Now homeopathy has had a lot of rap recently. Why? Well I would say for the simple reason that people don’t understand it. And as the wise philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said, “The truth is first ridiculed then violently opposed and finally widely accepted as self evident”. I think homeopathy is stepping from stage 1 to 2 of that right now.
Homeopathy is misunderstood because it works on a totally different way to conventional medicine. It works on the energetic plane rather than the physical. We didn’t (still don’t) learn this stuff at school so it must be hocus pocus right? Well like anyone who has taken arnica for an acute trauma like a sprained ankle knows, this stuff works.
Energy medicines like homeopathy, are the medicines of the future. It’s just that biological and medical sciences are being pretty slow to catch up with what physics and particularly the field of quantum physics has been showing us for near on 80 years! We are energetic beings, constructs of a wider energetic field. Thoughts are energy measurable outside the body! Everything from rocks to plants and people vibrate on a certain energy frequency. Rocks have a low dense vibration, plants and people a higher one. If you break down the cells of our body to atoms and zoom in on the atoms, you will get down to nothing but energy, spinning in space. It’s hard for us to understand these abstract concepts and therefore harder to understand how homeopathy works compared to physical medicines like aspirin.
A homeopathic dilution takes an ingredient like the herb arnica and dilutes it many many times to the point where there is no physical arnica present but the vibration of arnica remains. The body reads that energetic message and responds accordingly. This makes homeopathy an incredibly safe medicine with no nasty side 
effects such as those you read about on the packets of all pharmaceutical drugs.
So why is the freedom to use homeopathy under threat when there are no dangers associated with it? Good question. One I’m not going to start speculating on here. But the fact is the EU is proposing making it difficult for us to get homeopathic medicines. It is possible, if we don’t stand up in enough numbers and speak out, that we will be unable to get these medicines from our homeopath, health shop, online or over the phone. Basically it would only be accessible through a few specific pharmacies. Goodness knows what that will do to the price!
Georgie Wingfield-Hayes
Nutritionist