Flower Medicine for the Dark Night of the Soul

For despondency or despair: Sweet Chestnut: EXTREME MENTAL

ANGUISH: For those moments which happen to some people when the

anguish is so great as to seem to be unbearable. When the mind or body feels as if it had borne to the uttermost limit of its endurance, and that now it must give way. When it seems there is nothing but destruction and annihilation left to face.

Notes: anguish, anguish from despondency, extreme hopelessness,

tormented anguish, terrible appalling mental despair, extreme mental

torture, anguish of bereavement, reached limit of endurance, almost

destroyed, exhaustion and loneliness is total, feeling no longer worthy of even pray, future is complete darkness, no hope, no peace, depressed

Dr. Bach writes about sweet chestnut: “It is the one for that terrible,

that appalling mental despair when it seems the very soul itself is

suffering destruction. The hopeless despair of those who feel they have

reached the limit of their endurance”.