Deep Peace

This formula was developed by Richard Katz in the aftermath of the tragedies of September 11, 2001. We have entered a time of great uncertainty. How do we meet violence and hatred without creating more suffering? How can we find peace within when we are surrounded by conflict? This new formula is intended to remind us of our true sources of faith and equanimity, so we that may be a power for peace in a troubled world. It includes Angelica, Oregon Grape, Rock Rose, Indian Pink, Red Clover and California Valerian. Indications: for anxiety and fear during times of crisis; strength and clarity to remain calm in chaotic circumstances when others are in a state of panic or reaction.

Gaia Green

This formula attracts elemental forces to re-inhabit damaged areas of earth. It stimulates the green heart forces within the human being in relationship to the heart forces of the living earth, bringing balance to homes, communities, gardens, bodies of water and land that are devastated and depleted. Composed entirely of rare green flowers, the Gaia Green formula nourishes and stimulates green forces of growth, life and renewed elemental activity. Includes Green Rein Orchid, Green Bells of Ireland, Lady’s Mantle, Green Rose, Green Cross Gentian and Green Nicotiana.

Grief Relief

This formula was developed by Richard Katz in response to the tragic events of September 11, 2001.  It combines a triad of pink flowers that bring solace and strength to the heart, and a triad of blue flowers that uplift and restore hope. 

Indications:  despair, grief, discouragement, hopelessness after a personal or collective tragedy or loss

Dosage:  four drops taken under the tongue at least four times daily, as often as every few minutes during an immediate crisis.  Strength of dosage is increased by the frequency of the dosage, not the amount.  It is not necessary to take more than four drops at a time, but there is no danger of overdose from taking more.

You may also:

Place 20 drops in bath water and circulate in a figure-eight motion
Add 12 drops to a misting bottle of water and use as a spray
Add 6 drops per ounce to cream or lotion and apply to the skin

Formula:

Bleeding Heart - This is a leading flower essence whenever there is a sense of separation or loss.  When we lose a loved one, we feel as if a part of ourselves, a piece of our own heart, has been ripped asunder.  Bleeding Heart essence allows us to fully feel our loss and then release and accept it.  We can then find within ourselves those qualities that we so loved in our beloved, and out of that realization come to know the wholeness that is at our core.

Pink Yarrow - When our heart is torn open by pain, we can become acutely sensitive to the emotions of others, so much so that it may be difficult to distinguish our own feelings.  Pink Yarrow gives strength and integrity to our emotional body when it is stretched thin by sorrow.

California Wild Rose - Sometimes our pain can be so great that we lose our enthusiasm for life itself.  We may become apathetic or even suicidal. The California Wild Rose essence helps us to accept that pain is part of the experience of being embodied and ensouled human beings.  It is an opportunity for the development of our forces of love and compassion.

Explorer's Gentian - This botanical relative of Dr. Bach's Gentian is also indicated for discouragement and despair.  It is one of the latest blooming wildflowers of the high mountains of the western US, with brilliant blue flowers that contract with the dried-up remnants of most other plants at that time. This essence helps overcome a feeling of world-weariness that is often a part of the aging process, but which can also strike us when we feel the pain of personal or collective loss.  The Explorer's Gentian connects us with our spiritual source of purpose, which can become a source of strength and rejuvenation.

Borage - The sky-blue star flowers of the Borage have long had a reputation for uplifting the heavy heart when we are discouraged or disheartened.  This is the essence for the grief experience, for the time when we need to release the heaviness of our loss, and allow buoyance to lighten our feeling of burden.  It is not a superficial kind of good cheer that is sought, but rather a reconnection to the natural optimism and enthusiasm that is our spiritual birthright.

Forget-Me-Not - This delicate member of the Borage plant family can take us the next step in the journey through grief.  Forget-Me-Not essence sensitizes our souls to our connections across the threshold of death.  The loved ones who have departed this world are still connected to us by bonds of care and love.  If the grief we feel for our loss obscures the possibility of this new form of relationship, then we actually cause suffering for those whom we have loved.  The Forget-Me-Not helps us to make a transition from grief to a new form of loving connection, which can uplift those of us on both sides of the spiritual divide.

