Why Homeopathy?

The popularity of homeopathy has increased as people have become more aware of their health, the consequences of medication and homeopathy’s natural beneficial effects.

It is now recognised by the World Health Organisation as the second most widely used and fastest growing form of medicine in the world today.

This is because Homeopathy:

• Is safe for all to use
• Is effective
• Stimulates your immune system to heal naturally
• Is completely individualised
• Has no damaging side –effects

Homeopathy is a unique and scientific system of healing which assists the natural tendency of the body to heal itself. This holistic approach focuses on treating the individual as a whole and therefore, healing takes place on a physical, mental and emotional level.

Homeopathy tries to find the cause of the illness and works with the natural flow of the body in a non-suppressive way stimulating the immune system into long-term good health.

How does it work?

A homeopathic remedy can be made from plants, herbs, minerals, chemicals or animals. They are prepared in a special way through a process of dilution and purification making them more curatively powerful even though only a minute amount of the active ingredient remains. Hence, the remedies have no dangerous or damaging side effects and are completely safe for everyone to use including pregnant women, children, babies and the elderly.

Homeopathy is based on the Law of Similars. This states that “like cures like” and therefore any substance in its crude form, which is capable of producing symptoms, can be used when prepared homeopathically, to stimulate the healing of those symptoms expressed by the individual.

Hence, if a patient came to me for the treatment of Hayfever displaying the symptoms of burning, stinging eyes, a runny nose, sneezing and a sore throat I may use the Homeopathic remedy of Alium Cepa (red onion) as these are all symptoms produced by onion in its crude form, for example, when chopping them.

Whenever your body is out of balance it will try and help by expressing symptoms. A remedy is then prescribed which matches these symptoms as you experience them. This stimulates the body’s own healing power to clear the system of any disturbance, bringing you back into balance.

What can it treat?

Acute illnesses such as: colds, flu, sore throats, toothache, food poisoning, insect bites, injuries, ear and eye infections, reactions to vaccinations, morning sickness in pregnancy, breastfeeding problems, colic, fevers and emotional shocks.

If you are someone who seems to constantly catch a cold or every bug that goes around then you will benefit greatly from further treatment to improve your immune system and your susceptibility to such illnesses.

Chronic Illnesses such as: hay fever, eczema, asthma, anxiety, stress, migraines, depression, arthritis, sleep problems, digestive disorders, menopause, menstrual problems, children’s behavioural problems, chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome and many more…….

Some examples of why you should use homeopathy:

To treat eczema:

• Many babies and children suffer from eczema. This could be for many reasons including birth trauma or a family history of skin problems. The skin is the least dangerous place for our body to express symptoms of being out of balance.
• However, the use of steroids to treat this condition is often undertaken and may appear to reduce the eczema or even make it disappear but this has only served to suppress rather than cure the eczema.
• As a result because the treatment has not been curative the symptoms must be expressed elsewhere in the body and this is usually in the more dangerous place of the lungs producing asthma.
• The child therefore, then takes the treatment of asthma steroids that are again non-curative and so the process continues into a spiral of long-term health complaints and dependence on medication…

To treat depression:

• Again, because the treatment of antidepressants, whilst sometimes necessary, is not curative the patient is sometimes faced with a lifetime of medication, as the symptoms are still apparent after withdrawal. However, this need not be the case as Homeopathy is a holistic treatment capable of producing healing on a mental and emotional level treating the causes of depression and the possible predisposition to it because of family history.
• Homeopathy can be used alongside medication and support the gradual withdrawal of the antidepressant.