Flower Essences Flashcards
Agrimony
- Anxiety hidden behind a mask of cheerfulness
Aspen
- Fear of unknown
- Nightmares
- Feeling easily startled
Beech
- Intolerance
- Criticalness
- Overreation to people and environment due to one’s own sensitivity
Centaury
- The inability to say ‘no’
- Difficulty prioritizing self-care
Cerato
- Lack of trust in one’s own decisions
- Looking to others for outside information for answers
Cherry Plum
- Fear of losing control
- Fear of breakdown
Chestnut Bud
- Failure to learn from mistakes
- Repeating cycles
Chicory
- Selfish
- Possessive love
Clematis
- Dreaming of the future without working in the present
- Spaciness
- Dissociation
Crab Apple
- Cleansing remedy
- Self-hatred
- Feeling impure
Elm
- Overwhelmed by responsibility
Gentian
- Discouragement after a setback
Gorse
- Hopelessness and despair
Heather
- Self-centeredness and self-concern
- Sometimes about health
Holly
- Hatred
- Envy
- Jealousy
- Suspicion
Honeysuckle
- Living in the past
- Nostalgia
Hornbeam
- Fatigue or weariness from mundane daily tasks or responsibilities
Impatiens
- Impatience
Larch
- Lack of confidence
- Difficulty finding one’s voice
Mimulus
- Fear of known things (phobias)
- Fear of trying new things
Mustard
- Deep gloom for no reason
- Emotional ups and downs
Oak
- Iron-willed
- Over-striving beyond one’s limits
- Taking on more than one can sustain
Olive
- Exhaustion following mental or physical effort
Pine
- Guilt
- Rumination
- Regrets about the past
Red Chestnut
- Over-concern and worry for the welfare of loved ones
Rock Rose
- Terror and fright
- Dissociative panic attacks
Rock Water
- Self-denial
- Rigidity
- Self-repression
Scleranthus
- Inability to choose between alternatives
Star of Bethlehem
- Shock or trauma, either recent or past
Sweet Chestnut
- Pronounced despair and agony
- Feeling of aloneness or abandonment due to a “dark night of the soul”
Vervain
- Over-enthusiasm
- Fanatacism
Vine
- Dominance
- Inflexibility
Walnut
- For transitions
- Being held back by community or societal expectations
Water Violet
- Quiet self-reliance leading to isolation
- Aloof
- Making distinctions based on class, race, or social status that ensure separation fromothers
White Chestnut
- Unwanted thoughts and mental arguments
Wild Oat
- Uncertainty over one’s direction in life
Wild Rose
- Drifting
- Resignation
- Apathy
- Illness which does not resolve itself
Willow
- Self-pity
- Resentment
- Bitterness
Mariposa Lily
- Alienated from mother or from mothering role
- Feelings of childhood abandonment or abuse
- Orphan state of consciousness
Baby Blue Eyes
- Defensiveness
- Insecurity
- Mistrust of others
- Estrangement from higher spiritual authority
- Lack of support from the father or other masculine influences in childhood
Arnica
- Disconnection of Higher Self from body during shock or trauma
- Dissociation
- Unconsciousness
- Dysfunction or latent illness deriving from past trauma
Golden Ear Drops
- Suppressed toxic memories of childhood
- Feelings of pain and trauma about past events affecting present emotional identity
Echinacea
- Shattered by severe trauma or abuse
- Physical or emotional disintegration of Self Identity
- Poor immune function
- Vacant presence
Black-Eyed Susan
- Avoidance or repression of traumatic or shadow aspects of the personality
- Addictive or hypnotic behavior due to loss of conceiousness
Pink Yarrow
- Emotional boundaries issues
- Dysfunctional merging with others
Wild (White) Yarrow
- Energetic boundaries
- Chemical/energetic sensitivites
Golden Yarrow
- Social boundaries
- Using drugs/behaviors for social masking
Garlic
- Fearful or weak due to parasitic influence
- Prone to low vitality
- Mediumistic
Mountain Pennyroyal
- Unconscious absorption of negative programming
- Psychic contamination or possession
Bleeding Heart
- Entangled in relationships based on fear, possessiveness, or neediness
- Emotional co-dependence
Borage
- Heavyheartedness or grief
- Lack of confidence in facing difficult circumstances
