Metal Deficient/ Excess Bailey Combinations

Metal Deficient Bistort (Polygonum bistorta) Bracken (Alc.) (Pteridium aquifolium) Charlock (Sinapis arvensis) Indian Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea)

Metal Element Keywords Grief, substance, strength, structure, re-formable, communication, letting go, efficiency, storage, cutting through Bistort relates to major changes in our life. It helps to support change by giving an inner scaffolding whilst providing a loving environment within which we feel safe. Bracken (alcholic) helps us to leave childhood patterns behind, and so to fully cross the barrier between childhood and adulthood. This essence helps to dissolve that barrier so that we can live our life as a joyful adult. Charlock is for the childhood established pattern of wanting to please other people. This arises from a lack of self-confidence, of being unable to accept full responsibility for one's actions. Indian Balsam helps to bring peace and calm to an overactive mind. It helps to create a space where tensions can disappear and so enable us to become open to newness and change. Ragwort is the flower for obsessive thought. It helps to give definition and structure to our mind so that the thought processes come back under our control. Metal Excess Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) Bracken (Aq) (Pteridium aquifolium) Cymbidium Orchid (Cymbidium hybridus) Metal Element Keywords Grief, substance, strength, structure, re-formable, communication, letting go, efficiency, storage, cutting through Blackthorn mirrors the difficulties that we feel when all our structures feel to be falling apart. It also helps us to accept new and changed circumstances in our lives. Bracken (Aq) relates to our childhood. If our intuitive faculties were suppressed at that time, then an artificial boundary would be created, preventing us accessing this aspect of our nature. Cymbidium Orchid relates to our subconscious mind. If there are blockages in communication between the conscious and the subconscious, then stress will result. These blockages are often due to conditioned patterns established early in our life. Both Combinations above are part of Bailey Acupuncture Set.