While other countries such as the United Kingdom esteem homeopathic medicine as such to include it on the National Health Service, here in the United States homeopathy is NOT currently recognized as a medical system of treatment.  That said, there are many good medical and naturopathic doctors who are also having good results with homeopathy. 

Homeopathy is a natural and scientific system of healing which works to keep in balance our vitality, our inner and inherent core of energy which sustains us our vim and vigor, and which governs our body’s inherent ability to heal itself.  It is a system whereby the health of an individual is considered through several different aspects; such as according to temperament, build, coloring, stress levels, previous history of traumas, griefs, frights, etc.   Homeopaths understand that Every Body is different from another, each with different needs, different temperaments or types, different stress levels.   While two people who suffer with stomach pains may get the same medication from their doctor, they will each receive different remedies from their homeopath when considering the situation and whether one was anxious in nature and the other was irritable.

Homeopaths understand that before we actually become ill, there is a shift in our Vital Energy and that it is this shift that allows the body to slow down in energetic function and thereby predisposes it to a whole pattern of illness.  Now it is easy to see why the quality of our health and well-being directly depends on the health of this Vital Energy or ‘Vital Force’ as it is known throughout the homeopathic community.   The healthy balance of this flow of energy is what keeps the immunity strong.  Homeopathy is another way to help keep energy centers in the body open and balanced.

Homeopathic remedies are made by a unique process of dilution and succussion (which means vigorously agitated by shaking it).  This makes the remedies at the same time both powerless on a chemical level, although most powerful on a potential energy level.  In his work, Messages from Water, Masaru Emoto wrote of how water has the ability to retain memory, or an imprint, something he saw when he photographed differences between water crystals which had been exposed to either a positive or a negative word (vibration).  Homeopathy works to energetically remove the negative imprints upon our Vital Energy or Vital Force, thereby freeing up and strengthening our body’s ability to heal itself.  Remedies themselves do not heal the body.  It is the nature of their energy which initiates the healing response from the body. 

Consultations are similar to a counseling-type situation in which clients are encouraged to discuss in great detail just what their complaints are like and all the ways in which these affect them.  Dreams, food cravings, and doodles are of interest, as well, because they too can tell a good deal about the ways in which a person is suffering.  Great effort and care is taken to get to the root cause of the illness, to make sense of the patterns, to discover the themes which connect to the innermost disturbance of energy.   While there are no physical examinations, medical or lab tests performed, details of these are requested.

Homeopathy is not a replacement for regular medicine, treatment of any disease or condition, nor does it involve the diagnosis thereof.  Many clients already have doctors; you are encouraged to maintain or establish a relationship with your doctor and to obtain any tests or procedures to which they are deemed necessary.  Since Homeopathy cannot create side-effects, it can safely be used alongside conventional medications.

There are several remedies which have proven their value time and again, and some that you should never leave the house without!  Many books and kits are available on the subject; check out our website for local classes and talks!