Flower Essences

Berberis aquifolium (yellow). Positive qualities: Loving inclusion of others, positive expectation of good will from others, ability to trust. Patterns of imbalance: Paranoid or defensive behavior; expectation of hostility from others; antagonistic projection.

Mentha piperita (violet). Positive qualities: Mindful and wakeful clarity, warm metabolism balanced with cool head forces. Patterns of imbalance: Dull or sluggish, especially mental lethargy; under-active metabolism which depletes mental forces.

The FES Quintessentials flower essences are liquid potentized extracts derived from flowers grown in the Biodynamic gardens at Terra Flora, or pristine wildflower habitats. Created in 'Nature's laboratory' through a careful orchestration of the four elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire, FES essences combine the fifth quintessential element of the sensitive attunement and awareness of the...

Toxicodendron diversiloba (greenish-white). Positive qualities: Positive vulnerability, ability to make contact with others through touch. Patterns of imbalance: Fear of intimate contact, protective of personal boundaries; reactive or rejecting in relationships.

Mimulus kelloggii (purple). Positive qualities: Love-based rather than fear-based spirituality, calm and clarity when experiencing spiritual phenomena; the courage to trust in one's own spiritual experience or guidance. Patterns of imbalance: Fear of retribution or censure if one departs from religious conventions of family or community; apprehension or avoidance of threshold experiences due to...

 Daucus carota (white). Positive qualities: Spiritual insight and vision; integration of psychic faculties with sexual and emotional aspects of Self. Patterns of imbalance: Projection or lack of objectivity in psychic awareness; distortion of psychic perception or physical eyesight due to sexual or emotional imbalances.

 Ericameria nauseosus (yellow). Positive qualities: Lively and alert mental field; acute sensory perception and mobile state of mind. Patterns of imbalance: Easily overwhelmed by details; unable to cope with simultaneous events, “fuzzy” consciousness that is unable to register details.

Salvia officinalis (violet). Positive qualities: Wisdom derived from life experience; ability to assess and understand life process from a higher perspective. Patterns of imbalance: Seeing life as ill-fated or undeserved; inability to perceive higher purpose and meaning in life events.

Artemisia tridentata (yellow). Positive qualities: Essential awareness that releases what is extraneous, receptive “emptiness” capable of transformation and change. Patterns of imbalance: Over-identification with illusory parts of oneself; cluttered and chaotic attachments; need to release dysfunctional and stifling aspects within the personality or surroundings.

Hypericum perforatum (yellow). Positive qualities: Illumined consciousness, light-filled awareness; solar strength. Patterns of imbalance: Psychic and physical vulnerability; fearful or disturbed dreams; depression due to lack of contact with spiritual world.