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F.A.Q.

Five Flower Formula comprises:

Star of Bethlehem: for trauma and shock
Clematis: for tendency to 'pass out', unconsciousness, being ' far away'
Cherry Plum: fear of mind giving way, verge of breakdown, anger
Impatiens: for irritability, tension and fidgety
Rock Rose: for frozen terror and panic

Agrimony for those who hide worries behind a brave face

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Aspen for vague apprehension or fear for no known reason

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Beech critical and intolerant of others; fussiness

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Centaury kind, quiet, gentle, but weak-willed; dominated or exploited

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Cerato for those who doubt their own judgement; easily led and misguided

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Cherry Plum for fear of losing control; uncontrollable irrational thoughts

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Chestnut Bud failing to learn from life; repeating mistakes

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Chicory demanding, possessive, self-pity, self-love

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Clematis inattentive, dreamy, absent-minded

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Crab Apple feeling unclean, self-disgust, small things out of proportion

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Elm normally capable, but temporarily overwhelmed with responsibility or feelings of inadequacy

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Gentian discouragement, doubt, despondency

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Gorse for pessimism, defeatism, "what's the point"

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Heather talkative, over-concerned with self

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Holly jealousy, suspicion, revenge, anger, hatred

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Honeysuckle living in the past, nostalgic

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Hornbeam feels weary and thinks can't cope; Monday-morning feeling; procrastination

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Impatiens impatience, irritability, tenseness

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Larch lacks confidence and the will to succeed; expects failure

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Mimulus fear of known things, such as spiders, heights, nervous, shy

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Mustard gloom descends for no apparent reason

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Oak persevering, never giving in; strong but no longer able to struggle against adversity

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Olive fatigued, exhausted, totally drained mentally and physically

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Pine blames self, even for mistakes of others; self critical; overly apologetic

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Red Chestnut obsessed by care and concern for others; anticipating misfortune; projects worry

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Rock Rose feeling alarmed, intensely scared, panicky

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Rock Water rigid minded, self-denying; overly puristic

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Scleranthus uncertain and indecisive

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Star of Bethlehem emergency essence for the effects of fright following bad news or accident; for grief

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Sweet Chestnut utter dejection; feeling of unendurable desolation

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Vervain insistent, wilful, fervent, over-enthusiastic

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Vine dominating, demands obedience, tyrannical

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Walnut assists in adjustment to change, e.g. bereavement, divorce, new job, new surroundings; the link breaker

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Water Violet withdrawn, reserved, aloof, seeks own company

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

White Chestnut persistent unwanted thoughts; preoccupation with a worry; mental turmoil

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Wild Oat

lack of direction, unfulfilled; drifting

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Wild Rose resignation, apathy; no point to life

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Willow resentful, embitterment, life is unfair, "poor old me"

10ml stock bottle

£3.50

Complete set of 39 x 10ml remedies

£112.00

Five Flower Remedy - Dr Bach's Rescue Remedy

10ml - £3.50 or 30ml - £6.99

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Five Flower Rescue Remedy Cream

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30g - £3.65

Empty 30ml 'treatment bottle' with pipette

30ml - 99p

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Agrimony for those who hide worries behind a brave face

Agrimony are jovial, cheerful, humorous people who love peace and are distressed by argument or quarrel, to avoid which they will agree to give up much. Though generally they have troubles and are tormented and restless and worried in mind or in body, they hide their cares behind their humour and jesting and are considered very good friends to know. They often take alcohol or drugs in excess, to stimulate themselves and help themselves bear their trials with cheerfulness.

Positive aspects of Agrimony Bach Flower Remedy

Agrimony is given to help Agrimony people to accept and come to terms with the darker side of life and their own personalities, so that they can become more rounded human beings. They will not lose their sense of humour, but they will laugh at their troubles to dispel them, rather than laughing to hide them. As a mood remedy, Agrimony helps anyone who is trying not to face a trouble and using jokes and witticisms and smiles to avoid a painful reality.

Aspen for vague apprehension or fear for no known reason.

