Homeopathy

Homeopathy Simply Explained

Homeopathy is an effective and scientific system of healing which assists the natural tendency of the body to heal itself. It recognises that all symptoms of ill health are expressions of disharmony within the whole person and it is the patient that needs treatment, not the disease.
 
Different people react in different ways to the same illness, and in order to find the correct remedy your homoeopath will need to know, not only your physical symptoms but also as much as possible about yourself and how your symptoms affect you.

Homoeopathic remedies cannot cause side effects as you cannot become addicted to them. This is because only a minute amount of the active ingredient is used in a specially prepared form.

What is Homeopathy?

In 1796 a German doctor, Samuel Hahneman, discovered a different approach to the cure of the sick, which he called homoeopathy from the Greek words meaning "similar suffering".
Like Hippocrates, two thousand years earlier, he realised that there were two ways to treating ill health, the way of two opposites and the way of two similars.
Take for example, a case of insomnia. The way of opposites is to treat this by giving a drug to bring on an artificial sleep. This frequently involves the use of large or regular doses of drugs which can sometimes cause side effects of addiction.
The way of similars, the homoeopathic way, is to give the patient a minute dose of a substance, which in large doses causes the patient to sleep naturally. Because of the minute dosage, no side effects or addiction will result.    Next Page (continued)