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"Homeopathy" is like many words in the English language and is derived from the Greek words "Homoios" and "pathos". Roughly translated this means "like treatment". Essentially therefore Homoeopathy is the medical practice of treating like with like.
The theory was known to both the ancient Greeks and Romans. It was re-discovered in Medieval Europe by Paracelcus, a famous Swiss pharmacist and physician but never put to any practical use.
Present day use of Homeopathy stems from the studies and work of Dr. Samuel Fredrich, born in Germany 1755. His first experiments were performed in 1794 concerned the action of Cinchona bark (precursor or helps to make the modern quinine) which had been used to treat ague or marsh fever (known as Malaria today.)
Dr. Hahnemann knew that Cinchona cured Malaria and he wanted to know what happened if a healthy person took cinchona. He found that it produced all the symptoms of Malaria'. So he deducted that by treating patients using very dilute solutions of cinchona bark in water/alcohol mixture he could treat the disease free from the toxicity of the bark alone. He also found that the more he diluted and shook the solution the better they worked. Therefore he concluded that the most dilute solutions had the most power or "potency".
Dr. Hahnemann went on to experiment and "prove" his theries using other medicinal herbs and mineral substances. Other doctors and pharmacists came to accept his ideas and methods of treatment which are known to be SAFE, EFFECTIVE and NON-TOXIC. Eventually homeopathy spread across Europe. More and more remedies were tried and "proved" on healthy human volunteers. Now Homeopathy is world wide and there over 4,500 remedies available to treat all disease from babies and children to adults of any age.
What is it?
Homoeopathy is essentially natural healing. The remedies assist the patient to regain health by stimulating natures vital force of recovery which we all have.
In Homoeopathy symptoms are used, unlike Western medicine where symptoms are suppressed. There is no toxicity side effects or interactions as in conventional medicine and there is almost a 200 year history of well proven documentary evidence of the efficacy of Homoeopathic remedies which have been used by many of the famous of the U.K. including our own royal family.
Your homeopath
Nigel Bird is both a registered Pharmacist and homoepath having studied pharmacy and pharmacology at Bradford and Nottingham Universities and who became interested in Complementary Medicine about 12 years ago.
He decided to specialise in Homeopathy because he realised that conventional medicine only suppressed symptoms, did not get to the cause of the disease and the drugs used could be dangerous, toxic and their side effects outweigh their possible benefits.
He commenced studies about this time and passed the diploma of the British Institute of Homoeopathy in 1992. He then went on to pass the Doctorate in Homoeopathic Medicine in 1994. Dr.Bird was also made Fellow of the institute in 1994.
Full Homoeopathic services can be offered by Dr. Bird from the centre including consultation by appointment diagnosis, treatment, prescribing and dispensing of classical and complex Homoepathic remedies.
