Floral therapy in the care of the terminal patient and his/her relatives

Abstract

In the current work we carried out a review on the theme of the care of the terminal patient and his/her relatives from the view of the floral therapy. We mentioned the stages through which passes a terminal patient proposed by the Swiss psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler Ross. We referred the therapeutic system using floral essences, elaborated by the English physician Eduard Bach and suggested several essences that might be useful in each of the stages, both for the patient and for the relatives; we also mentioned the care to relatives after the decease of the beloved being in help for a better travel through the mourning period and for a faster reincorporation to life. We emphasized the goodness of floral therapy, with regards to its effectiveness and easy application, harmless, low cost and the increasing demand of this therapy from the part of the population. We carried out a documental analysis of classic texts on the theme of Thanatology and Floral Therapy.