Today in medicine, it is a widely accepted fact that a person's mental and emotional state contributes a great deal to the creation of disease within the body. Most of this belief has come from the field of psychiatry and psychology. But in 1919, a brilliant young pioneering Welsh physician, Dr. Edward Bach, was decades ahead of today's doctors in understanding the psychosomatic mechanism. He began his medical career in the fields of pathology, bacteriology, and immunology. It was in the field of bacteriology that Dr. Bach's first breakthrough discoveries were made. Dr. Bach worked at the London Homeopathic Hospital as a pathologist and bacteriologist. It was here that he learned that Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, had emphasized the importance in treating defects of the personality and the role the personality played in forming disease, some 150 years before. This was an important understanding for Dr. Bach as he had been fascinated by his patients' personalities and the role a person played in their diseases. Based on his new found interest in homeopathy, he developed the 7 Bach nosodes (antidotes). The nosodes were homeopathic oral vaccines that neutralized the intestinal tract and had a remarkable effect on the patients' general health. Later, Dr. Bach noticed that people with the same personality traits were receiving the same nosodes. He later identified 7 distinct categories that corresponded with the 7 nosodes. From this point, he concentrated his research on personality and emotional defects and the effects they had in creating DIS-EASE within the body.
In 1983, Paul St. John, founder of the St. John Method of Neuromuscular Therapy, began working with flower essences on a limited basis to support his patients who were in chronic pain. In 1993, as a result of seeing a completely debilitated lupus patient undergo remarkable improvement in her condition (using flower essences with neuromuscular therapy), he began extensive application of the flower essences into many painful conditions of the body as well as the underlying structural distortion that was part of the production of pain in the body. The result was the creation of NMT6, Emotional-Structural Balancing, integrating various soft-tissue techniques as well as the application of flower essences to facilitate ridding the body of rigid tension patterns that are an important part of most pain syndromes that people experience.
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