Homeopathy is the second largest system of medicine in the world today. It continues to gain momentum as sophisticated consumers become disenfranchised by the pharmaceutically driven system of conventional medicine. The word "homeopathy" is derived from the Greek words homoios (similar) and pathos (suffering or disease). It is based upon the premise of the Law of Similars , which in essence means that “like cures like.”

Homeopathy was founded by a German physician named Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) who was distressed about bloodletting, leeching, purging, and other medical procedures of his day. While these procedures are no longer practiced in the 21 st Century, similar distress is felt by those who examine current healthcare statistics reporting rising incidences of drug-related handicaps or deaths.

Classical Homeopathy is a system of holistic medicine that treats the whole person – mind, body, and spirit. This differs from allopathic (conventional) medicine, where one medicine is taken for a skin complaint, another for head pain, and yet another for depression. Classical homeopathy takes into account the person's totality and one remedy aims to treat all symptoms. For example, the common cold produces a myriad of effects, subtly different in different people, even though caused by the same virus. Therefore, each case is assessed and analyzed to find the right remedy for each individual.

Homeopathy utilizes extremely diluted agents that, in undiluted doses, produce symptoms in the healthy that are similar to those experienced by the suffering individual. A homeopathic remedy is a natural substance that has been “potentized” (diluted many times) and “succussed,” (vigorously shaken). Homeopathy is used for both acute and chronic conditions. The more dilute the substance is, the more effective it is in treating disease.

The homeopathic principle of “like cures like” is actually observed in mainstream medicine, the most notable example being that of vaccines. However, Homeopathy takes this concept a step further: if symptoms produce an effect similar to a bee's sting, then diluted bee poison would be the homeopathic treatment, even though symptoms were not actually the result of being stung by a bee. Where pharmaceutical vaccines are toxic and often cause unpleasant side effects, homeopathy is analogous to an energetic vaccine that is extremely safe and non-toxic.

Homeopathy has been preferred to conventional medicine by many notable personalities, both here and abroad, including Mahatma Ghandi, John D. Rockefeller, Mark Twain, David Beckham, Paul McCartney, Tina Turner and the entire Royal Family, including Queen Elizabeth herself. Perhaps you should give it a try, too!