Treatment Bottles

Use a clean 30ml dropper bottle, obtainable from most pharmacies. Fill it with spring (not boiled) water, adding 2-3ml of brandy or vodka. The spirit is to lengthen the shelf life of the bottle to four weeks or so. If you are intolerant to alcohol, use a mixture of spring water and ¼ cider vinegar or vegetable glycerine. Spring water with no additives will keep in the refrigerator for a week at maximum.

Add your chosen combination of essences, using three drops of each. If you are dowsing, check the exact number of drops to use. Take care not to touch the dropper from the stock bottle on your treatment bottle, as the stock bottle needs to be kept pure. When you have put all your remedies into the treatment bottle, replace the top. The bottle is nearly ready to use, but the essences have now been diluted from stock strength and combined.

In theory there are no problems from this, but in practice there is one very important thing you can do to make the treatment bottle balanced and working at full potency: Bless the bottle. Yes, that's right, bless it!. If reading this fills you with alarm, don't worry! Performing this simple step has a hugely favourable placebo effect! Hold the bottle between your cupped hands, be still and, in whatever way you feel appropriate according to your beliefs and religious persuasion, ask something like this: May this treatment bottle work as a balanced combination at full potency for my highest good. Then give thanks if you wish.

Take care that your blessing of the bottle, for that is what it is, is made from the heart as an expression of unconditional love. It is inappropriate to use willpower to force the issue. To inflict a strong will inevitably involves the ego and will bring unlooked-for problems.

When blessing the bottle some people feel a tingle in their hands. This is an example of the activation of a healing power. We all have this healing ability to a greater or lesser extent. Do not worry if you don't feel this. What you have done is powerful enough anyway. Whatever else is happening, you are making a very powerful positive affirmation about your intentions. If this doesn't start your inner healer working, the essence combination certainly will!

The treatment bottle is now ready. Take care not to touch the dropper with your tongue, for this will contaminate the bottle and bacteria may spoil it. Place three drops carefully on to your tongue four to six times daily, or otherwise as guided by your own intuition. If you keep the bottle with you, in your pocket or handbag, it will be available whenever you feel prompted to take it.

Some people choose to take essences direct from the stock bottle. Essences can also be sprayed around the body using a mister, put into the bath or used in other creative ways such as placing them on chakras or acupressure points. Should you wish to give someone an Emergency Essence, for instance, but not put alcohol on to their tongue, the front or palmar surface of the wrist has several meridians of energy which will pick up the vibration of the remedy and take it into the body. The Large Intestine Four point, called the Great Reliever, between the thumb and index finger, is another useful point of application.