Choosing Bach Flower Essences
Follow our step by step guide to choose your personal essence combination.
Create your own essence combniation by using either the 12-7-19 method or choose from the 7 emotional groups.
Choosing Bach Flower Essences
Follow our step by step guide to choose your personal essence combination.
Create your own essence combniation by using either the 12-7-19 method or choose from the 7 emotional groups.
Essence Selector
Use this tool to help you select the right essence or personal combination of essences you need.
Seven Emotional Groups Method
Choose the right essences for you by determining the emotional group you need. Each group is colour coded and will appear throughout
the 12-7-19 groupings shown below.
The 12-7-19 Method
Twelve Healers
The Twelve Healers are the plants that Dr Bach associated with personality types. They relate to our essential nature and are the most common starting point for selecting essences. It is useful to identify the one that best describes the kind of person you are. Several of them may seem to be relevant but one will be most appropriate. If we can find it then it becomes the focus of a combination for personal use.
Agrimony
Centaury
Cerato
Chicory
Clematis
Gentian
Impatiens
Mimulus
Rock Rose
Scleranthus
Vervain
Water Violet
Seven Helpers
The Seven Helpers are the support essences and are selected for long-term emotional states. Dr Bach found these chronic conditions often obscure a person’s true nature as it is expressed within the Twelve Healers group.
Gorse
Heather
Oak
Olive
Rock Water
Vine
Wild Oat
Second Nineteen
The Second Nineteen are the essences that reflect our emotional responses to traumatic events. They help us to develop greater inner strength and fortitude and bring out our best qualities. They are clearly focused on immediate issues.
Aspen
Beech
Cherry Plum
Chestnut Bud
Crab Apple
Elm
Holly
Honeysuckle
Hornbeam
Larch
Mustard
Pine
Red Chestnut
Star of Bethlehem
Sweet Chestnut
Walnut
White Chestnut
Wild Rose
Willow
Five Flower Remedy
The Five Flowers of Cherry Plum, Clematis, Impatiens, Rock Rose and Star of Bethlehem form the 5 Flower ® Remedy. It is used as a single essence and can be added with others to make individual Bach essence combinations.