Nursery World - Flower power (2)

Refresh yourself with a flower remedy selected for the stresses and strains of nannying by Eve Boggenpoel Flower essences are enjoying a revival as a natural, safe solution to emotional problems and the stresses of everyday life. Today flower essence products are a common sight in not only health shops but high street chemists'. But people have been drawing on the energy of flowers for centuries. In ancient Egypt, if someone wanted to soothe a troubled mind they would collect the dew from certain petals and drink it. The abbess Hildegard Von Bingen in 12th century Germany would drape muslin over plants to soak up the flower-infused dew and then wring out the cloth and give her patients the liquid to heal emotional distress, or even wrap them in the treated muslin.

Flower essences are enjoying a revival as a natural, safe solution to emotional problems and the stresses of everyday life. Today flower essence products are a common sight in not only health shops but high street chemists'. But people have been drawing on the energy of flowers for centuries. In ancient Egypt, if someone wanted to soothe a troubled mind they would collect the dew from certain petals and drink it. The abbess Hildegard Von Bingen in 12th century Germany would drape muslin over plants to soak up the flower-infused dew and then wring out the cloth and give her patients the liquid to heal emotional distress, or even wrap them in the treated muslin.

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