Why Flower Essences?

Several people have curiously asked why flower essences? What is it about flowers that you would want to use the essence of a flower? Why is it that you would want to capture the magnetic signature of a flower as opposed to homeopathy where many different kinds of substances are used including various animal parts, plants, minerals and even different poisonous substances. While flowers have much symbolic meanings attached to them and have many visual and olfactory impacts on our senses, the single most important reason that Siddatech uses flower essences is: they work. How they work and the parameters of their effect have been discussed in some of our other articles. In this article we will touch upon some of the abstractions.

 

Flowers are universally acknowledged by human cultures as an object pleasing to the eye and something that is appropriate as a gift or as a sign of courtship. Many of them are wonderfully scented and have been made into an extraordinary variety of perfumes, colognes, essential oils and attars. There are dozens and dozens of edible flowers that are a delight to the palette. Flowers represent the flowering, apex or climax of a particular plant species. The complete magnetic signature of that entire plant species is contained in the flower and in the flower essences that reproduce it.

 

Flowers are part of the beauty and wonder of nature and not the harsh, unforgiving aspects of nature. On the other hand, their transitory and fleeting nature brings connotations of change and transformation. Throughout Asia flowers have been considered among the most important kind of offerings to gods, buddhas and ancestors. In Hawaii, the gift of a flower garland, or lei, is a gift of love, blessing and affection. Flower essences are derived from a part of life that has a universal human appeal and one that has always been associated with auspiciousness and fortune.
In the 1960’s Allen Ginsburg coined the phrase “flower power” to express the notion that a simple beautiful flower could be a powerful symbol for anti-war protestors. Many of the protestors took up the flower as their “weapon” of choice to be given to police and placed in the barrels of rifles. One might even say that flower essences are themselves the “power of a flower,” and correspondingly have the ability to dissolve the stresses in our lives that can make every day feel like a battle.

 

Flowers are now, and have been for thousands of years, symbols and expressions of harmony, peace, tranquility, beauty and good fortune. Their sight and smell can have a calming influence just as the scenery of nature and the sound of ocean waves can often exert a relaxing effect. The effect of flower essences likewise has a calming, balancing, relaxing impact. In the Japanese art of flower arranging, flowers are chosen with great care and consideration for not only the appearance of a given flower but for that flower in relationship to the others in a given arrangement. The specific flower essences used in a formulation determines the specific kinds of stress and tension that are dissolved and balanced.