the flower essence Rescue Remedy since
1993 and learned about it from a brilliant medical Dr. in
Asheville, NC. Fancy that??? I am a grown woman, but had
residual childhood fears about going to bed at night. My
fear was that someone was under my bed, and would
grab my legs as I got into bed. As embarrassing as it seemed
at the time, I confessed this to my MD. I also told him that I
would jump into the bed from a distance of 2 feet each
night, and wake my sleeping husband. The first night that
I put about 4 drops of RR under my tongue, I walked to the
bed, and got in without anxiety or incident. There was no
fear. That same night, during the early morning hours of
sleep, I had a hallucination while dreaming. This creepy
specter appeared in the corner of my room. I woke up and
looked at the genie-like man whose smokey appearance
stared down at me while slowly puffing on a cigarette.
I know this sounds insane, but it's true. Normally I would
have flipped all of the lights on, pulled the sheets up to my
nose, and sat awake in bed until dawn appeared. I would
have been mortified. Instead, I just looked up at the
apparition, rolled over and went back to sleep. The next
morning I had to pinch myself to grasp the events of the
night. Most of all, I was completely amazed that I had
entered the bed without incident, and that I worked
through what would have been a shocking and unsettling
experience during the night. I knew then that there was
something to this product.
This has got to be one of my all time favorite Amazon
Reviews. There's more to it and Squarecrow gives good
advice for it's use, but the hallucination part is the best.
Oh, and the use of the fantastic word obstreperous! I had
to look it up. This and many other reviews convinced me
to buy some Bach's Rescue Remedy on the way home
yesterday. I was feeling desperate. My appetite has been
terrible and I started the day with a panic attack that
lasted from 4-6am. As soon as I got in the car I dropped
4 drops on my tongue. I didn't hallucinate which at this
point I'm grateful, I couldn't have handled that, but I did
notice a blunting of the background anxiety noise. I still
felt the effects from my poor appetite, the nausea and
my left arm/shoulder issue that may be a bit of nerve
damage?? I don't know, but it's worrisome because
it's on my left side and it makes me fear that there is
something wrong with my heart. I kept taking the Rescue
Remedy here and there throughout the evening and I also
ate a bit of dinner. I started to feel a bit better, a sense of
calm, like, yes, I can feel my body doing all these things
that make me feel sick, but I'm not going to get all keyed
up about it. I did wake up in the middle of the night with
a mild hot flash or just sweaty and it did take me awhile
to get back to sleep, but I didn't wake in the lung hour
and I didn't have a panic attack in the morning. I did wake
in the Liver Hour, but I just had to use the restroom and
my daughter was whimpering in the next room (her diaper
leaked). Yes, I said that, the NEXT room. HER room. She
has slept all the way through (well, I mean she cried in the
middle of the night, but remained in bed while I comforted
her for a few minutes) for TWO NIGHTS!! I'm in shock,
but Bach's Rescue Remedy has an herb in it's recipe
for that.
Bach's Flower recipe for Rescue Remedy-
Rock rose for panic and terror
Star of Bethlehem for trauma and shock
Cherry Plum for fear of losing control
Impatiens for, ahem, losing patience and reducing stress
Clematis for clarity and alertness in the present moment
27% grape based brandy
Weird, so flower essences are just dew drops that rested
on the flower in the morning sun??? Look at this from
wiki--
Bach derived his solutions intuitively[15] and based on
his perceived psychic connections to the plants, rather
than using research based on scientific methods. [16]p.
185 If Bach 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 imagined that
early-morning sunlight passing through dew-drops on
flower petals transferred the healing power of the flower
onto the water,[17] so he would collect the dew drops from
the plants and preserve the dew with an equal amount of
brandy to produce a mother tincture which would be
further diluted before use.[18] 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.[17] If this was
impractical because of lack of sunlight or other reasons,
he wrote that the flowers may be boiled. The result of this
process Bach termed the "mother tincture", which is then
further diluted before sale or use.
oh well, if it's placebo, then it's working--I will freakin
take it.
I enjoyed reading this on Dr. Bach. Flower essences are
considered vibrational medicine. This is one of my
favorite scenes:
"Human kind is simply materialized color operating
on the 49th vibration."
