1. Religion & Spirituality

Flower Essence Profiles

Brief descriptions of flower essences' healing purposes and spiritual properties.

Agrimony - Agrimonia eupatoria

This flower remedy aids in the stabilization of one's sensitivities. It helps alleviate mental worry and torture.

Alpine Lily - Lilium parvum

Alpine Lily flower essence promotes acceptance of one's femininity. It also helps individuals become more deeply grounded.

Aspen - Populus tremula

Aspen flower remedy helps alleviate unknown and irrational fears.

Baby's Breath - Gypsophila paniculata

Baby's Breath flower essence is a helpful birthing essence that can assist the laboring mom in her hours of pre-labor and labor.

Bee Balm - Monarda didyma

Bee Balm flower essence is good for manifesting joy.

Beech - Fagus Sylvatica

Beech flower essence remedy helps lessen one's tendency to be judgmental or toward others or hypersensitive to their environments.

Bleeding Heart - Dicentra formosa

Bleeding Heart flower essence is a remedy for heartaches associated with broken relationships.

Buttercup - Ranunculus occidentalis

Buttercup flower essence allows "your essence" to radiate light from the inside out.

Butterfly Weed - Asclepias tuberosa

Butterfly Weed can be used as a powerful love tonic to help attract a soul mate.

Calendula - Calendula officinalis

Calendula flower essence opens up doors for better communications.

Calla Lily - Zantedeschia aethiopica

Calla Lily flower essence balances male/female energies.

Cayenne - Capsicum annuum

Cayenne flower essence has a therapeutic quality that effects change.

Centaury - Centaurium erythaea

Centaury flower essence is a helpful remedy for the codependent personality.

Cerato - Ceratostigma willmottiana

Cerato flower essence remedy helps develop self reliance.

Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

Cherry Plum flower remedy brings mental calmness and emotional encouragement, allowing stresses and fears to be overcome.

Chestnut Bud - Ceratostigma willmottiana

This flower remedy offers wisdom and insight to the individual.

Chicory - Cichorium intybus

Chicory flower essence feeds the heart and solar plexus chakras.

Clematis - Clematis vitalba

Clematis flower essence is a grounding essence that wakes up the individual to better evaulate the present situation.

Coral Bells - Heuchera sanguinea

Coral Bells flower essence remedy tames the ego, bringing about gentleness and compassion.

Crab Apple - Malus sylvestris

Crab Apple flower essence remedy helps alleviate feelings of self-hatred and uncleanliness. Beneficial treatment for facial skin rashes.

Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale

Dandelion is a good essence for over-achievers or compulsive doers to bring relaxation to their constant on-the-go activities.

Easter Lily - Lilum longiflorum

Easter Lily flower essence helps heal inner conflicts about one's sexuality.

Elm - Ulmis procera

Elm flower essence is a wonderful tonic for the perfectionist who tends to set unattainable goals for himself or herself in reducing false feelings of inadequacy.

Fawn Lily - Erythronium purpurascens

Fawn Lily flower essence is an earth mother type nurturing energy. It is a good remedy for anyone who tends to be spiritually introverted, shunning the world around them.

Filaree - Erodium cicutariuum

Filaree flower essence helps the individual step back and see the bigger picture.

Gentian - Gentiana amerella

Gentian is an inspirational remedy that offers encouragement to anyone facing difficult obstacles or feeling overwhelmed with doubts or disappointment.

Gorse - Ulex europaeus

Gorse flower essence is a restorative remedy that helps lift dark and depressive personalities into a brighter and lighter experience.

Heather - Calluna vulgaris

Heather flower essence remedy is beneficial to those who are consumed with self interests, self indulgence, or overly concerned with one's own problems.

Holly - Ilex aquifolium

Holly flower remedy expands the heart chakra, it teaches acceptance and love of everyone.

Honeysuckle - Lonicera caprifolium

Honeysuckle flower remedy is helpful for individuals dealing with separation issues such as divorce, death, empty nest, etc.

Hornbeam - Carpinus betulus

Hornbeam flower remedy helps individuals who are experiencing exhaustion and/or fatique become energized.

Impatiens - Impatiens gladulifera

Impatiens essence remedy addresses metal stresses and tensions. It calms feelings associated with impatience and irritability.

Larch - Larix deciua

Larch flower remedy helps individuals who suffer from self-esteem or lack confidence in themselves.

