| Shadow tendency | Wholeness |
|---|---|
| Deciding to give up hope | Renewed hope |
| Don’t try new solutions | Faith |
| Disheartened | Positive personality |
| Uncertainty | Hopeful |
| Hopelessness | Uninfluenced by present metal or physical condition or by other’s views |
| Try some solutions due to being forced by peers to do so | Convinced that all despairs will be overcome in the end |
| Assure other that there is no point of trying | Hope of recovery when sick |
| Courage failed | Resilient and persevering |
| They have suffered much | Able to accept their destiny |
| Appearance consists of a generally sallow and rathe darkish complexion | Realizes that hopelessness impedes the healing process and that “everybody has their own burden to carry” |
| They may look as if they need more sunshine to drive away the clouds | Brighter and happier |
| Stronger kind of downheartedness | Less depressed |
| Wilfully refuse to be encouraged | Grow after adversity |
| Despair | |
| Must continue to bear pain and suffering | |
| May be convinced of having an inherited condition | |
| “oh, what the use” attitude | |
| Deep inside, stagnation in the process of coming to terms with one’s destiny | |
| Resigned | |
| Has given up | |
| May look pale | |
| May have dark rings around eye | |
| No longer has the energy to have another go | |
| May have had a long-term chronic illness | |
| Childish attitudes | |
| Long duration and stubbornness of ailment | |
| Helpless | |
| When ill, these people do not expect good health to return. | |
| Mildly discouraged | |
| A loss of faith | |
| Mental Block |
Illnesses and Causes
Hopelessness - Long duration and stubbornness of ailment
Origin and Specification of the Plant
Binomial Name: Ulex europaeus
Kingdom: Plantae
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Ulex
Species: U.europaeus
Origin: Western Europe
Shade: yellow
Other names: Gorse, Common Gorse, Furze, Whin
Elements/Chemicals contained by the plant: Cytisine, Varenicline
Foliage: Evergreen
Height: 2-3m
Description: Upright to rounded densely bushy shrub with spine-tipped green shoots. Produces solitary, pea-like flowers approximately 2cm long followed by dark-brown seed approximately 2cm long.
Flowering season: late spring to early autumn
Qualities and preferences: grows on most soils but will avoid chalk and lime, preferring the slight acidity of moorlands and dry sandy commons
Areas of growth: Western fringe of Europe including roadside, motorway embankments and golf-courses
In the past, Gorse had various uses such as fuel and production of alkali-rich ashes. The ashes were utilized for washing purposes, either as a solution or mixed with clay to create soap substitutes in the form of balls, or even as fertilizers. Additionally, Gorse was also crushed or ground using a whin-stone and served as fodder. According to Pliny, Gorse was even utilized for collecting gold dust from water.
Specification of remedy
Group: Seven helpers
Emotional Group: Uncertainty
Chronic condition: Hopelessness
Method of extraction: Sun
Dr Bach first prepared the Gorse remedy in Buckinghamshire in the year of 1933. Gorse is the Bch flower remedy for hopelessness and is sometimes described as “sunshine in a bottle.” Gorse embodies the soul quality of hope.
Comparison between other flowers
Wild rose:
The Gorse personality can be persuaded to try another approach to treatment even when in despair, while on the other hand the Wild rose personality is even more passive and apathetic, no longer prepared to try anything new.
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Both these images show a zoomed in aspect of the Gorse flower.
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The picture on the left shows a historical drawing of Gorse while the other Image shows many Gorse flowers living together in harmony in their habitat.
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