Aspen is for vague fears of unknown origin, for which there can be no explanation, no reason. Yet the person may be terrified of something terrible going to happen, he knows not what. These vague unexplainable fears may haunt by night or day. A typical need for Aspen is on waking in fear from a bad dream, even if the dream itself is forgotten. Sufferers are often afraid to tell their trouble to others.

Positive aspects of Aspen Bach Flower Essence

Helps towards an inner peace, security and fearlessness.

Beech critical and intolerant of others; fussiness

Beech people are constantly making criticism, intolerant of other people's shortcomings and unable to make allowances. They are easily irritated by other people's mannerisms or habits. They are convinced that they are always in the right and everyone else in the wrong.

Positive aspects of Beech Bach Flower Remedy

Helps to encourage tolerance and understanding, and as this happens so the irritability also fades - it helps you to see the good in others despite their imperfections.

Centaury kind, quiet, gentle, but weak-willed; dominated or exploited

Centaury is for people who find it difficult to say 'no' to other people. They are kind, gentle souls and like to be of help to others. But sometimes other more ruthless people will take advantage of this, and instead of willing service the Centaury ends up the slave of another's wishes.

Positive aspects of Centaury Bach Flower Essence

Centaury supports the development of courage and self-determination so that you can better draw the line and make space where you can be yourself, free of the desires and commands of others.

Cherry Plum for fear of losing control; uncontrollable irrational thoughts

The Cherry Plum fear is very specific: it is the fear that one is going to lose control of oneself and do something dreadful, which can include injuring others and suicide. Cherry Plum is also the remedy for the loss of control when it has in fact already taken place, and for the frantic fear and dread associated with loss of control. (Think of the fear of a small child in a screaming, irrational rage.) Fears of going mad and of acting irrationally are Cherry Plum fears.

Positive aspects of Cherry Plum Bach Flower Essence

Cherry Plum helps you to find an inner balance so that you can think and act rationally. Cherry Plum is one of the ingredients of Rescue Remedy.

Chestnut Bud failing to learn from life; repeating mistakes

Chestnut Bud is for people who make the same mistakes over and over - for example, taking a succession of identical office jobs and being surprised to find each one unfulfilling. In other cases, they see others making a mistake and the results that arise, but then fail to apply this lesson to their own lives and go right ahead and make the same mistake themselves.

Positive aspects of Chestnut Bud Bach Flower Remedy

Chestnut Bud is the remedy to help you learn from the past and then move on to genuinely new experiences.

Chicory demanding, possessive, self-pity, self-love

Chicory people are full of love and care for their families and friends. But they expect to receive back all the love they give, with interest, and feel slighted and unnecessarily hurt if they don't get what they expect. Also, their great love can lead them to hold onto their loved ones and try to keep them dependent and close to hand. This can stifle the development of other personalities, or simply drive them away.

Positive aspects of Chicory Bach Flower Essence

Chicory helps you to be less selfish and be able to offer genuine love - love given unconditionally and in freedom.

Clematis inattentive, dreamy, absent-minded

Clematis is for people whose minds drift away from the present into fantasies of the future, or into alternative versions of the present. Often their dreams are of great future success, creative endeavour and achievement, but the danger for people in this state is that their dreams will remain fantasies because the Clematis person is not sufficiently anchored in reality to make them happen.

Positive aspects of Clematis Bach Flower Remedy

Clematis helps you to come back to earth and back to yourself so that you can build castles in life instead of in the air. It helps you gain a more lively interest in the world around you, and in life. Clematis is one of the ingredients in Rescue Remedy, where it is used to help the fuzzy, light-headed feeling that can come at times of emergency.

Crab Apple feeling unclean, self-disgust, small things out of proportion

Crab Apple is known as the cleansing remedy. Its main use is to help people who feel that they have something unclean or poisonous about them, or who dislike some aspect of their appearance or personality. Sometimes there might be very real things wrong with someone in this state, but they will disregard the big problems and concentrate obsessively on the one thing that they have fixed on.

Positive aspects of Crab Apple Bach Flower Essence

Crab Apple helps you look at yourself without unrealistic critique and helps you to cleanse obsessive, repetitive behaviour such as hand-washing, re-checking that appliances are unplugged, and so on. Being a cleanser, this remedy purifies wounds if you have reason to believe that some poison has entered which must be drawn out.

