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About Homeopathy

In homeopathy, dis-ease is recognised as affecting the whole person’s body, mind and spirit. Symptoms are the body’s intelligent attempt at restoring balance (homeostasis). The aim of treatment is to stimulate and support the body’s healing mechanisms to help its symptoms complete their processes and restore health.

Homeopathy is a complete system of medicine, used widely around the world and was developed by Samuel Hahneman, a German physician, at the end of the 18th century. (Please see my blog to learn more about how homeopathy was developed).

An important principle in homeopathy is The Law of Similars (“Like Cures Like”) meaning that a substance which causes symptoms when taken in large amounts can be used in very small amounts to cure those same symptoms.

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A second principle is that a homeopathic medicine is chosen for the person and their whole constitution. A prescription is based on a complete understanding of the presenting symptoms and the context in which they have arisen. Rather than aiming treatment at the named disease (such as “eczema”, “shingles” etc) each prescription is made individual to suit the person’s own dynamic pattern expressed in illness and health. It also takes account of their level of vitality: the “minimum dose” necessary to instigate a reaction (a third principle) is chosen for the patient. In this way, each person receives a bespoke treatment.
Homeopathic remedies are prepared from plant, mineral and other natural sources and go through a process of ultra-dilution and succussion (shaking) in order to eliminate their potential for side-effects and to make them non-toxic. Their action is upon the body’s energy, or “vital force” which governs all the body’s functions and self-regulating processes. 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.

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“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!”

True health is freedom from any symptom that is limiting our life or who we really are.