Bach flower "remedies" no longer licences.

'Alternative' - a weasel term for 'untested and unlikely to work'!

Bach is Welsh for little or small, a name my grandfather called me, he would keep doing so when I reached 5.7 .

The Bach in the remedies is pronounced batch , the Bach in Welsh is pronounced with a soft ch, so no connection

When I had an alternative guest house in the 90s, we used to get people coming to stay who were practitioners of all sorts of alternative practices.
We had quite a few who used flower remedies - I noticed when I was cleaning their rooms.
What I always used to notice was how calm they always were. And they could always relate to my autistic grandson, and he to them.

When my GS took his driving test a few years ago he asked me to get something he did not know the name of but that all his friends used when they took their test.

Turned out to be good old Bach Flower Remedies. I was surprised that young men had even heard about it.

Lol at the cat weighed down by responsibilities.

Which one could I try for lack of motivation? (Probably better known as laziness)

durhamjen, if someone has decided the remedies do not work one cannot convince them that they do. I became interested in the remedies in the seventies , my husband was away for a few weeks, our five year old started bed wetting, I took her to the GP just to have her checked , he prescribed an anti depressant for her! I took her to a Homeopath practioner - and a GP , he gave the remedies

Oh yes. Shame.

Or it could be that as Annie is Welsh, the 'bach' is just a term of affection...

Any pharmacists in the house?

I can understand how the placebo effect might work in some people - the power of suggestion "here's something for the pain" - Or the authority of the white coat.
But animals?
And as someone pointed out BFRs are recommended for emotional states (see link).
Do how do you know that the cat is feeling less despondent, weighed down by responsibility or filled with self-hatred after you've dosed it annie we would like to know what you are talking about when you say they work? Or are you just winding me up?

www.bachcentre.com/centre/remedies.htm
sorry i forgot to blue the original link:
www.nightingale-collaboration.org/news/157-bach-flower-remedies-foods-not-medicines.html

I didn't notice the name!!!!

Are you one of the family???

I did wonder about the name, or is that just coincidence? Like I said, I know they work, too.
Do you think we've managed to shut Jingle up?

Retired jingle, but never worked in medicine ,

What line of work are you in Anniebach?

mmmmmm........

durhamjen, they realy do work, I have worked with them since the eighties, I now have mothers who were given the remedies when they were in school asking for them for their children

I'm saying nothing.

For once.

As far as Bach remedies are concerned, it does not matter whether they work through the placebo effect or not so long as they work. I believe the tales of them working on dogs, cats and horses. I do not care if people think I am gullible. I know they work.
Whenever my son took exams he was always really uptight, which upset his digestive system. Bach flower remedies calmed him down. He did not care how or why they worked.

The chair of the GPC prescribing committee does not agree with you JessM. Do you know how much there is in any tablet, because I cannot find out?
Yes, Bags, I did say soluble Aspirin, but that's the form they give you, even in hospital, just in case you have stomach problems when you take the other form.

Isn't it just the effervescent tablets that contain salt? I think the ones you just swallow have a good deal less.

yes you would have to chomp down a lot of aspiring to get enough sodium to put your BP up.
How do you know they work on children and animals annie ? Do they make goats feel more motivated and chickens more chilled out?

I know exactly what I take it for, Galen. "As it's not much, you may as well carry on umtil you see the specialist, and ask him," said my GP.
However, it was the BMJ that did the study and the NHS website shows concerns. A lot of people who take Aspirin take multiple tablets.
If you have soluble paracetamol, and take the maximum daily number, you have your daily allowance of sodium in those tablets.
The NHS website suggests that doctors and pharmacists should look at the sodium content of the medication they give to people. There are usually non-sodium equivalents.

The amount of Na in an aspirin is negligible, it's the anticoagulant effect that it's given for.

Bach flowers remedies don't get away with anything jingle, if as you claim - a con, there are thousands of gullible people using the remedies , if not a con, thousands of people are helped by taking them . I don't accept the placebo effect, they work for very young children and animals

I don't know how Bach Flower "remedies" get away with it. Must be one of the biggest cons of modern times!