Homeopathy is a natural system of medicine that uses highly diluted substances (called remedies) to stimulate your body to heal itself on all levels. Homeopathy aims to treat the whole person (the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual being) and never aims to treat only a part of a person (a headache for instance).
Classical Homeopathy is based on the selection of a single remedy that most closely matches your symptoms at a particular time and then waiting to observe your response before administering another remedy. This method focuses on the underlying disturbance or disease that causes the symptoms themselves.
Meryl’s homeopathy patients tell her they have never felt so listened to, as during their homeopathy case taking. In a case taking, Meryl sits down with you and listens carefully to what you are experiencing. You will explain your symptoms and together you begin to develop an understanding of what your body is telling you through these symptoms. In Meryl’s experience, the process of being listened to with such intensity marks the beginning of a patient’s healing process.
Because homeopathy is sometimes confused with other healing practices, it is best to outline what homeopathy is not. It is not nutrition, herbalism, naturopathy or psychology. A homeopath does not diagnose or treat disease as defined by conventional medicine. A homeopath does not interpret laboratory tests or make recommendations for the use or non-use of drugs, radiation or surgery.