Elm normally capable, but temporarily overwhelmed with responsibility or feelings of inadequacy

Elm is the remedy for people suffering a temporary loss of self-confidence due to the overwhelming amount of responsibility they have taken on. Genuine Elm types are people who are successful and carrying out work that they believe in, but at times feel the weight of the charge on them and become depressed and concerned that they will not be able to go on.

Positive aspects of Elm Bach Flower Remedy

Elm helps you to dispel these feelings so that you can resume your life without thought of failure. It helps you approach life one step at a time.

Gentian discouragement, doubt, despondency

Gentian is the remedy for the relatively mild downheartedness and despondency that follows when something has gone wrong. As soon as things start to go right again this kind of despondency tends to lift by itself, but the remedy can be used to lift it the sooner so that the person is better able to make things go right, instead of just hoping they will do so.

Positive aspects of Gentian Bach Flower Essence

Gentian helps lift your spirits so that you can see that there is no such thing as failure when one is doing one's best.

Gorse for pessimism, defeatism, "what's the point"

Gorse is the remedy for people who have given up belief that there is any hope for them. It is a far stronger kind of downheartedness than the Gentian state, because Gorse people almost wilfully refuse to be encouraged, so certain are they that their case is hopeless. If ill, they make think of themselves as incurable, or say that they inherited this or that from their families so that nothing can be done for them.

Positive aspects of Gorse Bach Flower Remedy

Gorse helps you get a sense of faith and hope, a feeling that your life will be renewed and helps you go forward with a surer step.

Heather talkative, overconcerned with self

Heather is for people who are obsessed with themselves, but who do not like to be alone. Dr Bach called them 'buttonholers' because they do anything to keep people with them, all the time talking at exhaustive length about their problems and illnesses, great and small, until people begin actively to avoid them. Thus the thing Heather people fear - loneliness - is brought about because of their own behaviour.

Positive aspects of Heather Bach Flower Essence

Heather helps you see your own concerns in the context of other people's. You even may become a good listener as a result and great support for others.

Holly jealousy, suspicion, revenge, anger, hatred

Holly is often thought of as the remedy for anger - but this isn't necessarily the case. Where Holly is for anger, it will be because the anger is based specifically on hatred, suspicion, envy or jealousy. But in other cases other remedies would be needed, such as Impatiens when anger is due to impatience, Vervain where it is caused by a sense of injustice, or Chicory where the angry person feels snubbed and hurt by ingratitude in others. Holly is for very negative, aggressive feelings directed at others.

Positive aspects of Holly Bach Flower Remedy

Holly helps overcome the feeling of an absence of love, and the remedy works to encourage generosity of spirit and openness towards others feeling compassion, love and inner harmony within yourself.

Honeysuckle living in the past, nostalgic

Honeysuckle is for people who live in the past instead of the present. They feel that their best days are behind them and that there is little to look forward to, and as a consequence they prefer to dwell on past happiness (or past misfortunes). Homesickness and nostalgia are also Honeysuckle states.

Positive aspects of Honeysuckle Bach Flower Essence

Honeysuckle helps you move forward and to live in the present without needing the re-live the past. It helps you take joy from today and tomorrow.

Hornbeam feels weary and thinks can't cope; Monday-morning feeling; procrastination

Hornbeam is used against feelings of exhaustion and tiredness that come before an effort has been made. The person in this state feels that he or she is too tired to cope with the demands of the day. It's easier to stay in bed or put off making a start -but if an effort can be made to get started the weariness will fade, a sign that unlike the Olive state this is a mental rather than a physical weariness.

Positive aspects of Hornbeam Bach Flower Remedy

Hornbeam helps you shake off that 'Monday-morning feeling' and strengthen your mind and body for the work ahead.

Impatiens impatience, irritability, tenseness

Impatiens is for impatience, frustration and irritability caused by impatience. Anyone can get into this state of mind, but there are also genuine Impatiens types, who live life at a rush and hate being held back by more methodical people. To avoid this irritation they try if possible to work alone.

Positive aspects of Impatiens Bach Flower Essence

Impatiens helps you feel and be less hasty and more relaxed and patient with others. It is also used to help calm agitated thoughts and feelings.

