What are Flower Essences?

Flower essences are gentle yet powerful liquid infusions of flowers, generally taken orally from glass dropper bottles, which assist in the support and healing of emotional and spiritual imbalances, which often underlie behavior and health problems. They are inexpensive, easy to use, and have no side effects or contraindications with other medications.

For centuries, the healing properties of plants have been used in various forms to support the physical, emotional and spiritual health of humans and animals:  Herbs and herbal tinctures are typically used to support physical health, using any or all parts of plants including leaves, roots, stems and sometimes flowers. Essential oils, often utilizing our sense of smell to heal, are also created using various parts of plants. Flower essences are different from both of these in that only the flower of the plant is utilized, there is no scent, and they assist primarily with the healing of emotional and spiritual imbalances, versus the physical. They are each quite powerful in their ability to heal!

We are very fortunate to be living in a time when many hundreds of flower essences are available for our use. Though Dr. Edward Bach pioneered the use of the well known Bach flower essences in the 1930’s in England, in more recent years dozens of others have developed flower essences in various parts of the world. Because I have studied the essences from FES, Perelandra, Desert Alchemy and Bach, I tend to recommend them the most.

The flower essences that are co-created by nature and humans are called Mother Essences.  These are typically not for sale.  The flower essence bottles we buy are diluted one level down from the Mother Essences and are called stock bottles or concentrate bottles. Flower essences can be taken either directly from this stock or concentrate level, or, can be diluted one more level to what is called a dosage level.  This would include when we place drops in our animals' water bowls, or in our own water bottles. We can also place four drops each of several essences we are working with into a glass dropper bottle filled with spring water and preservative (brandy, apple cider vinegar, or vegetable glycerin).  This is called a dosage bottle.  An essence can be diluted only one level from the stock or concentrate bottle and remain effective.

Flower Essence Basics