The Bach Original Flower Remedies were developed by Dr Edward Bach a
Harley Street doctor and well-known physician, bacteriologist, homeopath
and researcher. Despite the success of his work with orthodox medicine he
felt dissatisfied with the way doctors were expected to ignore the patients'
suffering and concentrate on their diseases. He was inspired by his work with homoeopathy but wanted to find remedies that would be purer and less reliant
on the products of disease. So in 1930 he gave up his lucrative Harley Street practice and left London, determined to devote the rest of his life to a new
system of medicine that he was sure could be found in nature.

During the later years of his research Dr. Bach  discovered that illness of the physical body is very often rooted in disharmony of the mind - the physical
illness being just an end product of that internal disharmony. Bach found
that once harmony is restored to the patient at mental and emotional levels,
the body naturally regains its vitality and a majority of its physical 'diseases' disappear. Further, the patient finds a renewed interest in life and is able
to lead a fuller and more meaningful life.

Dr Bach believed that attitude of mind plays a vital role in maintaining health
and recovering from illness and wanted to find something that treated the cause rather than the symptom. After identifying 38 basic negative states of mind and spending several years exploring the countryside, he managed to create a plant
or flower based remedy for each one.

In 1934 he decided to settle down and create a centre for his work, and chose Mount Vernon, a small cottage in Sotwell, Oxfordshire. He spent the last years
of his life at Mount Vernon, also known as the Bach Centre, and it was here that he completed his research.