In the early twentieth century, Dr. Edward Bach transformed his London medical practice from one that followed the precepts of traditional, or allopathic medicine to one that was deeply influenced by Samuel Hahnemann and his homeopathic philosophy. In the last seven years of his life, Bach left the city behind and moved to the English countryside, where he developed his own pharmacy of lhrity-eight natural essences, known today as the Bach Flower Remedies. As author Vinton McCabe writes in "The Healing Bouquet": "In picking plants and testing them, in considering the healing virtues of the plants that grew around him, Edward Bach was doing the same thing that the ancients had done. Just as ancient man had sought to identify just what plants, what soil, and what sap could possibly bing comfort to those who suffered with illness and free them from its grasp, Bach walked the fields in the last years of his life. He put aside all the medical knowlege he had accumulated in a lifetime of study in the finest schools and hospitals and, instead, trusted his ability to identify for himself the substances Nature had to offer to restore the sick to health." In "The Healing Bouquet", Vinton McCabe restores Edward Bach to his rightful position as a practitioner of homeopathic philosophy and writes about the remedies and their uses from the context of homeopathic medicine. This comprehensive book offers its readers an in-depth understanding of the nature of Bach's remedies and their myriad uses. More important, he gives a colorful character portrait for each of the remedies: portraits created with insight, humor, and an understanding of human emotions and behaviors that will allow you to identify yourself, your family, friends, and co-workers within its pages.
Vinton McCabe's career in electronic media was knocked off course first by illness and then by his introduction to the healing modality that cured his illness--homeopathy. He became a student of homeopathic medicine three decades ago and in the years since has authored seven books on the topic, including the now-classic Practical Homeopathy and his personal favorite, The Healing Bouquet: Exploring Bach Flower Remedies. He also is the author of a growing number of publications on subjects related to holistic healing through the "Homeopathy in Thought and Action" series of McBooklets, a Kindle exclusive, which will be published in print form by Basic Health Publications.
McCabe is a past president of the Connecticut Homeopathic Association, a not-for-profit educational organization through which he trained lay persons and medical professionals alike in the philosophy and practice of homeopathic medicine. He has lectured extensively over the years, teaching at New York City's Open Center, the Learning Annex and New York Botanical Garden, in addition to the Omega Institute and Wainwright House, where he was part of the permanent faculty.
He is noted for his humor and for the clarity of his approach to his complex subject matter. About standard Western medicine, or allopathy, McCabe writes, "Western medicine is based upon the use of ever-stronger doses of allopathic drugs. And allopathic treatment with these drugs is the medical equivalent of running with scissors. It may seem like a good idea at the time, but it almost always ends in tears."
About homeopathic medicine, he writes, "So the homeopathic remedy is only a spark. A healing spark. A catalyst that can move the patient--and not just his symptoms--toward healing. Thus homeopathic treatment will leave the patient not just symptom-free (which is what allopathic treatment, at its most successful, has to offer), but actually stronger and healthier than before. It can do this because it works with and treats the whole person and refuses to zero in on a few choice symptoms. It does this because it recognizes first and foremost that those symptoms are there for a reason, and, secondly, that you cannot medically work on one part, on on one set of symptoms, without impacting the whole. But by working with the whole, you can radically change for the better the set of symptoms that is causing the patient's suffering."
In addition to his work with homeopathy, McCabe is an award-winning journalist, poet and playwright. He has produced television shows for PBS and has hosted his own talk radio show. He continues to be sought after as a guest on numerous radio and television shows. He is a published novelist, who, in addition to continuing to write on the subject of holistic healing, is hard at work on a second novel.
