About Homeopathy
Homeopathic treatments work with your body’s own healing powers to brings about optimal health and wellbeing based on 4 basic principles.
- Like cures like – what a substance is capable of causing, it can cure.
- Individuality – not every person with the same disease gets the same remedy, we are all individuals, and get treated individually.
- Totality – homeopathy treats the whole being, emotional, mental, physically, and spiritually.
- Minimum dose – using small quantities (nanoparticles): they are gentle, subtle, and powerful. They are non-addictive.
Homeopaths work with each person individually with utmost care and compassion to provide personalized healing care. Our scope includes a wide variety of mental, emotional, and physical health issues. Long term chronic health problems. All which can be affected by huge life changes – stress and anxiety, traumas, environmental strains, and grief. Everyday acute ailments, first aid, and pre-and-post operative recovery.
Homeopathy educates us on how our bodies work as a whole. It’s a natural, gentle, restorative approach to healthcare.
Patients who have sought help with:
- Sleep disorders and nightmares
- Anxiety and nervous disorders
- Lifestyle stress
- Depression and mood disorders
- Pregnancy and birth, post-natal/ partum depression, mastitis, morning sickness
- Grief, shock and trauma
- Life transitions and changes
- Emotional issues
- Phobias, fears, eg. claustrophobia and vertigo
- Headaches and Migraines
- Skin issues – eczema, psoriasis, rosacea
- Hormonal issues, menstrual pain, periods, menopause.
- Musculoskeletal problems and injuries
- Sciatica and headaches – migraines
- Food intolerances and digestive issues
- Fatigue and tiredness
- Eating disorders
- Childhood illnesses
- Teething, colic, cough and colds
- Behavioural problems
History of Homeopathy and its use globally
Homeopathy is one of the most used forms of medicine in the world, and arguable the fastest growing depending on which estimates you believe. 300-500 million patients worldwide use it. Some 400,000 healthcare professionals recommend homeopathic medicines including about 100 000 doctors who prescribe them routinely. Homeopathy is used in over 80 countries.
The associated Chambers of Commerce and industry of India reported in March 2016 that the world market for homeopathy was then about $5.35 billion and growing by about 25% annually. The WHO has Homoeopathy as the 2nd most used medicine, after naturopathy. Conventional medicine being 4Th.
Homeopathy is most popular in Europe, where is originated, especially France, where about 80% of the Worlds homeopathic medicines are manufactured. The European Union officially recognized homeopathy for both humans and veterinary use in 1992. Homeopathy came into use in Germany in 1780’s. Three out of 4 Europeans are familiar with homeopathy and 29% use if for self-care. Nearly 70% of sales of homeopathic medicines are made in Western Europe. France, with more than $ 450 million in sales, is the World’s largest market for Homeopathy, followed by Germany. In Poland more than 3,000 doctors are trained in homeopathy.
In England, five hospitals used to be dedicated to Homeopathic treatments. Sadly, some have recently closed down.
A study commissioned by the government of Switzerland showed that homeopathy is more cost effective than any other form of medicine, and highly successful in aiding the body to heal itself with most ailments.
In the USA, the food and drug administration (FDA) recognizes the 1938 American Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS) as the official guiding manufacture. The use of homeopathic medicines in the United Sates has quintuples since 1990. Largely due to the marketing of over-the-counter products. By the 1900’s THE USA had 22 homeopathic colleges and 15,000 practitioners and 1000+ homeopathic pharmacies and over 100 homeopathic hospitals. John D Rockefeller was under homeopathic care throughout the latter part of this life.
In Switzerland, India, Mexico, Brazil and Cuba homeopathy is integrated into the health system, with doctors and homeopaths working together. In India and Cuba, mass dosing of preventative homeopathic medicines has been used through the public health system for epidemic and pandemic control.
In India it’s estimated that more that 250,000 practitioners and 75,000 paramedics treat ten percent of the population with only homeopathic medicines. The government runs TV ads urging people to use homeopathy for better health.
Homeopathy’s popularity among respected classes was also evident in Europe. Besides its patronage by Britain’s Royal Family dating from the 1830s, homeopathy could count among its supporters Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats, William Thackarey, Benjamin Disraeli, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, and Pope Pius X, King Charles.
Historically, Homeopathy was also disproportionately popular among women, not only as patients, but as its practitioners. The first women’s medical college in the world was the homeopathic Boston Female Medical College, founded in 1848. Four years later it became the New England Female Medical College, and in 1873, it merged with Boston University, another homeopathic college. Homeopaths also admitted women physicians into their national organization considerably before orthodox physicians did. Homeopaths admitted women into the American Institute of Homeopathy in 1871, while women were not invited into the A.M.A. until 1915. The orthodox medical school at Johns Hopkins finally agreed to accept women students as late as 1890, but not out of interests in women’s rights. They were offered a $500,000 endowment. Harvard turned down this same offer.
However, probably the most important reason that homeopathy developed such immense popularity was its success in treating the various infectious epidemic diseases that raged throughout America and Europe during the 1800s. Statistics indicate that the death rates in homeopathic hospitals from these epidemics were often one-half to as little as one-eighth those in orthodox medical hospitals. Cincinnati Homeopaths were so successful in treating people during the 1849 cholera epidemic that homeopaths published a daily list of their patients in the newspaper, giving names and addresses of those who were cured and those who died. Only 3% of the 1,116 homeopathic patients died, while between 48-60% of those under orthodox medical treatment died.
In Brazil, 15 000 doctors practice homeopathy and 9 million patients use homeopathic medicines.
As communications technology continues to transform the world into a global village, research on homeopathy now being conducted in countries outside the developed world is pushing homeopathic medicine to new frontier, and might sadly leave the west behind, as the west continues to try and suppress it
