Health with Homeopathy in Blackheath

Some causes of ill health
Homeopathy, like all forms of holistic medicine, focuses on improving the overall health and well-being of the patient, rather than the isolated treatment of specific symptoms. Health can be affected by a number of factors, physical and/or emotional; such as anxiety, stress, grief, poor nutrition, poor sanitation or accommodation, trauma, bereavement, external pathogens (anything from parasites to allergies to chemical poisons)

Leeches, Coffee, Onions
Homeopathic concepts have existed for thousands of years (starting with Hippocrates - from whom modern doctors take their healing oath) but it was the brilliant polymath, Dr Samuel Hahnemann (doctor, botanist, chemist, linguist), who in the 18th Century first made these concepts into a comprehensive system of healing principles and practices.

At that time Hahnemann was disillusioned with what he considered to be the barbaric practice of medicine; with doctors using blood-letting, leeches and great quantities of toxic drugs with their dreadful side effects - usually death! The system he devised and developed (during extensive trials and research with other doctors and thousands of cured patients) was a safe, gentle and effective method of healing.

One of the main principles of this system of medicine is the law of similars. This describes how a substance can cure the same symptoms that it can cause. Take coffee for example. When taken in large doses by healthy people, it can cause sleeplessness, trembling and mental hyperactivity.

So when a person complains of such symptoms, the homeopath may give them coffee in the form of a homeopathic remedy which may enable them to calm down and sleep naturally. Similarly, cutting up onions can cause tears, sore eyes and a runny nose - which many hay fever sufferers may recognise! The remedy Allium cepa (the homepathic derivative of the common onion) may help people experiencing the symptoms of hay fever if their symptoms match.

Homeopathy is a natural medical system that uses safe medicines that have no toxic side-effects. Homeopathic medicines are made from natural substances that may help to stimulate the person's own self-healing capacity.

Radio wave-like frequencies
Flower Essences were first used 5000 years ago by the Egyptians.

Bush Flower Essences were developed by a 3rd generation Australian herbalist, homeopath and naturopath, Ian White, who believes them to be one of the major systems of healing, and states that "The power of the bush essences and the results they constantly produce are astounding.  They act as catalysts to help resolve a vast range of negative emotional states... Most physical illness is the end result of emotional imbalance."

When an essence is ingested or absorbed through the skin, it is initially assimilated into the bloodstream. Then it settles midway between the circulatory and nervous systems. The quartz-like crystalline silica structures in the physical body (such as those in the bloodstream, the hair and nails etc) amplify and transmit the healing energies of the flower essences to their appropriate sites of action, and at the correct frequencies. This process is similar to the way radio waves strike a crystal in a radio so that the crystal resonates with the high frequencies, absorbing them and transforming them into audio frequencies which can be heard by the human ear.

Bach flower essences were developed in this country by Dr Edward Bach, a Welsh physician practicing medicine in the early 1900's, and have been used over many decades by both the public (self-prescribing) and by natural health practitioners.   Trained in conventional allopathic medicine, Dr. Bach observed that his patients' recovery seemed to have as much to do with their emotional health as it did with any physical condition. Those in a positive emotional state recovered quicker.

Dr. Bach's area of expertise was bacteriology, but as he became more intrigued with the emotions of his patients, he started to study the work of Hahnemann which emphasized treating the "whole" patient including their emotions and mental state, rather than focusing exclusively on physical symptoms. As a result of his research, Dr. Bach developed homeopathic remedies to treat intestinal disease. In 1930 Dr. Bach left an extremely lucrative private practice in London and and began to develop his 38 flower essences.