09/03/2026
International Women’s Day — a perfect annual event to acknowledge Nora Weeks. While the flower remedies bear the name of Dr Edward Bach, it is unlikely the world would have benefited from his wonderful legacy if it wasn’t for his dedicated assistant, Nora Weeks.
Nora was a radiographer when she met Dr Bach and, inspired by his vision, she gave up her career to help him with his work to discover a simple cure in nature. She found what was a rather run-down cottage named Mount Vernon in Sotwell (which has remained the Bach Centre ever since) where Dr Bach also found growing his previously discovered remedies (except Olive and Vine which are from much warmer countries) and completed his search for the final nineteen.
After his death in 1936, Nora and their friend from Cromer, Victor Bullen, were dedicated in continuing Dr Bach’s legacy before she passed away in her sleep in January 1978. (Victor had died a few years earlier.) For over four decades Nora had made mother tinctures and stock bottles, seen clients, dealt with copious correspondence, wrote books and managed a literal cottage industry of helpers. (You can see a wide range of archives in the delightful museum curated by Judy Ramsell-Howard at the Bach Centre).
When demand for the Bach flowers became far greater than what was manageable from the wooden outbuilding in the Bach Centre garden (now the site of the seminar room and ‘Nora’s cafe’). Nora reconnected with Nelsons the homeopathic manufacturer and pharmacy where Dr Bach used to take his mother tinctures. Nora agreed a business arrangement where they would set up and arrange the production of stock bottles and distribution of the 38 Bach flowers and Rescue Remedy. By doing so Nora enabled the global reach of the remedies.
Nora Weeks was apparently a Water Violet personality type, perceptive, dignified, private and committed to maintaining the integrity of the Bach flower system of healing in accordance with Dr Bach‘s wishes. Nora trained Nickie Murray and her brother John Ramsell, who in turn, in the 1980s, trained his daughter Judy. Ever since she has continued in Nora’s footsteps, keeping alive Dr Bach’s legacy to ensure the simplicity and integrity of the system is upheld. This is shared by the worldwide community of Bach Foundation Registered Practitioners, teachers, students, clients and consumers of the Bach flowers. Dr Bach’s ‘medicine of the future’ is as relevant and as necessary today as ever.🌺
How do you continue to use the Bach flowers in your life? 🌺
