Edward Bach
Edward Bach [ ˈed wəd ˈbætʃ ] ( ) (born September 24, 1886 in Moseley near Birmingham ; † November 27, 1936 ) was an English doctor. He developed the Bach flower therapy , an alternative medical treatment method.
Life
Bach grew up in Birmingham , studied medicine at University College Hospital in London and received his diploma from Cambridge . Even at that time, he believed that personality was more important than the symptoms of illness. He worked as a surgeon and medical director of the emergency room at University College Hospital, then as an assistant in the bacteriological and immunological departments. During this time he was engaged in the production of car vaccines from various intestinal bacteria . He considered the intestines to be a source of various poisons which, when absorbed by the body, are the cause of disease.
In his youth, Bach's closeness to nature and his sensitivity , intuition and ability to observe plants and animals were noticed . At the age of 17 (1903) he began to work in his father's brass foundry and thus became familiar with social issues in connection with the prevailing working conditions there and the socio-medical issues that arise there . He was primarily concerned with the possible emotional causes of chronic physical illnesses. In 1906 he began studying medicine.
In 1914, during the First World War , he treated and cared for war wounded, although he was exempt from military service due to his unstable health. In 1917 he was diagnosed with advanced spleen cancer and a life expectancy of 3 months was predicted. Shortly before he was diagnosed with cancer, his first wife, Gwendoline Caiger, died of diphtheria .
After a successful operation on his tumor, he started working again in 1918, now at the London Homeopathic Hospital, and developed so-called nosodes , a homeopathic dilution of these substances , from his bacterial autovaccines . In 1920 he opened a practice in London. He had remarried and had a daughter. The marriage was divorced in 1930.
In 1930 he closed his successful practice and devoted himself to herbal medicine . He spent spring and summer finding and working on new herbal remedies, and in the winter of the same year he treated patients with Bach flower therapy free of charge and began promoting it. His behavior was frowned upon by the medical professional organization, but he retained his license.
Edward Bach died of heart failure on November 27, 1936 at the age of 50. The effectiveness of Bach flower therapy could not be proven in clinical studies.
Working method
In his most famous book “Heal Yourself” (Heal Thyself) he writes: “Illness is never cured or eradicated by present materialistic methods, for the simple reason that illness is not material in its origin. [...] Disease is essentially the result of the conflict between the soul and the mind and will never be eradicated except through spiritual and mental effort. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernhard Leary: The early work of Dr. Edward Bach. Br Homeopath J. 1999 Jan; 88 (1): 28-30. PMID 10228602
- ^ Edward Bach, Charles Edwin Wheeler: Chronic Disease, A Working Hypothesis. Lewis, London 1925
- ↑ Sigrid Schmidt: Bach flowers for inner harmony . Gräfe and Unzer-Verlag, Munich 1 1991, 6 2010, ISBN 978-3-7742-6427-4 , p. 6 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Edward Bach in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bach, Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English medic, bacteriologist and immunologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moseley near Birmingham , England , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1936 |