Homeopathic remedies are a system of medicine based on three principles:

Like cures like
For example, if the symptoms of your cold are similar to poisoning by mercury, then mercury would be your homeopathic remedy.

Minimal Dose
The remedy is taken in an extremely dilute form; normally one part of the remedy to around 1,000,000,000,000 parts of water.

The Single Remedy
No matter how many symptoms are experienced, only one remedy is taken, and that remedy will be aimed at all those symptoms.

Homeopathy is the second most widely used system of medicine in the world. This success is fueled by several factors:

• Homeopathy is extremely effective. When the correct remedy is taken, results can be rapid, complete and permanent.

• Homeopathy is completely safe. Even babies and pregnant women can use Homeopathy without the danger of side effects.

• Homeopathic remedies can also be taken alongside other medication without producing unwanted side effects.
• Homeopathy is natural. Homeopathic remedies are normally based on natural ingredients.
• . (For example, cough medicines suppress the cough reflex, which is your body’s attempt to clear the lungs)

• Homeopathy works in harmony with your immune system, unlike some conventional medicines which suppress the immune system

• Homeopathic remedies are not addictive – once relief is felt, you should stop taking them. If no relief is felt, you are probably taking the wrong homeopathic remedy.

• Homeopathy is holistic. It treats all the symptoms as one, which in practical terms means that it addresses the cause, not the symptoms. This often means that symptoms tackled with Homeopathy do not recur.

At The good Health Shop we stock homeopathic remedies by Pegasus, Heel, Natura and Doc ‘s Choice, an alcohol and lactose-free option

Visiting a Homeopathic Doctor is a completely different experience to buing over-the counter remedies in a health shop. The Homeopath will take great care to ask you lots of seemingly un-related questions in an attempt to get the whole picture, as homeopathy is not only a treatment of symptoms.

In the health  shop, the prepared remedies are as diverse as te people and ailments they are designed to treat and it’s important that you speak to someone who understands te subtle differences in the products.  Should you buy a product that is not right for you, the worst that can happen is that you don’t get better.. homeopathic remedies cannot do harm, in any dose.

Colloquially we recommend that homeopathy treats your body from the top to the bottom and from the inside, out, and this is the way you can expect the symptoms to disappear.

Because the treatment is working with your body, the regaining of balance sometimes takes a little longer than an allopathic medication, which over-rides the body’s mechanisms and suppresses the symptoms, making you believe you are getting better.