​FES QUINTESSENTIALS

***  List of Key Symptoms and Positive Potentials  ***

FES (1) - From Aloe Vera to Corn
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​1. ALOE VERA. Aloe vera. 
THE LIFE-FORCE RENEWAL FLOWER. From burned-out to renewed creativity. 
Key Symptoms:  You are driven by your will power exhausting your possibilities and feeling out of the organic and natural flow of life.
Positive Potential: The life flow or creativity living through you is spontaneous and balanced; your life-energy force is active and in sync with your soul.
​2. ALPINE LILY. Lilium parvum. 
THE FEMALE PRINCIPLE FLOWER. From disconnected feminine to renewed feminine embodiment. 
Key Symptoms: Disembodied feminine presence, lack of connection to your female body and its energy.
Positive Potential: You embody the feminine principle, grounded, self-assured and with luminous identity.
3. ANGEL'S TRUMPET. Brugmansia candida. 
THE EGO SURRENDER FLOWER. From materialism to renewed spirituality. 
Key Symptoms:  Attachment to the material world. Resistance of letting go and connecting to your higher and spiritual self. Positive Potential: You run with ease the life and death renewal of life cycles. You can surrender and transform your old self to a newer personality that is aligned with the divine forces.
4. ANGELICA. Angelica archangelica. 
THE RECEIVER OF GUIDANCE FLOWER. From feeling orphan to feeling guided. 
Key Symptoms:  Sometimes you feel blocked the access to the spiritual realms and not accessing to be guided by spiritual beings; life passages and thresholds of spiritual renewal. Positive Potential: You are protected and guided during your spiritual awakenings and life-death renewal cycles.
​5. ARNICA. Arnica mollis. 
THE PAIN RELIEVER FLOWER. From trauma to relief. 
Key Symptoms:  Unconsciousness and dissociation after a very traumatic event. State of shock and symptoms/illness appearing after a severe 'life shocking' or 'life threatening' event. Misalignment of body, mind and soul. 
Positive Potential: You become conscious and aligned with the parts of you that were scattered after a trauma. Conscious connection and renewal after emergency situation or stressful circumstances that created deep pain or emotional paralysis.
​6. BABY BLUE EYES. Nemophilia menziesii. 
THE RETURN TO INNOCENCE FLOWER. From defensiveness to child innocence. 
Key Symptoms:  Deep insecurity clouds your sight and your heart. Deep mistrust of others and estrangement from parental figures and masculine influences. Lack of faith in the providence and to the male power.
Positive Potential: You renew trust with life and with others as you learn to forgive and love yourself unconditionally. You feel supported and loved by authority figures, especially by male figures; renewed faith in the divine.
​7. BASIL. Ocimum basilicum. 
THE EROTIC-LOVING FLOWER. From destructive sexual behavior to integral sexuality. 
Key Symptoms:  Miss-use of the sexual energy. Misalignment of the spiritual and sexual force, leading to dark practices or addictive sexual behaviors.
Positive Potential: Alignment and integration of the sexual and spiritual energies.
8. BLACK COHOSH. Actaea racemosa. 
THE DETACH-FREE FLOWER. From attachment to liberation. 
Key Symptoms:  Enmeshment and negative attachment to a relationship that is toxic, abusive and/or violent. 
Positive Potential: You have the power and courage to confront negative situations and patterns that hold you stuck in a destructive relationship.​
9. BLACK-EYED SUSAN. Rudbeckia hirta. 
THE SELF-AWARE FLOWER. From unconsciousness to self-awakening. 
Key Symptoms:  Repression of the dark sides of the psyche. Avoidance of the shadow aspects of ones own personality due to lack of consciousness. 
​Positive Potential: You become conscious and awake of your patterns and behavior. You achieve great insight to your own being and the patterns that remained unconscious
​10. BLACKBERRY. Rubus armeniacus.  
THE MANIFESTATION FLOWER. From procrastination to manifestation. 
Key Symptoms:  Procrastination of your soul's potential or life's mission. Impossibility to bring your goals and dreams into clear steps and definite action.
Positive Potential: You set concrete steps to bring forth your goals in life. You are able to manifest your dreams through your self-will. Your intentions are transformed and manifested into actions.
​​11. BLEEDING HEART. Dicentra formosa. 
THE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FLOWER. From co-dependence to unconditional love. 
Key Symptoms:  Entanglement and co-dependence to others. Relationship based on fear and neediness.
Positive Potential: Unconditional love is present in the relationship; emotional freedom from the heart manifested.
12. BORAGE. Borago officinalis.
THE RAISING HOPE FLOWER. From grief to renewed faith in life.
Key Symptoms:  Deep sorrow and pain due to grief, lack of trust and confidence in oneself for being able to face difficult and challenging circumstances; depressive state, mourning, defeat and losses.
Positive Potential: Optimistic mind & courageous heart to face the empty void that certain losses have left in your life.​
13. BUTTERCUP. Ranunculus occidentalis.
THE RADIATING INNER LIGHT FLOWER. From feeling in the dark to shinning light.
