therapy using dew drops from wild plants, shrubs and flowers
After the British doctor and therapist Edward Bach (Moseley, Birmingham 1886, Mount Vernon, Oxfordshire 1936).
Bach was the son of a copper founder and initially worked in his father's business. In 1912 he graduated as a medical doctor in London. During the First World War he became overworked and collapsed. His doctor gave him three months to live.
He recovered and his friends were amazed to see him still alive. That experience was decisive for his later life.
From 1919 he worked as a bacteriologist at the London Homeopathic Hospital, where he became acquainted with Hahnemann's Organon, a standard work of homeopathy. At the same time he had a thriving private practice in Harley Street.
After 1928 he sought to expand homeopathic dilutions in the plant world. He believed that many diseases could be reduced to a state of disharmony that he could undo with dilutions from plant dew.
He left London to better search for the right plants in the countryside. In 1934 he settled in Mount Vernon in Oxfordshire, where the Bach Center is still located today, and found the last nineteen of a series of thirty-eight plants he needed.
He explained his findings in Heal Thyself.
He emphasized that physical symptoms of illness were not primarily a consequence of physical causes, but rather could be traced back to 'states of the mind' that stood in the way of a normal feeling of happiness. The list of remedies includes, for example, olive blossoms: 'for mental or physical exhaustion, infatuation'. Or: 'horse chestnut: thoughts keep running, not in the here and now'.
Bach believed that the healing of the sick should not remain in the hands of doctors and trained some laymen. In 1936, shortly before his death, he came into conflict with the Order of Physicians.
Because he saw the plant water in his bottles mainly as an 'energy carrier' and his method takes place at 'energetic levels', his method has always aroused a lot of skepticism in mainstream medicine.
English 
Nederlands