A CAREER IN HOMOEOPATHY

HOMOEOPATHY SIMPLY EXPLAINED

Homoeopathy is an effective and traditionally scientific system of healing that helps and stimulates the natural capacity of the body to heal itself. Homoeopaths recognise that all symptoms of illness are an expression of the activity of the body trying to heal itself and that helping the patient’s own healing energies enables cure to take place. It is often the patient that needs the treatment rather than simply the disease. The homoeopathic way is to help patients by using a minute dose of a substance, as a treatment, that is capable of creating the same symptoms in a healthy person, when given in larger doses. Such small doses, when accurately prescribed, enable a patient to recover naturally, and because of the infrequent and minute doses, thus avoiding side effects or addictions.

Homoeopathic remedies work by stimulating the healing power of the body.
When the body’s own healing process is faulty, blocked or slow, then the homoeopathic prescription acts as a stimulus to the natural healing powers, facilitating cure. In order to provide the correct stimulus the homoeopath must prescribe the correct remedy, potency and dosage, and if this is done then homoeopathy is able to help most patients and their symptoms.

HOMOEOPATHY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Homoeopathy today is at its strongest for more than 100 years. Fuelled by its own success in treating the intransigent problems of recent times and by the difficulties faced by conventional medicine, there has been rapid growth both in numbers of patients and in registered practitioners. Attention has also come from the regulators who want to ensure public safety, although Homoeopathy has been considered the safest of the alternative medicines, and has been commended as such in the 2002 House of Lords report on complementary and alternative medicine (known as the CAM Report).

We have also seen increasing interest from the media both in a supportive and an antagonistic way (often from the same source), which demonstrates how much interest exists in both the media themselves and the general public. It is an exciting time to be a student homoeopath. The industry is changing, organisations such as HCPF ¹, SOH² and HAB ³ are leading the way in responding to government led suggestions that the profession should unite and establish a profession led single self-regulating register.

More and more homoeopaths are obtaining employed (rather than self-employed) work within private clinics, hospices, GP’s surgeries and even the NHS. Indeed one of our core team of staff is an employed homoeopath at St Lukes Hospice in Plymouth.

1. HOMOEOPATHY COURSE PROVIDERS FORUM
2. THE SOCIETY OF HOMEOPATHS
3. HOMOEOPATHY ACCREDITATION BOARD