Welcome to Tony Fox Homeopathy!
Your mental, emotional and physical health can be affected by a range of influences such as anxiety, stress, exhaustion, grief, nutrition, exposure, trauma, toxins or infection. Homeopathy is a holistic form of medicine that addresses these factors by assessing your entire mental, emotional and physical make-up, rather than a specific part, organ or name of disease. All homeopathic medicines are made from natural substances which are safe and free from the side effects that many conventional treatments have.
Tony Fox is a fully qualified and insured homeopath practising in Blackheath, South East London providing support for a wide range of conditions, both acute and chronic. Appointments are available at his practice in Blackheath or via Skype, FaceTime and telephone.
What is Homeopathy?
For over 200 years homeopathic treatment has focused on a system that is safe, non-toxic and free from side effects. Homeopathy is ideal for people who are in search of more natural ways to improve their health and well-being because it offers a safe alternative.
Appointments
Initial appointments are around 1.5 hours and subsequent follow ups are around 45 minutes. Appointments are at the Blackheath practice but can also be arranged via Skype, FaceTime or Telephone. All appointments include ongoing support between each consultation.
- There are more than 4,000 homeopathic medicines.
- Every true homeopathic medicine is made using one substance -- whether plant, animal or mineral.
- Remedies are commonly made by crushing a plant, animal or mineral substance then putting it into a solvent such as grain alcohol.
- Insoluble solids, such as quartz and oyster shell, are diluted by grinding them with lactose.
- The extract is then further diluted in a mixture of alcohol and water. The process is repeated many times to achieve a therapeutic dilution.
- After each dilution the mixture is vigorously agitated in a machine or by hand that delivers a calibrated amount of shaking. This is called succussion.
- The process of succussion is believed to leave an energetic imprint of the medicinal substance throughout the body of water.
- Remedies can be administered in many forms, including tablets, ointments, liquid, or sprays.
- Homeopathic remedies are non-drowsy and non-habit forming. They cause no side effects and no conflicts with other medicines.
- Homeopathy is safe for women to take during pregnancy, and safe for children and old people.
- Homeopathic remedies are cheap at around £6 per prescription.
Homeopathic Materia Medica are filled with thousands of remedies and there are new remedies being discovered, documented and used in practice on a regular basis. Each remedy is coded with hundreds and even thousands of different symptoms that uniquely identify it apart from one remedy picture to the next. This unique information is what characterises a remedy in terms of using it in homeopathic practice. And that is why it is so important to understand your experience of being unwell as an individual, so that a remedy which has the same sorts of coded characteristic symptoms can be matched to the way you experience being sick.
Acute and constitutional prescribing underpins homeopathic practice though it’s always important to remember that homeopathy treats the individual, not the disease name, body part or pathology diagnosis. But what does that really mean? Simple, when we are healthy we all experience life differently, for example one person might feel invigorated taking a hot bath, whereas another person finds hot baths unbearable. Homeopathy works on this principle and aims to understand the individualising factors of your illness in exactly the same way.
Since its inception 200 years ago, homeopathy has attracted support from European royalty, the educated elite, and leading artists. It was then no surprise that the most expensive painting that was ever sold was that of a portrait of a homeopathic physician, Dr. Gachet, drawn by her personal friend and patient, Vincent Van Gogh.
Homeopathy is a lot more common than you might think. According to the World Health Organisation, homeopathy is the second largest system of medicine in the world.
When I first went to see a homeopath 17 years ago, I had no idea of what to expect, all I knew was that I felt unwell and had a strong inclination to explore a safe and natural alternative to health. During the consultation we talked about my presenting complaint but my homeopath went on to ask an range of questions that built a more complete picture of who I was in relation to this. These included medical and family history, my thoughts, feelings, desires and aversions, moderating factors, sleep and eating patterns, responses to atmospheric conditions, and many more.
Homeopathic remedies are made from natural substances, whether animal, mineral, plant or imponderable. All homeopathic remedies which have been identified for use have undergone a series of dilutions and succussions (shaken) to make various potencies for prescription use. The repetition of this particular process eventually dilutes the original substance beyond its physical form and it is still scientifically unknown how this can work.
Unsure If Homeopathy Is Right For You?
Book a free 15 minute introductory telephone consultation to discuss how homeopathy can meet your health and well-being needs.
“Homeopathy cures a greater percentage of cases than any other method of treatment. Homeopathy is the latest and refined method of treating patients economically and non-violently.” — Mahatma Gandhi
With the incredible popularity and growth of homeopathy over the last 15 to 20 years, the profession has been under increasing pressure to provide scientific evidence to substantiate the effectiveness of its treatment. And although the action of homeopathic remedies has yet to be discovered, this push to provide high quality evidence has led to enormous development in the field of homeopathic research.