How does a visit to a homeopathic physician take place? The initial interview will last between one and two hours. The homeopath will require detailed information about your personality, lifestyle, relationships, moods, fears and dreams. There will be also questions concerning your body in terms of energy, sleep, digestion, food likes and dislikes, or your reaction to temperature and weather.

Past traumas, shocks, stress, your past history or family history are factors of particular interest. They are very important especially in chronic diseases. The goal of the homeopathic physician is to recognize your individuality through the unique expression of these symptoms.

At the end of the consultation, because of the complexity of homeopathic analysis, the homeopath might prescribe the remedy immediately or may study deeper your case and supply a remedy at a later date. Homeopathy is not 'for this disease, take this remedy' or 'for that disease, take that remedy', it is all based on your individuality. It is the patient who needs treatment not the disease.

After the first consultation, a follow-up is scheduled which lasts around 30 minutes on average. The homeopath will review all the changes which have occurred since the initial consultation, and will decide if the prescription should be repeated or a new one might be necessary.

After a few consultations when the treatment goes deeper and deeper, you will experience an improvement on all levels, not just the disappearance of your initial symptoms. For example, if your initial complaint was stomach pains, you not only experience less or lack of pains, but also more energy, better sleep, more clarity and positive thinking. This is the holistic effect of homeopathy, treating the whole person not only your initial disease.

Homeopathy works for everyone. Even a pregnant woman or a newborn baby can benefit from homeopathy. Since homeopathic remedies are devoid of all chemical toxicity, homeopathy is the ideal medicine for babies and pregnant women. Difficulties during pregnancy and the delivery or its aftermath as well as all the problems experienced by the newborn can be dealt with very effectively and without side effects with homeopathy.

In the last 20 years due to increased awareness of the side-effects of medical drugs, homeopathy is going through an explosion of growth and development. According to World Health Organization (WHO), homeopathic medicine is the second most widely used system of medicine in the world and the fastest growing.


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