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Medically qualified homeopathic doctor, medical
herbalist and healer -
Central London, Kensington West London, Twickenham
I am a holistic medical doctor who practices
herbalism, homeopathy and healing in West London
and Twickenham, Middlesex.
Medicine
Born into a family of doctors, I left school to study medicine at
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. I qualified as a conventional
medical doctor in 1985 with a sense of questions still unanswered. I went
on to work in several different areas to gain experience, including:
general medicine, respiratory medicine, general surgery, urology,
gynaecology, accident and emergency, and psychiatry of the elderly. A
process of elimination led me to consider psychiatry as a career so I
started on a training scheme.
 Illness
By this time my own health had become a problem. What had started as
recurring glandular fever (Epstein-Barr/mononucleosis) while at Bart’s had
gradually become an overwhelming debility of mind and body. I now know
myself to have developed additional associated liver dysfunction, blood
abnormalities, fungal infestation, food intolerances and adrenal
exhaustion, amongst other things. At the time I was a medical enigma and
despite obvious pathology no specialist was able to diagnose or help me.
When eventually I was unable to work desperation prompted me to post a
plea for help in a doctors journal. The replies put me on to nutrition,
homeopathy and herbalism - what we now call complementary medicine.
Complementary medicine
After a faltering and partial recovery I decided to change career and went
to study at the
Royal London Homeopathic Hospital and the
Faculty of Homeopathy, qualifying as a homeopath in 1992. Since then I
have continued to study widely as my allegiance has always been to ‘the
truth’, rather than any particular therapeutic school. This has included a
four-year Honours Degree in Medical Herbalism at the
Scottish School of Herbal Medicine, a two-year training in healing at
the
College of Psychic Studies, two years
at the
Dynamis School for Advanced Homeopathic Studies and a training in
naturopathic detoxification in the form of the
Gerson
Therapy. These are the main things I have integrated into my current
practice although I have studied other areas too.
Further illness
In 1997 I was diagnosed with a large nerve tumour in my head, for
which I had surgery. I was lucky to survive the long and perilous
operation without the disfiguring surgery that had been planned, although
the tumour could not be fully removed. I am told that inevitably it will
regrow but have managed to avoid this eventuality so far.
Therapeutic advances
My journey of study, experience, discovery and realisation has brought me
the understanding needed to develop new therapeutic tools. For example I
have found new indications for herbal and homeopathic remedies, developed
a new way to trigger self healing in some people and written a thesis on the basis of a
systematic approach to herbalism. The purpose of these developments is their application,
which is to keep improving my therapeutic efficacy. Although I have found
these helpful in my practice they are of course as statistically unproven
as most of the rest of complementary medicine.
Posts held
I worked at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital for many years before
co-founding and medically directing one of London’s first large centres
for integrated medicine. I have practiced complementary medicine in many
other settings too, including other hospitals, private clinics, Harley
street, naturopathic clinics, homeopathy centres, charity funded centres
and with GP’s. I have also appeared on television and radio and
written for the press.
Professional bodies
I am: registered with the
General
Medical Council, the
Society of Homeopaths and the
Confederation of Healing Organisations; a member of the
National
Institute of Medical Herbalists; on the
Faculty of Homeopathy Specialist Register and a Faculty of Homeopathy
Supervisor.
Medical insurance
I am recognised as a Specialist in Homeopathy by
PPP and most other medical insurers who cover homeopathy (they tend not to cover herbalism
or healing).
Medically qualified homeopathic doctor, medical
herbalist and healer -
Central London, Kensington West London, Twickenham
homeopathy in London
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