Homeopathy offers support with a wide range of remedies addressing various stages and experiences of grief. Finding the right remedy begins with a homeopathic consultation, where the totality of your experience and symptoms are taken into account. Grief symptoms commonly include shock, numbness, sadness, anger, guilt and feeling isolated. Causations can include the loss of a loved one, being treated unfairly or unkindly, heartache from a failed relationship, financial loss, mortification and disappointment from deception. Homeopathy carefully considers your thoughts and feelings but it also factors in your sleep and dietary patterns, general health, responses to the environment, moderating factors and energy levels.

Homeopathy expertly addresses mental health through psychological assessment, selection of a remedy based on homeopathic laws and principles and ongoing analysis and treatment with follow up appointments. The aim of treatment is to understand your experience of mental health as an individual, as opposed to a conventional one size fits all approach. Homeopathy is a complete system of treatment that addresses how you think, feel and experience mental health, including its interrelationship with your physical health.

Homeopathic treatment measures the way that you experience stress mentally, emotionally and physically, as well taking into consideration medical, causative and family history factors. But how you think, feel and physically respond to stress will provide important information for case analyses and the selection of a homeopathic remedy.

No one person responds to stress in exactly same way. For example, the idea of public speaking can be stressful for many people, but the way each individual person experiences this will be different from one person to the next. One person’s predisposition might be to feel nauseous, dizzy and break into a sweat when speaking in public, whereas another person’s will be to anxiously stutter their way through the experience.

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Aconite Napellus is also known as Monkshood, Wolf’s Bane, Granny’s Nightcap and Iron Hat. It is used in homeopathy for a range of acute ailments where symptoms are intensely acute, sudden, violent, painful and accompanied by fear. Aconite is an excellent remedy for the treatment of panic and terror attacks when triggered by a sudden, frightful experience. In this context, Aconite is often indicated in ailments arising from shock, such as hearing bad news, near death experiences, injury (eg. accident), and surgical procedures.

Stramonium is used in the treatment of fear, anxiety and panic disorders, such as PTSD and panic attacks. Interestingly, it is also used in the treatment of many childhood acute ailments that are accompanied by its characteristically intense fear and restlessness. The Stramonium picture produces sharp, intense and even violent symptoms that include night terrors, fear of the dark, fear of danger, delirium and hallucinations. There is also violent thirst and dryness of the mouth, lips and throat. The face becomes bright red and the eyes are dilated and wild looking, a picture often seen in children acutes or anyone experiencing a panic attack.

Arsenicum is often indicated in the treatment of anxiety when accompanied by marked fear, restlessness and irritability. The central theme of Arsenicum is a feeling of being too weak to survive a world that is both chaotic and threatening. In this context, Arsenicum types feel overwhelmed with vulnerability and have a tendency to lean heavily on others for support, which can lead to overbearing dependency. Other characteristic symptoms include fastidiousness, a preoccupation with death and dying, and lots of fears that include cancer, disease, robbers and poverty.

Although depression isn’t uncommon, the way it’s experienced is unique from one person to the next. These diverse experiences are reflected in the wide range of homeopathic remedies used for its treatment. Many homeopathic remedies cover broad symptoms, such as sadness, pessimism, fear and anxiety, but in order to find a truly effective remedy it must match the individualising symptoms of the patient’s case.

Anxiety disorders frequently cause intense, excessive and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Ongoing anxiety can make a person imagine that things in their life are worse than they really are, which in turn can prevent them from confronting their fears whilst and cause a lot of suffering.

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.

1. There are more than 4,000 homeopathic medicines.
2. Every true homeopathic medicine is made using one substance -- whether plant, animal or mineral.
3. Remedies are commonly made by crushing a plant, animal or mineral substance then putting it into a solvent such as grain alcohol.
4. Insoluble solids, such as quartz and oyster shell, are diluted by grinding them with lactose.
5. The extract is then further diluted in a mixture of alcohol and water. The process is repeated many times to achieve a therapeutic dilution.
6. 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.
7. The process of succussion is believed to leave an energetic imprint of the medicinal substance throughout the body of water.
8. Remedies can be administered in many forms, including tablets, ointments, liquid, or sprays.
9. Homeopathic remedies are non-drowsy and non-habit forming. They cause no side effects and no conflicts with other medicines.
10. Homeopathy is safe for women to take during pregnancy, and safe for children and old people.
11. Homeopathic remedies are cheap at around £6 per prescription.