Ethnobotany Data: Client Intake and Essence Selection
Posted by admin on Jan 15, 2011
Editors’ Note: Back in July, 2010, Vibration Magazine published a request for flower essence practitioners to participate in graduate student, Erin Galiger’s masters’ thesis research in the field of Ethnobotany through University of Kent, at Canterbury (UK). She promised to share the data with participants, and she also sent a copy to Vibration. She has kindly permitted us to publish portions of it here. Find the intro to this series of posts here; find more of her data published here on Vibration here.
By Erin Galiger, M.Sc. Ethnobotany
Table. Topics of Discussion between Practitioners and Clients on their first visit.
| Topics of discussion in first meeting w/ client: | U.S. | U.S. BFRP | U.K. | U.K. BFRP |
|
Medical history |
48% | 46% | 79% | 56% |
|
Current physical health |
63% | 46% | 86% | 67% |
|
Emotional Issues |
100% | 100% | 86% | 100% |
|
Mental Issues |
61% | 73% | 86% | 89% |
|
Childhood |
44% | 64% | 50% | 12% |
|
Relationships |
55% | 73% | 71% | 23% |
|
Desired Goal |
74% | 91% | 86% | 67% |
Table. Common reasons why people visit flower essence practitioners.
| Common reasons why people come for FET: | U.S. | U.S. BFRP | U.K. | U.K. BFRP |
|
Stress |
76% | 100% | 79% | 89% |
|
Anxiety |
66% | 82% | 71% | 89% |
|
Depression |
61% | 82% | 64% | 67% |
|
Not Living Life Purpose |
55% | 55% | 64% | 67% |
|
Self-Growth |
68% | 55% | 71% | 34% |
|
Relationships |
61% | 82% | 50% | 56% |
|
Early Trauma |
48% | 73% | 43% | 34% |
|
Physical Issue |
50% | 46% | 71% | 34% |
|
Addiction |
24% | 28% | 21% | 12% |
|
ADD/ADHD |
16% | 9% | 7% | 12% |
Other common reasons written in the “Other” questionnaire option included sexual abuse, trust issues, anger, crisis, motivation, fear, confidence, happiness, migranes, and chronic pain.
Table. The number of flower essences from which flower essence practitioners select.
| Under 40 | 40-99 | 100-200 | More than 200 | |
| U.S. | 9% | 18% | 31% | 42% |
| U.S. BFRP | 46% | 28% | – | 19% |
| U.K. | 14% | 21% | 43% | 21% |
| U.K. BFRP | 89% | – | 12% | – |
Table. How flower essence practitioners select flower essences for their clients.
| Logic & Analysis | Intuition | Muscle-Testing | Pendulum | Hand- Dowsing | Higher Self | Plant Spirits/ Devas | Spirit Guide(s) | |
| U.S. | 72% | 70% | 44% | 44% | 13% | 50% | 35% | 35% |
| U.S. BFRP | 100% | 55% | – | 19% | – | 9% | – | 9% |
| U.K. | 57% | 93% | 43% | 79% | 14% | 21% | 21% | 36% |
| U.K. BFRP | 89% | 34% | 12% | 12% | – | – | – | – |
