Healingherbs and Brazil

Taken from Essence Magazine Spring 2011
Republished by kind permission of The British Flower and Vibrational Essences Association

Healingherbs and Brazil – the humanitarian friendship

by Rosana Souto

AS SO OFTEN HAPPENS in relation to authors, I got to know Julian Barnard through his books long before I knew him in person. His little book, A Guide to the Bach Flower Remedies [C.W. Daniel, 1979] (the only one I could ﬁnd in 1989 whilst living in Toronto) actually had such an impact in my life that a few months later, I quit my career as a Chemical Engineer. At that time, the Bach Flower Remedies were just starting to become known in my country, Brazil. It was very difficult even to ﬁnd them and the literature was also very scarce.

For me, the beginning of the nineties was a period of intense study and search for information about the ﬂower remedies. I have always taken a great interest in knowing more about the plants Dr. Bach had chosen. So, in 1993, ﬁnding a copy of The Healing Herbs of Edward Bach [BEP, 1988] by Julian & Martine Barnard, was really a joy and brought another major turning point in my life! This book helped me to start my career as a teacher.

Taken from Essence Magazine Spring 2011
Republished by kind permission of The British Flower and Vibrational Essences Association

Teaching Bach Flower Remedies to children through Art Education: a path towards the medicine of the future

by Rosana Souto & Neide Mafra

THE SCOPE OF EDWARD BACH’S work in the world grows each day; either in the use of his ﬂower remedies in the most varied circumstances or by his inspiring inﬂuence on the research of new ﬂower essence systems. However, Dr. Bach had dreams: to ease all human suﬀering; to abolish disease from the face of the Earth, and to teach the medicine of the future[1]. How close or far are we from achieving these dreams? Are they possible? What are we doing to achieve them?

In 2006, a project to honour him[2] at the time of his 120th birthday anniversary, revealed an important way to explore the future of ﬂower essence therapy and the attainment of his dreams: the teaching of Bach Flower Remedies to children. This report was presented at the XVIII International Congress of Flower Essence Therapists held in Havana, Cuba 19-21 November 2010.