& Healing
Kate Volpe, D. Hom
Classical Homeopath
Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann was a medical doctor in the 1800's. Speaking 9 languages he often translated medical books as well. While translating a a book called "A Treatise on Materia Medica" he noticed that the author's experience using cinchona bark for treating malaria closely resembled symptoms that the cinchona bark caused in a healthy person. With this knowledge and the teachings of Paracelsus & Galen, Hahnemann discovered a system of healing called Homeopathy.
Like Cures Like
Homeopathy means "Similar Suffering".
This means the symptoms that a person substance causes in a healthy person are similar to the symptoms that the same substance can treat.
Homeopaths have documented thousands of remedies and the symptoms that each substance expresses in a healthy person, in order to be able to recognize when these same symptoms are found in a sick person.
When a body has an imbalance the product of that imbalance is a symptom. Symptoms can be expressed physically, mentally or emotionally. A grouping of these symptoms is what we know as disease.
A Homeopath will look at the totality of symptoms that the body is expressing and choose the best remedy to treat those symptoms.
Rapid, Gentle, Safe.
The Homeopath's highest calling is to restore health to the sick. Our aim is to affect healing in the most rapid and gentle way possible. We treat the whole person, from the inside out, in a safe and effective way by working with the person's individual Vital Force (Chi or Qi).
Homeopathic remedies are highly diluted, rendering them safe and non-toxic, yet effective.
For more information and resources please see the References page.