The founder of Western Classical Homoeopathy - SAMUEL HAHNEMANN, developed a principle, which was similar to the Chinese belief in the life energy of ‘Chi’. Hahnemann described the life force as the ‘Dynamis’. He stated in his book "The Organon", that illness starts as a dysfunction in the Dynamis. The dysfunction, if not corrected, will gradually move into physiological change, organic change and possibly on to irreversible pathological change.

 The original pictures that gave the symptoms for each remedy were obtained by ‘provings’. Hahnemann used volunteers to take the raw plants, minerals etc, and record exactly what symptoms took place in their bodies. These findings were built into the complex ‘drug pictures’ which were in effect a list of what happened to you if you took the raw material.

 The Homeopath then looks for the right drug picture to match his patient and gives a ‘diluted’ or ‘potentised’ form of the original raw material to antidote the effect of the patient's symptoms and hopefully effect a cure. The better the match, the better the chance of hitting the problem squarely and knocking it out of the system.

 Classical Homoeopathy has great usefulness in establishing a ‘resonance’ with the patient’s constitution. A single high potency dose of the person’s constitutional remedy can work to ‘tune-up’ the system in a way that nothing else can match. The higher the potency, the greater the effect on the psychology - the lower the potency, the greater the physical effect.
e.g. Arnica 6x for bruising/Arnica 1 m for old injury.

 The problem with classical homoeopathy is that repertorisation takes a long time, the percentage likelihood of finding one remedy to answer all problems is small. The length of time some remedies take to act is too long for patient comfort in some cases.

 The shortcomings of classical homoeopathy were highlighted when homoeopaths in Germany 80-100 years ago started to mix low potency remedies in solution. This was the birth of ‘Complex’ or ‘Mixture’ Homoeopathy - a more concentrated approach by using many remedies to act on different aspects of a problem in one buffered solution.

 The main schools of homoeopathy outside Germany still cling to the single remedy approach, even our own homoeopathic hospitals use classical homoeopathy alone, despite the advantages of complex homoeopathy in physiological treatment.

 Homoeopathy is designed to work on several levels, principally on the psychological health and on the physical health to create change in the energy and physiology of the body as swiftly as possible, allowing for the nature of the illness or condition and the length of time it has been there.

 The principle of Homoeopathic and Herbal medicine is to stimulate the system from within rather than to suppress or hold system functions as some drugs do. For example in the treatment of eczema, Homoeopathically we seek to correct from inside rather than putting cream on the outside to suppress the eruption. For this reason Homoeopathic medicine in acute conditions will work swiftly and in chronic may take some time, please give some allowance for this and let your system work to its own best ability. I have put together a short Q/A section to cover most basic areas of concern.

 The homoeopathic medicine you are using is progressional in its action. Therefore it is important that you keep appointments so that no break in treatment occurs until the course is completely finished.