HOMOEOPATHY

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HOMOEOPATHY

• Donna M Bennett
• dipHOM. RSHom

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Homoeopathy

• 1. History - a brief overview

2. Fundamentals relative Laws
3. Homoeopathy today its place in Health Care
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History some notable names and dates

• Hippocrates (470 - 400 BC)
• Paracelsus (1493 1541)
• Samuel Hahnemann (1755 1843)
• Constantine Hering (1800 1880)
• 1826 Frederick Harvey Foster Quin
• 1832 Quin Homoeopathic Practice in London
• 1844 British Homoeopathic Society
• 1849 London Homoeopathic Hospital Founded
• 1946 NHS Founded Homoeopathy officially
  approved

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Fundamentals

• Law of Similars - like cures like
• Single Remedy
• Minimum Dose
• Whole person Holistic
• Susceptibility
• Vital Force
• Laws of Cure

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Conditions for which we have relatively
ineffective Allopathic treatments

• Allergies
• Bruises
• Chillblains
• Colic
• Fear/Phobias
• Glandular Fever
• Grief
• Impotence

• Influenza
• ME
• Nightmares
• Pathological Anger
• PMS
• Teething
• Warts
• Impotence

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Conditions where Homoeopathy used primarily in a
complimentary way to achieve reduction in long
term allopathic treatment

• Asthma
• Constepation
• Convulsions
• Dysmenorrhoea
• Eczema
• Migraine

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Homoeopathy Today

• Complementary or Alternative
• Sales of Remedies increase by 15 20 pa
• 5 Homoeopathic Hospitals
• 600 GPs in Britain practice Homoeopathy
• 25 Scottish GPs take Accredited Training