Homeopathy

Homoeopathy is essentially a natural healing process, providing remedies to assist the patient to regain health by stimulating the body’s own natural force of recovery and to stimulate the body into building up resistance to disease processes. This form of medicine was systemised 200 years ago by a German Medical Physician, Dr Samuel Hahnemann, who used it to treat many varied conditions.

It can be used as a safe alternative by pregnant women for acute and chronic problems and by children for conditions as varied as earache, asthma, eczema, sleep or emotional problems. It can also help arthritis, hypertension, hay fever, allergies, menstrual problems, digestive disorders, skin problems, weight problems, inflammatory disorders, eczema, psoriasis, IBS, ME and many more.

The other major advantage to homoeopathy is that due to the relatively inexpensive cost of homoeopathic medicine compared to conventional treatments it will result in a huge cost saving to the budgets of fundholding General Practices and the NHS generally especially when we see the escalating prices of drugs in particular relation to chronic conditions.

What is Homeopathy?

The basic principle of Homoeopathy has been known since the time of the ancient Greeks. Derived from the Greek word “Homoios” meaning “like”, Homoeopathy is the medical practice of treating like with like. That is to say, treating an illness with a substance which when taken by a healthy person produces symptoms similar to those displayed by the person who is ill.

Current medical opinion takes the view that symptoms are a direct manifestation of the illness and, therefore, treats the ailment by suppressing the symptoms. Homoeopathy, by contrast, sees the symptoms as the body’s reaction against the illness as it attempts to overcome it, and seeks to stimulate and not suppress the reaction.

Homoeopathy is essentially a natural healing process providing remedies to assist the patient to regain health by stimulating the body’s natural forces of recovery. The remedies appear to trigger a healing process in the body, leading to the correction of the illness.

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