Chicory - Dr. Bach Flower Remedy

Chichorium intybus

For those who are over-involved with and possessive of family and close friends and impose their own standards on those they love. Teaches unconditional love.

Positive qualities:

Selfless love given freely, respecting the freedom and individuality of others.

Patterns of imbalance:

Expressing love by being possessive, demanding, and needy; getting attention through negative behavior; self-centeredness.

Chicory is a very important flower essence for emotional congestion and misdirected love forces. Those in need of this flower essence must learn to distinguish between personal emotions and desires, and genuine impersonal love and caring for another. Otherwise, the individual becomes selfish rather than selfless, manipulating the emotions of others for his or her own needs and desires.

The energy which would ordinarily flow out from one's heart is thwarted, so that emotions of self-pity, neediness and even martyrdom are experienced. A guise of seemingly loving behavior is very often used as an inappropriate way of soliciting and manipulating the psychic energy and attention of others. Particularly with children, the Chicory pattern manifests as negative attention-getting, fussiness and tantrums which pull on the other members of the family. Chicory flower essence nourishes the inner neediness of such souls and helps to re-balance and re-direct psychic currents of energy, especially as they flow through the heart and solar plexus.

- from the "Flower Essence Repertory", by Patricia Kaminsky and Richard Katz. The most comprehensive and user-friendly flower essence book we've found. Highly recommended for any practitioner.

Positive qualities: Freely giving Selfless love, with a respect for the freedom and individuality of others; emotional containment

Patterns of imbalance: Manipulative, possessive; demanding; needy; attention getting through negative behavior; self-centeredness.

Chicory flower essence is for the person who has emotional congestion and misdirected love energy. These people need to distinguish between their personal need for attention and their genuine love and care for others. It is especially good for children and adults who use fussiness, manipulation and emotional tantrums to get their own way. Chicory flower essence is the “give-me” remedy, used when the energy that should naturally flow from the heart is hidden behind self-pity, neediness and even martyrdom. Or when disguised as love, their behavior is used to manipulate and high-jack the energy of others. Chicory flower essence is good for the person who is too critical, interfering or nagging.

Chicory flower essence can also help you let go of others you care for and allow them to freely live their own life. It is particularly useful to help children grow up. It helps them get past hurdles like needing to have their stuffed animal or their ‘blankie’. It helps with children that are selfish and need to be the centre of attention. We often see parents who constantly demand attention from their children (whether young or adult). They want their children to live close to them, or get involved in their life in other ways, often being critical of any independently-made decisions.

In marital or partnership relationships the Chicory person can be overly solicitous and resentful if their concerns are ignored. The phrase: “After all I’ve done for you” is a common one for people who could benefit from Chicory flower essence.

Chicory FE can be totally transformational for those needing it as it will shift their attention from the demands for an external source of love to the appreciation that they are themselves the source of love.

Chakras: Heart, Root and Solar Plexus

Symptoms Which Indicate
Abandonment, Aging, Altruism, Animals and Animal Care, Attachment, Attention, Children, Co-Dependence, Egotism, Inner Child, Irritability, Love, Manifestation, Martyrdom, Mother and Mothering, Personal Relationships, Possessiveness, Power, Rejection, Release, Responsibility, Self-Concern, Selfishness, Sharin