Despondency — heart target
despondency group; Larch, Sweet Chestnut, and Star of Bethlehem
Bach’s despondency group includes despair, discouragement, and shock-related states. The heart target is an editorial TARGET-ORGAN projection for affective weight, not a claim of physical causation or a Bach organ correspondence.
Point 6 of 7 in Bach Flower Remedies
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Edward Bach, Heal Thyself: An Explanation of the Real Cause and Cure of Disease (primary)
Chapters 1–2 set out Bach’s account of illness as related to mental and emotional disharmony; the text does not provide an anatomical organ chart.
Edward Bach, The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies (primary)
The remedy sections organise the 38 remedies into emotional groups and describe indications; they do not prescribe the plotted body coordinates.
Edzard Ernst, “Flower remedies: a systematic review of the clinical evidence” (scholarly_modern)
Systematic review of controlled clinical evidence for Bach flower remedies; used here for an efficacy caveat, not to validate an organ projection.