Dr Bach was born in 1886 in England. As a child he had a love of nature and a compassion for his fellow human-beings. When he was young, he wished to heal people as Jesus had done and this desire eventually led him to become a medical doctor. He began to become disillusioned with conventional medicine because of the established methods of treating the illness mechanically and in isolation from the patient’s mental state or personality. Bach believed that the personality traits and moods of a person had a direct effect on the body and that these traits and moods were in fact at the root of all disease. His interest in finding the underlying cause of disease led him to study immunology whilst still running his practice as a GP. In 1919, he was appointed pathologist and bacteriologist at the London Homoeopathic Hospital. He continued his bacteriology work and produced the seven Bach Nosodes which were bacteria-based cures for different types of illness. Although these nosodes were for physical illness, Bach himself used to prescribe them according to the mood of the patient rather than the physical symptoms. In time, Bach felt that he wanted to replace his bacterial nosodes with natural herbs of some kind and it was this that led him to collect two plants, Mimulus and Impatiens which he prepared as both herbal and homoeopathic preparations. He later added Clematis to these preparations and he used them to replace some of the nosodes. In 1930, he made a huge leap of faith and left his practice in London to devote his time to researching the flower remedies. It was in this year that he made his first flower remedy. It is reported by Nora Weeks, his faithful assistant, that he noticed the dew on the flowers and had an insight that the water might hold the energy of the flower. This led him to pick the flowers and put them in a glass bowl filled with stream water which he then left in sunshine for a few hours. Bach used to feel certain symptoms or have particular mental feelings and he would then feel compelled to go and find the flower to combat these feelings. In this highly intuitive way he discovered in total 38 remedies over a period of six years. In the process, he discovered another way of making essences when sunshine was unavailable and in this case he boiled the plant material and used the resulting tincture for his remedies. More information on the history of the Bach Essences can be found in the book "Bach Flower Remedies for Beginners" by David F Vennells.
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