1993 and learned about it from a brilliant medical Dr. in
Asheville, NC. Fancy that??? I am a grown woman, but had
residual childhood fears about going to bed at night. My
fear was that someone was under my bed, and would
grab my legs as I got into bed. As embarrassing as it seemed
at the time, I confessed this to my MD. I also told him that I
would jump into the bed from a distance of 2 feet each
night, and wake my sleeping husband. The first night that
I put about 4 drops of RR under my tongue, I walked to the
bed, and got in without anxiety or incident. There was no
fear. That same night, during the early morning hours of
sleep, I had a hallucination while dreaming. This creepy
specter appeared in the corner of my room. I woke up and
looked at the genie-like man whose smokey appearance
stared down at me while slowly puffing on a cigarette.
I know this sounds insane, but it's true. Normally I would
have flipped all of the lights on, pulled the sheets up to my
nose, and sat awake in bed until dawn appeared. I would
have been mortified. Instead, I just looked up at the
apparition, rolled over and went back to sleep. The next
morning I had to pinch myself to grasp the events of the
night. Most of all, I was completely amazed that I had
entered the bed without incident, and that I worked
through what would have been a shocking and unsettling
experience during the night. I knew then that there was
something to this product.
This has got to be one of my all time favorite Amazon
Reviews. There's more to it and Squarecrow gives good
advice for it's use, but the hallucination part is the best.
Oh, and the use of the fantastic word obstreperous! I had
to look it up. This and many other reviews convinced me
to buy some Bach's Rescue Remedy on the way home
yesterday. I was feeling desperate. My appetite has been
terrible and I started the day with a panic attack that
lasted from 4-6am. As soon as I got in the car I dropped
4 drops on my tongue. I didn't hallucinate which at this
point I'm grateful, I couldn't have handled that, but I did
notice a blunting of the background anxiety noise. I still
felt the effects from my poor appetite, the nausea and
my left arm/shoulder issue that may be a bit of nerve
damage?? I don't know, but it's worrisome because
it's on my left side and it makes me fear that there is
something wrong with my heart. I kept taking the Rescue
Remedy here and there throughout the evening and I also
ate a bit of dinner. I started to feel a bit better, a sense of
calm, like, yes, I can feel my body doing all these things
that make me feel sick, but I'm not going to get all keyed
up about it. I did wake up in the middle of the night with
a mild hot flash or just sweaty and it did take me awhile
to get back to sleep, but I didn't wake in the lung hour
and I didn't have a panic attack in the morning. I did wake
in the Liver Hour, but I just had to use the restroom and
my daughter was whimpering in the next room (her diaper
leaked). Yes, I said that, the NEXT room. HER room. She
has slept all the way through (well, I mean she cried in the
middle of the night, but remained in bed while I comforted
her for a few minutes) for TWO NIGHTS!! I'm in shock,
but Bach's Rescue Remedy has an herb in it's recipe
for that.
Bach's Flower recipe for Rescue Remedy-
Rock rose for panic and terror
Star of Bethlehem for trauma and shock
Cherry Plum for fear of losing control
Impatiens for, ahem, losing patience and reducing stress
Clematis for clarity and alertness in the present moment
27% grape based brandy
Weird, so flower essences are just dew drops that rested
on the flower in the morning sun??? Look at this from
wiki--
Bach derived his solutions intuitively[15] and based on
his perceived psychic connections to the plants, rather
than using research based on scientific methods. [16]p.
185 If Bach 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 imagined that
early-morning sunlight passing through dew-drops on
flower petals transferred the healing power of the flower
onto the water,[17] so he would collect the dew drops from
the plants and preserve the dew with an equal amount of
brandy to produce a mother tincture which would be
further diluted before use.[18] 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.[17] If this was
impractical because of lack of sunlight or other reasons,
he wrote that the flowers may be boiled. The result of this
process Bach termed the "mother tincture", which is then
further diluted before sale or use.
oh well, if it's placebo, then it's working--I will freakin
take it.
I enjoyed reading this on Dr. Bach. Flower essences are
considered vibrational medicine. This is one of my
favorite scenes:
"Human kind is simply materialized color operating
on the 49th vibration."
