Chakras & Bach Flower Remedies in Chakra Order

Chakras are the principle components of the human energy system. I see them as the Divine Life Force itself viewed as a prism. Because chakras are energetic, energetic treatment modalities are ideal.

For the next week or so, I’ll write about the chakra system, and the remarkable work known as The Bach Flower Remedies. Here’s an intro:

Dr. Edward Bach is the homeopath & M.D. who created the Bach Flower Essences. There are 38 in his set. Lots of other companies make flower essences, and you can even make your own, but the only ones I am familiar with and use are the Bach Flower Essences. Again, how and where they are manufactured matters. Caveat emptor.

Dr. Bach divided those 38 into seven groups. Did he mean them to be the chakras? No one knows. However, Anna Jeoffroy and Philip Salmon, authors of the only book I’ve found on Bach Flower Essences and the chakras, seem to think he did.

Dr. Bach wrote, “Disease of the body itself is nothing but the result of the disharmony between soul and mind. Remove the disharmony, and we regain harmony between soul and mind, and the body is once more perfect in all its parts.”

Here is an alphabetical list of Remedies and their major associated Chakra:

Alphabetical by Chakra

Base or Root 8
Crab Apple — Base
Elm — Base
Larch — Base
Oak — Base
Pine — Base
Star of Bethlehem — Base
Sweet Chestnut — Base
Willow — Base

Sacral 5
Aspen — Sacral
Cherry-Plum — Sacral
Mimulus — Sacral
Red Chestnut — Sacral
Rock Rose — Sacral

Solar Plexus 6
Cerato — Solar Plexus
Gentian — Solar Plexus
Gorse — Solar Plexus
Hornbeam — Solar Plexus
Scleranthus — Solar Plexus
Wild Oat — Solar Plexus

Heart 4
Agrimony — Heart
Centaury — Heart
Holly — Heart
Walnut — Heart

Throat 7
Chestnut Bud — Throat
Clematis — Throat
Honeysuckle — Throat
Mustard — Throat
Olive — Throat
White Chestnut — Throat
Wild Rose — Throat

Brow 5
Beech — Brow 5
Chicory — Brow
Rock Water — Brow
Vervain — Brow
Vine — Brow

Crown 3
Heather — Crown
Impatiens — Crown
Water Violet — Crown

Thymus 1
Rescue Remedy

8, 5, 6, 4, 7, 5, 3, 1: I find it fascinating that the chakras with the two longest lists of remedies are the Base or Root — navigating Life itself, and the Throat — creativity and self-expression. Clearly, much of the collective is here to work out those two things.

The third highest is the Solar — learning to have, hold, and use Power, followed by a tie between the Sacral — Passion of all kinds and the Brow — Intuition, or knowing without knowing how we know.

It makes me wonder whether the time in which this list was compiled changed it, and if Dr. Bach were to make the list again in, say, 2160, would it be different?

If you’re human — and I’m assuming that if you’re reading this, you are — we all have occasions where the world becomes just too much and can cause us to visit uncertainty. Keyword: visit. Don’t buy a house. Don’t sign a lease. Dowse for a remedy, and find something beautiful to look at, listen to, touch, taste, or smell. The uncertainty will lift.

How do I know? Been there, done that.

P. S. This is the book on chakras and the remedies: Jeoffroy, Anna; Philip Salmon. Dr Bach’s Flower Remedies: Tapping into the positive emotional qualities of the chakra, including The Annasation Techniques. Energy Works. Kindle Edition.