Bach flower "remedies" no longer licences.

Like consuming 4 teaspoons of brandy riverwalk .
Homeopathic drops just contain water. Neither contain anything else.

If you can't overdose on them Annie then IMO they have nothing more than a placebo effect - which is fine for those that believe.

If you're only supposed to take a few drops on the tongue to calm nerves, etc., and a poster's daughter drank the whole 20ml bottle that's 400 times the recommended dose!

Any active ingredient that can change mood i.e. act on the brain, would surely do great damage if overdosed to such an extent.

I think Bach rescue remedy works. Well it does for me

durhamjen, forget the Bach , Annie is fine

Riverwalk, quite simply because one cannot overdose , they do not build up in the body as drugs do.

Thanks, Feetlebaum. Put me in my place. Alternative to me meant you did not get bacon or pork sausages for your breakfast, and that I used environmentally friendly cleaning products,etc. It's the alternative to the normal person who does not think about the environment.
Annie, it's impossible to tell how your name is pronounced when it's just written down. I'll stop thinking of you as Anniebatch from now on.

And why can't you overdose on them Annie?

Ok.

jingle, the remedies are the same as homeopathic remedies but homeopathy can help physical illnesses , the flower remedies are for emotional states

Oops I should have read the thread title! Only read a few posts and got carried away. As you were........

I wonder if Cari is reading any of this?

I seem to recall her mentioning Bach remedies on Twitter. Favourably.

But we aren't really talking homeopathy here, are we? I don't know enough about that to comment. I do feel quite sure that a very, very tiny bit of a random flower essence in a drop or two of alcohol is not going to have any effect whatsoever.

I took my dog to be treated by a homeopathic vet. She was dying of heart failure and I was under no illusions that he could cure her. Nor did he pretend that he could. What he did was relieve her symptoms so that her last few months were happier and her symptoms were less. She died very peacefully at home, no distress, no need to be put to sleep. Maybe it was a coincidence, but I don't really care. He was an honest man and I would consult him again but much earlier next time.

My daughter's hay fever was cured for a few years by homeopathy when she was in her teens. She stopped taking the remedies, thinking she was cured, and the hay fever returned. I don't believe it was a coincidence.

Sigh - my guess is that if there was something in them, the NHS would have cottoned onto that before now. Or is that naive on my part? I do have anecdotal evidence of another remedy that really DOES work but the NHS don't seem aware of it. It's not a flower remedy but something I take for cystitis, having tried every home remedy known to woman. That's the only thing I take which is NOT prescribed though.

The only active thing in them is the alcohol. So if you drank pints of them --- but no it would be cheaper to buy a very posh bottle of wine.

Well, I'd love to know whether or not the Flower Remedies work and how. I went through a phase of consulting a medical herbalist a few years back - a friend said she could prescribe remedies which would definitely help. I asked for help with my depression/anxiety/distressing thoughts. She was a very nice woman, but what she gave me did no good at all. I blamed myself at the time! I'd have tried anything to feel better so was open to persuasion. I would STILL try (almost) anything within reason, barring trepanning and blood-letting. I suspect I'm a lost cause though.

Riverwalk

Because it is a millionth part of essence added to a few mls of alcohol perhaps

Because one cannot overdose on them Riverwalk,

She couldn't have overdosed Annie?

I wonder why that would be

Well, she couldn't have overdosed Ana and if nothing else I am sure it warmed her tummy

DD asked me to buy her some Rescue Remedy to keep her calm when she was taking her GCSEs, so I did. She came home after the first day of exams and flung the empty bottle in the bin, saying 'Well that didn't work!'

(I had told her to only put a couple of drops on her tongue, as recommended...)

There was a programme on TV once about homeopathy for animals ( not the same as Bach remedies I know). They split a herd of cows with mastitis and gave a homeopathic remedy to one half . This part of the herd recovered quickly.

Jess, they are not a panacea for all ills. As for animals , never treated one who suffered from self hate , didn't know animals suffered from self hate. They can be fearful, timid and most certainly suffer grief .

How they work, I don't know, I do know they can help with emotional problems. We are so far removed from nature really