An excerpt from Dietmar Kramer's
New Bach Flower Therapies: Healing
the Emotional and Spiritual Causes of Illness, pp.135-6, published in
1995 by Healing Arts Press, and used with their permission.
Animals respond extremely well to Bach Flower Therapy. Because
animals cannot communicate with words, one must reply entirely on
observation, which requires sensitivity and diagnostic ability.
If, for example, a dog has acted crazy since his owner got a second dog,
jealousy is the likely cause. In this case, we should consider Holly.
The flower remedy Holly helps against anger, hate, envy, jealousy,
suspicion and vengefulness. If he has stopped eating since he was clawed by the neighbor's cat,
one should use Star of Bethlehem to help him overcome the shock.
If he tucks his tail between his legs even when he sees much smaller dogs, Larch can
strengthen his self-esteem. I classify Larch as the foundation flower
because many emotional disturbances are based on lack of self-esteem.
A parrot always retreated, loudly shrieking, into the furthest corner of his cage as soon as someone approached him. After several doses of Rock Rose,
he lost his panicky fear and was actually able to approach people.
One practitioner told me, "I treated a patient over a long period of time, and every time I saw her in the office, I noticed that the backs of her hands were covered with scratches. When I asked her what had happened to her hands, she replied that her tomcat Felix would always scratch and bite her. This would happen only when she petted the other cat first and touched Felix afterward. After the situation had quieted down, he would be the most
cuddly cat again, and she could never be angry at him."
Felix was obviously jealous when he was not petted first. He reacted aggressively
and scratched his owner's hand. Later on he obviously developed guilt feelings and wanted to make up by acting gentle. The patient was advised to add Holly and Pine to his daily milk. After one week she happily came back and reported that Felix had completely changed. The treatment had already been successful on the second day. She proudly showed her hands to me and said,
"The tomcat doesn't act aggressive any more. On the contrary, he no longer needs any caressing from me
because he receives it now from the other
cat, to whom he attends in a caring way."
As the treatment of animals requires some experience
in Bach Flower Therapy, I suggest Rescue Remedy drops for first trials.
Most of the acute problems occur as a result of external influences, so
emergency drops as a universal remedy rarely fail to have an effect.
"Character flaws" in animals are somewhat harder to cure.
Very interesting is the fact that animals often need the
same flowers as their owners. As animals often imitate the
behavior of people, they also seem to take on their attitudes.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dietmar Kramer, former docent of the
Paracelsus School in Wurzburg and Frankfurt, Germany,
has been active as a practitioner and teacher of holistic
health care since 1983. In addition to New Bach Flower Therapies: Healing
the Emotional and Spiritual Causes of Illness, he
is also the author of New Bach Flower Body Maps.
You may order a copy of either book
from Healing Arts Press.
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