The Faculty

Elaine Watson (3/6/1954 - 11/6/2026)
Tutor, Teacher & Course Author

Elaine loved homeopathy for all the reasons that the sceptics hate it. It is gentle, effective and rapid in its action and itself causes no harm. It is as therapeutic in humans as it is in animals and does not poison the environment or its patients. It allows the practitioner to be scientific and artistic at the same time. It is scientific in its principles, preparation, prescription and application and artistic in its holistic investigation and management of the human condition. No other therapy offers such an all-round embrace. It is honest, loving and caring and immensely intelligent. The knowledge base is infinite.

Elaine’s time was divided between practising homeopathy in west Somerset, writing about homeopathy, other health modalities and medical science and working as a college tutor and supervisor of homeopathy students and others in the field of holistic health.  

Elaine really enjoyed being a tutor for the School because of the opportunity to meet such a variety of keen, passionate people who are on the same wavelength and who are eager to learn about homeopathy. Elaine says she loved watching students taking evasive action (i.e. jumping into cupboards or going for a run) when they know she knows they haven’t done their medical sciences homework! She loved it when they realise that it isn’t as bad as they had thought it would be and indeed may actually be quite enjoyable! She loved learning from the students too.

Highlights of Elaine’s practice have been helping couples with fertility issues through to a successful outcome and enabling children to reach their full health potential without resorting to Big Pharma. She said it was a huge privilege to work with the young children who suffered contamination from the Chernobyl nuclear accident and to see the change in them, knowing that no other form of medicine would have been so effective for their recovery. Working alongside patients as they ‘wake up’ was always a joy.

Elaine was always been passionate about the natural world- even since she was very young and the intention of any study she did was from the perspective of understanding this. Elaine always said observing the power of natural medicines was awesome.

She was a mother of three, which she always maintained was an education in itself, an ecowarrior, gardener, wannabe botanical artist and a lover of music and musical performance. She practised Qigong and lived in a beautiful and wonderfully active picturesque west Somerset village with her feline companion Mr Jeremy Pumpkin. If you ever needed to bribe her, Elaine loved good chocolate, malt whisky and dogs.

Elaine studied with Jeremy Sherr on the Dynamis course, with Kim Kalina, specialising in autism, and with Mark Draper on nutrition and food-state supplements.

• BSc (Hons) Zoology, (St Andrews University)
• MSc Soil microbiology, (Aberdeen University)
• PGCE (Homeopathy) (Anglia Polytechnic University)
• LBSH British School of Homeopathy. (Bristol)
• Historically RSHom, currently with the ARH

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you, don’t go back to sleep!" - Rumi