IBS, bloating, heartburn, constipation, the stomach that clenches before every meeting — digestive complaints are among the commonest things clients bring me, and among the most rewarding to work with, because the gut responds to being taken seriously as part of a whole person.
Your cravings are case notes
A homeopathic case-taking spends a surprising amount of time on food. Not just what upsets you, but what you crave — salt, sweets, fat, sour, ice-cold water by the pint — and what you can’t abide. In homeopathy these aren’t quirks; they’re symptoms, as characteristic as any pain, and they do real work in choosing between remedies. The client who must have salt and the client who must have sweets with the same “IBS” label are, to a homeopath, two different cases.
The gut keeps the score
Nobody is surprised anymore to hear the gut called the second brain. Clients notice it themselves: the bloating that arrives with a deadline, the bowels that seize when life does. So when someone brings me “just a digestion problem”, the timeline usually finds the year it started — and what else started that year. Treating the anxiety and the digestion as one picture, with one remedy matched to the whole, is precisely what homeopathy is built for.
Elimination is half of health
I’ve written in the skin piece that skin and bowels go together in my mind — a body that isn’t detoxing efficiently through the proper channels will improvise, and the skin often pays. So constipation gets more attention in my consulting room than it ever gets in a seven-minute GP appointment. Unfashionable, but foundational. One of my clients once declared her toilet “could win the most flushed toilet of London award” — her whole story is on the testimonials page, and it began with everything but her bowels.
The sensible boundaries
New, persistent changes in bowel habit, blood, unexplained weight loss, difficulty swallowing — these go to your GP first, every time, and I’ll say so in the consultation if I hear them. Homeopathy’s place is alongside investigation and diagnosis, never instead of it. With that said and done, the long patient work on a temperamental gut is work I love.
If your digestion has opinions about your life, call me on 07956 217 276 — North London in person, or by video with your own kettle to hand.
Homeopathy is a complementary approach: it sits alongside, and never replaces, the care of your GP or hospital team. If you have new, severe or worrying symptoms, please see your doctor or call NHS 111 first — and keep taking any prescribed medication unless your prescriber tells you otherwise.