Like all herbal medicines, the sooner you start the remedy, the faster and better the result. If it was not possible to apply these healing herbs immediately after the injury, start as soon as possible – better late than never.

If you have a very old bruise or wound that still feels hard and / or a little tender even months or years later, apply calendula or comfrey cream topically at least once a day until the area feels normal once again. This may take many months, but is important to do so in order to obtain full healing.

Rosa Scarless Healer, containing comfrey, has been around for decades and is still one of the best on the market. You can buy it via the company below.



CAUTION: Do not use Comfrey on dirty wounds. Ensure there is absolutely no infection is present before using comfrey on any wound or you may end up with an absess.

Use Calendula Ointment or my Herbal Healing Cream, which is a combination of healing and antiseptic herbs in a natural base that can be used on bruises, cuts and scrapes. Switch to Comfrey when the infection risk has passed i.e. the wound looks clean, with no signs of pus or redness or heat.

Because the skin is open, use comfrey rather than Arnica if there is any bruising. Comfrey still helps to seal off broken capillaries and minimise bruising. Big knocks may still bruise slightly but they will heal much faster than expected with repeated applications of comfrey over the following days and weeks. Keep applying until the wound is completely healed.

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Relationship essence from Australian Bush Flower Essences enhances the quality of all relationships, especially intimate ones.

It clears and releases resentment, blocked emotions and the confusion, emotional pain and turmoil of a rocky relationship.

Relationship Essences helps one to verbalise, express feelings and improve communication.

It breaks the early negative family conditioning and patterns which effect us in our current adult relationships. For those in intimate relationships Sexuality Essence is a perfect remedy to follow Relationship Essence.

Negative Condition:
• Emotion pain and turmoil
• Confusion
• Resentment
• Blocked, held in emotions
• Inability to relate

Positive Outcome:
• Expressing feelings
• Enhanced communication
• Forgiveness
• Breaks negative family conditioning
• Renews interest
• Enhances parental-child bonding

Relationship Essence contains the following Bush Flower Essences: Bluebell, Boab, Bottlebrush, Bush Gardenia, Dagger Hakea, Flannel Flower, Mint Bush, Red Helmet Orchid, Red Suva Frangipani and Wedding Bush.

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Emergency Essence from Australian Bush Flower Essences is excellent for any emotional upset. It has a calming effect during a crisis.

It is a wonderful remedy for calming children for children and animals.

If a person needs specialised medical help, this Essence will provide comfort until treatment is available.

Administer this remedy every hour or more frequently if necessary, until the person feels better.

Negative Condition:
• Panic
• Distress
• Fear

Positive Outcome:
• Ability to cope

Emergency essence contains the following Bush Flower Essences: Angelsword, Crowea, Dog Rose of the Wild Forces, Fringed Violet, Grey Spider Flower, Sundew and Waratah.
**Slender Rice Flower and Spinifex have also been added to the Cream Formulations.

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The Confid combination by Australian Bush Flower Essences brings out the positive qualities of self esteem and confidence.

It allows us to feel comfortable around other people and resolve negative beliefs we may hold about ourselves as well as any guilt we may harbour from past actions.

Confid also helps us to take responsibility for situations and events that occur in our lives and realise that we have the ability and power not only to change those events, but also to create those we want.

Negative Condition:
• Low Self Esteem
• Guilt
• Shyness
• Lack of Conviction
• Victim Mentality

Positive Outcome:
• Taking responsibility for one’s life
• Integrity
• Confidence
• Personal power
• True to one’s self

Bush Flower Essences: Boab, Dog Rose, Five Corners, Southern Cross and Sturt Desert Rose.

Confidence and self esteem are themes explored in the Level 1 Workshop with Australian Bush Flower Essences.

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Helps to find time for one’s self, to relax without external pressures and demands, to wind down and enjoy relaxing pursuits.

Good for children at bedtime and adults as they come in the door from work.

Negative Condition:
• Always over committed
• No time for self
• Impatience
• Rushing
• Worry
• Mind chatter
• Can’t sleep
• Irritability

Positive Outcome:
• Encourages own time and space to wind down
• Relax and have fun
• Clarity, calmness and peace

Calm and Clear contains the following Bush Flower Essences: Black-eyed Susan, Boronia, Bottlebrush, Bush Fuchsia, Crowea, Jacaranda, Little Flannel Flower and Paw Paw.

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This Combination Essence from Australian Bush Flower Essences, gives clarity and focus when working, speaking, reading or studying.

It balances the intuitive and cognitive processes and helps integrate ideas and information.

Excellent for study or pursuits that require intense focus.

It assists problem solving by improving access to the Higher Self, which stores all past knowledge and experiences.

Cognis contains the following Bush Flower Essences:

Bush Fuchsia, Isopogon, Jacaranda, Paw Paw and Sundew.

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It is estimated that 90% of our sub conscious patterning is formed by the time we are 3 years old. Given that much of our conscious behaviour is driven by our subconscious patterning, this gives serious pause for thought.

Parents, siblings, grandparents, neighbours, friends, teachers, TV, radio, movies – young children absorb information like sponges from all these sources whilst still mostly pre-verbal. Nature wired us this way so that we could figure out how to negotiate our environment. However, nature did this when we were living in small tribes close to nature (a very different scenario to modern living in western culture).

So, if your view of the world was mostly formed by the time you were three – whose programs are running in the background? How much are these programs pulling your strings? Are these values aligned with your own values, dreams and goals? When something stressful or traumatic happens, do you respond or react? How old are you at these times? Interesting questions to contemplate…

As a parent, are you concerned about the effect of this myriad of influences on your own children? If you see your child taking on values not congruent with your own, or if they experience a trauma, would you like to have a natural, accessible means of helping them?

