Homeopathy

One of the most gentle and sympathetic forms of healing, the practice of Homeopathy has been growing rapidly all over the world particularly during the last decades. It has caught the imagination of many people who want to look at disease and healing in a different way.

Homeopathy is a thoughtful practice that respects the fact that every person is unique and individual. Homeopathic healing acts deeply on the organism, making lasting cures at all levels. It treats the whole person holistically not just the disease.

Few doctors look at the patient as a whole; treating each ailment separately and consequently the root cause is seldom found. The symptoms may disappear, but the disease is often merely suppressed and recurs or surfaces as another ailment seemingly unconnected.

Conventional medicine eases the discomfort of ailments with its painkillers, anti-inflammatory drugs and anti-depressants but side effects can be a major problem and a complete cure often remains out of reach.

Disease is looked upon as an enemy to be confronted and vanquished. The methods tend to be aggressive; our bodies are the battlegrounds with much talk of fighting; anti-biotics and other drugs are employed as “magic bullets”. Dangerous drugs and radioactive materials are used, along with a sophisticated array of knives and steel.

This style of orthodox medicine, the dominant medicine in the West today, is known by Homoeopaths as the Way of Contraries or healing through opposites.

Bellis perennis – Daisy

The word “Homoeopathy” is coined from ancient Greek (homoios meaning “of the same kind” & pathos meaning “suffering”); translated to “similar suffering” – that like cures like. – Homeopathy utilises the natural Law of Similars; the principle that whatever can harm can also cure.