- Depressive behavior
Buttercup
- Feelings of low self-worth
- Inability to acknowledge or experience one’s inner light and uniqueness
- Self-deprecating
Sierra Primrose
- Lack of gratitude or reverence for the gift of lifer resulting in fatigue, boredom, or depression
- Joyless living
- Habitually dulled response to life
Blackberry
- Inability to translate goals and ideals into concrete action or viable activities
- Procrastination
Tansy
- Lethargy
- Procrastination
- Inability to take straightforward action
- Habits which undermine or subvert real abilities and talents
Cayenne
- Stagnation
- Inability to move forward toward change
Downy Avens
- Precocious development of intellectual capacities with lagging emotional development
- Easily bored or distracted due to lack of heart attention and imagination
- Tendency to hyperactivity or Attention Deficit Disorder
Lemon
- Mental fatigue or related toxicity in the nervous system
- Dreaminess
- Learning disorders, including attention deficit
Madia
- Easily distracted
- Inability to concentrate
- Splintered activity that is unproductive
Cosmos
- Unfocused
- Disorganized communication
- Overexcited speech
- Overwhelmed by too many ideas
Dill
- Overwhelm due to excess stimulation
- Hypersensitivity to environment or to outer activity
- Sensory congestion
Indian Pink
- Psychic forces which are easily fragmented by too much movement
- Frayed and overwhelmed during multi-leveled activity
Corn
- Inability to stay centered in the body
- Disorientation and stress, particularly in urban or crowded environments
Scotch Broom
- Disheartened and depressed
- Overcome with pessimism and despair, especially regarding one’s personal relationship to world events
Red Clover
- Susceptible to mass hysteria and anxiety
- Easily influenced by panic or other forms of group thought
Green Cross Gentian
- Feelings of overwhelm, despair, and defeat with regard to the condition of the earth
- Bereft and discouraged when living connection with the earth is disrupted due to natural or man-made catastrophe
- Ability to carry the elemental “cross” of the world
Calla Lily
- Confusion or ambivalence about sexual identity or gender
- Wounding due to cultural gender bias
Joshua Tree
- Generational karma which shackles the soul’s potential
- Inability to break free from family or cultural patterns of dysfunction, such as alcoholism, addiction, depression, violence, or hereditary illnesses
- Loss of individual identity and freedom due to lack of insight regarding familial and cultural influences
Pomegranate
- Ambivalent or confused about the focus of creativity, especially between values of career and home, creative and procreative, and personal and global
Madrone
- Severe dieting
- Non-acceptance of one’s body weight or size
- Possible history of physical aversion to one’s mother
- Malnourishment or disturbed breast feeding
- Absence of physical soul warmth in early childhood
Manzanita
- Estranged from the earthly world
- Aversion or revulsion toward the body and physical world
- Eating and sleeping disorders
Pretty Face
- Feeling ugly or rejected because of personal appearance
- Over-identified with physical appearance
Wild Hyssop
- Body-based guilt or shame
- Self-punishment or mutilation directed consciously or unconsciously at the body
- Soul memory of previous abuse or shame that degrades body image
Self Healt
- Inability to take inner responsibility for one’s healing
- Lacking in spiritual motivation for wellness
- Overly dependent on external advice for health choices
- Also add when well-selected remedies have no response
Fuchsia
- Hyper-emotionality or hysteria that masks deeply-seated pain and trauma
- Misdirected psychosomatic responses to pain and stress
- Suggested rewording: trauma that manifests in the physical body
Spreading Phlox
- Caught in meaningless social circles or false societal expectations
- Inability to identify new opportunities or connect with groups that are aligned with one’s true soul purpose
