Homeopathy is an effective and, above all, safe system of medicine.

Homeopathy is not new. It has been used successfully world wide for nearly 200 years and has been in use throughout the centuries for over two millennium. In more recent years there has been an upsurge in the use of homeopathy in the UK because of the safe and gentle way the medicines work to help people to better health.

It is based on the principal of “like cures like”. In homeopathy the illness is treated by using a minute amount of a substance which, in large amounts, could cause the symptoms you are experiencing. For example a patient presenting with symptoms of acute diarrhoea and vomiting may have similar symptoms to someone who has been poisoned with arsenic. The remedy Arsenicum (a minute, non-toxic dose) will quickly treat these symptoms.

This minute dose stimulates the body’s own ability to heal itself without the use of powerful drugs. Many modern drugs can produce side effects which cause the patient to experience discomfort or new symptoms elsewhere in the body.

Homeopathy holistic therapy. In that we look at the patient as a whole. We believe that it is not the collection of symptoms themselves that constitute the disease rather that the symptoms are a reflection of what is out of balance in the body. For instance an outbreak of eczema may be the result of an emotional stress such as exam pressure. The symptom is on the skin and is given a diagnosis of eczema. Conventional medicine would only look at the presenting symptoms and prescribe topical steroid creams to suppress the eruption. However, in homeopathy we would look at the stress that came before the symptoms.