Larch lacks confidence and the will to succeed; expects failure

Larch is the remedy for people who feel that they are not as good as others and that they are bound to fail. They lack confidence in their ability to succeed and so often do not even bother trying. (Distinguish from Elm people, where it is the desire to take on too much that causes the temporary doubt.)

Positive aspects of Larch Bach Flower Remedy

Larch helps you to go ahead regardless of thoughts of success and failure and helps you regain a realistic sense of self esteem and confidence.

Mimulus fear of known things, such as spiders, heights, nervous, shy

Mimulus is the remedy for known fears. In other words, whenever you are frightened of something or you are anxious about something, and you can say what that something is, then Mimulus is the remedy to take. Mimulus fears are everyday fears - fear of public speaking, of the dark, of aggressive dogs, or of illness or pain. Phobias such as the fear of spiders or of birds are also Mimulus fears, since the cause of the fear can be named. Where is the phobia is very great so that the sight of a spider for example causes sheer terror, then Rock Rose might be given as well as or instead of Mimulus. And when you feel general anxiety and apprehension without a specific known cause, then Aspen is the remedy to consider.

Positive aspects of Mimulus Bach Flower Essence

Mimulus helps you find your own quiet courage and strength that lies hidden inside of you, so that you can face the everyday trials of life with steadfastness.

Mustard gloom descends for no apparent reason

Mustard is the remedy for deep gloom and depression that descends for no apparent reason out of a clear blue sky. People in this state often list all the reasons they have to feel happy and contented, but still everything looks black and hopeless to them.

Positive aspects of Mustard Bach Flower Remedy

Mustard helps to dispel the clouds so that you can once again find joy and peace in life.

Oak persevering, never giving in; strong but no longer able to struggle against adversity

Oak is the remedy for strong, steady people who never give up under adversity. Instead they plod on with determination, and never consider resting until they are past the point of exhaustion. Because they are so steady they often have many people relying on them, and their sense of duty is strong, so that they can feel frustrated and unhappy if illness or exhaustion get in the way of discharging duties. So much is positive about the Oak person, but the negative side is the stubborn refusal to rest or sit back when the need for rest is obvious to all around.

Positive aspects of Oak Bach Flower Essence

Oak helps you remain strong in adversity and not crack under the strain, so that at the same time a different wisdom is learned helping you learn when not to strive.

Olive fatigued, exhausted, totally drained mentally and physically

Olive is the remedy for tiredness and exhaustion after an effort of some kind, such as hard physical or mental labour, or the long struggle against illness. It can be usefully contrasted with Hornbeam, which is the remedy for tiredness felt even before an effort has been made.

Positive aspects of Olive Bach Flower Remedy

Olive helps to restore feelings of strength and the faith needed to continue.

Pine blames self, even for mistakes of others; self critical; overly apologetic

Pine is for people who blame themselves for something they feel they have done in the past, some neglect of a parent, some fault in themselves, something they have left undone, and for those who reproach themselves that, even though they may have been successful in their work, they should have done better. They are never content with their own efforts or the results. They also at times tend to claim responsibility for the mistakes made by others. They are perfectionists and set themselves high standards, and this may cause them to over-work and strain to do better, and when the strain becomes too much for the physical body, they blame themselves for the ensuing illness as they feel they are failing in their duty to others, to their work and the family responsibilities.

Positive aspects of Pine Bach Flower Essence

Pine helps you regain energy, vitality and pleasure in life. Helps you when you feel guilt and self-reproach so you feel content with your effort and results.

Red Chestnut obsessed by care and concern for others; anticipating misfortune; projects worry

Red chestnut is for people who feel fear for the well-being of others: the husband afraid when his wife goes out alone after dark, the mother fretting over what may happen to her child at school. Red Chestnut fears are natural, normal concerns magnified to the point where they may have a negative effect on the person who is the object of concern, destroying confidence and undermining self-belief.

Positive aspects of Red Chestnut Bach Flower Essence

Red Chestnut helps you to send out calm, unworried thoughts to your loved ones, so that you become a rock of strength on whom others lean.