One way is with flower essences – gentle, self adjusting remedies that help bring into balance intense or negative thought patterns and emotions. One of the most beautiful things about flower essences is that they are a totally safe – you simply cannot do any harm with a flower essence. Anyone can choose and use a flower essence, and it is impossible to overdose on them. If you take the wrong one, all that happens is that it doesn’t work.

Australian Bush Flower Essences have 69 flower essences to assist with a wide range of emotional, attitudinal and spiritual patterns. One is a remedy called Paw Paw, which is specific for resolving conflict between conscious thoughts and sub conscious programming.

Is your teenager bowing to peer pressure? Sturt Desert Rose can assist them to stay true to their own personal integrity and values. Is lack of confidence an issue? Try some Five Corners. Perhaps bullying is a problem – Rough Bluebell helps perpetrators gain a sense of empathy, while Southern Cross allows those being victimised to more easily stand up for themselves.

Learning and literacy problems, as well as ADD and ADHD often benefit from Bush Fuchsia.

Tantrums? Mountain Devil works wonders.

Feeling like you don’t fit in? Tall Yellow Top.

Rebirthing is form of guided meditation – a healing technique used to discover whether specific beliefs were taken on board during the birthing process or while still in the womb. For example practitioners experienced in rebirthing have documented that if a baby got stuck during the birth, they may grow into a person with a pattern of getting stuck later in life. If they were ‘rescued’ via medical intervention during the labour, they often wait to be rescued if they ‘get stuck’ in life. Whereas if they went on to be born naturally, they can often push through the obstacle themselves. It really is fascinating research. Our birth story is powerful, and knowing it can bring deep insights about our life and emotional patterns.

Imagine a world where your past traumas have been healed and your negative beliefs and limiting thought patterns dissolved, so that you are free to be the best person you can be. Imagine entering adulthood knowing who you are and what you want to do with your life, with good self esteem and the confidence to go out into the world and just go for it. Imagine a world full of people who are healthy in mind, body, heart and spirit.

I truly believe that Australian Bush Flower Essences can help bring this about, especially when I see the profound differences they have made in countless adult’s lives, including my own, and when I meet teenagers and young adults who have been raised on the Essences. I see it in my own family. I see it in the many children in my community whom I have given the Essences over the past ten years, sometimes from birth.

I am fortunate to also see this often as I teach my workshops around Australia and North America. Many people come back for new workshops over the years, or repeat a course just to be amongst like minded people for the weekend. It is wonderful to hear them describe how the Essences have enabled them to let go of and heal patterns that were not serving them. It is beautiful and heart warming to watch them blossomed as a result. Their journeys are truly inspiring.

If you would like to learn more about the healing qualities of Australian Bush Flower Essences, click here to see when Linn is teaching a workshop near you in the USA or Australia.

Or click here for the full workshop schedule of Australian Bush Flower Essences in Australia, the UK, North and South America, Asia and Europe.

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Mountain Devil is very beautiful red flower growing in the Sydney Sandstone region of Australia. As a flower essence, its healing qualities include the release of the emotions of:

• anger
• frustration
• rage
• hatred
• jealousy

For adults whose predominant emotional response to a situation is anger, and children who react to being thwarted with a temper tantrum, Mountain Devil is very calming. It is effective whether this is a personality tendency, or due to circumstances.

Anger is one of the early stages of grief, and Mountain Devil can be taken as a flower essence to help you move through to the next stage.

Many men can react to situations with anger and aggression, not only due to the influence of testosterone, but also if social conditioning from an early age taught them that expressing sadness, disappointment, vulnerability and other tender emotions is ‘unmanly’ and unacceptable.

I also often give Mountain Devil to people born under the sun sign Aries, who are much more likely to express overt anger than any other sun sign.

Justifiable anger is a positive force – there are some things it is quite right to feel angry or outraged about, and the force of this emotion provides the energy to effect positive change.

However if anger is a constant emotional state, it can be an indication of deep seated stress or unhappiness, and can cause physical problems in the long term, most particularly with the liver and heart. Using Mountain Devil as an aid to releasing anger, frustration and hatred in these circumstances is a good long term preventative health strategy

Mountain Devil is a very useful flower essence taken alone, or in conjunction with anger management strategies.

Mountain Devil is one of the flowers explored during the Level
2 Australian Bush Flower Essences workshop, which is taught worldwide.
Releasing anger is one of the major themes of this workshop.

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If this does not happen to be nearby to you, click here for the global schedule, with another certified teacher.

Feel free to leave a comment below with your experiences taking Mountain Devil, or with any questions you may have about this flower
essence.

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Red Suva Frangipani is one of my favourite flower essences. Its healing qualities include:

• to soothe fresh, raw grief
• bring an ability to cope with emotional loss
• help those who are crying too much, or in inappropriate situations

Red Suva Frangipani certainly is excellent in quietening the intense emotions felt during times of loss, be it through:

• death,
• separation, or
• relationship breakdown

I have given it to many people, from toddlers to the very elderly, all of whom have loved its soft nurturing qualities.

As a Mum whose work often takes me away from my own child, it is always part of the blend (along  with Bottlebrush) that I give to my daughter to make these separations easier for her.

In my clinic I often give it to any child suffering from separation anxiety, especially those who need to be in daycare from a very young age due to their parent’s work commitments.

Red Suva Frangipani is one of the flowers explored during the Level 2 Australian Bush Flower Essences workshop, which is taught worldwide. Releasing sadness is one of the major themes of this workshop.

Click here to find when I will be teaching this workshop next.

If this does not happen to be nearby to you, click here for the global schedule, with another certified teacher.

Feel free to leave a comment below with your experiences taking Red Suva Frangipani, or with any questions you may have about this flower essence.

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