Homoeopathy literally means ‘similar suffering’ and is based on the law of treating like with like; this means that a substance which can cause a certain picture of symptoms in a healthy person will cure that same picture of symptoms when met with in a sick person. Homeopathic remedies are made in a very special way which involves giving only a very minute does of the substance. This means that the remedies are not addictive, and do not have side effects.

It is often not realized that, since homoeopathy is holistic in its approach, homoeopathic remedies can also help with all sorts of emotional complaints and stresses such as grief, anger, jealousy, fears of all kinds, many inadequacies, worries, shyness and phobias to name only a few.

If left undealt with, most of these negative emotions eventually become contributing factors in triggering off physical Disease of same kind, and one of the joys of homoeopathy is that the remedies work on both levels; the emotional as well as the physical.

With homoeopathic treatment patients’ general health gets better as well as the disease, so that their quality of life improves. Any negative emotions, which may hold patients back from making the most of themselves as individuals, will be reduced or eliminated; people find themselves feeling much more energetic and their general outlook on life is happier and more positive.

Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of the formal therapeutic system of homoeopathy as it is known today; was born in Germany in 1755. After becoming a very successful doctor he become disillusioned with what medical practice involved at that time; he felt that many of the practices did nothing to cure and quite often speeded the death of the patient.