To be honest, I was not sure I should simply tag this on to my blog on homeopathy but decided that a separate entry - however short - would be required to make sure that people are aware of this other hocus pocus pile of horses do do's that is, in fact, just homeopathy under another name. Thanks to Wikipedia you can read the entry there about Bach flower 'remedies' and see for yourself; Wikipeida are kind enough to describe this as 'pseudo science' but, frankly, it's just complete nonsense with no evidence whatsoever to back it up.
In common with so much of this pseudo science, Bach flower remedies cure almost everything; the list from the top webpage about them is over 50 items long and it includes epilepsy in dogs, anxiety in horses and aggression in cats! For us humans there is almost nothing this miracle cure does not tackle: lovesickness, lack of desire and fear of flying. If you don't believe me; look all this up.
Of course, Bach flower remedies are '100% safe' with 'no known side effects'. It is hard to believe that anything is 100% safe - in fact, this is impossible; probability does not work that way. Surely, there is the outside chance that you could choke to death while drinking one. As for no side effects - discounting 'not getting better' as a side effect - this again is an impossible claim. If something works on a system of the body then there will be an effect (or none in the case of Bach flower remedies) and some concomitant side effects. Bach's adherents seem to have found the miracle cure with the widest therapeutic index in the world. Well, naturally, they have no side effects (or effects) as there is nothing there. This is another serially diluted - beyond Avogadro's number - quack 'cure' which purports to have memory or 'vibrations' of what the flower from which the 'solution' (100% water) purported to do...again 'nothing'.
If you want a good laugh...read on and I copy verbatim from Wikipedia as I could not possibly make this any funnier, under 'Philosophy' it explains:
Bach derived his solutions intuitively and based on his perceived psychic connections to the plants, rather than using research based on scientific methods. If Bach felt a negative emotion, he would hold his hand over different plants, and if one alleviated the emotion, he would ascribe the power to heal that emotional problem to that plant. He imagined that early-morning sunlight passing through dew-drops on flower petals transferred the healing power of the flower onto the water, so he would collect the dew drops from the plants and preserve the dew with an equal amount of brandy to produce a mother tincture which would be further diluted before use. Later, he found that the amount of dew he could collect was not sufficient, so he would suspend flowers in spring water and allow the sun's rays to pass through them. If this was impractical because of lack of sunlight or other reasons, he wrote that the flowers may be boiled. The result of this process Bach termed the "mother tincture", which is then further diluted before sale or use (references removed).
If wonder if there is a Bach flower remedy for uncontrollable laughter?
