What is Homeopathy?

Homeopathic medicines have been used for over two hundred years in treating ailments serious and minor, acute and chronic, physical and emotional. Homeopathic medicines, called remedies, work by stimulating the body’s own healing power, encouraging the body to behave in a more healthy way. They are safe, gentle, non-addictive and are complementary to orthodox medicines.

Homeopathy is holistic, that is, it treats the whole person not just the symptoms and can also play an important part in preventing disease.

The concept has been known since Hippocrates in 450BCE, and has been further developed down the ages including full scientific elucidation by Dr Samuel Hahnemann.

Why is a Christian priest practising it?

For over thirty years I have been attentively listening to people’s upsets. For an equally long time I have had the benefit of homeopathic remedies for minor – and occasionally not so minor – ailments. Eventually the light dawned on me that the prayerful concentration needed for pastoral counselling could also be used in finding homeopathic remedies for others. I studied hard and qualified as a homeopath in 2002. Remembering that Jesus cared for the physical well-being of his followers  as well as their souls, the prescribing of a remedy is, for me, as sacramental an act as praying for someone or giving a blessing.