Key Symptoms:  Unable to experience your awesomeness and your uniqueness in a pure form; your inner light is turned off; low self-worth and low self-esteem; inability to shine your unique and radiant self.
Positive Potential: Natural radiation of your inner light, not being attached to recognition or fame.
​14. CALENDULA. Calendula officinalis.
THE WARM COMMUNICATION FLOWER. From verbal conflict to warm receptivity.
Key Symptoms:  Contentious communication; lack of receptivity; experiencing difficult and annoying communication with others; verbal abuse.
Positive Potential: Warm responsiveness & receptiveness when using words and when speaking with others.
​15. CALIFORNIA PITCHER PLANT. Darlingtonia californica.
THE EMBODIMENT OF YOUR INSTINCTUAL SELF FLOWER. From flaw instincts to instinctual embodiment. 
Key Symptoms:  Dissociated instincts; fearful of the fire and the passion within. 
Positive Potential: Healthy and grounded vitality; instinctual forces embodied.
​16. CALIFORNIA POPPY. Eschscholzia californica.
THE OPEN HEART RADIANT FLOWER. From false spirituality to real heart-based spirituality. 
Key Symptoms:  Spiritual bypassing, attachment to a false spirituality, escapism through altered experiences of reality, or using drugs or attaching to experience other out-of-body experiences. 
Positive Potential: Spirituality coming from heart values; radiant and strong alignment based on heart values and choices made at the heart-center.
​17. CALIFORNIA WILD ROSE. Rosa californica.
"IN SERVICE TO THE EARTH AND HUMANITY" FLOWER. From resignation to becoming an active servant.  Key Symptoms: Detachment, aloofness, disregard and passivity; impossibility to use the inherent forces from the heart or channel self-will from the heart center. Positive Potential: Experiencing the love for the planet Earth and for life; eagerness and fervor for serving and doing things for self, others and the planet.
​18. CALLA LILY. Zantedeschia aethiopica. 
THE SEXUAL IDENTITY AFFIRMATION FLOWER. From unclear sexual identity to self-acceptance. 
Key Symptoms:  Sexual self-affirmation, self-acceptance, and self-actualization. Integration of one's own individuality of the feminine and masculine qualities. 
Positive Potential: Sexual or gender identity conflict; wounding based on cultural gender biases.
​19. CANYON DUDLEYA. Dudleya cymosa.
THE BODY-MIND BALANCING FLOWER. From drama lifestyle to charismatic lifestyle.  
Key Symptoms:  Distorted way of relating and conceptualizing relationships; drama-based lifestyle.
Positive Potential: Optimistic stance and charisma in the personality; balance of the psychological and physical energies; firm and grounded presence.
​20. CAYENNE. Capsicum annuum.
THE ENERGETIC MOTOR OF CHANGE FLOWER. From no change to moving forward.  
Key Symptoms: Inability to change and move forward in life; static, stagnant, no flow or mobility. 
​Positive Potential: Self-agency and self-transformation accompanied by an energetic and fiery force towards change.
​21. CHAMOMILLE. Matricaria recutita.
THE MIND-BODY PEACE MAKER FLOWER. From emotional tension to emotional balance.  
Key Symptoms:  Moodiness and irritability; inability to release emotional tensions felt in the stomach and/or solar plexus.
Positive Potential: Serene and pacific emotional balancing.
​22. CHAPARRAL. Larrea tridentata (Creosote Bush)
THE TRANSPERSONAL UNDERSTANDING FLOWER. From toxicity to transpersonal awareness. 
Key Symptoms: Deep toxicity in the psyche and the body; chaotic and disturbing dreams; soul infection through use of drugs, violent and abusive acts towards oneself.
Positive Potential: Deep understanding of oneself in a transpersonal level; balanced psychic transpersonal awareness. 
​23. CHRYSANTHEMUM. Chrysanthemum morifolium 
THE TRANSCENDING MORTALITY FLOWER. From material attachment to soul transcendence. 
Key Symptoms: Deep fears of aging and dying. Life crisis, questioning once own mortality; attachment to the material world, not finding spiritual or soul meaning. 
Positive Potential: Living from the soul and its transpersonal expression. Embodiment of a higher spiritual identity that transcends temporal personality.
​24. CORN. Zea mays
THE GROUNDING AND CENTERING TO EARTH FLOWER. From disorientation to alignment with the earth. 
Key Symptoms: Lack of grounding and contentedness; disorientation; particularly in urban and crowded areas where there is less green environments. 
Positive Potential: Grounding presence rooted to the earth, through the body and the feet; aligning with the center of the earth.
FES (2) - From Cosmos to Lavender
Bach Flower Therapy is a member of FES and buys their 103 Quintessential flower essences, flowers from California, to promote and use the mother essences to create personalized remedy formulas for our clients. You can find more information about FES at their website: www.flowersociety.org​
​Texts, titles and Key Symptoms and Positive Potentials are written by Roser Camats​ Falip. Photos of the flowers are taken from free images at Pixabay.