How Crab Apple reduces our fears around obsessional cleanliness

 How can Crab Apple help us feel cleansed and help us with chronic illnesses?

Crab apple is a cleanser, which helps on so many levels. Where there are feelings of impurities, both physically, emotionally and psychologically.

It is one of the flower remedies used in Rescue Remedy cream, as an add-on to the normal combination of the five flower remedies that constitute Rescue Remedy. It is helpful for all skin complaints and irritations, and can also be used on wounds. 

When someone is suffering from compulsive cleanliness and/or OCD, crab apple is very helpful as it removes and gently lowers to remove this awful compulsion that causes so much shame at hiding it and the time it robs you of.

It is the need for order and also this may be associated with food and there might be foods that feel safe and others that do not feel safe, and also particular care to eating what is fresh, and the person in need of crab apple might be likely to be very worried about any potential food contamination.

Those displaying traits where Crab Apple will be helpful:

• cleanliness
• order
• skin rashes and skin irritation
• fear of contamination
• feeling poisoned
• feeling unclean or not pure
• help with any kind of violation including physical abuse and rape
• food poisoning
• illnesses
• impurities
• extreme attention to both outer and inner cleanliness
• sexual difficulties connected to impurity or immorality 

There can be something amongst practitioners recognised as 'crab apple syndrome'. Where, somehow, filth is seen and felt everywhere, and a groundless fear of filth where there indeed actually is none.

Occasionally, this can also apply to a kind of obsessive spiritual purity, making it difficult to lead a normal life. 

Here, crab apple is the flower which promotes a healthy attitude towards physical and spiritual cleanliness and purity. It reduces pathological obsessional states.

It also helps with contagion, and comes in useful for those in contact with people who are unwell with infection; it works and helps as a preventative.

This wonderful flower helps protect us against infections and contamination, and also allows those who have problems in balancing the need for fear of contamination when it is either present or it is not. 

Taking Crab apple will help enormously with all the things l have included in this article and bring about a lowering of obsessional and terrifying fears, which will be felt as such a blessing by way of the relief it makes us able to feel once again.

I have both taken, dispensed and recommended this flower so many times over the years, and it was one of the remedies l used during the Covid pandemic, and it was a truly wonderful help in protecting from the virus.

Also, a marvellous help when caring for young children who come down with so many things when starting nursery school. It can also be protective when you are nursing anyone. It is an aid against infections of all kinds.