Bach flowers for children: how does this therapy help my child?

Therapy with Bach flowers is a particularly natural and gentle method for children to create mental stability and thus prevent physical and mental illnesses. The flower essences used are remedies that are mainly obtained from flowers and wild trees or bushes from England. For the production we still rely on the method developed by Dr. Bach, which collects the required essences in a particularly gentle way.

What is special about Bach flower therapy?

The inventor of the Bach flower therapy, the British doctor Edward Bach, attached great importance to the fact that not only the physical symptoms of an illness are taken into account, but also the emotional state on which they are based. It is therefore not only important to combat the effects of a disease, but also to identify and improve the psychological state of the patient.

dr Bach recognized that people lose the strength they need to defend themselves against harmful external influences when they are mentally unbalanced. In order to restore or maintain this balance, he made essences from flowers that corresponded to very specific emotional states.

What moods do Bach flowers for children help with?

A specific flower essence is used to influence the appropriate behavioral pattern. For example, psychosomatic illnesses can also be cured: With the therapy from Bach flowers, mental complaints such as anxiety are treated, so that the mental balance is restored and physical side effects such as stomach cramps or nausea disappear. Some of the Bach flowers also help children overcome emotional states that arise relatively suddenly, such as exhaustion. However, long-lasting conditions such as a lack of self-confidence can also be treated with Bach flower therapy. Since children are still in a development phase, treatment with Bach flowers is particularly effective.

These Bach flowers can help your child mentally:

• Mimulus: for anxiety states
• Olive: when exhausted
• Larch: with a lack of self-confidence
• Clematis: for lack of concentration and listlessness
• Gentian: with a lack of stamina

Where else can you use Bach flowers for children?

• For injuries or mental shock experiences
• For illnesses such as coughs, colds or infections
• For chronic diseases such as asthma or neurodermatitis
• To promote healthy psychological development
• If your child behaves abnormally

How are children treated with Bach flowers?

The dose for children in a therapy with Bach flowers is four times four drops of the flower essence daily. You can buy the essences in the pharmacy. In children, the Bach flowers can take effect after just a few hours or days. If you cannot find any success with a certain essence, ask a homeopathic pediatrician or a naturopath for advice. There are no known side effects of Bach flowers.

You should consider this when treating with Bach flowers:

• The characteristics of children can only be weakened by therapy with Bach flowers, but not radically changed. A fundamental change in the character of the children is not possible and also not wanted.
• The choice of Bach flowers must be based on the behavior of the children.
• Children shouldn’t feel like they need to take medication because they aren’t considered “normal.”
• Examine yourself: Can you possibly relate the unusual behavior of your children to your own? If so, you urgently need to change something in your behavior.

Important: If your children have a serious illness, the Bach flowers are not a substitute for a doctor!

Mixtures of Bach flowers for children

Here you will find mixtures of Bach flowers that help your child to fall asleep better or to become calmer and more patient. You can have the mixtures put together in the pharmacy.

You can use this Bach flower mixture if your baby sleeps poorly at night and cries a lot:

• Aspen: against the fear of the dark
• Beech: relieves the current situation
• Mimulus: against the fear of being alone
• Rock Rose: against feelings of panic
• Star of Bethlehem: comforts and improves the processing of shock experiences

This Bach flower mix is ​​for kids who are defiant:

• Beech: improves ability to endure frustration
• Holly: reduces aggressive feelings
• Impatiens: against restlessness and impatience
• Vervain: against the need to convince everyone
• Vine: against the effort to always enforce one’s own will