Edward Bach

Edward Bach [ ed wəd bætʃ ] (* September 24 1886 in Moseley in Birmingham, † November 27, 1936 ) was an English physician. He developed the Bach Flower Therapy, an alternative medical procedure.

Life

Bach grew up in Birmingham, studied medicine at University College Hospital in London and received his degree in Cambridge. Already at that time he held in diseases personality is more important than the disease symptoms. He worked as a surgeon and medical director of the emergency room at University College Hospital, then as an assistant in the bacteriological and immunological Department. During this time he worked on the production of car vaccines from different intestinal bacteria. He held the gut for a source of various toxins that are absorbed by the body, the cause of diseases.

In his youth Bach's love of nature and his sensitivity, intuition and powers of observation fell on plants and animals. At the age of 17 years (1903 ) he began in the brass foundry of his father working and was so familiar with social issues in the context of the prevailing working conditions, and to him thus forming alternate socio-medical issues. Primarily occupied him possible psychological causes of chronic physical diseases. In 1906 he began his medical studies.

After a serious illness he began in 1918 to work again, now at the London Homeopathic Hospital, and developed out of his car bacterial vaccines called nosodes, a homeopathic dilution of these substances. In 1920 he opened a practice in London.

In 1930 he closed his practice and devoted himself to herbal medicine. He spent the spring and summer in order to find new herbal remedies and edit, in the winter of the same year he treated patients for free with the Bach flower therapy and began to apply. His behavior was frowned upon by the medical association, but he kept his approval.

In his famous book " Heal yourself " ( Heal Thyself ), he writes: "Disease will never be cured by present materialistic methods or eradicated, for the simple reason that disease in its origin is not material. [ ... ] Disease is mainly a result of the conflict between the soul and the mind and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort. "

Edward Bach died at the age of 50 years on November 27, 1936 of heart failure. Efficacy of Bach - flower therapy has not been demonstrated in clinical trials.