About Homeopathy
Homeopathy was developed by Samuel Hahnemann, a German medical doctor, who was born in the 18th century. It has been in use ever since then and is now used by over 200 million people around the world (Source: Homeopathy Research Institute) (Please see my blog to learn more about how homeopathy was developed).
It differs from conventional medicine in that it stimulates the whole organism to heal its underlying imbalance and thus all of its symptoms, rather than focussing on individual complaints and suppressing them.
Homeopathy considers the very wide context of you as a whole human being: your health history and journey through life, how you experience stress, your likes and dislikes, fears, sleep and so on.
Your body is a dynamic, co-ordinated and intelligent system that will react to a very small amount of a natural substance prepared as a homeopathic medicine (“remedy”). When it is well matched, its stimulus starts a natural healing reaction.
Because the whole body is treated, homeopathy is used for emotional and mental aspects of health, as well as physical symptoms.
When a homeopath selects the remedy they think most accurately matches the pattern of the patient’s illness or state, its action is upon the body’s energy, or “vital force” which governs all the body’s functions and self-regulating processes. In this way, the remedy acts as a stimulus, promoting natural healing.
Remedies are prescribed as sugar pills or liquids and are easy and pleasant to take. When they are prescribed by a homeopath they are suitable for everyone, from the very young and the very old, in pregnancy and in all stages of life and health.
Homeopathy can safely be used alongside conventional treatment.
How homeopathic medicines are made
Homeopathic remedies are prepared from plant, mineral and other natural sources and go through a meticulous process of ultra-dilution and succussion (agitation of the diluted substance) in order to transform the material substance incrementally to an energetic nanodose – or homeopathic remedy. The process eliminates the potential for side-effects and renders them non-toxic.
When a homeopath selects the remedy they think most accurately matches the pattern of the patient’s illness or state, its action is upon the body’s energy, or the “vital force” which governs all the body’s functions and self-regulating processes. In this way, the remedy acts as a stimulus, promoting natural healing.
Remedies are prescribed as sugar pills or liquids and are easy and pleasant to take. When they are prescribed by a homeopath they are suitable for everyone, from the very young and the very old, in pregnancy and in all stages of life and health.
Homeopathy can safely be used alongside conventional treatment.
Here is a video from Helios Homeopathy (where I buy my remedies) demonstrating the exacting process of preparing remedies.
“IT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHAT SORT OF A PERSON HAS A DISEASE THAN TO KNOW WHAT SORT OF DISEASE A PERSON HAS”
-Hippocrates
“As an 82 year old, I consider myself to be very fortunate to be, generally, as robust and healthy as I am, still able to do demanding physical work around the home, lifting and carrying twenty kilos without too much strain. Until recently. A few weeks, for no apparent reason that I was aware of, I became continually tired, needing to sleep many times every day. I was listless, despondent, withdrawn and irritable. Everything became an effort. All of this I explained to Cath. The treatment she prescribed was quite miraculous in that, within days, I was back to “normal”, so much so, that my wife was prepared to talk to me!”