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proffesinonals without these two titles.
It is not included in the Social Security sys- tem. Teaching is done by offering Masters degrees. Courses and seminars at the Medical Colleges (Sevilla, Murcia, Valladolid, Basque country Pompeu Fabra de Bcna) and courses and seminars at the Veterinay colleges (Cordoba, Lugo, Zaragoza) and also by Societies, Assosiations , Homeopathic Institutes and laboratories, Boiron (C.D.E.H), Heel
(C.E.M.F.S.A).
SEHV ( Spanish Homeopathic Veterinary
Society) imparts two intensive and advanced courses in Asturias.
Jose Ramón Torre Blazquez
Baltic National report
In Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia homeopathy in human medicine is recognized officially as in additional medical specialty. Only persons with a complete medical education may legally practice homeopathy in Lithuania and Latvia, but in Estonia both medical doctors and non- medically qualified practitioners may practise homeopathy
Animals are to some extent treated with homeopathic remedies in Baltic countries. Dogs, cats, horses and occasionally farm ani- mals are treated homoeopathically. No legal
regulation currently exists for the homeopathic treatment of animals in Baltic countries.
Education
The first Baltic course in veterinary homeopathy began in autumn 2009 at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of The University of Latvia at Jelgava in Latvia. Courses are organized by our association president Juris Tolopež ikovs and Dace Tolpež ikova, and run by the Homeopathic Professionals Teaching group (HPTG) tutors Peter Gregory, John Saxton, Jane Keogh and Sue Armstrong. We also had the privilege to have excellent master classes with Christopher Day, Tim Couzens and Nick Thompson. Demand for veterinary homeopathy education was so high, that the second course started in 2011, and third course in 2013. Course participants are from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. 14 veterinarians completed the first Baltic course in veterinary homeopathy in 2012, 5 of them obtained the Homeopathy Licentiate certificate (VetLFHom). 16 students from the second course will graduate his sum- mer, and there are 22 participants in ongoing third course. The Baltic Association of Veterinary Homeopathy (BaltVetHom) was founded in 2011. The president of association is Juris Tolpež ikovs, Mag.Vet.Med.,LFHom(Vet) The following 2 years association was inactive.
After two years of inactivity the first BaltVetHom meeting took place in 14th December 2013. At present there are 19 members – 16 members form Latvia, 2 members from Estonia and 1 member from Lithuania.
BaltVetHom joined the IAVH in January 2014.
January 21st 2014 BaltVetHom organised a meeting in organic farming with Veterinary doc- tor Hubert Karreman (US) and Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Veterinary Surveillance Department, Faculty of veterinary medicine (LLU) and Association of Latvian Organic Agriculture (unfortunately, the representative wasn’t present)
Conclusions/action points
Homeopathy is to a very limited extent being used within the organic farmers.
Veterinarian/patient/client relations have to be defined in Latvian (Baltic?) legislation, so to avoid unprofessionally provided services.
Education, information and training for all involved parties – veterinary students, veterinar- ians, farmers and general public are essential T.
ReviewofNewWorldVeterinaryRepertory(Pitcairn/Jensen) byGeoffJohnson,UK
This is a scholarly work painstakingly created over 14 years, based on the authors’ great experience. They observed the effects of reme- dies, which were chosen using a number of repertories, decided Boger’s Boenninghausen was the most reliable, and then adapted it for veterinary work. This is not just a repertory but a particular way of practising veterinary homeopathy.
With many human repertories already available, the question of whether a veterinary repertory is needed is debatable for at least two reasons. Firstly animals have not been involved in provings to pro- duce their unique symptoms, and secondly the reaction of the vital force in humans and animals to emotional or physical trauma is astonishingly similar, as is the response to a homeopathic remedy correctly administered.
There is a small vet repertory available written by Macleod, which I have not found very useful. There is also an ongoing multi vet project to develop a vet rep in Synthesis.
Interestingly Boenninghausen practised extensively on animals on his Prussian estate. In his repertory he generalised local symp- toms. The Polarity Analysis method developed recently by Heiner Frei uses this repertory. Boger later took Boenninghausen’s generalisa- tions, but made them general only to the chapter from which the local symptom originally came. This makes Boger a bridge between Kent and Boenninghausen, and is the book that Richard Pitcairn has found gives him the most reliable results in animals.
Richard feels that 98% of cases will be covered by 40 remedies, and so a big repertory is not necessarily helpful, with a Boger rubric very likely to contain the required remedy. In analysing the case, the con- dition, concomitants and particularly the modalities should be deter- mined and ideally the miasm of the case. The remedy choice can then be limited to those miasmatic remedies considered appropriate by Hahnemann and Boenninghausen. Remedy choice can also be
helped by considering the basic mental/emotional state. Richard feels that many mental symptoms are not available or applicable in ani- mals, and has removed much of Kent and Boger’s Mind section. Indeed the NWVR has been made by the authors going through Boger and removing those rubrics, which they feel are of no use, and then adding rubrics from Kent, Hering, Boericke, Knerr and Allen. Some body part names are changed to make it specific to certain animals. Menstruation is considered equivalent to oestrus. The chapters start with the aggravations and ameliorations for that section.
The Mind section contains many of the rubrics I would use, but notable absences for me include ‘sympathetic’, ‘eager to please’, ‘sensitivity to discord’ and ‘reprimand’, and ‘desire to climb’. There is also no ‘Ailments from’ section encompassing death of loved one, domination, punishment etc, which some would say is a good thing. The only way to find out if it is useful is to use it, so I took three chronic cases, where I had obtained very good results using polychrests:
1 Calc-c Labrador suffering from arthritis of the hips, and ringworm-like eruptions. The Synthesis rubrics I used were ‘mildness’, ‘hiding him- self’, ‘cold wet agg’, ‘pain hips’ and ‘ringworm’. NWVR did not have Calc-c in ‘pain hips’ or ‘hiding’.
2 Sulphur cat suffering from a necrotic anus after being castrated, which required surgery leaving severe complications. The Synthesis rubrics I took were ‘curious’, ‘touch everything compelled to’, ‘confi- dent’, ‘cold amel’, ‘spicy food desires’. The NWVR did not have the rubrics ‘confident’ or ‘curious’, and in the rubric ‘touches everything’, Sulph was not present.
3 Natrum mur dog with chronic external otitis. The Synthesis rubrics I took were ‘ailments from grief’, ‘looked at cannot bear to be’, ‘ear, itching, meatus’, ‘ear, discolouration red’, ‘warm agg’. The NWVR had
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