Flower Essences Flashcards

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Agrimony

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  • Anxiety hidden behind a mask of cheerfulness
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Aspen

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  • Fear of unknown
  • Nightmares
  • Feeling easily startled
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Beech

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  • Intolerance
  • Criticalness
  • Overreation to people and environment due to one’s own sensitivity
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Centaury

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  • The inability to say ‘no’

- Difficulty prioritizing self-care

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Cerato

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  • Lack of trust in one’s own decisions

- Looking to others for outside information for answers

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Cherry Plum

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  • Fear of losing control

- Fear of breakdown

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Chestnut Bud

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  • Failure to learn from mistakes

- Repeating cycles

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Chicory

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  • Selfish

- Possessive love

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Clematis

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  • Dreaming of the future without working in the present
  • Spaciness
  • Dissociation
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Crab Apple

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  • Cleansing remedy
  • Self-hatred
  • Feeling impure
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Elm

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  • Overwhelmed by responsibility
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12
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Gentian

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  • Discouragement after a setback
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Gorse

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  • Hopelessness and despair
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Heather

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  • Self-centeredness and self-concern

- Sometimes about health

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Holly

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  • Hatred
  • Envy
  • Jealousy
  • Suspicion
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16
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Honeysuckle

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  • Living in the past

- Nostalgia

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Hornbeam

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  • Fatigue or weariness from mundane daily tasks or responsibilities
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18
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Impatiens

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  • Impatience
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19
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Larch

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  • Lack of confidence

- Difficulty finding one’s voice

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Mimulus

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  • Fear of known things (phobias)

- Fear of trying new things

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21
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Mustard

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  • Deep gloom for no reason

- Emotional ups and downs

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Oak

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  • Iron-willed
  • Over-striving beyond one’s limits
  • Taking on more than one can sustain
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Olive

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  • Exhaustion following mental or physical effort
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Pine

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  • Guilt
  • Rumination
  • Regrets about the past
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Red Chestnut

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  • Over-concern and worry for the welfare of loved ones
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Rock Rose

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  • Terror and fright

- Dissociative panic attacks

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Rock Water

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  • Self-denial
  • Rigidity
  • Self-repression
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28
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Scleranthus

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  • Inability to choose between alternatives
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29
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Star of Bethlehem

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  • Shock or trauma, either recent or past
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30
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Sweet Chestnut

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  • Pronounced despair and agony

- Feeling of aloneness or abandonment due to a “dark night of the soul”

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31
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Vervain

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  • Over-enthusiasm

- Fanatacism

32
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Vine

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  • Dominance

- Inflexibility

33
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Walnut

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  • For transitions

- Being held back by community or societal expectations

34
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Water Violet

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  • Quiet self-reliance leading to isolation
  • Aloof
  • Making distinctions based on class, race, or social status that ensure separation fromothers
35
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White Chestnut

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  • Unwanted thoughts and mental arguments
36
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Wild Oat

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  • Uncertainty over one’s direction in life
37
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Wild Rose

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  • Drifting
  • Resignation
  • Apathy
  • Illness which does not resolve itself
38
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Willow

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  • Self-pity
  • Resentment
  • Bitterness
39
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Mariposa Lily

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  • Alienated from mother or from mothering role
  • Feelings of childhood abandonment or abuse
  • Orphan state of consciousness
40
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Baby Blue Eyes

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  • Defensiveness
  • Insecurity
  • Mistrust of others
  • Estrangement from higher spiritual authority
  • Lack of support from the father or other masculine influences in childhood
41
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Arnica

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  • Disconnection of Higher Self from body during shock or trauma
  • Dissociation
  • Unconsciousness
  • Dysfunction or latent illness deriving from past trauma
42
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Golden Ear Drops

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  • Suppressed toxic memories of childhood

- Feelings of pain and trauma about past events affecting present emotional identity

43
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Echinacea

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  • Shattered by severe trauma or abuse
  • Physical or emotional disintegration of Self Identity
  • Poor immune function
  • Vacant presence
44
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Black-Eyed Susan

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  • Avoidance or repression of traumatic or shadow aspects of the personality
  • Addictive or hypnotic behavior due to loss of conceiousness
45
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Pink Yarrow

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  • Emotional boundaries issues

- Dysfunctional merging with others

46
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Wild (White) Yarrow

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  • Energetic boundaries

- Chemical/energetic sensitivites

47
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Golden Yarrow

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  • Social boundaries

- Using drugs/behaviors for social masking

48
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Garlic

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  • Fearful or weak due to parasitic influence
  • Prone to low vitality
  • Mediumistic
49
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Mountain Pennyroyal

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  • Unconscious absorption of negative programming

- Psychic contamination or possession

50
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Bleeding Heart

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  • Entangled in relationships based on fear, possessiveness, or neediness
  • Emotional co-dependence
51
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Borage

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  • Heavyheartedness or grief
  • Lack of confidence in facing difficult circumstances
  • Depressive behavior
52
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Buttercup

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  • Feelings of low self-worth
  • Inability to acknowledge or experience one’s inner light and uniqueness
  • Self-deprecating
53
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Sierra Primrose

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  • Lack of gratitude or reverence for the gift of lifer resulting in fatigue, boredom, or depression
  • Joyless living
  • Habitually dulled response to life
54
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Blackberry

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  • Inability to translate goals and ideals into concrete action or viable activities
  • Procrastination
55
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Tansy

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  • Lethargy
  • Procrastination
  • Inability to take straightforward action
  • Habits which undermine or subvert real abilities and talents
56
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Cayenne

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  • Stagnation

- Inability to move forward toward change

57
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Downy Avens

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  • 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
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Lemon

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  • Mental fatigue or related toxicity in the nervous system
  • Dreaminess
  • Learning disorders, including attention deficit
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Madia

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  • Easily distracted
  • Inability to concentrate
  • Splintered activity that is unproductive
60
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Cosmos

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  • Unfocused
  • Disorganized communication
  • Overexcited speech
  • Overwhelmed by too many ideas
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Dill

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  • Overwhelm due to excess stimulation
  • Hypersensitivity to environment or to outer activity
  • Sensory congestion
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Indian Pink

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  • Psychic forces which are easily fragmented by too much movement
  • Frayed and overwhelmed during multi-leveled activity
63
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Corn

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  • Inability to stay centered in the body

- Disorientation and stress, particularly in urban or crowded environments

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Scotch Broom

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  • Disheartened and depressed

- Overcome with pessimism and despair, especially regarding one’s personal relationship to world events

65
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Red Clover

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  • Susceptible to mass hysteria and anxiety

- Easily influenced by panic or other forms of group thought

66
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Green Cross Gentian

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  • 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
67
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Calla Lily

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  • Confusion or ambivalence about sexual identity or gender

- Wounding due to cultural gender bias

68
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Joshua Tree

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  • 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
69
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Pomegranate

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  • Ambivalent or confused about the focus of creativity, especially between values of career and home, creative and procreative, and personal and global
70
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Madrone

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  • 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
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Manzanita

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  • Estranged from the earthly world
  • Aversion or revulsion toward the body and physical world
  • Eating and sleeping disorders
72
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Pretty Face

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  • Feeling ugly or rejected because of personal appearance

- Over-identified with physical appearance

73
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Wild Hyssop

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  • 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
74
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Self Healt

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  • 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
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Fuchsia

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  • 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
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Spreading Phlox

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  • 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