| Shadow tendency | Wholeness |
|---|---|
| Heading for a breakdown | Composure |
| Fear of losing self-control | Security |
| Irrational | Self-control |
| Explosive | |
| May be a danger of trying suiciding or suiciding | Courageous |
| Extreme physical and mental state | Spontaneous |
| Uncontrolled outbreaks of temper | Strength |
| Desperate | Connected to a powerful reservoir of spiritual strength |
| Afraid one might do something against one’s will | Able to penetrate deeply into one’s subconscious |
| Brutal impulses come up | Able to understand insights of the future through their thoughts and intuition |
| Afraid of one’s own thoughts, spirit and uncontrollable power | Able to live peacefully and without a fear of acting in a certain harmful/ abusive way |
| Afraid one is going mad | Endurance |
| Contrary to one’s normal disposition | Retains sanity |
| Feeling of an inner time bomb ticking away | Gives hope |
| Toying with the idea of putting an end to it | Tranquil calmness |
| Compulsive delusions | Mind is at ease |
| E.g. Parents fear they may abuse their children, when they do not want to do so | Gain control over feelings |
| Deep depression | Acknowledge the fear |
| Great distress | Destructive urge will dissipate |
| Afraid mind is giving up on life | Rational thinking |
| Feels insanity | Recalibrate your emotions |
| May have gone through a long-continued duration of mental torture or physical suffering | |
| Lack of mental control | |
| Tense | |
| May have desire to hurt, injure or cause pain to other | |
| Outburst of feelings | |
| Extreme | |
| Near hysteria | |
| Murderous impulses at times | |
| Feel of remorse when thinking of doing a harmful action | |
| Acute or sudden nature | |
| Long period of anxiety | |
| Feels there is no point to life sometimes | |
| Spark with rage | |
| Threatened | |
| Vulnerable | |
| Chaotic thinking | |
| Sense of paranoia |
Origin and Specification of the Plant
Binomial Name: Prunus cerasifera
Kingdom: Plantae
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Prunus
Species: P.cerasifera
Origin: Western Asia and South-eastern Europe
Shade: Pink, white
Other names: Cherry plum, Myrobalan plum, Myrobalan, Weeping plum, Mirabelle
Elements/Chemicals contained by the plant: Amygdalin, Pectin
Foliage: Deciduous
Height: 1.2m-7.5m
Description: a hybrid between a cherry and a plum. The fruit is larger than a standard cherry, but smaller than a standard plum, with a medium-length stem that resembles a cherry. The fruit’s skin is very thin, smooth, glossy, and taut, flushed with dark red, bright red, and golden hues, overlayed with a layer of light speckling.
Flowering season: Spring
Qualities and preferences: moderately fertile soil in full sun
Areas of Growth: Parks
Cherry plum trees are among the first to flower in spring. The plums are about the size of cherries and are often used to make jam or fermented to make wine. When jam is made, the fruit is gently boiled, releasing pectin from the cell walls. Pectin occurs in the skin and the core of the fruit, where it helps form the structure. It was first isolated in 1825 by the chemist.
Seeds and leaves of many species in the genus Prunus including plums and apricots, contain the compound amygdalin. Amygdalin is sometimes known as vitamin B17 although it is not actually a vitamin. Amygdalin was isolated in 1830 and first used as a cancer treatment in Russia in 1845. Its use in the USA began in the 1920s.
Specification of remedy
Group: Second nineteen
Emotional Group: Fear
Emotional Response: Loss of control
Method of extraction: Boiling
Dr Bach first prepared the Cherry Plum remedy in Sotwell in the year of 1935, during the month of March. We may take the Cherry Plum remedy when we fear we will lose control and do something irrational or wrong. Cherry plum relates to the principle of openness and composure.
Comparison between other flowers
Rock Rose:
The differentiation between the Cherry Plum and Rock Rose personality is that an average Cherry Plum person keeps fear of one’s own subconscious conflicts as far as possible and hidden while the latter is used to treat extreme states of terror that are apparent on the outside.
The image on the right-hand side shows the cherry plum flower in a close-up aspect. The picture on the left side shows many Cherry Plum flowers living together in harmony in their habitat.