The homeopathic practitioner treats the whole person, perceiving how symptoms are interrelated, and seeks to select a medicine most closely covering that totality of symptoms.

Treating the ‘whole person’ means that two people presenting with the same complaint may receive a different medicine based on their individual symptoms and emotional response to the illness.

With homeopaths, you are an individual, not a number or a disease. This is not just a platitude or a feel-good statement. It is the way homeopathy works. Homeopathy views many symptoms in order to treat the underlying causes of ill-health, taking into account not only the condition itself but the whole person. This includes your lifestyle, medical history, likes and dislikes and mental and emotional aspects as well. It is often the small idiosyncrasies that are ‘the real you’ that help the homeopath to select the medicine that best fits your needs.

(Barbara Armstrong, Hastings, Vic)