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Homeopathy:sustainabilityandhealth– 11thSIOVInternationalConferenceincollaboration with the IAVH • Saturday 1 – Sunday 2 April 2023, Parma, Italy. Report by Malene Jørgensen and Peter Gregory
This year the joint annual congress between a member state and the IAVH was held in Parma, Italy, where the national representative, David Bettio, had put together a varied program covering many aspects of veterinary homeopathy on behalf of Società Italiana di Omeopatica Veterinaria.
On Friday David kindly hosted the Annual General Meeting at his house. This was the first face to face meeting since 2019 and it was wonderful to meet up with our new President and team of officers, and to welcome our new office manager, Lavra Kreacic.
In the evening we met some of the other attendees in a restaurant in Parma. The town is of course famous for its
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ham, but fortunately for those of us who are vegetarian it is also famous for cheese, so a lovely meal of traditional fare was had by all, with a very congenial group of people.
The congress started on Saturday morning. The venue was small and cosy, but even so there was room for exhibitor/sponsors to present their products and services. It was a very friendly and informal atmosphere, with David’s sister, Lara Bettio, acting as a very gifted interpreter.
Lara was also the first on stage with an interesting presentation regarding the theme for the congress: sustainability. According to the United Nations, the global goals for sustainable development consist of 17 individual steps, including no poverty, no hunger, clean water, responsible consumption and production, life n land and below water to name a few. Sustainability consists of the interaction between people, planet and profit, where the ability of the human race to sustain balance indefinitely is the key message. For this to happen, Lara suggests the concept of the butterfly effect, where many small efforts together will reach the goal.
The first veterinary speaker was Marcelle De Fino, Italy, on the subject of ‘Veterinary reading of the Lanthanides Materia Medica’. He introduced the Lanthanides by looking at their position in the Periodic table and describing the key words: self and theme of autonomy.
The main characteristics in human medicina include big eyes and a long neck, coldness (desire for sunshine, aversion to grey and cloudy weather), desire for meat, desire to sleep a lot. Veterinary themes include a need for
recognition, hypersensitivity to criticism and a strong tendency to mortification and indignation. The ethology of disease for these individuals has a lot to do with relationships. Physically they have a strong sexuality and need to reproduce but there are also issues around sterility and abortion. Pathologically they suffer from issues around vaccination, immune-mediated disease, neurologic, ocular and aural disease as well as pathology of the thyroid gland, lungs, cardio-vascular and haematological systems, liver and spleen. Marcello finished with some hints to the differential diagnosis to the Gold series, the Compositae and the Bird remedies.
Next up was Marina Nuovo, Italy, with a case of the ‘rare’ remedy Positronium. ‘Don Boy’, a 7 y.o medium-sized mixed breed male dog, was presented with atopic
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