Healthy Holidays #2

Flowers to Heal Depression, Melancholy, Sadness

For Uncertainty: Gentian*: DISCOURAGED BY SET BACKS: Those who

are easily discouraged. They may be progressing well in illness, or in the

affairs of their daily life, but any small delay or hindrance to progress

causes doubt and soon disheartens them.

Notes: depression through doubt, discouragement, disheartened, doubt, lost

faith, influenced by delay and hindrance, melancholy, discouraged by set-

backs, uncertainty through lack of faith, negative outlook, depression from

a known cause, helpful to discouraged school children

Not sufficient interest in present circumstances: Mustard: SADNESS:

Those who are liable to times of gloom, or even despair, as though a cold

dark cloud overshadowed them and hid the light and the joy of life. It may11

not be possible to give any reason or explanation for such attacks. Under

these conditions it is almost impossible to appear happy or cheerful.

Notes: gloom, depression causes unknown, depression as black cloud, despair

causes unknown, sadness, lack of interest because of gloom, melancholy for

no known reason

For Uncertainty: Gorse: HOPELESSNESS: Very great hopelessness, they

have given up belief that more can be done for them. Under persuasion or to

please others they may try different treatments, at the same time assuring

those around that there is so little hope of relief.

Notes: material and physical despair, lost faith, influenced by decisions of

others, lack of interest because of hopelessness, melancholy, persuaded by

others against inclination, persuaded by others to please others, resigned,

given in to set-backs, uncertainty through lack of hope, despair after being

told nothing else can be done, must continue to bear pain and suffering; may

be convinced of inherited condition, almost useless to try different

treatments, when receiving treatments they will frequently tell the doctor8

or therapist that the treatment is useless and will have no positive result

Not sufficient interest in present circumstances: Wild Rose:

RESIGNATION: Those who without apparently sufficient reason become

resigned to all that happens, and just glide through life, take it as it is,

without any effort to improve things and find some joy. They have10

surrendered to the struggle of life without complaint.

Notes: lack of ambitions, apathetic, lack of effort due to resignation,

exhaustion due to apathy, gloomy, sadness, lack of interest in present due to

resignation, unhappy, weariness, resigned to illness, believes a condition is

incurable, lacks vitality

For despondency or despair: Pine: GUILT: For those who blame

themselves. Even when successful they think that they could have done

better, and are never content with their efforts or the results. They are

hard-working and suffer much from the faults they attach to themselves.

Sometimes if there is any mistake it is due to another, but they will claim

responsibility even for that.

Notes: blame self, self criticism, self-reproach from despondency,

discontent with self, dissatisfaction with self, sadness, self-blame, self-

reproach, vexations, depressed, blames self for mistakes of others and for

everything that goes wrong, guilt complex that takes away all joy, is over-

conscientious but never content with achievements and often overworks

For despondency or despair: Star of Bethlehem: SHOCK: For those in

great distress under conditions which for a time produce great unhappiness.

The shock of serious news, the loss of some one dear, the fright following an

accident, and such like. For those who for a time refuse to be consoled this

remedy brings comfort.

Notes: all types of shock, comforter, of benefit to all, releases memories of

shock from unconscious, soothing, when a flower medicine does not work

consider Star of Bethlehem, when symptoms manifest unexpectedly

consider Star of Bethlehem, when serious symptoms manifest years after a

significant shock consider Star of Bethlehem, despondency from shock,

grief, numbness, sadness, refused to be consoled, tension, unhappy

Star of Bethlehem, as Dr. Bach called it, is “the comforter and soother

of pains and sorrow”.

Sources:

The 12 Healers and other remedies by Edward Bach/with additional notes and quotes from Bach Flower Remedies course of study at nmsnt.org

The Bach Remedies Repertory: F J Wheeler