Success Stories: Son on Heavy Medications

I started using Bach Flower Essences last May on my 12-year-old son who is ADHD and bi-Polar Manic Depressive. He was on 6 heavy meds at the time after having spent the first 6 years of his life trying all types of holistic therapies which weren't enough. The flowers worked wonders!

He's off 4 of his 6 meds and we're working on eliminating the remaining two. Every August, and Nov-March is when he cycles and becomes very depressed and suicidal. This last August he was perfectly fine for the first time since he was 3 years old! The flowers balanced him out and worked miracles!!!!! As for the Nov-March cycling, he has had only a few days where he went off the deep end but was able to pull himself together within an hour by taking the Bach Flower Essences every 10 minutes. What works for his bipolar illness is Mustard (mood swings), Aspen (unknown fears), Heather (excessive talking), Holly (anger), Chicory (argumentative, self-absorbed), Vervain (high strung and determined to do things only his way) and Rescue Remedy (trauma of it all).

The meds he use to take for this illness NEVER could prevent it or calm him down (unless he was heavily drugged), then he was a zombie. His doctors and teachers have a difficult time believing this works but his improvement is the evidence. His alternative >doctors are very pleased and supportive. He is the first child in our school district who has flower essences in the nurse's office for emergencies instead of meds like the other children. That was an effort to get them to accept this but we did prevail! Share the earth.

Sarah Backus

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