Flower essences, taken orally, have similar effects . Clusters of psychological and physical symptoms respond to various flower essences. What is most fascinating is that each skin area on the body may be associated with a remedy that can be helpful for problems in that part of the body . The remedies, however, are not given to address the physical symptoms. They are given to address various psychological problems that have no obvious relationship to the dermal area that was used to identify the relevant remedy. I must admit I have no theory to explain this aspect of body language.

*An expanded version of this article appears in Benor, DJ, The Body, International J of Healing and Caring – on line, www.ijhc.org September, 2002, 1-18.

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