Homeopathic Medicine, is defined as a distinct and complete system of natural medicine.   Homeopathic Medicine is the second most widely used system of medicine throughout the world.   

In advanced & progressive countries throughout the world such as England, France, Germany, India, South Africa, and Australia,  homeopathy is integrated into their health care model.   

The Royal Family in the UK has a dedicated Homeopathic Physician to care for the Queen & family at all times.  As health care costs in North America, particularly in Canada,  continue to rise, coupled with the increase of public awareness of the risks associated with prescription medicine;  homeopathic medicine & natural medicine therapies like acupuncture/tcm, botanical medicine, holistic nutrition, lifestlye management and osteopathic practice have become the choice for many. 

What Is Homeopathy ? 

The term Homeopathy (pronounced ho-me-op-pathee) is derived from the Greek word 'homos' for similar and the word 'pathos' for suffering .  Homeopathy was developed by a German physician Dr. Samuel Hahnemann MD in the early  1800s. 

 Dr. Hahnemann founded this system of natural medicine based on the principle that  a disease with a given set of symptoms can be cured by a medicine (remedy)  which is known to produce a similar set of symptoms in healthy individuals.  The remedy is prescribed in the minimum dosage required to bring about  (stimulate) healing.  This principle is called Similia Similus Curantur "like cures like" otherwise called "The Law of Similars" and is the foundation of Homeopathic Medicine. 

A simple example of the Law of Similiars: A person who chops an onion can develop watery eyes, a runny nose, sneezing, coughing, and throat irritation from exposure to the onion’s active substances. The homeopathic remedy, Allium cepa, made of potentized red onion, can help the body overcome a cold or allergy attack in which the person has similar symptoms (watery eyes, runny nose, sneezing, coughing, or throat irritation.) The actual symptoms of the illness were not caused by exposure to an onion, but the remedy made from the onion can help the body overcome them, because the symptoms are similar.

 In addition to the Law of Similars, principles of Homeopathic Medicine include:

 1.  Identify the underlying causes of illness rather than merely treating single  symptoms and suppressing them

 2.  Recognize the healing powers of nature and the innate ability of the body to  heal itself 

 3.  Treat the patient with the most gentle and non-invasive therapies possible in      order to facilitate healing without producing harm

 4.  To treat the whole person and ecourage healing on all levels: physical,      emotional and spiritual

 5.  To prevent, rather than just react & treat.  Well being is the best answer to      combat any condition that could arrive.  By prevention, we can greatly reduce the risk of severe conditions

 6.  Minimum Dose.  Homeopathic remedies are prescribed in very diluted      specific forms  

 7.  One Remedy.  Only one Homeopathic remedy is prescribed at one time.  With close monitoring and understanding of the body's reaction to the single  remedy true healing can occur

 8.  Treat the patient, not the disease.

 Homeopathic medicine views symptoms produced by a patient as not the disease, as seen in conventional or allopathic medicine.  Rather, the symptoms are viewed as a visual, external expression of the body's own imbalance and its own attempt at a cure. 

 In homeopathic medicine, "disease" in terms of specific pathology is not treated by suppressing symptons, that is the common practice of conventional or allopathic medicine.  Past and present research and published clinical studies and meta analysis continue to demonstate the efficacy of Homeopathic Medicine.

Instead,  Homeopathic Medicine treats the patient, not disease by directly stabilizing the individual through the introduction of natural substances, known as homeopathic remedies, designed to stimulate the bodies own defence and equilibrium mechanisms to bring the body back into balance ~ naturally, safely , and with no side effects and no suppression.