Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a gentle, natural treatment with pleasant tasting  sugar pills made from natural sources. It is useful in most health conditions both physical and emotional, acute and chronic. There are no side effects and it is completely safe for all age groups from  babies to the elderly including during pregnancy.

The first consultation takes about an hour to an hour and a half during which time you will be encouraged to talk about all of your health problems, your medical history and that of your family as well as your lifestyle. This information helps me to build up a detailed picture of you as an individual which I then use to match your symptoms to those of a known homeopathic remedy. Once I have decided which remedy your symptoms most closely resemble I give you the appropriate dose.

Follow-up appointments are usually monthly, and I will usually phone you after a week to see how the remedy is working. The number of appointments you will need vary according to how long you have been unwell and the seriousness of your condition, but a rough guide is between 3 and 9 sessions.

Homeopathy was formulated by Dr. Samuel Hahnneman in Germany in the late 1700’s. Since then it has become established in most countries of the world.

Homeopathy gets its name from the Greek “homeo” meaning similar and “pathos” meaning suffering; similar suffering. This means that homeopathy rests on the law of similars, or like cures like. Put another way, what symptoms a substance can cause in its natural state, it can cure when given in its specially prepared homeopathic form. Hahnneman came across this fact by accident. He was working on a document  detailing the symptoms of poisoning by cinchona bark, or quinine. He noticed that the symptoms were similar to those of malaria and recalled that quinine was a successful treatment for malaria. Coincidence or was there more to it? He began to experiment on himself and found that it was more than coincidence and that like does indeed cure like. Hahnneman discovered our oldest and most used remedies but since his time homeopaths have continued to add to the number year on year.

I studied at the Northern College of Homeopathy in Newcastle in the 1980’s and completed one year’s post-graduate course with Jeremy Sherr who went on to form the acclaimed Dynamis School. Since that time I have practiced in a number of clinics in the North West. In 2006 I fulfilled my ambition to study with Indian homeopaths, renowned as amongst the world’s best, when I received training from Dr. Rajan Sankaran and others of the Homeopathic Research and Charities in Goa.