Homeopathy

 Homeopathy is an effective and, above all, safe system of medicine. It has been used successfully world wide for nearly 200 years.   Recently,  there has been an upsurge of interest in homeopathy in the US because of the safe and gentle way that  the medicines work to help people.

Homeopathy is based on the principal of “like cures like”. In this form of medicine the illness is treated by using a minute amount of a substance which, in large amounts, could cause the symptoms that it helps to cure.

These minute doses stimulate the body’s own ability to heal itself without the use of powerful drugs.

Homeopathy is holistic therapy in that we look at the patient as a whole. We observe  that it is not the collection of symptoms themselves that constitutes the disease but  that the symptoms are a reflection of what is out of balance in the body. For instance an outbreak of eczema may be the result of an emotional stress such as exam pressure. The symptom is on the skin and is given a diagnosis of eczema.

Conventional medicine would only look at the presenting symptoms and prescribe topical steroid creams to suppress the eruption. However, in homeopathy we would look at the stress that came before the symptoms to help  find a solution.

In addition to this classical or constitutional form of homeopathy, I use a line of biological medicines called spagyric  and immune metabolic remedies which are combinations of herbal and homeopathic medicines.