How Cherry Plum can help with extreme emotional pressure

Cherry plum is used for when people are on the very edge emotionally. In extreme cases, it can be when someone has lost their reason and is in danger of committing irrational acts.

It is one of the five flowers in Rescue Remedy, which is the more well-known of the Bach flower remedies. Although Rescue Remedy is known as a remedy, it is in fact a combination of the flowers that are helpful when someone is in need of calm, and equilibrium and emotional homeostasis.

Cherry Plum is used for emotional pressure and when things feel intense. It can also be used in cases of hysteria or when someone has lost themselves to irrational thoughts and behaviours – when someone feels suicidal. 

I have treated people in this extreme state. For example, a young woman came to me needing urgent care for an emotional situation she was in – she was very shaken up and trembling. l gave her a small glass of water with four drops of Cherry Plum in it, and it was like all the pressure subsided, and she felt calmer in a couple of minutes, and we were able to explore the situation she was in with calm purpose.

Cherry Plum is a flower that soothes and calms when we are at the limits of our endurance for whatever reason. It's also wonderful when the constant pressure of tormenting inner struggle can build up to a dangerous level that threatens mental balance.

Situations and emotional states that are helped by Cherry plum

• nervous breakdown
• hysteria
• hysterical outbursts
• when the limits of endurance have been crossed or reached
• for the prevention of irrational acts
• self-harm
• very intense emotional states
• irrationality
• falling apart

It minimises internal tension and lowers emotionally charged situations of all kinds, when we feel that we might say or do something that we will regret or do not want to do.

For anyone, when we find ourselves under huge emotional pressure, we need to let off steam. When there is a conflict between emotions and reason, Cherry Plum comes to the rescue.

If someone finds themselves in this state more often than usual, then taking this remedy will help, but it will also be helpful to explore why this is happening through talking to a trusted friend and maybe considering therapy. Often, there can be feelings of shame or embarrassment around this, if it feels like somehow things are out of control, but it is always better to share this with another person, rather than keep things bottled up inside. 

When taking Cherry Plum, you will feel less like you are going to explode emotionally; you will feel calmer and more rational.