Magenta Healer

The Magenta color, which combines the red and violet “ends” of the color spectrum, is an expression of vibrant and vitalizing energy. Flower essences from magenta-colored flowers often work with themes of rejuvenation and healing. The Magenta Healer formula was developed by Patricia Kaminski to revitalize those depleted by illness, injury or trauma, and consists of five flowers of various hues of magenta including Self-Heal, Sierra Primrose, Echinacea, Pedicularis, and Love-Lies-Bleeding. Indications: for regeneration, recuperation, revitalization

Magenta Mantle

Personal and Environmental Regeneration

The Magenta Mantle was initially introduced in response to the Oakland, California, fire in 1991.  This catastrophic fire destroyed 300 homes, devastating the land, the community, and many people's lives.  Magenta Mantle helped a number of people to cope with their loss, to reclaim land that had been devastated by fire, and to build new bonds of community.  Since then, this formula has been used in many places in the world for environmental regeneration.

Magenta is a color strongly associated with living forces of nature.  The etheric mantle of the earth and the life mantle of the healthy human body bears this color.  Magenta is at once cooling and warming.  If we imagine color as a wheel, various shades of Magenta are the bridge between red and violet.  From the perspective of color dynamics, magenta is a color that has experienced the depth, or "fire" process, of the earth.  It then emerges like a phoenix toward the spirit again.  This is why Magenta is often regarded in color therapy as a "resurrection" color.

Magenta Mantle is a synergistic chord of five flower essences that restore vitality and etheric regeneration after any experience of destruction and trauma.  It is especially correlated with devastation involving the fire element or related fiery characteristic (such as destruction by bombing).  The Earth is a container for human suffering.  When a disaster occurs, our Earth bears not only physical harm, but also carries our psychic pain.  Healing from a disaster is thus more than an individual task.  This formula helps reestablish the shattered bonds of life that knit together self, community, and the environment. 

Magenta Mantle can be taken internally for personal use but can also be used to restore life forces in the surrounding home and peripheries of land.  For wider applications, misting or spraying of the formula is recommended.

Indications:  physical and emotional devastation caused by natural and man-made disasters.

Dosage:  four drops taken under the tongue at least four times daily, as often as every few minutes during an immediate crisis.  Strength of dosage is increased by the frequency of the dosage, not the amount.  It is not necessary to take more than four drops at a time, but there is no danger of overdose from taking more.

You may also:

Place 20 drops in bath water and circulate in a figure-eight motion
Add 12 drops to a misting bottle of water and use as a spray
Add 6 drops per ounce to cream or lotion and apply to the skin

Formula

Fireweed - This is the key essence in the Magenta Mantle Environmental formula.  The Fireweed plant is a healer for the earth, growing up quickly after a devastating forest fire or, as in London during the Second World War, after man-made destruction.  The Fireweed essence brings rejuvenation and hope when we feel devastated by loss and destruction.

Self-Heal - Self-Heal works at the core of any healing process, awakening our etheric life forces, as well as building confidence and strength in the healing process.  It has tremendous regenerative and restorative qualities.

Red Clover - Herbal Red Clover has long been known as a blood cleanser and purification remedy. Red Clover flower essence is a psychic cleanser, clearing us from such emotional and mental "toxins" as fear, panic, or hatred.  In times of economic and political crisis, war, and natural disaster, it becomes difficult to maintain our won center of awareness, and we can easily be swept away in an undertow of mass emotion, often manipulated by propaganda and demagoguery.  Red Clover essence helps us find our own center of calm certainty and clarity so that we can join in helping others as a force for healing and strength.

Echinacea - The physical immune system provides protection and preserves the essential integrity of the body.  Herbal Echinacea is famous as an immune-system enhancer.  When faced with shattering events, the Echinacea flower essence builds "psychic immunity" by restoring integrity, individuality, and identity.

Sweet Pea - This low-growing vine climbs and clings to fences and other plants.  Considered an escaped garden plant in many locales, the wild Sweet Pea is never found far from human habitation.  Sweet Pea essence is about our relationship to community and to the place where we live.  It is an important essence for restoring one's sense of "place" on the earth, especially when the relationship to home and community has been disrupted.

Both Red Clover and Sweet Pea are members of the legume family of plants.  These plants are know as "nitrogen fixers," helping to rehabilitate the soil by adding fertility and drawing the air element into earth.  In the Magenta Mantle, these two flower essences play a powerful synergistic role in helping both the individual and the soil develop new etheric force.