Flower Essence FAQs
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What are flower essences?
Flower essences are low dose preparations used in alternative medicine such as flower essence therapy to help with emotional and spiritual issues. They are also often incorporated into personal spiritual practices. Our flower essences are crafted by our herbalist from cold water infusions of fresh flowers from living plants. Each essence is carefully prepared and dosed low enough that ingesting a whole bottle will cause no harm. Flower essences are safe to use internally or externally.
Flower essence therapy was developed by Doctor Edward Bach in the early 1900s to help sensitive people with emotional pain such as fear, uncertainty, loneliness, overstimulation, burnout, sadness, and trauma. Flower essences and botanical dews were also used in history by Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) and Paracelsus (1493-1541) in their respective healing practices with similar intent as Dr. Bach.
Do flower essences smell like flowers?
Flower essences have no scent and should not be confused with perfumes, essential oils, or hydrosols.
What is a flower essence? Is that the same as a tincture?
A flower essence is very different from a tincture. A whole flower essence bottle can be safely consumed without experiencing the medicinal effects a tincture would produce. A tincture is a potent alcohol extract of fresh or dried plants used to treat medical issues, whereas a flower essence is a low dose preparation intended to sympathetically help with emotional and spiritual issues.
What is the potency of a flower essence?
Flower essences contain 25% alcohol and three drops of a mother essence from a plant.
The mother essence is a short-term cold water infusion of fresh flowers harvested from living plants, prayed over, and infused in sunlight, moonlight, or under specific astrological influences.
Flower essences are an alternative medicine drawing upon the spiritual healing powers of the plants and nature.
Are flower essences made from poisonous plants safe to ingest?
Our flower essences our dosed following Health Canada’s regulations for Dr. Bach’s flower remedies. They are are safe to ingest. The whole bottle could be consumed with no ill effect and no physical medicinal effects. We cannot speak for other manufacturers.
Please note that if you have a pre-existing allergy to a specific plant, you may react to its flower essence as they do contain actual plant material even though highly diluted.
How do I use a flower essence?
Flower essences can be taken right from the dropper on or under the tongue or alternately dropped into your tea, coffee, juice, or water. We suggest doing everything in threes – take three drops three times a day for three, six, nine days or weeks etc. Flower essences are meant to be ingested with intention and mindfulness as part of a daily ritual. Think about what help or healing you hope to gain from the plant and focus on your goal while it is on your tongue. Then thank the plant afterward.
Essences can be incorporated into group rituals such as tea ceremonies or communion involving passing around a cup of wine. Essences can be added to regular meditation practice or personal and group rituals.
I avoid alcohol, can I use them without ingesting?
Yes! They can be used externally to anoint people, objects, or places as well as added to lotions, perfumes, baths, room sprays, or even holy water. Essences crafted from poisonous plants are protective and purifying and can be used to spiritually cleanse spaces or anoint protective charms or jewelry as well as doors, windows, or even your vehicle for protection.
What is the shelf-life of a flower essence?
As our flower essences are preserved with alcohol they are technically safe to use indefinitely, but it is recommended to use up within 4-6 years after purchase.
Shelf-life is best preserved if the glass dropper never directly touches the mouth or skin or any surfaces and is kept bacteria free.
Do your flower essences ship to my country?
Please see the Shipping Info page to see which countries we ship to.