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About Caroline Ellwood DO, RSHom
I am experienced at treating many conditions some of which are low back pain, neck pain, problems in pregnancy, candidiasis, depression, headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, stress, eczema, asthma, hayfever, insomnia, sciatica, fatigue, arthritis and digestive problems.
For those wishing to make an appointment please don't be put off if you get the answer machine. Normally I will acknowledge your call within two hours. The answer machine is on when I am treating homoeopathic patients and when my clinic is closed.
HOMOEOPATHY
Homoeopathy is a safe and effective system of healing which assist the body's natural ability to heal itself. All symptoms of ill health are expressions of disharmony within in the whole person. Homoeopathy treats the person, not the disease.
Homoeopathy treats by using similars, for example, in the case of urticaria where there is a stinging rash with blister like spots, a substance such as urtica urens (stinging nettle) will cure. A minute dose of a substance is given to stimulate the body's inherent self healing powers into bringing the whole person into balance. Redmedies are tested on healthy people. The symptoms a remedy produces in a healthy person are the ones they will cure in a sick person. The remedy is chosen after the homoeopath has taken a very detailed case history and matched the patient's symptoms as closely as possible to a remedy.
OSTEOPATHY
Osteopathy is essentially the science of human mechanics. Osteopathic medicine is based on the principles that the body is self healing and that an uninterrupted nerve and blood supply to all the body's tissues is essential for their normal functioning. Spinal curvatures and muscle spasms impair blood and nerve flow and if left untreated disease can result.
Most people consult an osteopath with back or neck pain. The spine or pelvis may become misaligned due to faulty posture, lifting something heavy, injury, excess muscle tension, pregnancy, or problems with the lower limbs.
Accurate diagnosis is essential to successful treatment. Patients may be Conditions treated include migraine, asthma, "slipped discs", arthritis, sciatica, menstrual and digestive complaints.
NATUROPATHY
Natural therapies have been used to treat disease since our earliest beginnings. They include:- diet, herbs, fasting, hydrotherapy, excercise and spinal manipulation.
The natural therapeutic approach maintains that the constant effort of the body's life force is always in the direction of self cleansing, self repairing and positive health.
All symptoms of disease are the results of intelligent action by the body to re-establish positive health. Acute disease is the result of nature's efforts to eliminate toxins from the body and to repair injured tissues. Suppression of acute disease by drugs will result in chronic disease.
Naturopathy aims to treat people, not diseases, to remove the cause of the disease not merely its symptoms and to cure disease not just to postpone it.
I now no longer practice naturopathy in isolation. I always combine it with the use of homoeopathic remedies in order to get to deeper layers of ill health and to speed recovery.
Service Categories
Homeopaths, Osteopathy
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