Bach flowers are available in stock bottle (essence) in different stores around the country or online for purchase. You take two drops of the stock bottle and mix it in a bit of juice of water, to be taken when needed (or you can put the drops directly in your mouth).
Dr. Bach separated the flower essences in different groups according to their main function. We'll see today the One for Despondency or Despair. Please refer to the bottom of the page for the other groups...
Despondency or Despair
The group deals with states of oppressive, burdening hardship.
Larch: Helps you to regain self-esteem and confidence in yourself.
Pine: Helps when you feel guilt and self-reproach, often for other people’s mistakes or just anything that goes wrong. You are never content with your effort and results.
Elm: Helps when your responsibilities overwhelm you. You feel depressed and exhausted and may lose self-esteem.
Sweet Chestnut: Helps you at moments when the anguish is too great and seems to be unbearable. Your mind or body feels as if it has tolerated the uttermost limit of its endurance. It feels as there is nothing but destruction and annihilation left to face.
Star of Bethlehem: Helps when you experience trauma, serious news, loss of someone dear, the fright following an accident, etc. The distress and unhappiness feel unbearable.
Willow: Helps when you have suffered adversity or misfortune and find it difficult to accept. You feel sorry for yourself and are grumble and sulky.
Oak: Helps when your inner strength wanes, usually because you are an over-achiever and will overwork and ignore your tiredness.
Crab Apple: Helps when you feel that there is something not quite clean about yourself. You may need to wash your hands often, find things dirty without any reason, you may find yourself ugly although others find you very attractive. This is the cleansing Essence.
Larch
States of low self-confidence. Lack of energy, drooping sensation, weary limbs and reluctant posture. Withdrawn.
MIND
Anticipates failure, feels that one cannot quite measure up to the challenges of life. Avoids new opportunities for growth and advancement. Sense of suppression, limitations. Feelings of inferiority, compares oneself to others. Fear of failure.
Bad self-image. Focused with oneself. Worries about oneself. Sadness, regret, despondency, despair. Shy, lack of personal strength. Lonely, alienation from others. Lax and dampened, without energy or incentive.
Pine
States of guilt, regret and self-reproach. Obsessive-compulsive states and too much over-conscientiousness. The body may show signs of becoming burdened, depressive or rigid, due to excessive introversion and self-blame. Deep-seated conflict and obsessive guilt.
Gastric and duodenal ulcers, irritable colon, nervous breathing syndrome and insomnia. Skin disorders and itching.
MIND
Introverted, subdued by the burdens of guilt and regret. Preoccupied or obsessed with guilt and self-reproach. Deep sense of unworthiness. Internal sense of failure.
Feelings of shame, regret and self-blame at not having fulfilled one’s high ideals. Despondency and despair. Unable to forgive self. May assume responsibility and blame for failure caused by others. Frustration, anger, rigidity and alienation from oneself and others.
Obsessive-compulsive, self-punitive and perfectionist or ritualistic behavior and thinking, as in obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. Delusions and paranoid personality disorders. Fear of being punished or persecuted.
Elm
Tendency to exhaustion in mind, emotions and body. Listlessness and lethargy. Unresolved, overwhelming conflicts or over work leading to the formation of chronic diseases.
MIND
High expectations for self. Strong sense of duty. Difficulty planning. Overwhelmed by duty. Feeling of being lost in details, lack of progress. Anxiety over future challenges or duties. Dread, anxiety, intimidation. Internal exhaustion, feelings of inadequacy. Disillusionment and despair. Sadness over unrealistic goals.
Sweet Chestnut
Helps you at moments when the anguish is too great and seems to be unbearable. Your mind or body feels as if it has tolerated the uttermost limit of its endurance. It feels as there is nothing but destruction and annihilation left to face.
States of apathy and anguish. Severe and prolonged physical suffering, leading to anguish. Suffering seems unbearable. Physical side effects of deep depression. Preoccupation and depression. Existential doubt, despair. Suicidal.
MIND
Anguish. Apathy, faithlessness, nihilism, and despair. Religious despair with loss of faith. The “dark night of the soul”. Depressive disorders, especially when suicide is threatened with deep-seated despair. Morbid preoccupation with death.
Void of emotional life. Despair and despondent. Sense of meaninglessness of life may lead to carelessness of attitude. Lack of aspirations and meaningful purpose.
Star of Bethlehem
States of grief and shock. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Ailments after accidents.
Lack of appetite, digestive problems, shock and collapse. Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. The diaphragm is known to tighten during grief and impair breathing, leading to frequent sighing.
MIND
Shock and grief. Sadness, heart wrenching impact, deepest pain and despair. Despondency and hopelessness. Fear, shame, frustration and guilt. Anger and prolonged outrage.
Thoughts of nihilism and meaninglessness. Internal numbing or taking lightly those things that cannot be changed. Hidden internal agony. Hides inner feelings from others.
Willow
Deals with states of resentment and bitterness with one’s fate. Physical rigidity and worn features may speak of internal bitterness and resentment. Bitterness, disillusionment and depression.
Chronically engaged in repression of agressive impulses, affecting the heart and intestinal region. Suppressed anger, causing colicky pains, tension headaches, depression. Tachycardia, irregularities in heart activity, hypertension. Hyperventilation. Chronic coughs and constipation. Skin lesions and intermittent insomnia.
MIND
Burdened by an unfavorable and undeserved fate. Blames others for misfortunes. Unfounded resentment, blame. Dissatisfaction and self-pity. Bitterness and dormant despair. Sadness and disappointment. Anger at being mistreated. Outrage and sense of injustice. Self-righteousness, denial of reality, envy and lack of sympathy and compassion.
Malingering, passive agressive personality, antisocial and disruptive behaviors. Fixed ideas, delusions. Paranoia as one feels persecuted and thwarted in one’s destiny due to the fault of others.
Oak
States of stoic perseverance and willpower in the face of hardship.
Mental/emotional and physical weariness. Over-work and strength of will may lead to physical strain and undue stress. Older people may become bent over from over-exertion and one-sided activity.
Great determination to not succumb to invalidity. Avoids necessary rest and restful recreation, even though both may be of vital need. Psychosomatic disease from the continued rule of willpower over the need for healthful diversion and renewal.
MIND
Self-discipline, seriousness of intention. Tendency to over-work. Loyalty. Focused on completing tasks. Perseverance in duties, even though strength and vitality might be failing. Unceasing disappointments or lack of rewards despite efforts made will increase resolve to struggle on with great strength of will and ever renewed hope. Inner weariness and lack of motivation.
Crab Apple
States of severity. Burdening condition, without sufficient power or possibility to grow above.
Cleansing of digestive tract. Unclean skin, acne. Accumulated wastes in the blood stream. Long-lasting viral infections. Chronic poisoning due to environmental hazards. Helps draw out impurities from a wound, if applied to the bandage.
Feelings of disgust or repulsion. Strong repulsion towards the food consumed with the urge to vomit. Vomiting, nausea and emaciation. Anorexia and bulimia.
MIND
Self-centered. Concentrates on the unclean, shameful, bothering and burdensome. Obsessive preoccupation with beauty flaws or states of sickness considered unclean and unbecoming. Fear of contamination, by germs or dirt.
Obsessive-compulsive disorders with deep shame. Shame about appearance or inner guilt and uncleanness. Regrets sinful or shameful behavior. Feels soiled or dirty after abuse or molestation.
Intense craving or desire to be cleansed and purified. Feels helpless in regard to the problem. Minor problems assume disproportionate importance. Despair.
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