​FES QUINTESSENTIALS

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

FES (3) - From Lotus to Quarking Grass
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49. LOTUS. Nelumbo nucifera
THE INCLUSIVE AND EXPANSIVE FLOWER. From self inflation to expansive spirituality. 
Key Symptoms: Inflated sense of self; spiritual pride; out of touch with ordinary personality; unable to be humble and human. Positive Potential: Inclusive and expansive spirituality; capable to synthesize diverse life experiences in service to the spiritual world.
50. LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING. Amaranthus caudatus
THE TRANSCENDING OF SUFFERING FLOWER. From profound melancholia to transcendent consciousness. 
Key Symptoms: Ability to move beyond personal suffering; transcendence of personal consciousness; transpersonal vision; compassionate understanding and acceptance of life karma. Positive Potential: Pain and suffering due to loneliness and isolation; intensified and profound melancholia; despair due to over-personalization of one's pain.
51. MADIA. Madia elegans
THE DISCIPLINE OF THE MIND FLOWER. From scattered activity to high focused concentration. 
Key Symptoms: Inability to concentrate; easily distracted; scattered and fragmented activity that becomes unproductive.
Positive Potential: Concentration and disciplined focus; precise thinking and mental capability to focus.
52. MALLOW. Sidalcea glauscens
THE WORLD TRUST FLOWER. From insecurity to reach out confident in the social process. 
Key Symptoms: Insecurity when relating to others; paralyzation when reaching out to others and trusting the social web represented by institutions, groups, etc.; unable to overcome social barriers, easily discouraged.
Positive Potential: Open-hearted, trust-able, warming and personable; sharing and confidence in the social process.
53. MANZANITA. Arctostaphylos viscida
THE JOYFUL EMBODIMENT FLOWER. From body estrangement to high spiritual embodiment. 
Key Symptoms: Estrangement from the earthly world; repulsion and aversion toward the physical world; eating and sleeping disorders.
Positive Potential: Joyful embodiment of once body incarnated in the world; embodiment of once own spiritual identity, integrated with the physical body.
54. MARIPOSA LILY. Calochortus leichtlinii
THE MOTHERLINESS FLOWER. From feeling orphan to being deeply nurtured. 
Key Symptoms: Alienation from the feminine principle of life; feelings rooted or linked to abandonment or abuse; orphan state of consciousness.
Positive Potential: Warm, feminine maternal consciousness; feminine and nurturing qualities of a mother; mother-child bonding qualities; positive connection of a mother or similar female figures.
55. MILKWEED. Asclepias cordifolia
THE INDEPENDENT FLOWER. From dependent state to self-reliance. 
Key Symptoms: Neediness and emotional regression; dulling of consciousness through use of drugs; overeating; creation of dependency or illness to receive attention.
Positive Potential: Independent and self-reliant personality; healthy ego strength.
56. MORNING GLORY. Ipomoea purpurea
THE MORNING GLORY FLOWER. From 'hung over' state to awakened freshness. 
Key Symptoms: Toxic, dull, or 'hung over' state; inability to be in touch with bodily healing resources, especially in the morning; continuously experiencing erratic and addictive living habits that deplete life force.
Positive Potential: Sparkling vital force, awake and refreshed; in touch with natural life rhythms.
57. MOUNTAIN PENNYROYAL. Monardella odoratissima
THE CLARITY OF MIND FLOWER. From cluttered mind to clear mind. 
Key Symptoms: Negative programming of the mind; uncluttered thoughts; unconscious absorption and psychic contamination; psychic possession.
Positive Potential: Strength and clarity of mind; awakened and clear thought; mental positivity.
58. MOUNTAIN PRIDE. Penstemon newberryi
THE PEACEFUL-WARRIOR FLOWER. From vacillation to forthright strength. Key Symptoms: Doubt and withdrawal at the core of once heart when challenged by life circumstances;, inability to take a stand for one’s convictions. Positive Potential: Assertiveness of once own masculine energy force; spirituality which transforms and confronts pain.
59. MUGWORT. Artemisa douglasiana
THE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FLOWER. From hysteric fantasy to lucid soul embodiment. 
Key Symptoms: Overactive psychic life; unable to integrate and embody transpersonal experiences and distinguish or integrate experiences coherently into one’s own personality; tendency to hysteria, ego inflation, fantasy and projection.
Positive Potential: Flexible, expansive and warm Soul qualities; multidimensional consciousness; integration of dream and intra-psychic experiences.
60. MULLEIN. Verbascum Thapsus
THE CHANNEL OF THE HIGHER SELF FLOWER. From deep deception to deep connection with the divine. 
Key Symptoms: Inability to hear one’s own higher self; the inner voice that guides is off; spiritual blindness and tendency to be highly confused and indecisive; deep deception of oneself and of others.
Positive Potential: Strong sense of inner consciousness; truthfulness of the Soul; feeling the psychic energy moving towards enlightenment; manifestation of the Self.
​61. NASTURTIUM. Tropaeolum majus
THE GLOWING VITALITY FLOWER. From intellectual spirituality to shinning the light of the being. 
