SLIMBRIDGE DOWSING GROUP REPORTS

Our 12th March Meeting began in a most unusual way when Daphne Adams, our Speaker, passed round a bottle of Bach's Rescue Remedy for everyone to take 4 drops on the tongue and get themselves in a receptive mood. She described how Dr Bach, a medical practitioner in Birmingham, became disillusioned with conventional medicine and in the 1930s turned his back on his profession and went to live in a cottage with a garden in Oxfordshire.
Crab apple - one of the 38 Bach flower remedies
 
 
 

Dr Bach, a very religious man, felt drawn to natural remedies and began to experiment using the plants found growing locally. He developed 38 remedies for use in different situations and felt that a cure was effected by treating a person in two ways - the type of person they are and the situation they are currently in. Thus a treatment consists of a small bottle filled with spring water and a little brandy as a preservative, plus a teaspoonful of the relevant mixture of remedies. One bottle can last for 3 weeks as the remedy is taken as 4 drops 4 times a day. The remedies cannot be overdosed but can be under dosed and therefore not effective.

Daphne Adams, herself an accomplished dowser, astonished the meeting by saying that the remedies should not be dowsed for. Dowsing goes to the heart of the matter but the Bach Remedies treat each stage one at a time and so the Remedy needs to be changed as the situation alters.

Remedies have no side effects and can be used on animals and in conjunction with medicines prescribed by doctors. Even plants will respond to having a dose of rescue remedy!

At the conclusion of the meeting members were able to browse through some of the books written by Dr Bach.