Homeopathy is a gentle, holistic system of healing that uses very dilute doses of carefully prepared medicines that have been tested on healthy consenting human volunteers. 

It is based on the principle of ‘like cures like’: i.e. an illness is treated with a remedy that, in homeopathic clinical trials, has been found to produce similar symptoms in a healthy person.  For example, coffee is widely used as a stimulant, but in homeopathic form it can help with some forms of insomnia.

A safe and effective option
Remedies are non-toxic and carry no risk of harmful side effects or addiction.  Homeopathy is therefore a gentle, safe and effective option that is especially suitable for pregnant women, children and newborns.  It is more than a placebo, as can be seen by it’s success with plants, infants, animals and cells in petri dishes.

• In 2005, the World Health Organization estimated that there are more than half a billion users of homeopathy worldwide, with over 30 million users in Europe. 
  

• It is over 200 years old, was introduced to the U.K. by Dr Quin in 1828, is sanctioned by the UK Government and the Royal Family, and has been an integral part of the National Health Service (NHS) since it was founded in 1948. 
  

• In 2000, the House of Lords published a report on Complementary and Alternative Therapies, in which homeopathy is considered as one of five ‘group one’ therapies (out of thirty examined) judged to have convincing research evidence of effectiveness that should be more widely available on the NHS. 
  

• In 2006, a Health Technology Assessment report on Effectiveness, Cost-effectiveness and Appropriateness of Homeopathy was compiled on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office for Public Health (BAG).  Published in English in late 2011, it represents the most comprehensive evaluation of homeopahty ever written and affirms that homeopathic treatment is safe, effective and cost-effective, and that homeopathic treatment should be reimbursed by Switzerland's national health insurance program.
  
  
• Users of homeopathy include: NASA Scientist Amy Lansky, Florence Nightingdale and Charles Darwin (who’s experiments with plants proved homeopathic effects).

What's the difference between Herbalism, Conventional Medicine and Homeopathy?
Whilst herbal remedies tend to use plants or minerals in material doses, allopathy (conventional medicine) uses synthesized and highly concentrated doses of active ingredients often first found in nature.  Homeopathy, on the other hand, uses highly diluted and succussed doses of natural substances.  It is this dilution that makes it safer than allopathy and herbalism, and the succussion that allows it to still contain effective nanostructures.  This ‘minimum dose’ concept is one of the key principles of homeopathy.  For more research evidence on high dilutions, please see the articles here.

“There have been two great revelations in my life:
The first was bebop, the second was homeopathy.”
Dizzy Gillespie, jazz musician

Homeopathy Around the World

Homeopathy originated in Europe over 200 years ago, but since then has found fertile ground in many parts of the world, including Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.  If possible, please support these projects in any way you can.

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