[1][2] Born in Moseley, Worcestershire, he studied medicine at the University College Hospital, London, and obtained a Diploma of Public Health (DPH) at Cambridge.

These bowel nosodes[7] were introduced by Bach and the British homeopath John Paterson (1890–1954)[8] and Charles Edwin Wheeler (1868–1946)[9] in the 1920s.

He believed that early morning sunlight passing through dew-drops on flower petals transferred the healing power of the flower onto the water,[12] so he would collect the dew drops from the plants and preserve the dew with an equal amount of brandy to produce a mother tincture which would be further diluted before use.

[13] Later, he found that the amount of dew he could collect was not sufficient, so he would suspend flowers in spring water and allow the sun's rays to pass through them.

Bach's remedies focus on treatment of the patient's personality, which he believed to be the ultimate root cause of disease.