Key Symptoms: Extremely dry and cold; intellectual spirituality; lack of light force; taking over of excessive intellectualization and applying theory that constrains instead of expanding.
Positive Potential: Radiant vitality; glowing light and warmth; living thinking; ideas reaching further development.
​62. NICOTIANA. Nicotiana Alata (Flowering Tobacco)
THE EARTH RHYTHM CONNECTION FLOWER. From rigidity to deeper earthy connection. 
Key Symptoms: Rigidity of the physical and the body; mechanical qualities; blunted feelings; shallow breathing; overuse and burnout of masculine forces within.
Positive Potential: Inner peace centered in the heart and the breathing; emotional well-being rooted in the harmonious connection of the Earth mother; connection to Earth rhythms and its pulsations.
63. OREGON GRAPE. Berberis aquifolium 
THE INCLUSIVE FLOWER. From deception of the other to welcoming trust. 
Key Symptoms: Defensiveness and paranoid ideation of other’s intentions and behaviors; expecting hostility and abuse; antagonic projection of the negative self.
Positive Potential: Inclusion of the other/s; positive expectations of goodness in the others; trusting and loving expectations.
64. PENSTEMON. Penstemon davidsonii 
THE RESILIENT SELF FLOWER. From not thriving to brave resilience. 
Key Symptoms: Feeling shame and sorry for oneself; feeling persecuted; inability to thrive due to difficult and adverse circumstances.
Positive Potential: Resilient Self; inner fortitude and strength to overcome adversity; ability to superate and endure despite hardships.
65. PEPERMINT. Menta piperita 
THE MINDFUL FLOWER. From lethargy to awaken inner clarity. 
Key Symptoms: Mental lethargy; dull or sluggish mood; depleted energy levels depleting mental forces.
Positive Potential: Wakeful inner clarity; mindfulness of the self and clear mind; balanced metabolism with cool and warm forces aligned.
66. PINK MONKEYFLOWER. Mimulus lewisii
THE SENSITIVE FLOWER. From guilt to full empathy. 
Key Symptoms: Shame; feelings of guilt and unworthiness; fear to be vulnerable; rejection of oneself and others due to previous abuse or trauma.
Positive Potential: Emotional transparency; availability to empathize with others; courage to take emotional risks with others.
​67. PINK YARROW. Achillea millefolium var.rubra
THE SELF-CONTAINED CONSCIOUSNESS FLOWER. From self-absorption to loving awareness. 
Key Symptoms: Lack of boundaries; unbalanced sympathetic forces; highly demanding or self-absorbed; non emotional clarity; confusion of the self; dysfunctional merging with others.
Positive Potential: Loving awareness of others; self-contained consciousness of the others; right and appropriate emotional boundaries.
68. POISON OAK. Toxicodendron diversiloba
THE WARMING TOUCH FLOWER. From self-protection to loving intimacy. 
Key Symptoms: Fearing physical contact; exaggeration in protecting oneself; terror of intimacy and being touched.
Positive Potential: Warm and positive vulnerability of the self; skilled in making physical contact to others; easily warming through touch.
69. POMEGRANATE. Punica granatum
THE ACTIVE CREATION FLOWER. From ambivalent talent to unfolding creativity. 
Key Symptoms:  Doubting values of opposing forces (career and home, personal and group/global); ambivalence about the process of creativity and its source; confusion about what to focus and create; lost in the contribution of once purpose.
Positive Potential: Loving and joyful expression of the feminine creativity; actively productive and nurturing either able to create at home or/and in the world.
70. PRETTY FACE. Triteleia ixioides
THE INNER BEAUTY FLOWER. From ugliness to radiant beauty. 
Key Symptoms: Fearing once own beauty; feeling unwanted, rejected and/or ugly because how one looks; over-identification on the appearance and how the body looks at the eyes of others and oneself.
Positive Potential: Magical and radiant beauty from within; unconditional self-acceptance of personal appearance despite of disadvantages, defects or weaknesses.
71. PURPLE MONKEY FLOWER. Mimulus kelloggii
THE REVELATION TO THE SPIRIT FLOWER. From feeling trapped to the mundane to awaking to the spirit within. Key Symptoms: Censorship coming from the mind; fear of not being valued or compensated by cultural and religious codex or conventional family/group or societal values; avoiding to experience fully the spiritual awakenings; apprehension to elevate consciousness to a next level; trapped in fear, limiting beliefs of the material world. Positive Potential: Renewed loving spirituality instead of fear-based; experiencing peace of mind & heart when experiencing the numinous, spiritual and/or divine; complete trust in once own inner guidance; courage to trust what is being revealed to you in the realm of the spirit.
72. QUAKING GRASS. Briza maxima
THE HARMONIOUS SOCIAL/GROUP FLOWER. From overpowered will to being open and receptive to others. 
Key Symptoms: Not functioning in groups; dysfunctional in group settings; not able to compromise; overruled by personal will and personal drives and desires when being in social conventions or social situations.
Positive Potential: Experiencing harmony in the group and in the community; flexible and receptive to others and of the group work.
FES (4) - From Queen Anne's Lace to Tumpet Vine
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.