BACH FLOWER REMEDIES: THE ROCK ROSE STATE
Sudden communal riots have broken out when you have already left for your office which is situated in a riot-prone area. On the way you are sheltered by a friendly couple and do not reach your office. The frantic calls to your office by your wife receive no reply, and you do not know what is happening to your family. Terror-stricken you and your family anxiously wait for each other’s news. In a road accident you are saved by the skin of your teeth. Your whole body is shaken and your heart is thumping violently. Despite your saving from physical injury, the terror is writ large on your face. You are travelling in an aeroplane and suddenly there is an announcement ‘please get ready for an emergency landing.’ You remain in aweful suspense and extreme fear till the aeroplane lands safely. In a train accident you witness several people who are dead and several people seriously injured and gasping for breath. The whole scene is awe-inspiring. There is fear and dismay in the very atmosphere. People affected by the accident directly or indirectly are over-awed and the people who have seen the gruesome scene also feel stifled in that atmosphere. In all such cases where terror and panic pervade the whole atmosphere, Rock Rose remedy should be given to all those persons who are victims of the terrorising events or are witnesses to such events. Rock Rose remedy does not remove the cause of the terror, nor does it mitigate the extent of the damage. But it helps the affected person to keep his mental equilibrium in case of emergency. Instead of his mental faculties being paralised by terror, he remains mentally alert to think of ways to rescue the apparently impossible position. Fortunately the situations which call for Rock Rose remedy are temporary and do not last long. But the after-effects of Rock Rose situations may be long lasting. A woman who was sleeping on the 16th floor of a multi-storey building was so shaken by the earthquake which swung the building like a pendulum, that she lost her sleep—she became so sensitive to noise that the whistle of the street chowkidar, a barking by stray dog, a push on he door bell would frighten her out of wits and she would get up from sleep. It was only administration of Rock Rose continuously for sometime that she could get over the shock of that terrorizing experience and have sleep without the aid of sleeping pills.
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