WHAT IS HOMEOPATHY?

• A safe and effective system of medicine that stimulates the body's own natural ability to heal itself
• Successful healing therapy widely used around the world and for over 150 years
• Homeopathy addresses the total expression of the person
• Works by stimulating the immune system
• Seeks to cure in accordance with natural laws of healing

Why do you need Homeopathy?

We are carry health disadvantages, from our family history, past trauma, or from the environment. Homeopathic medicines the underlying cause of the symptoms, not just the symptoms. Conventional medicine treats just symptoms and parts of the body, never taking into consideration that our bodies operate as a whole.

• Conventional medicine typically treats symptoms by suppressing them with drugs. This will not cure the problem - just temporarily obscure it.
• A homeopathic remedy acts as a gentle stimulus to the curative powers of your body when your natural healing process is not as effective as it could be.

How Homeopathy works

Many curative methods and substances work but it is not understood how. For instance, scurvy in sailors was cured and prevented by eating citrus fruits. They didn't know in the early days that it was the vitamin C that prevented scurvy, only that it worked. It is the same with Homeopathy; researchers are studying it and will someday have an answer.

The Potential of Homeopathy

Health is more than simply the absence of disease.

Being healthy gives us a sense of well-being, of being balanced, of personal freedom. It is, above all, the ability to withstand stress.

Innovative techniques in surgery and 'miracle' drugs improve many lives but continuing chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, arthritis, cancer, allergies, emotional and mental disturbances are the fate of many more.

Homeopathy is proven effective with most conditions, including:

• Allergies
• Asthma
• Attention Deficit
• Bladder Infections
• Burns
• Childhood Illnesses
• Chronic Fatigue
• Colds and Coughs
• Digestive Disorders
• Ear Infections
• Fatigue and Pain
• Flu
• Headaches
• Hyperactivity
• Injury & Accidents
• Low Energy
• Neurological Disorders
• Skin Conditions
• Sinusitis
• Surgery
• Mental & Physical Trauma
• Wounds

Homeopathy is also effective in ensuring a healthy pregnancy and childbirth.

Homeopathy is:

• Safe and effective
• Gentle with no side effects.
• Inexpensive alternative to conventional medicine
• Complete system of medicine
• In worldwide use for nearly two hundred years
• Addresses physical, emotional and mental illnesses

Paracelsus, a 16 th century European physician and philosopher said,

" Those who merely study and treat the effects of disease are like those who imagine that they can drive away the winter by brushing the snow from the door. It is not the snow that causes winter, but the winter that causes the snow."

Medicine for the 21st century

Homeopathy is a subtle but effective therapy that can correct small imbalances long before the appearance of more serious symptoms, indicating a particular disease.

Much illness can be 'nipped in the bud' before a more critical disease appears.

Acute homeopathic treatment :

• addresses rapid illness processes like food poisoning, colds/bronchitis, ear infections, burns, sore muscles, teething, insect bites, wounds and fractures
• May require several remedies in sequence
• Has short term benefits

Examples of acute homeopathic treatment are Arnica for physical pain from over-exercising, car accidents, falls, and dental trauma or Ignatia for temporary relief of emotional grief.

Constitutional treatment :

• addresses chronic conditions
• consists of taking one single remedy at a time
• has long term and more profound benefits

Constitutional treatment takes into consideration :

• mind, body, spirit
• your complete health history
• family health history
• inherited illness tendencies
• Most importantly your current state of health

Homeopathy and emotions

With the right constitutional remedy, your physical, emotional, mental health can become balanced.

When our overall health is improved, our emotions give us fewer and less bothersome episodes.

After taking a correctly indicated remedy, sometimes suppressed emotions will surface. I like to educate clients that this is a healthy and natural healing process.

It does not mean you will re-experience a trauma again - only briefly revisiting emotions that need to be expressed

Emotions that are not being expressed are going to cause problems such as headaches, back pain, digestive conditions, misdirected emotional outbursts, and social awkwardness.

Natural Expression vs Suppression

Conventional medicine and society use suppression to deal with many situation. For example, fevers are suppressed with antipyretics; coughs with cough suppressants; rashes with hydrocortisone cream.

It is becoming clearer that we have been weakening our immune systems with antibiotics; destabilizing our hormonal system with birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy. All too frequently we are prescribed antidepressants and other drugs to suppress emotions rather than explore the causes

I see homeopathic treatment as taking the lid off of this suppressive tendency.