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AGRIMONY
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CENTAURY
CERATO
CHERRY PLUM
CHESTNUT BUD
CHICORY
CLEMATIS
CRAB APPLE
ELM
GENTIAN
GORSE
HEATHER
HOLLY
HONEYSUCKLE
HORNBEAM
IMPATIENS
LARCH
MIMULUS
MUSTARD
OAK
OLIVE
PINE
RED CHESTNUT
RESCUE REMEDY
ROCK ROSE
ROCK WATER
SCLERANTHUS
STAROF BETHLEHEM
SWEET CHESTNUT
VERVAIN
VINE
WALNUT
WATER VIOLET
WHITE CHESTNUT
WILD OAT
WILD ROSE
WILLOW

The remedy Chestnut Bud, together with Clematis, Honeysuckle, Wild Rose, Olive, and White Chestnut, belongs to Bach's group of Not Sufficient Interest in Present Circumstances. These remedies help those not fully engaged in the here and now. Specifically, Chestnut Bud treats a young and impulsive mind not prone to integrate the lessons of daily life.

In the Chestnut Bud state, the mind is restless and impulsive, easily distracted, absent-minded, and not set on learning in the factual and moral sense. Chestnut Bud treats a mind with a bent to immaturity; there is still a potential for growth and deepening of learning, especially in regard to one's reflective and reasoning powers.
In learning environments, the mind in need of Chestnut Bud is marked by skipping from topic to topic, or superficially through a text, or rushing ahead impatiently. Deepened concentration, savoring, and reflecting on learned material are not fully present. Consequently, learned material is not contained very well, although capacity for memory is usually present. It is the manner of addressing the learning material which prevents deepened learning from taking place. Distractions are welcomed; things are not taken seriously enough, or one may jump at conclusions prematurely. There may be inappropriate laughing or gliding over reprimands. These observations not only apply to learning environments but actually extend into parts of life where understanding and achieving are called for.
This includes the moral arena, where the same dynamic can be observed. Life's experiences, even if they contained lessons and painful consequences, are not integrated in such a way as to further character growth and inner wisdom. One glides through life rather superficially, living according to one's spontaneity and emotional motivations rather than balancing with reason, clarity, and meaningful reflection.
In developmental disorders, hyperactivity (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder), and disruptive behavior disorders, Chestnut Bud helps the mind to settle into restful concentration and retain the learning material. In the treatment of disruptive, antisocial, or criminal behavior, factitious disorders, and malingering, when learning and growth in moral insight are not forthcoming, Chestnut Bud is of service.(1) In personality disorders marked by a refusal to change and acquire empathy for others, such as in antisocial personality disorder, Chestnut Bud can spur moral growth (cf. Vine).

Since the mind is not very trained in constructive self-observation and the resolute fostering of positive aspirations, emotions rule much of the conduct. One is easily carried by positive as well as negative emotional content and may appear unreasonable, easily swayed, naive, emotionally unstable, impulsive, defiant, and somewhat lacking in integrity or depth.
People not willing to obey laws and adjust to a normal socialization process often are in need of this remedy. They do not learn readily from experience, are often heedless or careless, even after having been reprimanded or curtailed in their freedom.
There is also a bent to easy comradery, hilarity and joking.
Besides affecting the whole character, the Chestnut Bud state can also be experienced by a person usually strong in integrity and insight. A repeated tendency may exist, or there might be moments in life when one feels unsettled, easily distracted, more superficial in certain aspects of life, or one temporarily avoids to draw lessons from one's experiences.

To help the mind find calm focus and become receptive to reason, clarity, reflection, and development of inner wisdom.