Professional homeopathy, acupuncture and phytotherapy treatments with Dr. Brigitte Spitze, registered with the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa. Discover personalised healthcare focused on finding the root cause of illness and restoring balance.
She is a homeopath, acupuncturist and phytotherapists (medical herbalist) registered with the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa (A07257). She is a member of the Homeopathic Association of South Africa, and is the current chairperson of Education. As per current legislation, she is registered with the Board of Healthcare Funders (PR 0804401), and has a compounding and dispensing licence from the Gauteng Department of Health.
Her first degree was a B.Sc. in Zoology from the University of the Witwatersrand, followed by an M.Tech.Hom (Homeopathy) from Durban University of Technology. She completed a post graduate diploma in Phytotherapy through the University of Johannesburg in 2023. She is a part-time lecturer to the 4th year Complementary Medicine students at the University of Johannesburg.
Brigitte has always had a keen interest in health, maintaining optimum health and finding the root cause of an illness. Everyone is an individual and illness expresses itself differently in different people. This means that different people will also require different solutions, from something as simple as a cold, to more complex issues like chronic infections, or auto-immune issues, hormonal problems or supportive treatment while undergoing other treatments.. She has a keen interest in children’s health, women’s health, as well as chronic conditions. She uses a variety of different tools to diagnose and treat patients
She has been in practice since 1995, and works in a multi-disciplinary practice, with a physiotherapist, chiropractor, psychologists and a biokineticist.
Homeopathy was founded by Dr Samuel Hahnemann, in Germany in 1796. It is based on the principle of ‘let like cure likes’. When peeling an onion, your eyes start to water, your nose starts to run and you may sneeze. In Homeopathy, a preparation made from onion (Allium cepa) can be used to treat someone with those symptoms
Acupuncture uses specific points, found on meridians, to treat various illnesses. According to Chinese Medicine, your body’s vital energy, known as Qi (Chi), flows through different meridians at different times. When there is an imbalance, i.e. too much or too little energy, a blockage results. In order to remove the blockage, needles are used at specific point. Some people may have a lack of qi in certain areas, in this case moxibustion (heating with Artemisia vulgaris) may be beneficial.
It is also known as Western Herbalism, refers to the use of plants and plant part in the treatment and prevention of illnesses. This is an exciting field, as there is much clinical research happening into plants and their effects. Many active ingredients from plants are the basis for a number of conventional therapies, e.g. salicylic acid from the Willow tree is the starting material for aspirin, and alkaloids from the Madagascar periwinkle, such as vincristine and vinblastine, are used in chemotherapy.
