The Beneficial Role of Green Flower Essences for My Animal Clients
by
Dr. Laura Cutullo, DVM
A collaborative research with Barbara Mapelli Mozzi
The green flowers developed by the Flower Essence Society are very unique plants that have intrigued me for many years. I have used and experimented with them as a practitioner for my animal patients. I have also continued to study them in order to perceive their beneficial qualities in a broader sense. This experimental research has been conducted in collaboration with Barbara
Mapelli
Mozzi
, a talented animal communicator.
We have created a synergistic work that results in very useful information for our animal patients. This integral connection between us also brings many new insights into these flower essences. Most of what I have written below is the result of this beautiful collaboration between Barbara and me. We have been able to confirm the general indications from FES for each of these flower essences. Also, we have discovered some new insights, especially with regard to how we can understand their application for animal clients.
Green: The Life-Giving Color of Nature
Green is the predominant color of Nature as she speaks through her plant life. Plant life is vital to the very being and identity of earth. Scientific studies consistently verify that within plants there are deep sources of memory and engagement with all life. As well, we are all aware of the nurturing healing forces and sense of well-being we obtain by being immersed in Nature’s Green, even from a simple urban park
Green is a color that on the one hand has characteristics of strength, nourishment, relaxation, and rebalancing. But green can also have a negative expression. Many poisons or toxins are a sickly green color, or human beings can be “green with envy” within their souls. It is precisely the living green within Nature that is so healing. Nature’s Green speaks in a variety of shades and tones in interplay with the light as the sun moves in the sky or the clouds filter the light. These verdant forces in Nature are dynamic, bringing renewal, growth and flourishing expansion. Of special significance is that green is also the color of the human heart chakra. It is particularly through our hearts that we can receive the beneficial life forces within Nature’s Green.
The Important Role of the Green Flowers in the MetaFlora Map of the Soul
In the
MetaFlora Map of the Human Soul
, researched and formulated by Patricia Kaminski for the Flower Essence Society, the green flowers are given prominence in the final eighth level of human soul evolution. This eighth level is the culminating one that encompasses the other seven levels wherein the soul is challenged to grow through various forms of individuated consciousness. In this final level, the emphasis is not on individual relationships, but with the Being of the Earth and all living beings who inhabit her body.
The green flowers enhance our sensitivity towards the Earth and all living beings. In our relationship with animals, they help us to rediscover the connection with Nature and her creation of each species.
Level Eight of the MetaFlora Map is a realm of collective consciousness, concerning the entire community of beings who dwell on our planet. This is a ground-breaking evolutionary level, to truly experience the earth as a living being beyond our individual needs or concerns, and to understand that we live within this larger Body of Life. As Patricia Kaminski emphasizes, this is the stage of development in which we come to realize how much we take from the Living Being of Nature, and how we need to become aware of giving something in return. This service to the Higher Being of Earth is not for our individual betterment but for the good of all of us, as a whole community who dwell on Planet Earth. When we move to this level of consciousness, we can make a paradigm shift beyond egotism to an ecological identity of living in communion and respect with all living being who make up body of the Earth. The green flowers are absolutely crucial in this development because they enhance our sensitivity towards the Earth and all living beings. In our relationship with animals, they help us to rediscover the connection with Nature and her creation of each species, despite the outer expectations or stereotypes we might impose on them.
Green Flowers as a Bridge Between Leaf and Flower
I find the green flowers particularly interesting because they form a bridge between the leaf and the flower of the plant. The general role of the leaf is to absorb elemental forces from the outside and transform them into nourishment for the plant (i.e. the chemistry of chlorophyll). The leaf nurtures the overall life conditions for the plant. The flower, on the other hand, offers and opens itself to the world, revealing its unique form, beauty, color and scent. Green flowers are halfway between these two activities.
The leaf nurtures the overall life conditions for the plant. The flower, on the other hand, offers and opens itself to the world, revealing its unique form, beauty, color and scent. Green flowers are halfway between these two activities.
