The Art & Technique of Using Flower Essences [Paperback]

Cynthia Athina Kemp Scherer (Author)

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• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Desert Alchemy Editions (May 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 096599001X
• ISBN-13: 978-0965990011
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #874,388 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific book on flower essences, December 14, 2006

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I've studied flower essences for over ten years. I am giving this book five stars. For anyone thinking of becoming a flower essence practitioner, this is a ~MUST HAVE~ book. This book would also benefit anyone giving flower essences to self, family, friends or animals informally. This book is the most intuitive of the many that I own. The author works with flowers of Arizona, USA (non-Bach), which is good.

BACKGROUND

Nowadays, flower essences include flowers from Canada and USA in North America (Northern California, deserts of Arizona and New Mexico, Hawaii, Alaska, Florida); Scotland; Australia bush; New Zealand; South Africa; South America; Central America; much more than Bach's first 39. Bach died young in 1936, leaving his work unfinished, and many people in the last 70 years have taken up where he left off, expanding on the number and quality of essences (depending on where on the planet the flowers are indigenous).

Frankly, books on Bach's first 39 flower essences are so ubiquitous that I now avoid them in favor of books covering flower essences from other parts of the world besides England. Plants of England are not the only plants in existence! I am REAL tired of books getting published involving only Bach's original 39 essences. Even though Bach "bumped into" his first 39 essences, Bach's essences are not the holy grail of flower essences! Look further afield than Bach's.