BACH FLOWER REMEDIES: CRAB APPLE IS A UNIQUE REMEDY
In the matter of false sensations it is a unique remedy. We have found it so effective in our daily practice that we have literally put away our books on “Sensations as if’, and have never felt the necessity to open the book. Whether the patient complains that he feels his left foot heavy like a log. or he says that any food or drink does not descend the food pipe, or he feels ants creeping on his body (when there are none to be seen anywhere), CRAB APPLE alone will take care of one and all false sensations. To desire cleanliness is a good thing, but when the concept of cleanliness is stretched to impractical limits, it becomes oppressive.Consider the case of a mother who would not breastfeed the baby because she feels it is an unclean habit or take the case of a nurse who would not attend her ward because of bad smell, or a wet-nurse refusing to change the clothes of the orphaned infant because they are soiled.Such unrealistic fads about cleanliness are easily brought within the orbit of realism by the administration of CRAB APPLE.A person has somehow developed a dirty habit which he abhors and which he wants to get rid of, but fails to do so, because of some circumstances. CRAB APPLE will help him to get rid of the same.In the highly misunderstood ideal of purity, the negative Crab Apple person forgets that to keep harmonious relationship of various organs of the body functions such as perspiration, urination and passing stool are necessary, although they are unclean.The unconscious stress upon cleanliness gives them the feeling of being unclean, constipated and in the need of cleaning. They may resort to frequent washing of hands or taking many showers a day.*98\308\8*
