What is Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a holistic system of healing which recognises that symptoms of ill health, be they physical, emotional or mental, are the outward visible expression of an invisible underlying imbalance in the person.
Homeopathy uses the principle of “like cures like”, an approach to healing that has been in existence for thousands of years.
Samuel Hahnemann, who laid the foundations of homoeopathy in the late 1700s rediscovered this principle while researching the curative effect of Cinchona bark on malaria. He discovered that the bark could create malaria-like symptoms in a well person (himself!) as well as curing it in someone suffering from malaria. Using this discovery, and through extensive investigations and experimentation he gradually collated the basic Homoeopathic Materia Medica (ie the fundamental effective remedies) At that time the remedies were all made from substances naturally occurring in nature – mineral, plant and animal substances. Nowadays the net has widened to include other substances in common use and therefore impacting us.
Hahnemann continued his scientific work till his death and added valuable insights to the basic hypothesis to explain how to release any blocks to healing.

Dilution and Succussion

Hahnemann found a way of using the remedies that reduced the crude physical effects, while enhancing their subtle energetic effects through a series of extreme dilutions, followed by succussion – a controlled method of agitation of the diluted substance which releases its inherent energy. This way the substances act through stimulating and enhancing the body’s own ability to heal – clues to this effort being the symptoms that it is producing.