• This is the remedy of cleansing. For those who feel as if they had something not quite clean about themselves.
• Often it is something of apparently little importance. In others, there may be a more serious disease which is almost disregarded compared to the one thing on which they concentrate.
• In both types, they are anxious to be free from the one particular thing which is greatest in their minds and which seems so essential to them that it should be cured.
• They become despondent if treatment fails. 
• Being a cleanser, this remedy purifies wounds if the patient has reason to believe that some poison has entered which must be drawn out.

Self-hatred-sense of uncleanliness

• The feeling of despair, uncleanness, and disgust has said or done something contrary to true nature
• Feels mentally and physically unclean
• Ashamed of physical condition and appearance
• Despondent if treatment fails (see also Gentian)
• Has trivial thoughts - a "bee irt bonnet" -fussy-house proud
• Bach Flower Crab Apple is known as the "cleansing remedy" and is indicated whenever there is a feeling of having been soiled, for example by disease, pollution touching a dirty object or dealing with infected material.
• In such instances, there is an intense feeling of uncleanliness and a compulsion to rid the system of the "poison".
• On some occasions, the urge is so great that those in need of this remedy feel they must wash it over and over again because they are convinced they have been contaminated in some way.
• They are generally very fastidious by nature with regard to hygiene generally. Bach Flower Crab Apple is also indicated where there is a feeling of self-disgust or self-loathing, when the reflection of oneself in a mirror causes repulsion, and for those revolted by such things as food and eating, bodily functions, sex and sickness.
• Another aspect of this remedy is the help it gives to people who are more worried about their external appearance and not so bothered about their serious illnesses.
• This Bach flower remedy (Crab Apple) helps such people to see things in their true proportion.
• Dr. Bach described it as "the remedy which helps us to get rid of anything we do not like either in our mind or our bodies."
• Symptoms may include skin ailments, poison in the body or would offensive feet, and dislike of physical contact; e.g. breastfeeding.

Ingredients used in Healing Herbs Bach Flower Crab Apple:

• Diluted flower essence

Indication of Healing Herbs Bach Flower Crab Apple:

• When you feel unclean or have a hard time accepting your own self-image.

How to use Healing Herbs Bach Flower Crab Apple:

• To prepare a treatment bottle, take 2 drops from the stock bottle into a 30 ml bottle nearly filled with still mineral/pure drinking water.
• A teaspoon of brandy may be added as a preservative.
• This bottle is used for giving doses and is called the treatment bottle. 
• 4 drops can be taken from this 4 times daily.
• In urgent cases the doses may be given every few minutes until there is an improvement; in severe cases about half-hourly; and in long-standing cases every two or three hours. In those unconscious, moisten the lips frequently.
• Whenever there is pain, stiffness, inflammation, or any local trouble, it can also be applied in the problem area.

Precautions to be taken while using Healing Herbs Bach Flower Crab Apple:

• Since the remedy is preserved in organic cognac, when the diluted remedy is consumed, there may be trace amounts of alcohol in it.
• It is not advised for anyone recovering from alcohol addiction.
• It is perfectly safe for newborns, kids and pregnant women.