North American Flower Essences

The following essences are among the best known flower remedies used for many years by practitioners throughout the world. They are available individually, or in practitioner kits.

Aloe Vera

• Positive Qualities: creative activity balanced and centred in vital life-energy
• Patterns of Imbalance: overuse or misuse of fiery, creative forces; "burned-out" feeling

Angelica (Angelica archangelica)

• Positive Qualities: feeling protection and guidance from spritual beings, especially at threshold experiences such as birth and death
• Patterns of Imbalance: feeling cut off, bereft of spiritual guidance and protection

Arnica (Arnica mollis)

• Positive Qualities: conscious embodiment, especially during shock or trauma; recovery from eep seated shock or trauma
• Patterns of Imbalance: disconnecting of Higher Self from body uring shock or trauma; disassociation, unconsciousness

Baby Blue Eyes (Nemophila menziesii)

• Positive Qualities: childlike innocence and trust; feeling at home in the world at ease with oneself, supported and loved; connected with the spiritual world
• Patterns of Imbalance: defensiveness, insecurity, mistrust of others unconditionally, with an open heart; emotional freedom; estrangement from the spiritual world; lack of support from the father in childhood

Bleeding Heart (Dicentra formosa)

• Positive Qualities: loving others unconditionally, with an open heart; emotional freedom
• Patterns of Imbalance: forming relationships which are based on fear or possessiveness; emotional co-dependence

Borage (Borago officinalis)

• Positive Qualities: ebullient heart forces, buoyant courage and optimism
• Patterns of Imbalance: heavy heartedness, lack of confidence in facing difficult circumstances

Buttercup (Rannunculus occidentalis)

• Positive Qualities: radiant inner light, unattached to outer recognition or fame
• Patterns of Imbalance: feelings of low self worth, inability to acknowledge or experience one's inner light and uniqueness

California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)

• Positive Qualities: finding spirituality within one's heart; balancing light and love; developing an inner centre of knowing
• Patterns of Imbalance: seeking outside oneself for false forms of light or a higher consciousness, especially through escapism or addiction

California Wild Rose (Rosa californica)

• Positive Qualities: love for the Earth and for human life, enthusiasm for doing and serving
• Patterns of Imbalance: apathy or resignation, inability to catalyse will forces through the heart

Chamomile (Matricaria recutita)

• Positive Qualities: serene, sun like disposition, emotional balance
• Patterns of Imbalance: easily upset, moody and irritable, inability to release emotional tension

Dandelion (Taraxacumj officinale)

• Positive Qualities: dynamic, effortless energy; lively activity balanced with inner ease
• Patterns of Imbalance: overly tense, especially in the musculature of the body, overstriving and hard driving

Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea)

• Positive Qualities: core integrity, contacting and maintaining an integrated sense of Self, especially when severely challenged
• Patterns of Imbalance: feeling shattered by severe trauma or abuse which has destroyed one's sense of Self; threatened by physical or emotional disintegration

Golden Yarrow (Achillea filipendulina)

• Positive Qualities: remaining open to others while still feeling inner protection; active social involvement which preserves the integrity of the Self
• Patterns of Imbalance: for outgoing people who are overly influenced by their environment and by other people; protecting onseself from vulnerability to other by withdrawal and social isolation

Goldenrod Solidago (Californica)

• Positive Qualities: well developed individuality, inner sense of Self balanced with group or social consciousness
• Patterns of Imbalance: easily influenced by group or by family ties; an inability to be true to oneself, and subject to peer pressure or social expectations

Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja miniata)

• Positive Qualities: lively, energetic creativity, exuberant artistic activity
• Patterns of Imbalance: low vitality and exhaustion, difficulty rousing physical forces to sustain the intensity of creative work; inability to bring creative forces into physical expression

Iris Iris (Douglasiana)

• Positive Qualities: inspired artistry, deep soulfulness which is in touch with higher realms; radiant, iridescent vision and perspective
• Patterns of Imbalance: lacking inspiration or creativity; feeling weighed down by the ordinariness of the world; dullness

Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)

• Positive Qualities: open and expansive spirituality, mediative insight and synthesis
• Patterns of Imbalance: spiritual pride, inflated spirituality

Love Lies Bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus)

• Positive Qualities: transcendent consciousness, the ability to move beyond personal pain, suffering or mental anguish by finding larger, transpersonal meaning in such suffering; compassionate awareness of and attention to the meaning of pain or suffering
• Patterns of Imbalance: intensification of pain and suffering due to isolation; profound melancholia due to the over personalisation of one's pain

Manzanita (Arctostaphylos viscida)

• Positive Qualities: embodiment, integration of spiritual Self with the physical world
• Patterns of Imbalance: estranged from the earthly world; aversion, disgust or revulsion toward the bodily Self and the physical world

Mariposa Lily (Calchortus leichtlinii)

• Positive Qualities: maternal consciousness, warm, feminine and nurturing; mother-child bonding, healing of the inner child
• Patterns of Imbalance: alienated from mother of from mothering, feelings of childhood abandonment or abuse

Pink Yarrow (Achillea millefolium var)

• Positive Qualities: loving awareness of others from a self contained consciousness; appropriate emotional boundaries
• Patterns of Imbalance: unbalanced sympathetic forces, overly absorbent auric field, lack of emotional clarity, dysfunctional merging with others

Pomegranate (Punica granatum)

• Positive Qualities: warm hearted feminine creativity, actively productive and nurturing at home or in the world
• Patterns of Imbalance: ambivalent or confused about the forces of feminine creativity, especially between values of career and home, creative and prcreative, personal and global

Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)

• Positive Qualities: self aware behaviour, calm and steady prescence, especially in emergency situations
• Patterns of Imbalance: susceptible to mass hysteria and anxiety, easily influenced by panic of other forms of group thought

Saint John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)

• Positive Qualities: illumined consciousness, light filled awareness and strength
• Patterns of Imbalance: an overly expanded state leading to psychic and physical vulnerability; deep fears, disturbed dreams

Star Tulip (Calochortus tolmiei)

• Positive Qualities: sensitive and receptive attunement; serene, inner listening to others an to higher worlds, especially in dreams and meditation
• Patterns of Imbalance: feelings of being hardened or cut off, inability to feel quiet inner presence or attunement, unable to meditate or pray

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

• Positive Qualities: balanced sense of individuality, spiritualised ego forces, sun radiant personality
• Patterns of Imbalance: distorted sense of Self; inflation or self effacement, low self esteem or arrogance; poor relation to father or masculine aspect of Self

Tiger Lily (Lilium humboldtii)

• Positive Qualities: cooperative service with others, extending feminine forces into social situations; inner peace and harmony as a foundation for outer relationships
• Patterns of Imbalance: overly aggressive, competitive, hostile attitude; excessive "yang" forces, separatist tendencies

Yerba (Santa Eriodictyon californica)

• Positive Qualities: free flowing emotion, ability to harmonise breathing with feeling; capacity to express a full range of human emotion, especially pain and sadness
• Patterns of Imbalance: constricted feelings, partciularly in the chest; internalised grief and melancholy, deeply repressed emotions

Zinnia (Zinnia elegans)

• Positive Qualities: childlike humour and playfulness, experiencing the joyful inner child, lightheartedness, detached perspective on Self
• Patterns of Imbalance: overseriousness, dullness, heaviness, lack of humour; overly sombre sense of Self, repressed inner child