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Borage Flower Remedy

Homeopathic flower remedies are taken to relieve a variety of conditions, most especially emotional ones. Borage flower remedies, or its essence, can be found at most health food stores that carry homeopathic remedies and flower remedies, including the Bach flower remedies. Borage flower essence is typically taken in liquid form, in which you take two drops on the tongue up to four times a day.

  1. About Borage Flower Essence

    • For those trying homeopathic remedies, the borage flower remedy (essence) has a reputation for helping a person improve his outlook on life. Borage is purported to work with heart issues, emotionally speaking. It can provide courage and strength of character. It is taken to lift one's spirit. As such, it helps ease or lift a heavy heart. In lifting heart-felt burdens, it brings a sense of overall lightness. It is used in many homeopathic formulas as an uplifting element.

      The typical person who might try borage flowers as a homeopathic treatment is one who fears failure. This same person might also tend to assume all responsibility in given situations, leading him to resent his role in life.

    About Borage Flowers

    • The borage flower flourishes as a weed in many areas of the United States and Europe. It is recognizable by bright blue, star-shaped flowers and prickly white hairs. Borage thrives in ordinary soil and can easily be grown from seeds.

      The use of the borage plant goes back to ancient times when the Greek naturalist Pliny wrote that the use of borage makes a man merry and joyful. In the first century, Greek physicians used borage to purge melancholy and quiet lunatics.

    Borage's Constituents

    • According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, borage flowers contain macronutrients including fiber, carbohydrates, fats, protein, glucose, galactose and gamma-linolenic acid, which is an essential fatty acid. Borage also contains ascorbic acid (or vitamin C), beta carotene (in the form of pro-vitamin A), thiamine (elements of the B complex), niacin, choline and riboflavin. It also has some minerals, including calcium, iron, magnesium, cobalt, potassium, phosphorus, sodium and zinc. It also contains other plant compounds including tannin, allantoin, mucilage, lactic acid, malic acid and rosmarinic acid.

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