What is homeopathy?

Homeopathy is a safe and effective system of medicine that uses natural remedies in a powerful form to boost your own healing abilities. It can strengthen your immune system and enhance your vitality, whatever ailments you have. All kinds of problems, from asthma to arthritis, migraine to the menopause, and PMS to IBS can be helped by homeopathy. It can also relieve many emotional issues, such as anxiety, sleeplessness and behavioural disorders in children.

What happens?
When you book an appointment to see me, you need to put aside up to 90 minutes for the consultation, or an hour for people under 18 years. I will spend that time talking to you about your illness, the problems you experience, your medical history and your family medical history. All of this information is completely confidential and enables me to choose a homeopathic remedy that is specific to you. We will see each other four weeks later, so that I can assess your reaction to the remedy. This follow up session usually lasts for 30 minutes.

How long will treatment last?
People who are generally healthy and have a short-term problem tend to respond quickly to treatment. Remedies can also work very fast in acute situations, for example tonsillitis. On the other hand, if you have been ill for some time or have taken a lot of medicines, then recovery will be more gradual.

The Effectiveness of homeopathy
For evidence that homeopathic treatment works on such conditions as diarrhoea in children, respiratory tract complaints, musculo-skeletal problems, hayfever, asthma and perennial rhinitis, pre-menstrual syndrome, menopausal complaints, infertility, sperm quality, pregnancy-related problems, ADHD and ME/CFS, go to :-

The Society of Homeopaths
http://www.homeopathy-soh.org/whats-new/research/evid.aspx

The European Council of Homeopaths
http://www.homeopathy-ecch.org/content/view/33/49/

The Homeopathy Research Institute
http://homeoinst.org/Publications.htm