Dr Lokugamage is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the Whittington Hospital. Her undergraduate medical qualifications are from St Andrews and Manchester Universities. An MSc Epidemiology was obtained at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an MD was awarded from University College London. Clinical training was undertaken at London teaching Hospitals.
Her special interests include Medical Education and Integrated Medicine where conventional Obstetrics and Gynaecology is merged with Complementary Medicine. She is a registered Homeopath and practices Acupuncture.
She has conducted research in the following fields: Misoprostol for labour and delivery; International Women’s Health; Reproductive and Life-course
Special interests:
Special interests include Medical Education and Integrated Medicine, where conventional Obstetrics & Gynaecology is merged with Complementary Medicine. She is a Registered Homeopath and practises Acupuncture.

Work areas:
She has conducted research in the following fields; The use of Misoprostol for labour and delivery; International women's health; Reproductive & Life-course Epidemiology
Women's health services
Qualifications: MBChB, BSc, MSc Epidemiology, MD, MRCOG, Dip. Acupuncture, Dip. Homeopathy
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Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a system of healing which has been practised in China and other Eastern countries for thousands of years. Although often described as a means of pain relief, it is in fact used to treat people with a wide range of illnesses. Its focus is on improving the overall well being of the patient, rather than the isolated treatment of specific symptoms. According to traditional Chinese philosophy, our health is dependent on the body's motivating energy - known as Qi - moving in a smooth and balanced way through a series of meridians (channels) beneath the skin.
Qi consists of equal and opposite qualities - Yin and Yang - and when these become unbalanced, illness may result. By inserting fine needles into the channels of energy, an acupuncturist can stimulate the body's own healing response and help restore its natural balance. The flow of Qi can be disturbed by a number of factors. These include emotional states such as anxiety, stress, anger, fear or grief, poor nutrition, weather conditions, hereditary factors, infections, poisons and trauma. The principal aim of acupuncture in treating the whole person is to recover the equilibrium between the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of the individual.

Homeopathy
Homeopathy is system of medicine which is based on natural laws which have always existed but which were only discovered, understood and applied therapeutically some 200 years ago. 'Similia similibus curentur' is the Latin phrase which was then chosen to describe the 'law of similars' which underpins homeopathy's application - put simply it means 'like cures like'.
The way of similars, the homeopathic way, is to give the suffering patient who has a set a of particular symptoms which characterise their condition, a minute dose of a substance which in large doses causes similar symptoms of an artificially inflicted disturbance in a healthy person. e.g. homeopathically prepared doses of onion (allium cepa) will treat certain cases of hay fever where the symptoms match those of someone suffering the effects of inhaling the fumes of a fresh chopped onion.
The symptom expression of each remedy is discovered primarily through a standard procedure called a 'proving' where a substance is tested on a group of healthy volunteers for its effects and the symptoms recorded and compared to produce the information which defines that particular remedy. Each homeopathic medicine has its unique symptom expression recorded in the homeopathic 'materia medica'

The Practice of Classical homeopathy involves a detailed case-taking by the homeopath where the patient is examined and listened to while they explain in as much detail as possible their present symptoms, thoughts and feelings and the past history which has led up to the present reason for consulting the homeopath. After recording the patient's case the homeopath will analyse the whole picture and by comparing the symptoms to the known remedies in the 'materia medica' seek to find the single remedy which best covers the patient's expressed symptoms mental, emotional and physical. This one remedy will be given to the patient in an appropriate potency and frequency of repetition according to the homeopath's assessment of their need. After a suitable interval the patient will return to see the homeopath to assess the effect of the treatment and receive more treatment as and when appropriate. The number of appointments, number of remedies and amount of treatment will vary for each patient according to their condition and its severity.

Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine, also known as TCM, is a range of traditional medical practices used in China that developed over several thousand years. These practices include acupuncture, herbal medicine, moxibustion and massage. TCM is a form of Oriental medicine, which includes other traditional East Asian medical systems such as Japanese and Korean medicine. TCM says processes of the human body are interrelated and constantly interact with the environment. Therefore the theory looks for the signs of disharmony in the external and internal environment of a person in order to understand, treat and prevent illness and disease.

TCM theory is based on a number of philosophical frameworks including the Theory of Yin-yang, the Five Elements, the human body Meridian system, Zang Fu organ theory, and others. Diagnosis and treatment are conducted with reference to these concepts. TCM does not usually operate within a western scientific paradigm but many practitioners make efforts to bring practices into an evidence-based medicine framework.

Should You Have Your Baby at Home?
Today in the United States, at the end of the twentieth century, advances in science and technology account for many positive changes in our quality of life. Yet more and more women from all walks of life are choosing to give birth the old-fashioned way — in their own homes. Why?
The fact is, in spite of all the good that has come from scientific discoveries and experiments, medical science has not been able to improve the human body and the way it was designed to work. Yet when our bodies are not functioning the way they were created to function, we are more fortunate than our ancestors in that modern medical science can sometimes help.
So why are families having homebirths? Though each couple may have individual reasons, most plan homebirths because they believe that most of the time pregnancy and childbirth are normal functions of a healthy body — not a potential life-and-death crisis that requires the supervision of a surgeon.
There are risks involved in childbearing. In a small percentage of cases the skills of an obstetrician/gynaecologist and high-tech equipment like ultrasound and fatal monitors are necessary in order for the mother or the baby to survive childbirth without long-term ill effects.
The neonatal mortality rate for the U.S. in 1989 was slightly more than 10 per 1,000 live births. We have the most highly sophisticated and expensive system of maternity care in the world, yet in the same year twenty other countries — countries with less technology than we have in our hospitals and laboratories — had more babies survive their first months of life than our babies in the United States.
What do they do in those 20 countries to have better outcomes?
With fewer high-tech hospitals and obstetricians available, many of those countries — like Holland, Sweden and Denmark — use midwives as the primary care-givers for healthy women during their pregnancies and births.

The World Health
Organization urges the U.S. to return to
a midwife-based system of
maternity care.

Understanding the potential danger in the overuse of childbirth technology, the World Health Organization has repeatedly implored the U.S. medical authorities to return to a midwife-based system of maternity care as one way to help reduce our scandalously high mortality rates.
Midwives, in fact, still attend most of the births around the globe. Physicians, in spite of their advanced training and surgical specialties, have never been proven to be better childbirth attendants than midwives. And no research has been done that proves hospitals to be the safest places in which to give birth.

In fact, study after study has demonstrated that for the majority of child-bearing women in the U.S., the homebirth/midwifery model should be the standard for maternity care. In the pages ahead, you'll see why.

A midwife will attend any woman choosing to have a home birth.
Midwives are experts in normal pregnancy, birth and care of you
and your baby following birth (NMC 2004).

The midwives work in teams and will provide your antenatal,
labour and postnatal care. However, the midwife on duty when
you go into labour may not necessarily be someone who you
know, as the midwives take turns to be on duty.

Is it safe? Evidence from research suggests that a planned
home birth is a safe option and there is a significantly higher rate
of normal birth for women who plan a home birth (NCT 2001,
NICE 2007).

There are lower rates of interventions (RCOG/RCM 2007), whilst
many women also report feeling much more satisfied with their
birth experience at home when compared to a hospital birth (NCT
2001).
The prenatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths of babies in the
first few weeks of life) is significantly lower in planned home births
(CEMD 2008).