Homeopathy is a gentle but powerful system of complementary medicine that uses the body's natural processes to stimulate healing. It recognises that all symptoms of ill health are expressions of disharmony within the whole person and that it is the patient that needs treatment not the disease.

Like Cures Like
The Law of Similars, "That which makes sick shall heal" is a central principle of homeopathy. A simple example of this can be illustrated by the effect chopping an onion can have on a person. Perhaps an acrid runny nose, a particular soreness in the throat and stinging, runny eyes would be experienced. These same symptoms may be experienced by a particular patient suffering a cold and a sore throat. The homeopath would then prescribe Allium Cepa (the homeopathic remedy made from onion).

The Right Remedy
There are several thousand homeopathic remedies, which are all made from the natural world. There are perhaps 100 that could be used for watering, stinging eyes.

Each individual person experiences their illness in their own unique way. Two patients might suffer headaches, but the way they experience their overall state of health can be different and the way they cope with life can be different and so on. The challenge for the homeopath is to find the remedy that is individual to the patient as a whole, thus treating the person's whole state, not merely the disease. Thus homeopathy is truly holistic.

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