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HOMOEOPATHIC
MEDICINE
Lynnette Evans BSc, RSHom |
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About me
I received my license to practise as a homoeopath from the British School of Homeopathy, where I studied for four challenging years. I am professionally registered by the Society of Homeopaths (RSHom) and am bound by their Code of Ethics. I also have a psychology degree from the Open University, and am a member of the British Psychological Society, with a particular interest in Transpersonal Psychology and Forensic Psychology. I come from a large family, am married with three adult children and a grandson. My life experience includes working with children, families, the elderly, and prisoners, as well as a good deal of community work with groups such as the Town Council, the preschool, the Community Project.
In the 1990s I used over-the-counter homoeopathic remedies to treat myself and my family. Then in 2002 my own physical and emotional health was greatly improved when I consulted a homoeopath for a longstanding physical problem. I became a passionate advocate of homoeopathic medicine, and decided to train as a homoeopath.
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When you are ill ...
Homoeopathy is a system of medicine that is different from what most people are used to, because it works with your body's own healing capacity, rather than taking an 'anti' approach. Its is a long-established and life-enhancing system of medicine; over the past 200 years, many, many people believe that they have been helped, indeed healed, by homeopathic medicines, using the basic homoeopathic principle. That principle says that a substance can heal in a sick person the symptoms it causes in a healthy one. Like cures like.
Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homoeopathy, said ‘the highest ideal of a cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health’. That seems good to me.
Seeing a Homoeopath ...
Being treated by a homoeopath is different from seeing a doctor. Consultations are longer and more detailed, and even things that seem unimportant, or silly to mention, are very valuable pointers for the homoeopath in the process of understanding the dynamic of your ill-health. And you won't be given a diagnosis, because homoeopath treats disease as it presents uniquely in you, a person who is suffering an acute or chronic illness.
Your First Visit...
Follow Up Visits ...
About the Medicines ...
They have no side effects (although very occasionally a brief intensification of present symptoms or a transitory return of old symptoms can occur as part of the healing process). This makes them safe for everyone, including children, pregnant women, and the elderly. Homoeopaths discover the sort of symptoms that a remedy can heal by testing it on healthy people, a process called a 'proving', and also by noting its effect on ill people, through clinical practice. This is a rich source of guidance to a homoeopath.
The remedies are made by specialist pharmacies in a range of potencies and given in the smallest amount needed to stimulate your body to heal itself; the 'minimum dose'. Usually only one medicine is prescribed at a time. Any drugs prescribed by your GP remain the responsibility of your GP, and can be taken alongside homoeopathic medicines. Sometimes people find that they are able to reduce or completely stop conventional drugs that they are taking, because of the healing effect of the homoeopathic medicine, although such a step is one to be taken with the guidance of your GP, and is outside my own remit. Unfortunately current Advertising Standards Authority regulations prevent me from informing you of the scope of homoeopathic medicines.
How does Homoeopathy Work? As living beings, we are made from energy that has become so dense that it is visible and solid. And just like any other kind of energy, we vibrate; you get proof of that when you sit on a bus waiting at the traffic lights, drill a hole in a wall, feel the pounding music from a car full of young people. If our energy gets disturbed by something harmful, we feel out of sorts, out of balance, ill. The harmful disturbance may be something hereditary, a germ, an accident, an emotional pain, but also something that we can't even see or trace.
The degree of disturbance will be different in each person, because we each have different degrees of vulnerability and resistance. Yet because each of our cells is interconnected with every other cell, a disturbance felt in one part will eventually be communicated to the other parts, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, and often without us even knowing that this is happening. Disease/illness is dynamic, because we ourselves are dynamic. As a result, you will have symptoms that seem completely unconnected, and to which conventional medicine will give different names - laryngitis, chest infection, diabetes, depression - yet they will all be down to the same imbalance in your body that first came about 5 - 15 - 30 years ago. It may be that doctors won't know the cause of your symptoms, but a homoeopath will recognise the pattern of this disturbance, and be able to prescribe a dynamic homoeopathic medicine that matches the dynamic of your disease symptoms. In the above list of disease names, if additionally the person loves socialising, is generous, likes being the centre of attention, maybe a bit flirty, Phosphorus could be a good remedy to prescribe. So it works with the disease in your body, rather than fighting it. That way, there's no collateral damage.
Homoeopathic medicine is physical rather than biological or chemical; it is submolecular, which means that there is no molecule of the original substance in it. That doesn't mean that there's 'nothing in it'. Instead, somehow information about a substance is stored in water when it is both extremely diluted and shaken. It is an imperfect analogy, but I think of it as being a bit like a piece of music that was played by an orchestra, yet not a trace of the original orchestra, players or instruments, can be found on the CD, no matter how hard you try. Instead what is there is information, produced in the form of the sound that the orchestra made. And just as a CD put into a toaster is incapable of bringing forth sound, a homoeopathic medicine will have no effect if it is put into the 'wrong' person.
How that information is transferred to water, into the homoeopathic remedy, and ultimately into your body to be taken up is not yet fully understood, but is the subject of ongoing research in a number of countries. There is a great deal of evidence that homoeopathy works, on people, animals, and plants, in addition to any placebo effect that it may have, such evidence coming from the tens of thousands of people who have experienced it, from records of epidemics where people were treated homoeopathically; and from worldwide research either in laboratories or on people; see 'Links' below for sources of further information. And as a gardener who uses homoeopathic medicines on my plants, I have found that it seems to save them from the ravages of slugs, aphids, caterpillars ... (without killing said beasts, or with any need for me to be particularly understanding of plants feelings).
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Please feel free to discuss your health with me prior to booking an appointment.
Email: homoeopathy@coombemoor.org.uk
Cost: First visit: £35, Follow-up visits: £25 Under 16s: £30/£20 Consultations for acute illnesses: £5-£10 (depending on duration) medicines are usually included, though there may occasionally be an extra charge for some items
(If you need to consult a homeopath urgently when I am not available, you can contact The Homeopathy Helpline on 09065 343404. This service is open from 9am to midnight, every day, and is run by experienced homoeopaths. Calls are charged at £1.50 a minute, and last around ten minutes.)
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Links ...
British Homoeopathic Organisation The British School of Homeopathy www.facultyofhomeopathy.org.research www.naturalnews.com/034097_homeopathy_myths.html Last Updated November 2011ase |
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Telephone
01626 852553