With the green flowers there is a more encompassing circulation and flow of life itself. It is as though the green flowers are in communion with the larger identity of the Earth as a Life Body. The green flowers develop a very high degree of resonance with the Earth as a whole living Being. Resonance happens when a field of energy reflects and enhances a similar wavelength within another being or state of consciousness. It does not occur between completely different subjects. The green flowering plants contain resonant patterns that also live within the larger encompassing identity of the Earth.
Lady's Mantle: Deeper Receptivity for Healing with Resonant Life Forces
Sometimes one meets people, animals or even places that one seems to have known forever. It is a deep recognition at the soul level. Lady's Mantle facilitates this type of consciousness. It is a powerful flower that can be palpably felt in the firm substance of the leaves. It brings the awareness that we are here in our singularity, and yet part of a larger life forces in all humanity and the earth. We can move beyond division and more readily feel a part of everything. We are here in our small individual being, but we can expand and feel part of the whole that is beyond us. Through Lady’s Mantle this sensitivity can become a more solid form of sensing. Just as the larger cosmos can be reflected in one drop of water, we can also become aware that, “I am the single water drop. I am here in my Self, but also part of a larger world.”
Lady’s Mantle flower essence also helps animals and their caretakers become more open to floral healing.
Green Rose: Moving Beyond Fear by Opening the Heart’s Embrace
The Green Rose belongs to the Rosaceae botanical family which has so many gifts for healing the human heart. The special quality of this flower is its ability to keep the heart open when prejudices create fear for what is the “other” or is in some way a “stranger”. Green Rose dispels this fear for what is different from our own identity. This phenomenon is also confirmed in sociological studies that have shown how the foreigner who acts or appears different becomes the scapegoat for our fears. In this form of consciousness, diversity elicits fear, with blame often placed on factors that have nothing to do with this difference.
When one observes the Green Rose carefully, we see a plant that is so open. It has small leaves and slightly long stems, with its flower seeming to be almost suspended in the air. The flower is so small and inconspicuous and very different from any other rose we know. It has the ability to tell us: you can do what you want, you can enter your darkness and then come out of your darkness and then go into the world without fear. The Green Rose flower does not close itself off. She shows us how to encounter the darkness of anything we do not yet know or understand without contracting our heart.
Green Rose helps to dispel fear in a way that is unique. It differs from the Mimulus flower wherein we need to find the outer courage to face our fear. It also is distinguished from the Larch flower essence that imparts the inner strength to believe in one’s ability. The message of the Green Rose flower essence is that we can encounter the darkness of what we don’t understand or know because there is no reason to contract our hearts and create distance from what seems to be different. Ultimately, Green Rose teaches compassion. It helps the heart feel a connection between all beings, and to realize love as a form of transcendent embrace and trust.
Green Rose shows how to face new people and situations beyond one's comfort zone.
On a practical level, I use Green Rose extensively for reactive animals that are afraid to face new situations and tend to respond aggressively. Green Rose shows how to face new people and situations beyond one's comfort zone. This can become an absolutely natural response without hostility. In this way, Green Rose helps to overcome fear, mistrust, and defensiveness in those clients who react aggressively to what is different.
Green Rose Helps Remo Release Tension and Establish Trust
Green Rose was a key flower essence that catalyzed a significant change for Remo, a medium-sized dog of about three years old. He had always been reactive and tense. Socialization training only made a small improvement. When Remo's family moved to the city, the situation worsened since he was required to wear a leash and cross paths with people and dogs every time he left the house. He viewed nearly everyone as a stranger and launched himself at them, barking furiously. It was hard for him to establish trust with new people, and he was especially reactive to children. When he was in an area with other dogs, he did not react, but he stayed aloof, without interacting with others.
I prescribed Green Rose for his fear of strangers, along with Baby Blue Eyes for aggressive insecurity and Water Violet for his tendency to remain isolated and not mix with other dogs.
After a month and a half, his family were not sure if Remo had actually changed, yet he seemed worse when he stopped taking the flower essences. We experimented with a different composition of flowers which were of no benefit at all for Remo’s condition. it was then clear that the first formula with Green Rose was working but just needed more time to take hold.
