What is homeopathy?
Homeopathy is a gentle, holistic system of healing, suitable for everyone, young and old.
Homeopathic medicines are chosen to treat the whole person, because homeopaths believe the mind and body operate as one, and you cannot treat one part of the body without affecting the whole. Medicines are chosen to fit all the characteristics of the patient, so physical disorders are considered in relation to the individual’s mental and emotional state. As we believe everyone is different homeopathy is an individualised and complete form of medicine.
Homeopathy works on a principle known as ‘the law of similars’ or ‘like cures like’. This law states that a substance that can cause a disease can also relieve it. For example, coffee - or Coffea as it is known in Latin - is a stimulant that can cause temporary insomnia. Coffea may be used in minute potentised homeopathic doses to relieve that insomnia. Another example is that chopping onions can cause your nose and eyes to run with copious amounts of water. The onion - Allium cepa - can be used homeopathically to treat colds and hayfever where the main symptoms include runny eyes and nose. This is a natural law observed as far back as 400 B.C. by Hippocrates. The development of this law into a system of therapeutics was achieved 200 years ago by a German physician named Samuel Hahnemann who is considered the father of homeopathy.