Dr Edward Bach studied medicine at the University College Hospital,
London, and was a House Surgeon there. He worked in general practice,
having a set of consulting rooms in Harley Street, and as a bacteriologist
and later a pathologist he worked on vaccines and a set of homoeopathic
nosodes still known as the seven Bach nosodes.
Despite the success of his work with orthodox
medicine he felt dissatisfied with the way doctors were expected
to concentrate on diseases and ignore the people who were suffering
them. He was inspired by his work with homoeopathy but wanted
to find remedies that would be purer and less reliant on the products
of disease. So in 1930 he gave up his lucrative Harley Street
practice and left London, determined to devote the rest of his
life to the new system of medicine that he was sure could be found
in nature.
Just as he had abandoned his old home, office
and work, so now he abandoned the scientific methods he had used
up until now. Instead he chose to rely on his natural gifts as
a healer, and use his intuition to guide him. One by one he found
the remedies he wanted, each aimed at a particular mental state
or emotion. His life followed a seasonal pattern: the spring and
summer spent looking for and preparing the remedies, the winter
spent giving help and advice to all who came looking for them.
He found that when he treated the personalities and feelings of
his patients their unhappiness and physical distress would be
alleviated as the natural healing potential in their bodies was
unblocked and allowed to work once more.
In 1934 Dr Bach moved to Mount Vernon in Oxfordshire.
It was in the lanes and fields round about that he found the remaining
19 remedies that he needed to complete the series. He would suffer
the emotional state that he needed to cure and then try various
plants and flowers until he found the one single plant that could
help him. In this way, through great personal suffering and sacrifice,
he completed his life's work.
Dr Bach passed away peacefully on the evening
of November 27th, 1936. He was only 50 years old, but he had left
behind him several lifetime's experience and effort, and a system
of medicine that is now used all over the world. |