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, London, 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, London, two years at the Dynamis School for Advanced Homeopathic Studies and a training in naturopathic detoxification. 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. Since then I have been diagnosed with paralysis of half my diaphragm; cause unknown and suffered a traumatic brain injury that I was also lucky to survive.

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 non-pharmaceutical medicine.