List of Bach Flower Herbal Remedies & Their Uses

The Bach Flower Remedies are a group of 38 flowers discovered in the 1920s and '30s by Edward Bach, a U.K. doctor. These remedies are thought to help improve people's emotional and mental state and are the focus of the Bach Centre, located in Oxfordshire, England. While most conventional medicine focuses on the physical state, these herbal remedies work on the emotional state of the patient. Before taking any herbal remedy, however, check with your doctor first.

Cerato

• Cerato flowers (Ceratostigma willmottianum, or Chinese plumbago) are for people who are always asking others for advice and cannot make decisions for themselves. Cerato can help the misguided make their own choices in life.

Cherry Plum

• The cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera) is for those who have the impulse to do things they know are wrong. This can stem from being fearful or from having an over-strained mind. The cherry plum remedy is said to release people from potentially doing the things they dread.

Chicory

• Chicory (Cichorium spp.) is for those who feel their friends and family should not only hear them but who want to have things put right. They are "over-full" of care for their loved ones. Chicory can be helpful in easing the intensity of that emotion.

Clematis

• For people who live in a dream world and are not happy with their current life or situation, clematis is a helpful Bach Flower Remedy. It grounds and motivates those who may be sick or ill with no drive to get better, or who languish in the past instead of hoping for the future.

Gentian

• Gentian is for people who, when experiencing a slight delay or roadblock in their daily lives, feel discouraged, even when there is good progress or things are going smoothly. If they are easily disheartened, gentian is the remedy designed for them.

Honeysuckle

• Honeysuckle (Lonicera spp.) is for those who stay in the past, living only in memories and events that have already occurred. They do not try for happiness today or in the future and believe their best days are past days. Honeysuckle helps pull them out of the past and into a better future.