Flower Combination to the Rescue!
The Rescue Remedy:
This is a combination of five of the remedies Dr. Bach used as a first-aid
remedy. In any emergency, great or small—a big sorrow, some sudden bad
news, after a severe accident, or even a cut finger—the sufferer may
experience one or more of these emotions: shock, fear, sometimes amounting
to terror or panic, severe mental stress and tension, a feeling of desperation
or a numbed, bemused state of mind.
The five remedies are:
Star of Bethlehem: for shock
Rock Rose: for terror and panic
Impatiens: for mental stress and tension
Cherry Plum: for desperation
Clematis: for the bemused, far-away feeling often preceding a faint and loss
of consciousness.
Dr. Bach used this first-aid remedy for the first time, and named it
the Rescue Remedy, in the early 1930’s when a small ship carrying tiles
was wrecked off the Cromer shore in a great gale. The two men on
board roped themselves to the mast and there they stayed for many
hours for the life-boat could not reach them owing to the big seas.
Eventually both were rescued, the younger man unconscious, blue in the
face, his clothes stiff with sea salt. Dr. Bach ran into the sea as he
was carried ashore and moistened his lips with the Rescue Remedy to
help him overcome the great shock and terror of his experience. The
man recovered consciousness as they carried him up the beach to a near
by hotel, then sat up and asked for a cigarette.