Rock Rose feeling alarmed, intensely scared, panicky

Rock Rose is the remedy against terror, and as such is an important ingredient in Five Flower Remedy (Rescue Remedy). The Rock Rose state may start out as a Mimulus, Aspen or Red Chestnut state, but it is further along the path from any of these, being a panicky, terror-struck fear that makes conscious thought and decision next to impossible.

Positive aspects of Rock Rose Bach Flower Remedy

Rock Rose provides calm and courage. The self is forgotten and strength reappears.

Rock Water rigid minded, self-denying; overly puristic

Rock Water is the remedy for people who take self-repression and self-denial to extremes. They are very wrapped up in themselves, seeking always to perfect themselves in some way and setting themselves targets and being very unkind to themselves if they fail to live according to their own rules. If they seek to influence others it is not directly but by example only.

Positive aspects of Rock Water Bach Flower Essence

Rock Water helps you show more flexibility when it is necessary, and be not so hard on yourself.

Scleranthus uncertain and indecisive

Scleranthus is the remedy for people who find it difficult to make up their minds which option of two or more they ought to choose. The Scleranthus indecision commonly affects the small decisions of life, as much as the big ones. Sometimes the chronic uncertainly of the Scleranthus person manifests itself in other ways. There may be mood swings and even motion sickness: although these symptoms are not in themselves infallible guides to Scleranthus, they are signs that this is a remedy to consider.

Positive aspects of Scleranthus Bach Flower Essence

Scleranthus helps you to act more decisively and know your own mind.

Star of Bethlehem emergency essence for the effects of fright following bad news or accident; for grief

Star of Bethlehem is one of the remedies in Five Flower Essence (Rescue Remedy). It is the remedy for the after-effects of any shock, such as unexpected bad news or an unexpected and unwelcome event. And it can be used just as well for the effects of a shock received many years ago, even very early in childhood. This is also the remedy for the sense of emptiness and loss that sometimes occurs when a loved one dies or moves away, since this too can be a great shock to the system.

Positive aspects of Star of Bethlehem Bach Flower Essence

Star of Bethlehem helps with the shock of accident or bad news

Sweet Chestnut utter dejection; feeling of unendurable desolation

Sweet Chestnut is the remedy for people who have reached the limits of their endurance, who have explored all avenues but see no way out of their difficulties, and who feel that there is nothing left for them but annihilation and emptiness. Whereas people in a Gorse state have fallen into a state of hopelessness when there are actually possible solutions all around, the peson in a Sweet Chestnut state is genuinely at the end of the line: theirs is appalling, final despair.

Positive aspects of Sweet Chestnut Bach Flower Essence

Sweet Chestnut helps you to remain a master of your life and helps renew your hope and strength. And sometimes a way out may open even at this stage of life.

Vervain insistent, willful, fervent, over-enthusiastic

Vervain people are perfectionists with a keen sense of justice and extreme mental energy that they willingly throw behind those causes that they believe in. Their enthusiasm can be infectious, and they feel a strong need to persuade others to their own point of view. At an extreme Vervain people can become fanatics, unable to listen to alternative points of view, and they may put themselves under a great deal of stress because they find it so hard to switch off and relax.

Positive aspects of Vervain Bach Flower Remedy

Vervain helps you to pull back from time to time so that body and mind can be restored. It encourages the wisdom to enjoy life and the passage of time instead of always feeling the need to be active.

Vine dominating, demands obedience, tyrannical

Vine is for people who know their own minds and think they know what is best for others. They are mentally strong and enjoy the exercise of power, but in their negative states this can lead them to dominate others by force alone. Tyrannical fathers and overbearing bosses are typical negative Vines, in that they will expect absolute obedience from others and will not be overly concerned with winning hearts and minds as long as their orders are followed. In this respect they are very different from Vervain people, who will attempt to convert others to their way of thinking: Vines are content with the simple imposition of discipline.

Positive aspects of Vine Bach Flower Essence

Vine helps make wise, gentle and loving guides who can inspire and lead others without resorting to force. The remedy is given to encourage this positive side of the Vine nature.

