The Flower Remedy Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Over 700 Flower Essences

"I have to start with the Perfect Part; I love this book for it's indispensable qualities. There is not a better book out there that covers more and offers more insight into so many essences as Mr Sharpiro's book. I refer to it every day and it is dog eared and cross referenced and page marked; hence the SECOND part of the review, the IMPERFECT part. Such a WASTE of reference here since there is no cross reference or list of essences, even if only in an index form, so that one can at least go back after one's initial discovery work (I.E. looking up a condition to resolve), and take the list of essences possible and then cross check them, find thier suggested uses better and faster and AT ALL. See overlaps, double uses, etc etc. quicker and without having to only have the symptoms to start with. I have purchased so many more obscure essences based on the suggestions in this book, only to find then , I while I do compile large volumes of essence information from thier makers,and I do use them for remedies for what this volume suggests them for, there remains no easy look up if I were to want to re-visit the initial use or purpose for buying any one bottle. It would be so helpful, just from a practical point of view to have at lEAST included an index. This would have saved many post-its, folded page corners and piles of notes in no particular order to re examine. It would help me make use of so many essences I have on hand, also, I am sure. This is not a happy review to write since I wnat to emphasize how terrific this volume is in what it achieves and I am so grateful for it. I wish a couple other lines of essences were also included, but Mr Shapiro can't be slighted for that, but mostly I am hoping Mr Shapiro reads this and creates an index of essences at least to his second printing of this book. I will buy it immediately. It would make combination remedies simpler and less time consuming to create as well. There is one FANTASTIC part to this book; the end where actual physical symptoms and conditions are listed with remedies and I have had such great success with every one or combination I have tried, it is amazing, and leaves me wanting MORE of this genre of suggested uses for essences. I am a believer in the intuitive side of essences selection, and have seen that work wonders even alone, but a volume such as this, so full of information, is also invaluable to open and use as a spring board to using flower essences for real healing. "
~ Written on 2007-07-02

"another book of choice that goes into the descriptions of the indivudal flower essences. This book covers the essences of the wellknown makers, but does not go into any depth, at all, of the descriptions. It's very comprehensive and easy to understand as far as the repertory and ruberics go...."
~ Written on 2005-01-18

"I like this book a lot. it is a great materia medica for flower essences! I could have given it five stars for the materia medica, but I would have loved to have a part in the book where the remedies also were listed per se, but he do give guidelines for where you can find this. But i do recommend this book for everyone seriously working with or interested in floweressences, really great work!"
~ Written on 2002-11-03

"This is a good book for quick references. It's good to have some practicality and clarity with essences so "everyone" can have the opportunity to use the them. If the essences are kept too confusing and too mystical then people will not want to even try the essences. If they would happen to need them, then that would be sad if it was too confusing for them to use. One thing I wish is that the author had included the list of essences with some descriptions of them, separate from the other listings. The listings that are in the book are by symptoms. Then the essences that are needed for that symptom are underneath. The essence is then described there. It's a very handy and understandable book!!"
~ Written on 2001-05-05

"From my personal perspective, I did not find this book helpful. Possibly this was because, as one reviewer put it, it tries to take the mystery out of flower essences. Think about it - the workings of the essences are a mystery, even though the community is learning a lot about the situations in which a particular essence is most suited. I believe that it is a mistake to treat them as though they were drugs in the PDR, which I feel is the overall message of this book: find a sympton; prescribe an essence; Voila! An essence is a gift from the plant to the animal/human world and needs to be respected as such."
~ Written on 2001-03-12