John Ramsell - The Original Writings Of Edward Bach: Compiled from the Archives of the Edward Bach Healing Trust

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First published in Great Britain in 1990
by The C.W. Daniel Company Limited
1 Church Path, Saffron Walden
Essex CB10 1JP, England.

The Dr Edward Bach Healing Trust 1990.
ISBN 9780852072301

CONTENTS

The photograph was taken by Mechthild Scheffer

FOREWORD

It is our great pleasure to present this book, a compilation of Dr. Bachs original writings, in order to share with you some of his most inspirational teachings.

Edward Bach devoted his entire life to healing, and after nearly twenty exhausting years of research, he eventually discovered a new method of healing using trees, plants and flowers, each specifically selected for their ability to treat the emotional outlook and personality of the sufferer. The Bach Flower Remedies are now used by millions of people all over the world, their successful growth having been established and firmly anchored by their efficacy alone.

It was always Dr. Bachs policy to publish his findings without delay, and to replace these publications with a new account as each milestone was reached. He wanted this system of healing to be as simple to understand as possible so that self-treatment with the remedies would be within reach of people of all walks of life. His booklet The Twelve Healers & Other Remedies is the definitive record of his lifes work, and is therefore the most authoritative text as it contains all the information necessary to select the remedies for oneself. This booklet and Heal Thyself, Dr. Bachs philosophy, are available individually and will be familiar to most of you, so to avoid unnecessary repetition, they have not been re-printed in this volume. Neither have we included the earlier publications in the Twelve Healers series, namely The Twelve Healers and the Four Helpers and The Twelve Healers and the Seven Helpers, nor Chapter 12 of Free Thyself as this too made reference to his first recordings. Dr Bach referred to these as the scaffolding of his final and completed work, and because some of the descriptive states were re-written during the natural development of his discovery, and may therefore become misleading for future readers, it was Dr. Bachs express wish that these old descriptions should not be re-published (). We do, however, present to you many of Dr. Bachs most stimulating philosophical compositions, letters and lecture notes, and a collection of many other papers which reflect his personality, thoughts and intentions. Together they provide a most wonderful insight and appreciation of a man whose humility and compassion are a blessing to us all.

We feel sure you will enjoy this collection of writings, re-printed from the originals kept in our archives at Mount Vernon, and we hope it will bring to you as much pleasure as it has given us.

John Ramsell and Judy Howard,

Curators and Trustees of:

The Dr. Edward Bach Healing Trust and Centre,

Mount Vernon, Sotwell, Wallingford, Oxon.

OX10 0PZ, England.

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Introduction

We have introduced and explained each chapter of this book separately to guide you through the various stages of Dr. Bachs career, but as a general introduction, we have selected a resum of his life and work, written by Nora Weeks who was his closest helper, companion and chosen successor, and who therefore knew his work intimately. The doctors full life story is told in her biograpy The Medical Discoveries of Edward Bach Physician.

EDWARD BACH, PHYSICIAN, BACTERIOLOGIST DISCOVERER of the HEALING ESSENCE in FLOWERS.

by Nora Weeks

Born, in 1886, not poor but hesitated to put his father to the expense of a medical training.

Eventually his father learned of his sons strong urge towards healing and readily provided the means for him to enter Birmingham University in 1906. From there he went to London to finish his training at University College, where he qualified in 1912.

Only his intense enthusiasm for the art of healing kept him in London, for city life was a misery to his nature. His gratitude to his father prevented him from asking for money and he spent more on books than would allow to feed himself adequately.

Though he applied himself to his books he spent more time on the close study of every patient and proved to himself many interesting facts about diseases. One conclusion he arrived at was that the same treatment did not cure the same disease. He decided that the personality of the patient was of more importance than the bodily condition, although, of course, this could not be ignored. Years of recording of his studies of individuals, together with his extensive knowledge of an original research into bacteriology, led him 20 years later to discover a new system of medicine.

Like many another genius he placed all his learning in the background and followed his own intuition. This reliance on his inner conviction quickly developed to become a constant attitude which he held and followed implicitly.

Ill health in 1913 caused him to give up the post of Casualty House Surgeon. When he recovered he took consulting rooms in Harley Street. Then he became interested in the immunity school and took a post as assistant bacteriologist. During this work he produced new vaccines which were successful in many cases of arthritis.

During the 1914 war he worked himself to death and collapsed. Skilful surgery brought him to life, but he was told he had only three months to live. In spite of, or rather, in view of this dire news he returned in a very weak state to take charge of the laboratories. After some months forgetting his disabilities in the pressure of work he grew stronger. Friends who saw him later were astonished to see him alive. He himself concluded that it was the awareness of a purpose in his life that brought him back to health.

His successful findings in intestinal toxaemia were published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine for the year 1920. But he was still not satisfied. He therefore fitted up a lab. of his own. Later he obtained the post of Pathologist and Bacteriologist at the London Homoeopathic Hospital. There he read Hahnemanns great work and felt that he was now on the scent of what he was looking for. However, he felt that there was something beyond Homoeopathy and that he would find it in the plants and trees.

He did nothing by halves. In 1930 he gave up his 5,000 a year occupation and devoted all his time to seeking for herbal remedies. Intuitively he knew that these remedies had to be non-poisonous. In fact from now he discarded his scientific knowledge and the methods of Science and trusted entirely to his sensitive intuitional faculties. For six years he proceeded on these lines, finding a few remedies each Summer and healing sick people in the Winter. He used only the flowers of the plants and trees having found a way of potentising the flowers by the rays of the Sun.