Walnut assists in adjustment to change, e.g. bereavement, divorce, new job, new surroundings; the link breaker

Walnut is the remedy to help to protect against outside influences in general, and against the effects of change in particular. Walnut types are people who are fulfilling their purpose in life but who under the influence of the opinions, theories or beliefs of others, or of external circumstances in general, may be led to doubt their path. They are not like Cerato people, who actively seek out the opinions of others, but instead may be affected almost despite themselves.

Positive aspects of Walnut Bach Flower Remedy

Walnut is useful at all the transitions of life, from being born to teething to going to school to puberty to marriage to childbearing to retirement and beyond. It helps to break links with the past so that the person can move forward with confidence and without undue suffering.

Water Violet withdrawn, reserved, aloof, seeks own company

Water Violet is the remedy for those talented, capable people whose independence and self-reliance can make them seem to be proud and disdainful of others. True Water Violet people are quiet and dignified and prefer their own company or that of a few close friends, but where their natural reserve has built a barrier between them and others they may actually become lonely and be unable to make contact with others.

Positive aspects of Water Violet Bach Flower Essence

Water Violet helps bring you back into balance.

White Chestnut persistent unwanted thoughts; preoccupation with a worry; mental turmoil

White Chestnut is the remedy for unwanted thoughts, worries and mental arguments, which intrude into the mind and stop people from concentrating on things that they should be doing. White Chestnut thoughts are repetitive and go nowhere, simply circling round and round in the head like a stuck gramophone record.

Positive aspects of White Chestnut Bach Flower Remedy

White Chestnut is used to help people control their thoughts again so that they can deal calmly and rationally with any underlying problems that might be causing the trouble.

Wild Oat lack of direction, unfulfilled; drifting

Wild Oat is the remedy for people who feel that they want to do something worthwhile with their lives but do not know in which direction they should move. So instead they drift from occupation to occupation, but without finding their true path, which leads in turn to feelings of frustration and consequent depression. This state of indecision is not like the Scleranthus one, because in the case of Scleranthus the path itself isn't in doubt, but rather the different ways of following it: the different options are known. Wild Oat people do not know what their options are because their goals are not defined.

Positive aspects of Wild Oat Bach Flower Essence

Wild Oat helps people to find their true role, putting them back in touch with their own basic purpose in life so that the way ahead seems obvious.

Wild Rose resignation, apathy; no point to life

Wild Rose is for people who have accepted all that life throws at them and have given up the struggle for fulfilment. Instead they have resigned themselves to the way things are, to the extent where they don't even complain or seem particularly unhappy. Instead they shrug their shoulders - there's no point complaining or trying to change - and seem happy just to drift through life.

Positive aspects of Wild Rose Bach Flower Remedy

Wild Rose is given to reawaken interest in life. The positive Wild Rose person will still be a happy-go-lucky type, but instead of apathy will feel a sense of purpose that will bring increased happiness and enjoyment.

Willow resentful, embitterment; life is unfair; "poor old me"

Willow is for people who feel resentful and bitter about the way their lives have gone. They begrudge their successes and happiness, and are reluctant to admit when their own lives go well, preferring to concentrate on what is going wrong. Willow people are grumblers, and when ill make bad patients because they are never satisfied with what is done for them. Willow can be compared to Holly in that it too is a negative state directed towards others. But where Holly burns with hatred and suspicion, Willow smoulders with resentment and self-pity.

Positive aspects of Willow Bach Flower Remedy

Willow is given to encourage the rebirth of optimism and faith, and to help the person in the negative Willow state to be more generous in praise of others and also more aware of how his own negative thinking can attract the very ill-fortune that he blames on others.

Five Flower Rescue Remedy & Rescue Remedy Cream

Five Flower Rescue Remedy is probably the one you'll use most often. It's a combination of Bach Flower Essences that is specially beneficial when you find yourself in a traumatic situation, e.g.

stress
emergencies
after getting bad news
before an exam
before a job interview
moving house
dentist
children's temper tantrums
pregnant women in labour
before bed if feeling stressed

Rescue Remedy comprises:

Star of Bethlehem: for trauma and shock
Clematis: for tendency to 'pass out', unconsciousness, being ' far away'
Cherry Plum: fear of mind giving way, verge of breakdown, anger
Impatiens: for irritability, tension and fidgety
Rock Rose: for frozen terror and panic