Self-Heal - Creature Comforter Essences

(Prunella vulgaris)

Weakened system. Missing balance. New recharge and understanding.

Positive qualities:
Healthy, vital sense of Self; healing and beneficent forces arising from within oneself, deep sense of wellness and wholeness.
Patterns of imbalance:
Inability to take inner responsibility for one's healing, lacking in spiritual motivation for wellness, overly dependent on external help.

Self-Heal flower essence is one of the most fundamental and broadly applicable remedies for true soul healing and balance. Its very name is exquisitely evocative of its profound qualities; this essence addresses the capacity of the Self to become involved with and take responsibility for its own healing journey. No variety of outer measures and techniques can bring about genuine healing at any level unless the individual is quickened within and motivated to seek and affirm the wholeness of life.

Self-Heal flower essence addresses a very special relationship between the etheric, or life body, and the Spiritual Self. On the physical level, the etheric body restores wholeness to wounds and others afflictions by quite literally “re-covering” the body with its life sheath. The Higher Self can also draw upon this etheric life force and the possibility for recovery. Self-Heal flower essence is especially indicated for those who have lost belief in their own capacity to be well.

- 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: Healthy, vital sense of Self; healing and beneficent forces arising from within oneself, deep sense of wellness and wholeness.


Patterns of imbalance: Inability to take inner responsibility for one's physical or emotional healing, while lacking in spiritual motivation for wellness and overly dependent on external help.

Self Heal, also known as ‘Heal-All’ or ‘Heart of the Earth’ by past herbalists, sums up its essence in its various names. As one of the most universal flower essence remedies, Self Heal flower essence is an excellent way to begin most healing programs. It helps the Self get involved in the healing process.

Many people feel overwhelmed when facing their own health issues. It is difficult for them to connect with their inner resources and stimulate the healing process. Modern society has encouraged this behavior; most people hand responsibility for their health completely over to the doctors and often a set of high tech machines.

All healing come from within and Self Heal flower essence helps us find the source of that power. It is a great flower essence when a person has lost hope in their own healing abilities. It is equally useful for the hypochondriac that uses illness as a way to receive attention from others.

As a flower essence, Self Heal helps a person focus on their own innate healing ability by lining up their etheric and physical bodies, making a space where healing energy can flow. By aiding in the etheric energy flowing into the physical body, it literally helps a person ‘re-cover’ from wounds or injuries to the body within a sheath of healing energy.

This remedy is especially beneficial when a person has been given a diagnosis by the medical community that doesn’t feel all that favorable. Some medical doctors will give a fatalistic diagnosis in order to ‘not mislead the patient’. Self Heal flower essence will restore a person’s faith in them self, allowing them to participate in the healing process. It is useful in auto-immune conditions to balance the healing energy so the body doesn’t attack itself. It draws on the Higher Self, via the etheric body, to generate the life force needed in healing. It is beneficial for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual healing.

Self Heal flower essence can be used to enhance the ability of other flower essences or other healing modalities in a person’s program for well being. It can be used for the simplest wounds, all the way up to life threatening or terminal diseases. It is especially beneficial for children or elderly that might consider themselves more vulnerable than the rest of the population.

This flower essence has been used world wide in animal shelters to help rescued animals from environmental or abusive trauma. It can be used when a puppy or kitten is taken away from the litter too early. In the garden, Self Heal flower essence can be used in the water can when transplanting a plant, or when a plant is diseased or under stress.

Chakra: helps balance all chakras especially the Crown

Affirmation: I AM in a state of balance, allowing healing energy to flow through me

Symptoms Which Indicate
Addiction, Aging/Elderly, Ambivalent/Apathetic, Animals and Animal Care, Childhood, Cleansing, Codependent/Needy, Confidence, Conflicts, Confusion, Denial, Depletion, Detoxification/Purification, Distrust, Doubt, Eating Disorders, Improving Energy, Faith, Healing Process, Immune Disturbances, Independence, Learning Difficulties, Menopause, Mid-Life Crisis, Psychosomatic Illness, Rejuvenation, Resistance, Seeking, Self-acceptance/appreciation, Self-Actualization, Shock from past trauma, Stimulation, The Healing Process, Vitality