What is homeopathy?

Homeopathy is a system of medicine which:

  • has been healing people all over the world for two hundred years.
  • stimulates the body to heal itself
  • works with the body
  • treats the entire person with one prescription
  • is cost effective
  • understands how to read and change the way illness moves through the body
  • prescribe potentised drugs which are free from crude chemicals
  • is hard to explain and seems like magic

Homeopathy started 220 years ago when disillusioned, multilingual doctor named Dr Samuel Hahnemann was translating medical texts and decided to take a dose of the malaria medicine he was writing about. I’m not going to tell you the rest of that story now. We will leave that for another time. The important part of the story is that by testing medicines and recording the results he devised a system of medicine that worked so well it spread across the world and has been virtually unchanged for 220 years. (If you would like to know more about the history. Click here.)

If you have never heard of homeopathy before, there are very good reasons for that. But, that is also a story for a different day.

Homeopathy works by stimulating the body to heal itself. To achieve this the homeopath collects symptom your whole body, life and disease history. Then use software to match your life/body symptoms to profiles of one of 3,000+ potentised drugs.

A homeopath’s aim to trigger a process we call ‘Hering’s Direction of the Cure’. This is when the body heals from within out (centre of the body first and skin last), from the top down (head first and toes last ), from most important organ to least important organ (in approximate order form first to last: brain, heart, spine, kidneys, liver, lungs, bowel, skin) and in reverse chronological order (the most recent issue first and then back through time). Homeopath’s found when this process triggers the patient’s overall health, energy levels and well being improve.

Is homeopathy water medicine and sugar pills?

Many people think of homeopathy as water medicine or sugar pills. But, it is not accurate. When people say this, what they are talking about are potentised drugs. Potentised drugs are a tool most professional homeopaths use because they find them effective.

Here is a short video explaining, what homeopathy is in more detail.