BACH FLOWER REMEDIES: KEY-NOTE SYMPTOMS – STAR OF BETHLEHEM
After effects of shock, physical or mental. When a man is fighting with another man he may get injured. The injury may be simple or it may be serious, but there is no element of shock in it. His injuries can be attended to by appropriate medicines which repair the injury. But if a scooterist is waiting on the red light signal on a crossing and a fast vehicle coming from behind strikes him or a tree falls on him when passing on a road, he is said to have been accidentiy injured. Accident has an element of unforeseenness, which may be termed as shock. So when a person is injured in an accident, he has to be treated for the shock as well as for the physical injuries. You are driving your car on a main road when a boy running from a side-lane comes before your car which is screeched to a halt inches before over-running the boy. The boy is saved, and you have no physical injury and yet you sit frozen on the seat, your heart thumping violently—the mental shock. It is to remove the aftereffects of shock that ‘Star of Bethlehm’ suits.*44\308\8*