Lilac - Syringa vulgaris

One of the earliest spring blooming plant the lilac flower is associated with birth and mother/child nurturing.

Mariposa Lily - Calochortus leichtlinii

Mariposa Lily flower essence embraces the inner child healing wounds of the past.

Milkweed - Asclepias cordifolia

Milkweed flower essence awakens a clouded consciousness and promotes spiritual growth at the soul level.

Mimulus - Mimulus guttatus

Mimulus flower remedy helps individuals get past fears and overcome shyness.

Mustard - Sinapis arvensis

Mustard flower essence remedy shortens dark and gloomy days, lifting the spirit from the depths of despair.

Oak - Quercus robur

Oak flower essence remedy offers a safe haven in which to weather any storm.

Olive - Olea europaea

Olive flower essence remedy allows the weary soul to tap into healing resources beyond physical, reaching into the deeper "spiritual well" of restorative waters.

Pine - Pinus sylvestris

Pine flower essence offers a balanced view of one's faults and wrongdoings.

Quince - Chaenomeles speciosa

Quince flower essence is helpful for anyone struggling with inner conflicts.

Red Chestnut - Aesulus carnea

Red Chestnut flower essence calms the obsessive worrier from over-identifying with the problems of others.

Red Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

Red Yarrow flower essence helps blood circulation and can spark activity in anyone experiencing lethargic tendencies.

Rock Rose - Helianthemum nummularium

Rock Rose flower essence calms the individual when experiencing extreme panic, terror, or hysteria, restoring strength and courage.

Rock Water - solarized spring water

Rock Water softens the hardened personality, giving way to flexibilty and fluidity.

Sagebrush - Artemisia tridentata

Sagebrush flower essence brings about a deeper awareness of purpose.

Saint John's Wort - Hypericum perforatum

St. John's Wort illuminates the soul, giving light to the spiritual and physical components of life.

Scleranthus - Scleranthus annuus

Scleranthus flower essence remedy is helpful to anyone who struggles with decision making.

Shooting Star - Dodecatheon hendersonii

Shooting Star flower essence helps ease discomfort for anyone who is feeling alienated from the physical.

Standing Cypress - Ipomopsis rubra

Standing Cypress flower essence awakens dormant kundalini energies.

Star of Bethlehem - Ornithogalum umbellatum

Star of Bethlehem flower essence is a restorative remedy for calming anyone who has experienced shock or trauma.

Sunflower - Asclepias cordifolia

Sunflower flower essence is a wonderful confidence builder for anytime you are feeling less than or nervous about doing something.

Sweet Chestnut - Castanea sativa

Sweet Chestnut flower essence is a remedy is given to the individual that is on the brink of despair and isolation.

Tansy - Tanacetum vulgare

Tansy flower essence nudges the procrastinator, promoting goal setting and purposeful action.

Tiger Lily - Lilium humboldii

Tiger Lily flower essence helps brings the feminine energies to surface in individuals who have stronger masculine energies shadowing their feminine nature. Menopausal remedy.

Trumpet Vine - Campsis tagliabuana

Trumpet Vine assists soul expression. It helps give confidence so a person can speak his truth fluently and openly communicate without hesitancy among others.

Vervain - Verbena officinalis

Vervian helps to calm overly-enthusiastic characteristics, reducing intense energies to a gentler force that is more conducive to success.

Vine - Vitis vinifera

Vine flower essence is a remedy brings tolerance to the domineering type personality who desires to control others.

Walnut - Juglans regia

Walnut flower essence helps one to break away from a pattern of "following others" and begin to carve out his own pathways.

Water Violet - Hottonia palustris

Water Violet flower essence helps the aloof personality open up more and become more involved with the world in general.

White Chestnut - Aesculus hippocastanum

White Chestnut flower essence treats mental chatter, easing repetitive thoughts or worrisome behaviors. This is a beneficial remedy for the OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) personality.

Wild Oat - Bromus ramosus

Wild Oat flower essence directs the confused or lost individual toward his or her life path (soul purpose).

Wild Rose - Rosa canina

Wild Rose flower essence offers vitality to the soul that lacks motivation and looks at life as a hopeless venture.

Willow - Salix vitellina

Willow flower essence heals feelings of resentment and negativity.

Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

Yarrow flower essence strengthens the auric field.

Zinnia - Zinnia elegans

Zinnia flower essence helps adults re-connect with the innocence and love of play from their youth.

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