While many of the classifications are obvious, it appears that Dr. Bach, with his great sensitivity and deep understanding of the remedies, based some of his category choices on the underlying reason as to why people exhibit such a negative state.
However, as such reasons may not always be immediately apparent, Dr. Bach's divisions have been rearranged into five alternate categories. These categories are mainly to ease choosing or prescribing a remedy from the most obvious negative moods of the personality but also they are grouped according to the similar positive aspects/outcomes that each type needs to develop.
Following are the five alternate categories as detailed by Vicki Piper in Nature & Health (Vol 5, No. 1, 1983), with changes and additions.
Category 1 - self-assurance, confidence, perseverance
The suggested physical symptoms for each flower remedy need not always be present. According to Dr. Bach's philosophy,physical illness are merely a reflection of an unhealthy mental state . If a negative mood is a recent development, it need not yet have become obvious in the physical body.
Likewise, the characteristic expressions are not essential but are noted as a guide for ease of recognition of a particular type of personality.
With any division into categories, there may be certain negative emotions which could fit into a number of groups. It is important to realise that each remedy does stand on its own but can have aspects of many others.
When choosing a remedy, firstly locate the most outstanding disturbing moods - not every negative aspect need be relevant, just look for the general tendency and to the positive outcome, that is, how you would like to feel. Once one (or two) pivotal remedies are found, try to give a direction to the cure by supporting these with two or three others. These may come from any of the groups - the divisions for merely for ease of choosing or prescribing.
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