Deborah Craydon - Floral Acupuncture: Applying the Flower Essences of Dr. Bach to Acupuncture Sites

Medical Disclaimer

The applications in this book are not to be used as a substitute for medical treatments. We do not take responsibility for those attempting to treat themselves with the use of this book. We do not make any claims for these applications other than an enhancement of your sense of well-being. If you have a condition that requires medical supervision, please consult your doctor.

Copyright 2005 by Deborah Craydon and Warren Bellows
Photography by Deborah Craydon
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T his book is designed to transform the healing modalities of acupuncture and flower essences into liquid light treatments for the body. Each acupuncture point is encoded with a specific resonance that sends a message to your body, mind, and spirit via the meridian system when the point is stimulated. By applying flower essences to acupuncture points, we are replacing the traditional stainless-steel acupuncture needle with outer floral nature. The flower essence becomes the catalyst that stimulates the movement of chi, or life force, through the body via the meridian system. Changing the catalyst for this stimulation from metal to the living language of flowers creates a conversation between inner and outer nature that is new, refreshing, and uplifting.

The color and light encoded in a flower essence, when applied to its corresponding acupuncture point, create an exponential effect that revivifies your life force and lifts it to a new octave. There is a sensation during the application of these treatments of a multiplying effect or a holographic link between floral nature and the life of your body, soul, and spirit.

In this method of application, the body takes center stage. A hallmark of these treatments is the grounding of psychological insights into the body, enabling you to manifest your goals through direct action in the world. This treatment system galvanizes your physical body to actively participate with your emotional, mental, and spiritual processes. Topical floral treatments are simpler than the internal use of flower essences. You can use them often and safely to help activate your body to simply do new things. Topical floral treatments present an elegant system for professionals, bodyworkers, and those at home to experience acupuncture using the language of flowers. It is important to note that these treatments are intended to complement, not replace, your regular acupuncture treatments.

As a flower essence practitioner, my quest to understand the underlying science of the art of flower essences led me to begin using them topically with clients in 1997. The results were so successful that it became my passion to understand how and why these effects occur. After a number of years of research, I learned that in Germany, the etheric or life body had been recognized as having the same template as the Eastern acupuncture map of the body, or meridian system. My goal then became to discover the link between the life forces of the flower essences and their energetic counterparts on the meridian system. I hoped that in this way, a deeper energetic understanding of each individual essence could be born, creating a new science of topical application of flower remedies.

Warren Bellows, a Five-Element acupuncturist, and I were both gardeners at the Findhorn Community in Scotland at different times. We were each there in the early days when the Findhorn Gardens, co-created through messages from the devas (angelic presences that overlight the plant kingdom), were gaining worldwide attention. Firsthand meetings with rarefied presences of the kingdoms of nature were the norm at that time among those who lived there.

In beginning this research together, Warren and I found a harmonic balance and compatibility through our respective abilities that lent a natural ease to our work. In part this was due to the confirmation through our experiences at Findhorn of inherent childhood capacities for this type of communication, as well as the advantage of further energetic sensitivity training in our respective professions.

Warrens first experience with an alternative healing modality was in the form of using a flower essence from Dr. Bachs repertory while he was at Findhorn. His revelation of the power of vibrational flower medicine sparked his interest in healing as a discipline. After studying many modalitiesincluding Touch for Health, massage, and homeopathyWarren was trained in the Five-Element theory of acupuncture with J. R. Worsley and has practiced this discipline for the past twenty years, becoming a master healer. One of Warrens areas of special expertise is rendering poetically the language of the individual acu-points.

Our interest initially centered on research testing the higher-octave flower essences (Silversword, Lotus, Magnolia, for example) to find their acupuncture point counterparts. Sensing, however, the importance of this work and that time was of the essence, we changed our focus and began to concentrate on the flower essences made according to the indications of Dr. Bach. We felt that this research would best serve the largest number of people.