Flower Essences and Herbs

When comparing flower essences to herbs, it is important to keep in mind the multi-layered aspects of the body and mind. Both flower essences and herbs, especially when they are prepared in a traditional manner, can have a soft, gentle and holistic impact. The action of herbs, however, is primarily on the chemistry of the body whereas flower essences act primarily upon the electromagnetic fields of the nervous system in order to bring balance and harmony to places of stress, tension and distortion.

The similarity between them is that their typical use has been in a natural and balanced way such that they can be incorporated into a person’s body and mind over a period of time. With both flower essences and herbs, the generation of gradual shifts in physiology or gradual shifts in the electromagnetic fields can happen in such a way that encourages balance and harmony. This is a more natural movement as opposed to the forceful push such as seen with a pharmaceutical or an isolated nutrient. There are occasions when that forceful push if levered correctly and used in a well-placed manner can be exactly what a person needs at a given point in time. Flower essences, on the other hand, can be included in your diet with nothing but upside over the long term. It is difficult to do that with other substances. Some herbs, especially the gentle adaptogenic herbs with a long history of use have double direction activity and can be incorporated into long-term daily consumption.

The remedial class of herbal substances, which are called the inferior class of herbs in some of the classic material medica, are seen as agents that fix overt difficulties that have already manifested. These are not preventative measures by any means. These are battlefield or crisis kinds of medicines that are being used to address an already compromised system. This approach to herbal medicine is perhaps the most common. Though there is often a great deal of talk about “preventative medicine” it is usually simply talk. The use of herbal remedies to repair outstanding symptoms is considered the lowest form of such medicine. It is analogous to waiting until one is thirsty to begin digging a well. This is certainly a far cry from the use of flower essences and true forms of longevity medicine.

Flower essences are excellent preventative medicine tools. As agents for the dissolution of stress and tension (which lead to a host of health challenges) flower essences are medicine that can prevent deep states of imbalance from gaining a foothold and manifesting as patterns of illness and disease. Food grade herbs that are adaptogenic and can be incorporated into the diet likewise provide the micronutrients, phytochemicals, antioxidants and other compounds that enable us to have a biochemical terrain that is more disease and stress resistant. Both flower essences and high quality herbs can be used to encourage strength and can be used to generate balance on increasingly deep levels of mind and body, such that one can really develop structural integrity that grows, develops and persists over time.