What people have said

Mostly we expect this page to have testimonials posted on it - any supportive comments from people, we will be happy to put them up. However any kind of queries, comments, suggestions, experiences and thoughts are welcome.

If you have a specific query you can email any of us via the links on the contact page and we will endeavour to get an answer to you as soon as possible. But as well as that, we would be keen to see some dialogue happening on the subject of homeopathy. If you feel that you have comments, questions, observations or opinions that you would like to see uploaded for all to see, send your comments in an email to Paul.

 





Short term treatment and longer term boosts

My name is Leslie and at the tender age of 49 I joined a multinational industry that required me to travel to the continent at least once a week, what with the early morning flights and a very heavy work load I felt that my work concentration/memory ability and health was beginning to suffer.

During the early stages of my new job I had lots of time to read (during flights/waiting in airports) and I came across some very interesting articles on Homeopathy. When I got a chance I went to a Homeopathic chemist in Dublin and they supplied with a number of practitioners.

I will not say that after one meeting, I got a magical potion and my life became perfect, no but thanks to the homeopath’s knowledge and understanding approach she was, in a very short time able to prescribe the correct remedies that at first gave great "short term improvement", this gave the boost I needed and also allowed the homeopath to identify the correct long term solution.

My life style has not changed in the past 10 years, if anything it is worse (airport delays are longer for a start) so I need now and then to have a follow-up consultation for a ‘Boost’, but I feel better able to cope with the stress of life and my concentration/memory is better than (I think it was) before I went down the road of Homeopathy.

Leslie July 2007

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Homeopathy doesn’t treat the body as a lego project


Up until eight years ago, I would have been extremely cynical about homeopathy. The concept of small pills or drops of liquid curing ills so quickly, as well as the inconvenience of taking them several times a day [only in some instances] seemed to be ridiculous. Then one of my family became quite ill and despite going to many different specialists, her health did not improve. Purely to have tried another avenue, not expecting any particular good to come of it, we went to a homeopath. The initial improvement was so quick (literally within a week) that I became alarmed and contacted a friend who was both a GP and a mother, who told me that she too used homeopathy and that what was prescribed for my daughter was perfectly safe.

What I like about homeopathy is that it doesn’t set itself up in competition to ‘conventional’ medicine. I have over the last eight years attended or brought my family to two homeopaths, neither of whom have ever told me not to attend a GP. In fact both have, in the case of very serious life threatening illnesses, taken on board the prognosis of conventional specialists when coming up with remedies to better the health of my family. The conventional biomedical model seeks to mend bits as they break down, or defeat disease when it occurs. Homeopathy seeks to cure also, but doesn’t treat the body as a lego project, rather treats the person as a whole entity. Both homeopaths that I have attended have provided a holistic experience; I feel that in treating me they have drawn on the strengths of my health in dealing with aspects of ill health, whereas a conventional doctor would often provide broad spectrum antibiotics which kill not only bad the but the good in their path. GP’s and Homeopaths have similar price structures, however a GP will give you ten, fifteen minutes of your time whereas homeopath sessions last approximately an hour.

Finally, what I would like to see developing with regard to homeopathy is the demise of the sole power of conventional biomedicine as the gatekeeper for insurance access re fees for health care services. Not all, indeed I would hazard that not many GP’s are willing to refer for homeopathic services and so the full cost of visits has to be born by the patient, putting homeopathy out of reach of many.

M.G. Dublin.


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Free from psoriasis

Homeopathy works extremely well for me as a parallel partner to conventional medicine.

18 years ago I developed psoriasis for which there is no medical cure as far as I am aware. Having tried lots of things I decided to give Homeopathy a try. My Homeopath, told me the route to cure for psoriasis is likely to be a long one but that she felt she could try to help me.

One and a half years later, after regular treatment, the horrible condition had disappeared permanently. I was simply amazed.

Homeopathy is now part of my life. I use it for things that conventional medicine doesn’t address for me. I also use it as a treatment for ordinary medicine issues. If I ever become seriously ill I will use Homeopathy in tandem with conventional medicine.

Caroline Gray
August 2007


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