Helpful Charts

Flower Essences Qualities

Flower essences stimulate our positive qualities. The table below describes each essence in nutshell. Click on a essence, to know more about a particular essence in detail.

Essence	Enhances	Helps to Overcome
Almond Essence	Self-control, Moral vigor	Addictive in personality, workahcolic prone, sexual immoderation
Apple Essence	Mental Clarity, Healthy and magnetic attitudes	Doubts, indecisive, worrying, health related fears, recurrence of toxic emotions such as anger, jealousy etc
Avocado Essence	Good memory, Concentration	Holding onto the past, unambitious, repeating mistakes, absentmindedness
Banana Essence	Humility, Non-reactiveness	Arrogant, quarrelsome, drawing conflict, reactive
Blackberry Essence	Purity of Thought, Positive Outlook	Cynical, sarcastic, negative, judgemental, fault finding nature
Cherry Essence	Cheerfulness	Sad, gloomy, moody, self-pitying
Coconut Essence	Uplifted Spiritual Awareness	Procastinating, unwilling, non-commital
Corn Essence	Mental Vitality	Bored, lethargic, stuck in mental rut, needing stimulants
Date Essence	Tender Sweetness	Unpleasant, narrow, irritable, craving sweet
Fig Essence	Flexibility and Self-acceptance	Overly disciplined, dogmatic, fanatical
Grape Essence	Love, Devotion	Seperation/Divorce, grieving, possessive, pushy
Lettuce Essence	Calmness	Restlessness, nervousness, inability to concentrate
Orange Essence	Enthusiasm, Hope	Unhappy, sad, hopeless, disinterested
Peach Essence	Unselfishness	Rude, self-involved, disinterested in others
Pear Essence	Peacefulness, Emergency Essence	Traumatized, nervous, unresolved in conflict
Pineapple Essence	Self-assurance	Inferiority Complex, poverty consciousness
Raspberry Essence	Kindness, Compassion	Bitter, resentful, easily hurt, over emotional
Spinach Essence	Simplicity, Guilelessness	Overly analytical, unhappy childhood roots, overwhelmed
Strawberry Essence	Dignity	Poor self-image, self-blaming, shy
Tomato Essence	Mental Strength, Endurance	Cowardly, quitter's attitude, fear of any nature

Physical Problems

Physical Problems	Possible Roots	Suggested Essence
High Blood Pressure	Mental tension	Pear or Spinach
	Anger	Lettuce, Almond or Apple
	Agitation	Lettuce
	Excess	Almond
	Intolerance	Date
	Resentment	Raspberry
	Rigidity	Fig
Back problem	Mental or physical tension	Pear, Fig or Spinach
	Fear	Tomato, Apple or Spinach
	Insecurity	Strawberry
Diabetes	Need for sweetness	Date
Diabetes	Tension, Inflexibility	Pear or Fig
Heart Condition	Lack of love / compassion	Grape or Raspberry
	Tension, anxiety	Pear or Lettuce
	Sadness	Cherry
Headaches	Physical or mental tension	Fig, Pear or Spinach
	Anxiety	Banana, Tomato
	Agitation	Lettuce
	Toxic condition	Blackberry
Asthma	Fear	Apple, Spinach or Tomato
Asthma	Anxiety	Pear or Lettuce
Overweight	Lack of self control	Almond
	Feeling unloved	Grape
	Loneliness	Grape, Date or Peach
	Eating when tense	Fig, Pear or Lettuce
	Eating when anxious	Banana or Tomato
	Eating when bored	Corn

Please note: Flower essences do not work directly on the physical body, but on mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. Our challene is to undertand the underlying roots of physical conditions. When more than one essence is listed for a particular issue, you can choose among them according to your intuition or take them all, one at a time.

Emotional and Mental Difficulties

Emotional and mental difficulties	Suggested Essence
Stress	Pear, Spinach, Almond or Tomato
Depression	Orange, Cherry or Peach
Mental fatigue	Corn
Negative emotions	Grape
Anger	Lettuce, Almond or Apple
Concentration, memory (for students)	Avocado
Insomnia	Lettuce
Nervousness	Lettuce, Almond or Banana
Shock, accident, injury	Pear

Flower Essences with other remedies

Yogananda Flower Essences may be taken together with other system of remedies like homeopathy, allopathy, ayurveda and other line of flower essences.

Disclaimer: Flower essences do not replace treatment by a duly licensed health care professional.