• For those who have a desperate attitude.

A long-time inhabitant of European forests, the chestnut tree has endured through the millennia. The first traces of its appearance date back eight million years, attesting to its resilience. Its cream-coloured flowers, which capture light well, display exuberance and vigour in their profusion. A sturdy burr protects its shiny, tough-skinned fruits, while its solid wood is used for stakes or frames. Its entire structure embodies strength and endurance.

This is the last flower to have been chosen by Bach, exhausted after the frantic search for his last remedies, which he discovered at a rate of one per week. It is useful when one feels at rock bottom or on the verge of major announced changes (breakup, divorce...), with no resources left to draw upon. It helps to get through a situation or trials experienced as critical or even insurmountable, and with a feeling of great loneliness.

"For periods of anguish so great that they seem unbearable to the one going through them. When there is nothing left to consider but destruction and annihilation." Excerpt from the 1936 edition of "The Twelve Healers", translated into French by C. Lévi and G. Wolf.