Why see a homoeopath when my GP, chiropractor, osteopath, or naturopath, also prescribe homoeopathic medicines?

Depending on their training there is no problem, as long as the health practitioners concerned are preferably members of AROH (The Australian Register Of Homoeopaths). Often practitioners with little training in homoeopathy will prescribe "complexes" which are bottles containing sometimes up to 30 medicines or more. Sometimes these complexes may help for a while for mild complaints. These are often prescribed because the practitioner doesn't have the time or skill to make an accurate homoeopathic diagnosis, hence the 30 medicines in one bottle. I call it the blunderbuss technique where you spray enough bullets hoping something will "hit the mark". The trouble is which medicine hit the mark? And why did it? Because these questions cannot be answered there can be no understanding of the case. Strictly by definition, a homoeopathic medicine is not simply a medicine that has been prepared according to homoeopathic methods. The medicine is truly homoeopathic only when it is correctly ...  more