Homeopathy works on the principle of “like cures like”.

For example
Onions can make our eyes sting and water and our noses run. 

• Allium Cepa (onion)  is one possible remedy for hayfever or a cold where these symptoms feature.

Coffee keeps many people awake if drunk too late in the day. 

• Coffea the homeopathic remedy made from the coffee plant may help certain types of insomnia.

Tiny, energised doses of appropriate remedy are used to help the body return to better health.

Remedies may be given in pill or liquid form.  Both methods are pleasant to take.

Homeopathy has had an increasingly difficult time in the press and media recently.  Ten years ago very little was heard about it on national radio or news coverage.  However, now it is frequently rubbished by people such as Ben Goldacre and Professor Ernst.  There seems little point in rising to the bait since so many people clearly find that it works for themselves, their children, pets and farm stock.  ‘Quackbusters’ often quote that if it works at all, then it must do so via ‘the placebo effect’.  

However, does that argument seem to stand up when babies and animals are effectively treated? 
They can have no clue as to what they are being given!  

Does it matter if someone is sceptical? 
No, they just need to want to get better.

An eminent homeopathic vet, Geoff Johnson, qualified to treat animals and humans homeopathically found his way to homeopathy via desperation and scepticism.  At the Glastonbury Festival some years ago, he had severe hayfever and went to the tent where the registered homeopaths were.    He made the rash and bold statement that if anyone could sort out his hayfever with homeopathy, then he would become a homeopath!   Rather like “If you can do this, then I’ll
eat my hat!”  They did and he did!  Fortunately for him, he hadn’t made the rash statement about his hat!