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Homeopathy / Naturopathy and Reiki in Surrey, Coulsdon,
Purley, Croydon, Tadworth. Mary Ellis Homeopath LSECH MSCH MARH Principle for the Southern College of Homeopathy, based at Salomons Tunbridge Well,
Kent.
"The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent"
Dr. S. Hahnemann - Founder
of modern day homeopathy
I believe that Homeopathy is even more important to us in the 21st century
than ever before. Most of us are living with some sort of stress in our lives - be it physical through air and noise pollution
or degraded food, mentally through overwork (or being out of work), the emotional stresses of relationships and family life.
And more ...
Our immune system and our innate healing capability of our bodies is being attacked on all fronts,
which can leave us often feeling tired and prone to minor illnesses just when we want to be on top form.
Many people
are taking their our own steps to counteract this global assault: eating wholesome and/or organic food, reducing stimulants
like coffee and alcohol, drinking more water, exercising regularly. Some are also looking at their personal and spiritual
growth, being true to themselves, and changing career or pursuing a life style that uses their skills and gifts to improve their
lives and those of others. Homeopathy's founder, Samuel Hahnemann’s
work is based on the scientific steps of hypothesis, observations, testing, validation in practice, which led to the formulation
of the principles of homeopathy (which are very to simply find the cause of the symptoms and prescribe from that place and
the body will naturally remove the effects). Homeopathy is part of the wider study of energetic medicine and necessitates
an understanding of nutrition, diet, herbal remedies, detoxing and life style changes that fall under the term ‘naturopathic
medicine’. Pharmacology has noticed that when we intrude on the body by overriding natural
processes, our body compensates by adjusting its own chemical levels to cancel the effect of the drug. This
is known as the "bi-phasic" (or two-phased) effect of drugs. The "bi-phasic"
(or two-phased) effect of drugs is:
• ‘Phase one’ is what the drug
does to the body.
• ‘Phase two’ is how the body adapts to the drug.
The
phases tend to go in opposite directions: the drug pushes; the body pushes back. The end result of this two-phased effect
is a temporary illusion. For example if you take aspirin to thin the blood to prevent strokes, the body’s reaction is
to thicken the blood even more and so the GP has to constantly prescribe higher and higher doses of aspirin to keep the blood
thin (leading to increasingly to severe so called side effects which then have to be treated by more drugs!). Samuel
Hahnemann noticed this two-phased effect of drugs as early as 1792, ‘Most medicines have more than one action,"
he wrote, "the first a direct action, which gradually changes into a second action which is generally a state exactly
the opposite of the former." Hahnemann's unique contribution to the science of health was to find a way that
makes use of the second action to produce the healing effect. And that's why Hahnemann sought remedies that,
as their first effect, would exactly mimic the patient's symptoms. Allopathic Drugs use the first, and as a result,
they put doctors in the curious position of fighting the very immune system they hope to strengthen. Homeopathic remedies
do not act like drugs, and do not control the body. They can not be applied in the same way as drugs to suppress symptoms.
Homeopathy is fundamentally an alternative form of medicine, based on solid scientific principles.
Homeopathy
can support this process of self-development in a deep and powerful way, as well as the major conditions, degenerative
diseases and minor ailments which seem to be affecting us more regularly. I currently work at the Brighton Road Clinic, 206 Brighton Road, Purley 0208 763 0071 at
Coulsdon 07711 418430, Nethercott Optician, 6 Station Approach, Tadworth, KT20 5AD, Tel 01737 813600.
The Church Road Chiropractic clinic, Bromley Kent.
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