What is Homeopathy?
Homeopathy is an effective and gentle system of medicine using a range of remedies obtained from natural sources to stimulate the healing of an individual. The patient is given the minimum dose required to get them well.

Are the remedies safe?
The remedies are made from diluted and potentised natural substances and are non-addictive, non-toxic, have no side-effects and have all been tested on human beings and not on animals.

How is the remedy selected?
Homeopathy is based on the law of similars. Take a case of insomnia, the patient is given a minute dose of a substance which in material doses causes sleeplessness in a healthy person. In this highly diluted but potentised form the substance stimulates the persons own healing mechanism.

What happens at the consultation?
In order to select the "similium," the appropriate remedy for you, the homeopath will ask questions about yourself generally and about how your symptoms affect you, in order to assess you as a whole and to treat you as an individual, rather than focussing on a disease label. The first consultation may include Vegatesting and will last about an hour.

Will they interfere with other treatment?
Homeopathy will not normally interfere with any other drugs you are taking but steroids, antibiotics, aromatherapy oils and medicines containing peppermint oil can antidote homeopathic remedies. Homeopathy can provide a safe and effective alternative (eg to HRT) but can also be taken alongside orthodox medication.

How are the remedies prescribed?
They are usually given as sucrose pillules (tiny sugar balls) which are dissolved in the mouth. They are given for the shortest possible time, sometimes only one, or two pillules. Then we wait for the action of the remedy to complete its action. Appointments are spaced at monthly intervals for this to happen.

Further information
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