The Bach flower White Chestnut

Description of the flower White Chestnut

The horse chestnut (White Chestnut) flowers in May until the beginning of June. The male flowers grow at the top, the female flowers further down the tree. Their colour is initially white-yellowish, later reddish spots appear.

State of Mind

Certain thoughts keep circling around in your head, you can’t get rid of them. You have inner dialogues and soliloquies.

Peculiarity Children

Children in the negative White Chestnut state cannot concentrate while learning and in school. Their thoughts revolve around a certain topic in a circle.

Pronouncement adults

People in the negative White Chestnut state are trapped in the world of their thoughts, the head is full of inner chatter and conversations with themselves. One cannot think clearly, is distracted. “I almost walked into a lamppost from inner discussion!”

Thoughts about past events turn in your head, it occurs to you what else you could have said and with which words you could have defended yourself. Falling asleep becomes difficult because the thought carousel keeps turning or you wake up and can’t find sleep anymore. You are dominated by a record in your head that has got stuck in a certain place.

You have become so accustomed to these inner dialogues that you think they are normal. You want to escape this thought of a certain event to be able to think clearly again, but you can’t. One is confronted with a multitude of thought impulses and is not able to filter out the really important ones.

One works inwardly again and again on the same problems without coming to a solution. Due to the excessive flow of thoughts, one seems to be unfocused on his environment and overhears many things. People in negative White Chestnut condition often suffer from tension headaches around forehead and eyes, teeth grinding at night.

The contrast to White Chestnut is clematis. Clematis is a daydreamer and with his thoughts in his own world in which he wants to stay. White Chestnut wants to escape the inner thought carousel.

Target of the White Chestnut stream flowering

White Chestnut should help to filter out the important thoughts, to come to inner peace and mental clarity. One is able to relax, switch off, think clearly and find the desired solutions to problems. Mental peace and quiet prevail in the head.