After a longer period of taking the
formula consistently for three months, I met with Remo and his family
again. He was calmer and much more relaxed; he even let himself be
tenderly petted without any problems. His caretakers noted that Remo has
started playing with other dogs. He can now be on a leash even in the
city, he actually enjoys his walks and is no longer reactive to
strangers. Above all, they noted that Remo no longer has the underlying
tension that had been a part of his chronic condition.
Green Rose played the major healing role in this formula, helping Remo’s heart be more relaxed and open without the chronic tension. This also meant that he could trust others without being reactive and he could come to enjoy life more.
Green Bells of Ireland: Establishing Harmonization of Elemental Forces
Green Bells of Ireland is a striking herbaceous plant with tall flower spikes. The blossoming plant is filled with light, with hollow square stems. The actual flowers are small, surrounded by large green calyxes shaped like receptive satellite dishes, with small thorns below each calyx. These unique “green bells” are like parabolas registering the weaving elemental forces in their environment.
Green Bells of Ireland connects us with the magical elemental forces of Nature. These elemental energies are real beings, who are described in the traditions, stories and legends of all indigenous cultures. These spiritual energies are expressed through the Green Bells of Ireland, coming from the surrounding Cosmos and steaming through its hollow stem all the way into the depths of the Earth. This plant is able to orchestrate all four elements of air, earth, fire, air into a harmonious interweaving that works into the deep strata of Earth.
This quality of harmonization is reflected in the healing emanation of the Green Bells of Ireland. The intense energies of the elemental world can create chaos and confusion in both the soul and the body. The Green Bells of Ireland flower essence imparts the ability to integrate and catalyze these forces in a manner that is cohesive and orderly. This essence facilitates emotional balance during times of disruption and psychic difficulty. This harmonizing quality works even into bodily conditions.
For example, I use Green Bells of Ireland flower essence for those animal clients with unpredictable and chaotic behavior. These are not animals who are inherently dangerous and need pharmacological intervention. But nevertheless, these are animals who have great difficulty in being re-trained and successfully adopted, so they are often returned to animal shelters. The Green Bells of Ireland flower essence restores harmony within the various chaotic elemental forces surging through the animal and creating confusion.
Green Bells of Ireland Moluccella laevis
The Green Bells of Ireland flower essence restores harmony within the various chaotic elemental forces surging through the animal and creating confusion.
As well, Green Bells of Ireland can be restorative for animal clients with a complex pathology. For example, an animal patient may present with heart and respiratory conditions, along with kidney and liver problems and accompanying joint pains. With such a client it is challenging to even know where to begin treating because of considerable overlap and confusion of the elements: air where there should be water, earth where there should be air, and so forth. In these extreme cases Green Bells of Ireland can begin to restore order. More steps of treatment will be required, but this flowers essence plays a beneficial role in helping to reorganize and re-direct these elemental forces within the physical body.
Green Nicotiana: Establishing Connection to Life Pulses Within Nature
Green Nicotiana is a unique version of the tobacco plant, offering her flowers in a light-filled form of lime green. Through this exceptional plant, we enter into the idea of awareness of the earth and its higher spheres as a source of support and nourishment. Patricia and Richard teach us how Green Nicotiana helps one to be more aware of and connected to the living pulse of the Earth. We become more conscious of feeling this “heartbeat” as a series of many rhythms in Nature – for example, the rhythm of day and night, the seasons and the lunar cycle as well as other planets and stars.
The delicate blossom of the Green Nicotiana has a long trumpet form that acts like a channel to capture higher pulsations of dynamic energy and bring them into internal cohesion. This imparts healing for both the body and soul, becoming a deep source of nourishment from higher spheres of Life Force.
Green Nicotiana is very beneficial for animals and people who no longer know who they are in body and soul because they live disconnected from the life pulses in the great body of Nature.
Green Nicotiana is very beneficial for those animals and people who have a kind of alienation. They no longer know who they are in body and soul because they live disconnected from the life pulses in the great body of Nature. For example, dogs or cats (or other small animals) that are treated like children and become completely disconnected from their natural rhythms and instincts. This is because we make them get used to our rhythms which are not innately theirs. Although they may have nocturnal instincts, we expect them to sleep at night and stay awake during the day. While it may be inconvenient from the human point of view, Green Nicotiana can help to re-instill healthy more natural rhythms of waking and sleeping that are necessary for well-being.
