Are Flower Essences Really An Effective Healing Tool?

[Tornadic Thoughts]

I've seen mention of various therapeutic toolbox components for healing that include medication, nutritional methods, essential oil and aromatherapy methods, exercise methods, herbal tea blends methods, talk therapy methods, etc., but so far, no mention of flower essence methods for attempts at healing, unless I overlooked it.

Curious if anyone has tried any, currently uses them, or by chance makes their own. I think they're called "rescue remedies" and such in the retail arena, and are quite pricey from what I recall for those itty bitty bottles. The ingredients appear to be brandy, water, and the carefully and lovingly created flower infused water. I know someone in the area that makes them, but haven't really dabbled with trying them myself, yet.

Things are blooming so abundantly around here, and the hubby has some brandy on hand, so I've decided to try to make some of my own with dogwood flowers, buttercup flowers, and lilac flowers, especially after reading about the areas they're supposed to be most helpful with.

I feel there's not much to lose other than some time, a little water, and a little brandy. The harvesting time alone was therapeutic enough to make it a worthwhile venture, so far. May the rest of the process be kind enough to make it through to completion, and may nature continue to nurture and astound me.

 

[BIAMI 88]

I've seen mention of various therapeutic toolbox components for healing that include medicati...

I've used Australian Bush remedies. Bach flower essences. I believe its more a psuedo effect, although I coupled these with Aroma essenses and music and meditation during crisis moments. Give it a go especially when you've already enjoyed the cultivating of those beautiful flowers. Enjoy and goodluck.

 

[Friday]

I'm fond of tincture of poppy myself.

But laudanum is a BIT of a controlled substance. They sort of frown on one making it at home, or selling it.

Flowers can be extremely effective. Foxglove is where we get digitalis, asiatic poppies are where we get opiates, and a few hundred other species are also exceptionally powerful & effective. Granted, that also means that most of them are also exceptionally dangerous & deadly. Do be careful :)

 

[The Albatross]

I read somewhere that aromas bypass the thinking part of the brain. Dunno if they're particularly healing but I do use some scents for calming. Be careful though ... "because the olfactory bulb is part of the brain's limbic system, an area so closely associated with memory and feeling it's sometimes called the "emotional brain," smell can call up memories and powerful responses almost instantaneously."

 

[Deleted member 541]

I can't do some flowers at all. The smells from them send me into a world of shit, and they trigger nasty memories....I think flowers are very beautiful, but I keep a safe distance from them.

 

[Crow]

A lot of the sublingual essences help me. But back when my symptoms were more severe, they did nothing. T said my nervous system had to find a little balance before the essences could be of much use. Aromatherapy has always been effective but with very short lived results. T now has a basket of different oils and almost every session she gives me a few drops to either rub on my neck or arms or smell.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

I seem to do okay with most scents from flowers and oils, it's the artificial stuff that sends me for a loop and requires a few days to recover.

Those synthetic smells cling to the inside of my nostrils, to my clothes, my hair, etc. and I have to bathe myself and launder whatever I was wearing as soon as I get home. Same with cigarette smoke.

And yeah, if it's a cologne, or a cleaner, or a laundry detergent, or deodorant, or soap, or lotion, or candle, or air freshener, or a cigar, or a pipe with cherry tobacco, or anything that even remotely reminds me of a former abuser or abusive environment, it takes quite a while to recover from that. Smelling the flesh and organs of animals cooking sends me for many loops, too, but try to dodge that particular aroma when venturing out into public. Fat chance of avoiding it.

The aromatherapy from the essential oils have worked better than I anticipated in helping me become and stay grounded when I have to venture out.

Looking forward to introducing the flower essence energies into my days. I make sure to read about them, watch instructional videos about them, and try to directly consult with others who are experienced before deciding to harvest and use them. I'd rather not be found laid out in the yard after sampling something I know absolutely nothing about. lol

Not expecting miracles, just hoping to raise a few of my vibrations in addition to the other healing modalities I explore within my days, most especially when the energies seem to be damned and determined to hang in the ditch. Energy flows where a-tension goes and everything is energy.

I was amazed at how simple the process was to make the essences. And I double checked with my local acquaintance who makes them to ensure I was doing the steps correctly. Much fewer steps/time involved than when I made tinctures, that's for sure.

I used to feel if something was that easy to make/obtain/learn, there's no way it could be effective, after all, it must have skipped those industry/alphabet agency recommended processes and such required to be deemed acceptable by the standards I'd been taught to observe and obey. That is until I directly and repeatedly learned that, for myself, keeping things simple, as nature intended, is often the best solution within itself. lol

My sensitivities, especially smell and taste, have greatly increased as I've transitioned to healthier/cleaner choices overall, and doing so has created hell in many ways throughout the transitioning. But the experience has also presented golden opportunities to learn more facts about how we're pretty much slowly poisoned our whole lives but are encouraged to accept and label it as other things, unfortunately.

Figuring out how to best work around the massive toxicity by making my own hygiene products, my own cleaning products, my own meals, my own laundry detergent, my own fabric softeners, my own body scents, toothpaste, tinctures, and now flower essences, etc. became my best possible route for relief after I was forced to resign from my salaried position of 13 years in hopes of saving what I had left of my health.

Otherwise, I'm certain I'd be even more miserable as I can't afford the outrageous prices on much of the highly marketed mass produced supposedly "cleaner" stuff. Those skills also help me out greatly when it comes to bartering with others who have skills I haven't yet acquired. Win/win, for sure.

Stock bottles of dogwood essence, lilac essence, and buttercup essence are now prepped and ready. Sipping on the leftover waters with my morning herbal infusion. That lilac water is my favorite, by far. Mmmmmm................

Pseudo effects that feel this good can't be all bad, in my opinion. If nothing else, they often seem to create a healing momentum for me that nothing else has been able to create. I'll take it. Grateful for the wise ones who've been there, done that, and so generously and kindly help in my experimentation.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

It's been several months of me making/trying my various essences and such and I'm still standing. lol My super duper shitty days aren't as frequent, but they still make appearances, as I expect they always will in this human existence, no matter how many remedies/methods I manage to decipher and try within my own biology. What goes up must come down, even moods.

I feel the rituals of what we do in seeking relief can be equally, if not sometimes perhaps even more, therapeutic as the substance/method itself in more cases than we may realize. It's a connection that was sorely lacking in the previous mainstream attempts I tried. The more connected to the earth it is, and the more connected to the process I am, the more connected I feel to self. I don't recall feeling that before, or even having it be discussed as an option. Without the safe space and added security of a husband who fully supports me in my endeavors, I have no idea how things would be going down.

It's hard to gauge exactly what feels what, or what fuels what at times, but it isn't hard to gauge the feeling of being grounded while researching, preparing, wild crafting, making time to purposefully include it in my day, giving thanks for the abundance that surrounds in many ways, and giving myself permission to benefit from all of the above. Whereas I used to fight it tooth and nail, remaining fully convinced only someone else was smart enough and capable enough to help me, I certainly wasn't anywhere close to being "qualified" enough to do look after myself beyond a certain level. It seems many benefit in various ways by keeping us stuck in that mindset.

Learning to be my own "self-health expert" seems to have paid off more than most of my other endeavors, thus far. The prognosis remains very much the same, I'm still going to die, as it's the main side effect of being born. I just hope to be able to continue to live a bit more comfortably than I originally anticipated in my former state of being. Connecting self with nature, unlearning, re-learning, and paying it forward. My recipe for feeling and healing, give or take a few ingredients here and there. May we all find our own special recipes.