–by Sylvania AdVantage Staff
PUBLICATION DATE: Oct 02, 2018

Northview and Ohio State University graduate and Naturopathic Doctor Lindsay Samuelson, ND, has begun offering mini Bach Flower Therapy sessions for the public at Harmony in Life, 5747 Main St., in downtown Sylvania. Participants complete a multi-page questionnaire prior to their appointment, allowing Samuelson to assess their needs based on their responses and develop appropriate remedies. During the 20-minute session, participants discuss their answers with Samuelson to clarify issues important to them.

According to Samuelson, Bach Flower Therapy was developed nearly 100 years ago by Dr. Edward Bach, a British bacteriologist. He realized that many of his patients’ illnesses were related to certain negative states of mind. After years of research, he discovered a set of 38 flower and herbal remedies that worked on these negative qualities within patients and paved the way to recovery from disease. While in California several years ago, Samuelson happened upon the book, “Bach Flower Therapy, Theory and Practice,” by Mechthild Scheffer at her aunt’s home and became intrigued with the concept.

According to the author, Dr. Bach proposed that his flower remedies could flood a patient’s nature with the particular virtue needed to overpower the negative influence that was causing harm, uplifting their nature and bringing them closer to their spiritual self. He believed work with the remedies could release the negative energy blockage and change it to a positive, harmonious flow. “There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind, and inner happiness,” Bach said.

Samuelson found her way to holistic medicine via a film-making career in Los Angeles. She began her journey whetting her appetite about holistic medicine when she first became aware of the benefits of acupuncture and yoga. These disciplines had helped her to eliminate the pain she experienced from lugging heavy pieces of equipment from job to job. She began to further explore these Eastern philosophies and decided to focus her career on health and disease. She enrolled in a vigorous four-year accredited Naturopathic medical school in Toronto where she studied the same subjects as an M.D.-bound student along with traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy, botanical medicine, nutrition, hydrotherapy, manipulation techniques and mind/body medicine. She also spent four years in England specializing in homeopath, a model of medicine that is used by millions of people around the world everyday. It is considered safe and effective and can be prescribed alongside conventional medicine.

Samuelson has also embraced Bach’s holistic approach to health, disease and healing, which is based on the concept of wholism, the perfect unity of all things and the uniqueness of every system contained within it. She also related to the concept that every symptom of body, mind or spirit gives us a particular message that we can make use of on our journey and that the Bach Flower Remedies system works via “healing by restoring harmony in awareness.”

Now back in Sylvania, she works with patients in her office at Harmony in Life. According to Samuelson, her unique and intensive educational experience allows her to see each patient through a multitude of lenses. “As an ND, I approach illness and disease in a multi-faceted way. I spend a lot of time with each patient to get to the root cause of his or her issues and then can recommend a combination of natural therapies including herbalism, homeopathy, supplementation and more to find a remedy in nature to help the body mobilize its vital forces and eliminate the issues creating the disease or illness. I am also happy to be offering Bach Flower Remedy sessions, ” she noted.

In addition, Samuelson teaches a series of classes at Harmony in Life.

More information can be found at treatingtherootcause.com and harmonyinlifecenter.com/dr-lindsay-samuelson.