Healthy pets and farm animals with homeopathy

June 19, 2006

While homeopathic remedies are always tested on humans and not on animals, pet owners, farmers, and veterinarians have found that homeopathic remedies are effective for all types and sizes of animals. In homeopathy, what a person says often is vital for determining the correct remedy. This is true with animals, too, except that how they say it requires very careful observation, the same kind of observation you would make with a very young child.

The usual physical symptoms such as fever, diarrhea, vomiting, etc., can be observed, but mental symptoms such as fear, anger, etc., are also used. If your pet is normally a bit standoffish, but now is following you around the house wanting attention, this could be interpreted as the symptom "desires company." A sudden friendliness does not necessarily mean an illness is underway, but if there is also a thick yellow discharge from they eyes, the homeopathic remedy Pulsatilla, clearly covers both symptoms.

Using homeopathy with animals could be that simple, or it could be difficult, requiring that a veterinarian formulate remedies for unusual problems. Farmers and veterinarians find it possible to treat systemic herd problems successfully, as well as treating otherwise baffling illnesses that non-homeopathic remedies have not been successful in treating.

Homeopathic health care books for animals, and addresses of homeopathic veterinarians are available through the National Center for Homeopathy.