In the early 1930's, fifty years before any major research on stress related disorders was done, the renowned British physician and scientist, Dr. Edward Bach began to recognize that many of his patients' ills seemed to be directly related to their various negative states of mind. For example, he noted that anxiety, worrisome thoughts, even lack of self-confidence, so deplete the individual's vitality that the body loses its natural resistance and becomes vulnerable to infections and disease. Today, current research supports these findings.

"To bring oneself back into harmony, back to balance, requires the development of a more positive loving nature." Dr. Bach said. Merely treating disease does not deal with the root cause of the problem.

Bach turned to the healing plants of Nature and eventually found thirty-eight flowering plants, which were later proven to positively alleviate a wide range of mental and emotional stresses. The Bach Remedies, as they are now called, work to gently re-establish emotional and psychological equilibrium. Considered a major breakthrough, the Bach remedies have been used worldwide for over half a century with great success by a broad spectrum of health care practitioners, including doctors, chiropractors, psychologists, and other holistically minded therapists. The remedies have been remarkably effective in alleviating tension, loneliness, fear, insecurity, jealousy, shyness, poor self-image and other emotional and psychological difficulties.