Yes.

Nicola Redmond is a registered member of the Alliance of Registered Homeopaths.

Homeopaths who are registered with Alliance of Registered Homeopaths (ARH) are recognised by the a number of health insurance companies. This means that if you have a policy with any of them, you may be entitled to have the full or partial cost of your treatment by Nicola reimbursed. Please visit the Alliance of Registered Homeopath’s website for an up to date list of health insurance companies participating:

http://www.a-r-h.org/help-with-treatment-costs/

In order to determine the correct prescription for you as an individual, the initial consultation will involve confidential discussion about your medical history; about you as a person: including energy levels, lifestyle, diet, etc. You will have the opportunity to talk – if you wish – not only about your physical complaints but about what you like and dislike, what makes you sad, angry, scared, etc. Homeopathy sees disease as a body-mind process, so your personality traits are just as important as your physical symptoms. The more your homeopath is able to understand you, the easier it will be to select the remedy/ies you may need.

After analysis, a suitable prescription will be given to you, either in tablet or liquid form and should be taken in accordance with any instructions you may be given.

The duration of treatment depends very much on the ailment and how long you have had it, as well as your response to the prescription/s.

After taking your remedy/ies you may notice some changes.

One way of explaining in a simple way how homeopathy works is that when you have persistant symptoms (ill health, dis-ease) it may be because the body’s natural ability to heal itself is blocked (by inherited immune weaknesses, suppressed emotional expression…) Homepathic medicine works by resonating with the symptoms and energizing the body to cure itself by recognising it’s own symptoms in the symptoms that the remedy produces in a heatlhy person.

Some patients experience well-being, optimism and a change in energy levels. Occasionally your symptoms may appear to get worse for a short time. This can sometimes manifest as a form of rash, discharge or flu-like symptoms.

This is a good sign that the prescription is taking effect and that your body is detoxifying. These symptoms will pass. They can be a very important part of the healing process and therefore advisable to consult your homeopath – before self-treating with other medicines – who may further prescribe or give helpful adjunctive advice.

Radio wave-like frequencies

Flower Essences were first used 5000 years ago by the Egyptians.

When an essence is ingested or absorbed through the skin, it is initially assimilated into the bloodstream. Then it settles midway between the circulatory and nervous systems. The quartz-like crystalline silica structures in the physical body (such as those in the bloodstream, the hair and nails etc) amplify and transmit the healing energies of the flower essences to their appropriate sites of action, and at the correct frequencies. 

This process is similar to the way radio waves strike a crystal in a radio so that the crystal resonates with the high frequencies, absorbing them and transforming them into audio frequencies which can be heard by the human ear.

Bach Flower Essences

Developed in the UK by Dr Edward Bach, a Welsh physician practicing medicine in the early 1900’s, Bach Flowers have been used over many decades by both the public (self-prescribing) and by natural health practitioners.

Trained in conventional allopathic medicine, Dr. Bach observed that his patients’ recovery seemed to have as much to do with their emotional health as it did with any physical condition. Those in a positive emotional state recovered quicker. 

Dr. Bach’s area of expertise was bacteriology, but as he became more intrigued with the emotions of his patients, he started to study the work of Hahnemann which emphasized treating the “whole” patient including their emotions and mental state, rather than focusing exclusively on physical symptoms. 

As a result of his research, Dr. Bach developed homeopathic remedies to treat intestinal disease. In 1930 Dr. Bach left an extremely lucrative private practice in London and and began to develop his 38 flower essences.

Bush Flower Essences

These essences were developed by a 3rd generation Australian herbalist, homeopath and naturopath, Ian White, who believes them to be one of the major systems of healing, and states that “The power of the bush essences and the results they constantly produce are astounding. They act as catalysts to help resolve a vast range of negative emotional states… Most physical illness is the end result of emotional imbalance.”