Homeopathy

Homeopathy is an effective and scientific system of healing which helps the body to heal itself. It recognises that symptoms of ill health are expressions if disharmony within the whole person and it is the patient who needs treatment, not the disease.

In 1796, a German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, discovered a different approach to the cure of the sick, which he called homeopathy (from the Greek words meaning "similar suffering"). Like Hippocrates two thousand years earlier, he realised that there were two ways of treating ill health, the way of opposites and the way of similars.

Take for example, a case of insomnia. The way of opposites, (conventional medicine or allopathy), is to treat this by giving a drug to bring on artificial sleep. This frequently involves the use of large or regular doses of drugs, which can sometimes cause side effects or addition.

The way of similars, the homeopathic way, is to give the patient a minute dose of a substance, such as coffee, which in large doses causes sleeplessness in a healthy person. Surprisingly this will enable the patient to sleep naturally.

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