A floral elixir is a preparation within which the information or energy which emanates from a flower is collected in spring water, ensuring that it is in optimum condition. Its elaboration consists in making a solar infusion, which is not simply a solar infusion but an alchemic or energy transmutation process. For this, it is necessary to have a deep connection with the plants.
How do we make a floral elixir?
- It is essential to look for clean zones where plants grow in harmony – if possible where they are found in family or group of plants in good state of growth and flowering. The most adequate time is around 12:00 pm on a sunny day.
- The container has to be made of crystal or quartz, better receptors of the energy of the flowers.
- When the adequat place has been chosen with the necessary tools and the water, we will sit to meditate, through which we ask the flower’s permission and encounter a profound harmony with the environment and especially with the flower that we will use. When this connection with the flower starts to be felt, we put the water in the container. We cut a handful of flowers with two quartzes and add them to the water. We leave the process for about 2-3 hours, some people recommend not to cut the flower although cutting the flowers works very well and is easier. Afterwards, we do another meditation where we thank the flowers and help the alchemical process. Going deeper into the communication, in this case with the water and the flower helping the energetic transmission. In order to be able to carry out this process a great sensitivity and love for the flowers is essential.
- Afterwards, we filter the elixir, and we bottle it in an amber glass bottle, to preserve it we put 30% of cognac. We call this elixir the “mother elixir”. To use it, we prepare another bottle with a 30 ml dropper, which will contain 30% of cognac and the rest of water. To this we add 3 drops of the mother elixir, and it is ready to drink. This preparation is what a therapist gives you when he gives you Bach flowers or other flowers. There are several on the market. As you can see, what we take is practically nothing, but at the same time it is a lot, because what we really take is the energetic information of the highest vibration of the flower. When we take it, it helps us at the level of emotional unblocking, an excellent remedy to help emotional balance.
How does it work in cosmetics?
The floral elixir allows to provide the concrete information of a plant without adding practically its matter. This allows a concrete focus of each cosmetic product. Floral elixirs enhance and harmonize the properties of all the cosmetic ingredients and this leads to a harmonization of the skin and enhancement of its beauty. It promotes the stimulation of the skin’s own mechanisms to achieve balance.
We owe this legacy to Doctor Bach, an English doctor who had great concern for the discovery of the origin of illness. in 1924, he made the first homeopathic vaccine. Not satisfied, he continues to investigate. In 1929, at 43 years old, he had his practice and own laboratory where he investigated and he wrote about his findings in the most prestigious scientific journals. He was highly respected by allopathic and homeopathic doctors. There was something about him that didn’t keep him happy, even though he had professional success. Thus he took a drastic decision for his laboratory and practice and decided to dedicate himself totally to researching the flowers. He had a great love for nature; one day, while observing the dew on the flowers, he realized that when the sun gave them a change of vibration, he thought of taking the dew to use it as a remedy, but he realized that this was not possible, because when the sun gave it to him, it evaporated quickly. From here he elaborated the method of the solar infusion. Between 1930 and 1934, he discovered his 38 floral remedies.
To search for remedies or medicines Bach started from the premise of looking for a mild, painless and benign medicine. Another belief of his was that “Illness is a consolidation of a mental attitude and it is only necessary to treat the mental attitude and the illness will disappear”.
A flower essence should not be considered a pharmacological substance, its activity is not only physical to recover health, it requires the person to change his or her attitude and provides him or her with the help to achieve it.