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Hawkes Bay homeopath Jane Crook is the latest practitioner to join the team at Warkworth Natural Therapies, after recently moving north to live off-grid at Ariki Estate on Kaipara Harbour.
She had a practice in Napier for more than a decade after four years of training. Her interest in what homeopathy could achieve was first piqued when she saw what it did for herself and her three children.
“When my children were young, they were constantly ill with ear infections, coughs and colds, tonsillitis, things like that, and I used to get strep throat all the time,” she says. “As soon as we found a homeopath, it all cleared up and we never went back to a doctor.”
The basis of homeopathy is that the body is able to heal itself using tiny amounts of a natural substance that matches the problem, such as rhus tox, made from poison ivy, curing a rash. There are more than 4000 different homeopathic remedies obtained from a wide range of plants, animals and minerals.
“The fundamental principle is treating like with like, and finding something in nature that matches our symptoms,” Jane says. “People know about arnica, but there are so many layers to it. It’s totally holistic, we’re not just treating physical symptoms, but treating people individually so we can target healing more effectively without doing more harm.
“It’s about building on your own immune system and finding what will trigger a response for your own body to heal itself.”
