The Homeopathic Approach
How I work sprang naturally from my realizing that the majority of persons who asked me for help in my early days of practice clearly needed far more than remedies alone were able to offer.
It is not a requirement of working with me that you receive remedies. Rather, the homeopathic approach is fundamental to what I do. For homeopathy means “similar suffering” and it is my conviction that however you are suffering, it has a secret language that cries out to be understood rather than to be removed.
Take the young man who asked for help with homeopathy to “get rid of” a stutter. I wondered what his stutter would have to say about this. He suddenly realized that, “In my stutter are all the things that I haven’t said and that I need to be able to say.” That realization was just as important as my giving him a remedy.
When I do give remedies, it is by way of recognizing the ways in which the constellation of your symptoms and the ways in which you experience your physical, emotional and mental life may be matched with the precisely documented symptoms of poisoning by a plethora of substances of animal, vegetable and mineral origin. Remedies are rigorously prepared from extreme dilutions of those substances which are known to stimulate the healing responses of the body.
For example, Natrum muriaticum, Nat mur, is prepared from common salt. Persons poisoned by excessive salt intake exhibit the symptoms of dehydration, which may include dry skin, constipation and/or blocked sinuses. This theme of “retention” can also be recognized at the emotional level, for persons afflicted with chronic grief and disappointment. Administration of the remedy can be very helpful in supporting persons in moving on. My choice is to also work with our conversations in the consulting room as vital ingredients of any remedy.
Be aware that homeopathy offers a direct alternative to all kinds of conventional medication, such as for anxiety and depression. Its supreme advantage is that treatment lacks side-effects whilst it works with your symptoms rather than by way of suppressing them.
In poison there is physic.
Shakespeare.
How I work sprang naturally from my realizing that the majority of persons who asked me for help in my early days of practice clearly needed far more than remedies alone were able to offer.
It is not a requirement of working with me that you receive remedies. Rather, the homeopathic approach is fundamental to what I do. For homeopathy means “similar suffering” and it is my conviction that however you are suffering, it has a secret language that cries out to be understood rather than to be removed.
Take the young man who asked for help with homeopathy to “get rid of” a stutter. I wondered what his stutter would have to say about this. He suddenly realized that, “In my stutter are all the things that I haven’t said and that I need to be able to say.” That realization was just as important as my giving him a remedy.
When I do give remedies, it is by way of recognizing the ways in which the constellation of your symptoms and the ways in which you experience your physical, emotional and mental life may be matched with the precisely documented symptoms of poisoning by a plethora of substances of animal, vegetable and mineral origin. Remedies are rigorously prepared from extreme dilutions of those substances which are known to stimulate the healing responses of the body.
For example, Natrum muriaticum, Nat mur, is prepared from common salt. Persons poisoned by excessive salt intake exhibit the symptoms of dehydration, which may include dry skin, constipation and/or blocked sinuses. This theme of “retention” can also be recognized at the emotional level, for persons afflicted with chronic grief and disappointment. Administration of the remedy can be very helpful in supporting persons in moving on. My choice is to also work with our conversations in the consulting room as vital ingredients of any remedy.
Be aware that homeopathy offers a direct alternative to all kinds of conventional medication, such as for anxiety and depression. Its supreme advantage is that treatment lacks side-effects whilst it works with your symptoms rather than by way of suppressing them.
In poison there is physic.
Shakespeare.
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Tynemouth
Tyne and Wear
NE30 2SB
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Tynemouth
Tyne and Wear
NE30 2SB
Adjacent to Metro station. Ample parking.
0191 296 3179
CONTACT US
