The Flower Remedy Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Over 700 Flower Essences [Paperback]

Jeffrey Shapiro (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 10, 1999

For beginners, intermediates, and advanced flower essence buffs alike, The Flower Remedy Book addresses the single most commonly asked flower essence question: how do you know which essence(s) to take? This vital companion guide takes the mystery out of essence selection, in a comprehensive and easy to digest manner. It diffuses the sense of confusion and overwhelm one faces, with so many reputable flower essences, and essence lines, presently available. In this book, Dr. Garsen Shapiro has provided credibility and dimension to an old healing art recently rediscovered.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The Flower Remedy Book is the most comprehensive book for using flower essences presently available. People interested in flower essences finally have a book to help them be more precise in finding the correct flower remedy. Whether you are new to flower remedies or are an experienced and sophisticated user of them, this book will be a valued textbook for you."
- Dana Ullman, M.P.H.

About the Author

Jeffrey Garson Shapiro, H.D., Ph.D., earned his doctorates and a master's in Homeopathy from Curentur University in Los Angeles. He also completed a master's in Sociology and Women Studies at Brandeis University. In addition to offering private consultations in homeopathy and flower essences, Shapiro serves as the Dean and President of Curentur University, the only school in the United States authorized to offer advanced degrees in homepathy. He lives in Southern California with his wife Jennifer, a professor of Spanish Language and Literature, their son Jeremy, and their dog, Jasper.

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books (May 10, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556432968
• ISBN-13: 978-1556432965
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,570,280 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must" for the serious health care practitoner or novice, October 5, 1999

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Lila (CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Flower Remedy Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Over 700 Flower Essences (Paperback)

For beginners, intermediates, and advanced flower essence buffs alike, The Flower Remedy Book addresses the single most commonly asked flower essence question: how to know which essence(s) to take? This vital companion guide is an invaluable aid to essence selection, in a comprehensive and easy-to-digest manner. It diffuses the sense of confusion and overwhelm one faces, with so many reputable flower essences and essence lines presently available. In this book, Dr. Garsen Shapiro has provided credibility and dimension to an old healing art recently rediscovered.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A really good source book!!!, May 4, 2001

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Joyla (Michigan USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Flower Remedy Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Over 700 Flower Essences (Paperback)

This is a good book for quick references. It's good to have some practicality and clarity with essences so "everyone" can have the opportunity to use the them. If the essences are kept too confusing and too mystical then people will not want to even try the essences. If they would happen to need them, then that would be sad if it was too confusing for them to use. One thing I wish is that the author had included the list of essences with some descriptions of them, separate from the other listings. The listings that are in the book are by symptoms. Then the essences that are needed for that symptom are underneath. The essence is then described there. It's a very handy and understandable book!!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Half perfect, July 2, 2007

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L. DeRose (Furlong, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Flower Remedy Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Over 700 Flower Essences (Paperback)

I have to start with the Perfect Part; I love this book for it's indispensable qualities. There is not a better book out there that covers more and offers more insight into so many essences as Mr Sharpiro's book. I refer to it every day and it is dog eared and cross referenced and page marked; hence the SECOND part of the review, the IMPERFECT part. Such a WASTE of reference here since there is no cross reference or list of essences, even if only in an index form, so that one can at least go back after one's initial discovery work (I.E. looking up a condition to resolve), and take the list of essences possible and then cross check them, find thier suggested uses better and faster and AT ALL. See overlaps, double uses, etc etc. quicker and without having to only have the symptoms to start with. I have purchased so many more obscure essences based on the suggestions in this book, only to find then , I while I do compile large volumes of essence information from thier makers,and I do use them for remedies for what this volume suggests them for, there remains no easy look up if I were to want to re-visit the initial use or purpose for buying any one bottle. It would be so helpful, just from a practical point of view to have at lEAST included an index. This would have saved many post-its, folded page corners and piles of notes in no particular order to re examine. It would help me make use of so many essences I have on hand, also, I am sure. This is not a happy review to write since I wnat to emphasize how terrific this volume is in what it achieves and I am so grateful for it. I wish a couple other lines of essences were also included, but Mr Shapiro can't be slighted for that, but mostly I am hoping Mr Shapiro reads this and creates an index of essences at least to his second printing of this book. I will buy it immediately. It would make combination remedies simpler and less time consuming to create as well. There is one FANTASTIC part to this book; the end where actual physical symptoms and conditions are listed with remedies and I have had such great success with every one or combination I have tried, it is amazing, and leaves me wanting MORE of this genre of suggested uses for essences. I am a believer in the intuitive side of essences selection, and have seen that work wonders even alone, but a volume such as this, so full of information, is also invaluable to open and use as a spring board to using flower essences for real healing.