Biography of Edward Bach

Medicine in bloom

24 September 1886 27 November 1936 Edward Bach, a Welsh doctor become known worldwide thanks to his invention called "Bach flower remedies" was born on 24 September 1886 in Moseley, a village five kilometres from Birmingham. The native land has much importance in its formation: the contact with a bucolic setting and the inherent serenity of those places you will induce a closer contact with nature. As a child becomes convinced that all things have a soul and its burning sensitivity suggests that all the talk about a subtle and mysterious language which however he captures. The decision to become a doctor takes place at the age of six. He began his studies by attending the University of Birmingham, takes a training course at the Hospital of University College London, where he graduated in 1912. Initially threw himself headlong into the hospital practice that looks very interesting and exciting, but disappointments are revealed more satisfactions. Edward Bach realizes that medical practice is mechanical and impersonal and that traditional medicine focuses more on the disease and the symptom, and the man in its complexity, which of course also includes personality and emotion. His is a view that differs from the look "mechanistically" of Western systems of care, to get closer to an understanding "holistic" man, that is inclusive of all its components, in the knowledge that they interact and influence each other. To use a slogan to easy impact one might say that Bach is the man who must be treated, not the disease. The evidence for this claim is the fact that some medications are effective for a patient and completely useless for another. As a result of these beliefs leaves the hospital surgery unit for research on bacteria (the so-called "Immunology"), an area where it will get great results. Unfortunately the strong efforts and study in the long run will affect us relations with its Constitution. In 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, Edward Bach is reformed because of its precarious physical condition. Despite this he was entrusted with the responsibility of four hundred places at the Hospital of University College, the Institute where he graduated. The sum of these responsibilities carries it in July 1917 to faint and be operated as a matter of urgency. The diagnosis: tumor with metastasis. According to doctors did not remain that three months of life. Falls into a deep depression and realizes he doesn't have the time needed to complete his research. Decided to try the highest number of research and trials possible. Absorbed by this purpose spend well over three months; the doctors who had treated do not believe their eyes: the disease declined. So it was that Bach had confirmation that a great love, a passion, a purpose in life was of paramount importance, much to stop death. The study on vaccines gave excellent results, but Bach was not satisfied so much so that some patients do not respond to treatment. He was aware of the thought of Samuel Hahnemann, creator of homeopathy and was deeply impressed, because even approached those beliefs that have long cultivated within himself. His insight was to unite the discoveries of Hahnemann with his own. In this way Bach found homeopathic vaccine called later "the seven Bach nosodes". Divided the bacteria responsible for diseases into groups and began to analyze the characteristics that accumunavano people in need of a vaccine. He discovered various psychological types and different human profiles. Then asserted that the mood causes the disease and not the other way around. Searches continued in bacteria, in power and in the psychological attitude, although by now he was certain that every disease there was a negative mood. His reputation as a doctor had crossed national boundaries and its vaccines (nosodes) have been used in both America and Germany, both by allopathic and homeopathic medicine. However, Bach continued to be unhappy with vaccines and always for the same reasons, namely that some people actually did not respond to treatment established by him. Driven by this need for completeness then sought new remedies between the plants and herbs, the obsessive search for a correlation between those institutions, the various moods and response to therapy. At the conclusion of this enormous work, Bach settled down, even with the help of tables, that the various existing types of flowers, interacting with emotionalism, riequilibravano each in his own way the mood. Flower therapy created by him is the care that via 38 flower essences solves problems of psyche, to negative moods and emotions that cause imbalance and disharmony. Indirectly flower therapy care many symptoms and diseases of the body, when these are caused by an uneasiness of the spirit (in most cases). Edward Bach died on November 27, 1936. That was the year of tuning the flower therapy, and since then the system spread throughout the world, receiving enthusiastic acclaim. The official plan, flower therapy is a therapeutic system recognized by the who since 1976.
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