Introduction

Homeopathy is a safe, natural form of medicine, based on the practice of treating like with like. Homeopathy is derived from the Greek words homios, meaning like or similar, and italios, meaning suffering.   Homeopathy is concerned with treating the whole person rather than the illness alone.

The homeopath will consider the patient as a whole, both physically and psychologically, taking into account the patient’s physical appearance, their likes, dislikes and their temperament. It is there fore a highly personalized form of treatment, so patients who apparently suffer from the same illness may be given advice for different medicines.  Homeopathy is a well established form of healing. Today many of the leading pharmaceutical companies are researching and mass-producing homeopathic medicine.  Read the full story

I was recently surprised to hear that the benefits of olive leaves in traditional and alternative medicine have mostly to do with anti-microbial activity. The leaf was used traditionally to treat all kinds of infections in areas where the trees naturally grow. Plagues still hit those areas, in years gone by. So, it is by no means a cure-all.

Modern research supports some of the traditional uses, because some fraction of the leaf inhibits the replication of viruses, bacteria and fungi. As a group, we usually refer to them as illness-causing pathogens.

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A natural hormone supplement is a hormone that is identical to that which occurs naturally in the body. Most prescription drugs are not the same as a natural hormone supplement. Why?  United States since late 1800, U.S. law allows drugs to be patented only if they are naturally occurring substances. If a pharmaceutical company discovers a natural substance that can be used in medicine, no one else can use,  make or sell that substance.

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