Holism

 

When practicing Homoeopathy you look at the spiritual, emotional, mental AND physical aspects of the person. Often people come with illnesses such as a knee problem, back problem and they also suffer from depression. Sometimes they don’t want me to investigate the depression, only deal with the knee and back: as a Homoeopath this is impossible we have to treat the whole (person), not parts (of a person). For me to have results with the knee and back, I must treat the whole (holism).

I suppose this is where ‘conventional’ medicine comes in. Most people are conditioned to see one specialist for the knee, another for the back and another for depression. When they go to the GP they talk about the knee, the back, the depression as three different symptoms. For Homoeopaths this is the same symptom: the individual in front of us.