Blends
A blend is several remedies in one bottle, mixed for a situation rather than chosen for a person. Dr Bach made exactly one himself, the crisis formula, and everything here grows out of it.
The crisis formula
Dr Bach's own five remedy blend for moments that arrive without warning. Best known ready made as Rescue Remedy, though every maker sells a version.
Read about the blendThe anxiety blend
Five remedies for the different shapes anxiety takes: a fear you can name, a dread you cannot, a mind that will not stop going over it, and the point where it tips into panic.
Read about the blendThe sleep blend
The crisis formula plus White Chestnut, the remedy for thoughts on a loop. Sold ready made as Rescue Sleep, and simple to mix from the six singles.
Read about the blendThe stress blend
Five remedies for pressure and overwhelm: the week everything landed at once, the fuse that has got shorter, the head that will not come off duty.
Read about the blendThe anger blend
Five remedies for the hot version and the cold one: the flare that is gone in ten minutes, the fuse that has got shorter, and the resentment that never flares at all.
Read about the blendThe low mood blend
Five remedies for flat and heavy stretches: gloom that arrives from nowhere, hope that has gone, discouragement after a setback, and mornings that look impossible from the doorway.
Read about the blendThe focus blend
Five remedies for the different ways concentration leaks: a head too full, a mind that drifts, a start you cannot make, and the same careless mistake again.
Read about the blendThe exam nerves blend
Five remedies for exams, interviews and driving tests: the expected failure, the wandering attention, the bad mock that felt like a verdict.
Read about the blendThe confidence blend
Five remedies for self doubt: the expected failure, the shyness, the second guessing, and the no that never quite gets said.
Read about the blendThe grief blend
Five remedies for loss: the shock and the numbness, the anguish, the backwards pull of the memories, and a life reshaping itself around an absence.
Read about the blendThe new baby blend
Five remedies for the first months: the tiredness past tired, the 2am checking, the overwhelm, and the gray days that arrive in the middle of the joy.
Read about the blendThe children's blend
Six remedies for the states children show you rather than explain: bedtime fears, nightmares, a new school, the clinging at the gate, the meltdown, and I cannot do it.
Read about the blendThe big changes blend
Five remedies for upheaval: the move, the new job, the ending. For holding your own shape while everything around you is being rearranged.
Read about the blendThe crisis formula for pets
The same five remedies as the human crisis formula, sold for animals in an alcohol free base. For fireworks, vet visits, travel and everything else that rattles them.
Read about the blendThe pet sleep blend
The pet crisis formula plus White Chestnut, for the dog pacing after lights out and the cat that decided night is the time. Sold ready made as Rescue Pet Sleep.
Read about the blend
A blend or a personal mix?
Bach meant the system to be personal: you read the descriptions, recognize yourself in a few, and mix those. A blend flips that around and starts from the situation instead, which is exactly right when the situation is sudden and there is no time to choose.
Four of these match the ready made bottles Nelsons sells under the Rescue name, so you can read what is actually in a bottle before buying it, or mix your own from the singles. And whatever the situation, the quiz builds you a personal shortlist in about a minute, which for anything that is really a pattern rather than a situation will fit better than any blend could.
Start from how you feel instead
The quiz narrows the 38 remedies to a personal shortlist, and the seven emotional groups cover the same ground at your own pace.