Homeopathy
Homeopathy with Harriet
Are you looking for a holistic approach to your overall health that incorporates your physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual wellbeing?
Homeopathy treats the individual, not their disease. Together we can explore avenues that stand out as areas where your body is struggling to regain its homeostasis or balance and has got stuck: expressing its 'dis-ease' through symptoms. My job as a homeopath is to match this symptom picture to a 'similar' picture derived from the action of a remedy. Hence the term 'homeo' meaning similar and 'pathy' meaning suffering.
Each time you take the individually selected remedy you will be sending an energy stimulus to your body's natural defence mechanism to set the healing process in motion. Homeopathy asserts that the body is always doing the best it can given the conditions and stress that it finds itself in. So the symptoms are really cries for help that need to be interpreted rather than eliminated as in traditional medicine. A well prescribed remedy will lead the body to regain its balance and the symptoms will subside.
Who can benefit from Homeopathy?
Homeopathy is gentle enough for everyone to use. Since its looks at the totality of all symptoms of disease it is applicable to any diagnosed or undiagnosed condition.
Pregnancy is a great time to take homeopathic remedies since the baby will benefit too.
Elderly or more frail people can also use homeopathy as low potencies can be used to match their vitality.
People who are on conventional medication may experience reduced results due to the action of their medicine suppressing the vital force but I use herbal tinctures to support patients who are in this position.
What to expect at the consultation
To find an appropriate remedy I need to establish a picture of how all aspects of your body are expressing the imbalance. So expect to chat about all sorts of things, including
The nature, quality and intensity of your presenting complaint
What makes it better or worse?
When and how it started?
How it makes you feel?
Plus physical general symptoms such as what you like to eat, how well you sleep, your thermal state etc.
What about the remedies?
I aim to have a prescription ready for you within 24 hours of the first consultation. I have a stock of remedies but with close to 3800 available I don’t have them all. If necessary they can be ordered direct from the homeopathic pharmacy.
LAW OF SIMILARS or LIKE TREATS LIKE
A person suffering with an illness can be helped by taking a remedy prepared from a minute quantity of a substance, which in its undiluted form, could produce similar symptoms when taken by a healthy person. For example, when peeling onions your eyes often smart and water profusely. But, a person with sore, watery eyes from hayfever could experience relief when they take Allium Cepa - a homeopathic remedy prepared from onion.
THE MINIMUM DOSE
Homeopathy is a gentle and effective form of complementary medicine that uses a minute dose of therapeutic substance to stimulate the innate healing ability of the body or vital force to regain balance and restore health.
TREATS THE INDIVIDUAL NOT THEIR DISEASE
A homeopathic prescription is made on all aspects of a person’s health. It is holistic in nature meaning it considers emotional and spiritual wellbeing, history of past illnesses, inherited or genetic predisposition and current lifestyle stresses as well as the presenting complaint.
Principles of Homeopathy
My qualifications as a Homeopath
2000 Licentiate London College of Homeopathy
2005 Orion Advanced Homeopathic Training
2010 British Institute for Allergy & Environmental Therapy (Diploma)
2025 Allen College of Homeopathy Clinical Programme in Kolkata with Drs Banerjea