Green Cross Gentian: Strengthening Collective Identity Within Earth & Humanity
Green Cross Gentian has a gesture that soars towards the sky, like a tall column or obelisk, reaching over 2 meters in height. Stature is precisely one of its notable characteristics, climbing high into the blue alpine sky in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The leaves and flowers have a conical shape, with green flowers that face outward, strongly attached to a vertical stem. Each flower has four petals that are like compasses indicating the four directions, the four seasons, the four elements within the larger Being of Nature.
Green Cross Gentian brings back trust and faith when one feels caught in the grip of collective defeat. It is a profound kind of depression and isolation, a doubt that one can defeat evil, or the feeling that there is no longer hope for humanity or the planet. Green Cross Gentian realigns with our sense of both inner and outer direction and orientation. This flower reminds us that even in the harshest winter, the earth is preparing for spring. In this way Green Cross Gentian acts as a compass within both time and space for the body and soul.
Furthermore, Green Cross Gentian imparts a new sense of strength that transcends the feeling of separation. The plant structure contains various levels going up from its base to a very high apex. These different levels are all integral and equally important to the whole structure. They remind us that superiority of one level over another goes against a divine law in Nature and also in Humanity. In this way Green Cross Gentian helps to feel part of a large community in the whole Earth and to overcome difficulties between different individuals or groups of any kind, toward a higher encompassing identity. This is a flower essence we need so much in order to become part of a larger human community that lives in harmony on our Planet Earth.
Green Cross Gentian Frasera speciosa
Depressed animals isolated from their species and their natural elemental habitation can still find a connection to their larger collective identity with Green Cross Gentian.
This Green Cross flower can also be very important for animals, especially for those that have a particular condition of captivity or isolation. Examples include fish in an aquarium, birds in a cage, turtles or reptiles in small terrariums and single cats that are in high rise apartments without even a balcony where they can get air and sun. Such animals become depressed, as they are isolated from their species and their natural elemental habitation. With Green Cross Gentian can still find a connection to their larger collective identity, and in this way draw renewed nourishment and strength.
Green Rein Orchid: A Grounded Ecological Consciousness for Animal Caretakers
Green Rein Orchid helps us move beyond abstractions into knowing and acting upon what we can do in concrete ways to make a difference, or to be of help to our animal companions.
Green Rein Orchid imparts a keener sense of ecological awareness that is more practical and grounded. While I have not used it for animal clients, it is very beneficial for those of us who are animal practitioners and caretakers. We often have romantic ideas of healing, ecology or respect for animals. But we are not able to integrate this very romantic ideal into everyday life. Green Rein Orchid helps us move beyond abstractions into knowing and acting upon what we can do in concrete ways to make a difference, or to be of help to our animal companions.
We can also broaden this discussion to include the sense of practical manifestation. We can move beyond an ideal that remains in our head, into something real that becomes a collaboration with others. Similar to a community of ants that work collectively toward a common goal, we can transcend the need for self-realization, and work to achieve a purpose that manifests positively for the whole community.
Corn: Anchoring With Earth Forces Despite Urban Challenges
Editor's note: The Hopi Corn has greenish-yellow flowers.This plant grows in close communion with the earth and human cultivation, and has many qualities related to the larger theme of the green flowers.
Hopi Blue corn has a profound connection and meaning for indigenous Native American culture. It is truly a plant that brings one into deep connection with the earth. The Corn flower essence imparts the consciousness to feel the earth under your feet as a force of centering and strength. This anchoring with the Earth provides stability in all those situations in which one finds oneself far from Nature, with a feeling of total disconnection. This feeling of separation is accompanied by a painful sensation of being unable to adapt to an urban world, far from natural landscapes, woods, meadows and clear skies.
Corn helps when it is painful to be in a world that is completely man-made and no longer in the world of Nature. In these circumstances, Corn gives us that strength to find the earth even in situations where the earth isn't there or we have the feeling that it isn't there. This flower is distinctly divided between its upper and lower parts. One feels the “feet” of the Corn to be strongly rooted in the earth. But above in the flowering realm, the tassels and silks move in the light-filled air, as though floating in the atmosphere around them, with great sensitivity to the environment and its subtle energy. The Corn speaks to us: you can hover in the air with sensitivity but still remain rooted in the earth. You can move beyond the pain and isolation of being in a situation that isn't congenial to you. I will help you find within yourself the security and satisfaction of contact with Nature in any environment. Even though you may feel isolated, you can find within your solitude, your strength.
Corn is important for animals who have previously lived in Nature and are re-located to urban homes.
The Corn flower essence is extremely important for animals, especially for those dogs who have lived previously on farms in the countryside and are then adopted and taken to a city where there is little contact with Nature. Another example involves cats who were formerly able to go outside or be in a garden and then were re-located to a city apartment without the possibility of being outdoors. The Corn flower essence also benefits those dogs or cats who always lived in an apartment and have no never real contact with the earth. We must keep in mind that the floor of a city apartment is not earth, it is always raised from the ground. Also, many small dogs are never brought to a meadow or field, and perhaps never even taken to an urban park to put their paws in the earth. In these cases, Corn can give them the security of earthly contact and grounding.
Dr. Laura Cutullo, DVM, Veterinarian
Dr. Cutullo’s involvement in veterinary medicine began in 1991. After graduating in Veterinary Medicine at the State University of Milan, Italy, she began her studies in homeopathy attending a four-year post-graduate course at the Classic Homeopathy School “Mario Garlasco” in Florence, Italy. During this same period of time, Laura developed a deep interest in Bach flower remedies which influenced her future professional activity.
Since 2019 she has also been practicing in the Canton of Ticino (Switzerland). She is registered with the Italian Federation of Homeopathic Doctors (FIAMO) and the FIAMO-SIMO Register of Accredited Homeopaths
Since 2013 Laura has been part of the FES Practitioner Referral Network, and had been appointed by FES as the Official Veterinary Teacher in Italy. Since 2001 she has been affiliated with the Union of Flower Therapy, where she is a teacher for professional flower essence therapists. Dr. Laura is a founding member and president of ADMV Associazione Donne Medico Veterinario (Association of Women Veterinarians).
She is a speaker at conferences and seminars and she contributes to scientific as well as to more popular publications with a particular focus on holistic medicine and natural therapies.
Laura has published:
"Fiori di Bach per gli animali " (1997, published by Xenia, Cod: ISBN 978-88-7273-240-3). In this book, for the first time, Flower Therapy was studied with special regard to its application to pets’ care, particularly dogs and cats.
" Medicina veterinaria non convenzionale " (Unconventional veterinary medicine) (published in Italy by Edagricole ), in Italian, together with Paul Pignattelli, who has contributed to the book, writing the chapter devoted to Flower Therapy.
"Cure naturali e alimentazione per gli animali di casa” (published by RIZA, Cod: ISBN 978-88-7071-160-8), in Italian, holistic care for pets.
"Fiori Californiani per gli animali " (2016, published by Xenia, Cod: ISBN 978-88-7273-807-8), in Italian, the first ever text on the use of this flower therapy system in animals.
"The North American Flower essences for pets. In the footsteps of Edward Bach " (ISBN:
978-8872738412),
in English, (2018, published by Xenia).
"Le terapie naturali per il gatto " (2024, published by Xenia, Cod: ISBN 978-88-7273-924-2), in italian .
Since 1992 she has been working as a holistic veterinarian in the pet sector in Milan, medical director of the holistic veterinary center Naturaliter, and since 2019 in the Canton of Ticino (Switzerland).
Barbara Mapelli Mozzi
Barbara began to communicate with animals and nature when she was a child. Growing up with farm animals and family pets she had an instinctual feeling for what they wanted and needed. She recognized their wild natures, their inner qualities, and their suffering. This attunement to suffering awakened her interest in serving in medical hospitals as a young woman, where she volunteered as a lay nurse. In the context of the hospital, she began to develop her method for healing in a very quiet manner
In 1991, Barbara formally began her healing practice. She started collaborating with veterinarians, who helped her to make the bridge between her perceptions and allopathic medicine. These collaborations continue to this day.
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