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project, which aims to improve the health of dairy cattle, focussed the efforts on repertory for mastitis. Bernhard has left out rubric entries that await confirmation, and remedies that are seldom used in veterinary medicine. He has improved the structure to be more user friendly, and added separate history taking tools for each specific disease. The Milk Repertory colour codes new, veterinary confirmed, and other rubrics and remedies. There is practical information about treatment, as well as species information for remedies. The footnotes list remedy and rubric nformation as well. This repertory promises to be a boon to all who work with milk producers.
Marcela Muñoz Montoya (NR, Columbia) teaches at the Fundacion Universitaria Colombiana de Medicina Homeopatica in Bogota. She discussed the pathophysiology of spinal trauma, and how it affects disease progression and prognosis. Marcela reviewed some of the rubrics that she finds particularly helpful in assessing her cases, relating to pain, paralysis, ataxia, elimination, and reflexes. She then presented two cases, with video, showing steady improvement with thoughtful
homeopathic prescribing. The close of Marcela’s talk was a stunning video of Columbia, ‘La Tierra del Olivido’.
Peter Gregory (IAVH President, NR, UK) delivered the final talk of the conference on Carcinosin. The essence of the Cancer miasm is suppression and control; these individuals feel worthless and fear exclusion, so they become compliant, dutiful, perfect. These can be our patients that have never been ill, it can also help when well indicated remedies fail to act, or when many remedies seem indicated. Peter now starts about half of his chronic skin cases with Carcinosin, and he feels the remedy is particularly frequently indicated in ‘nice’ chocolate Labs with furunculosis, and many Border collies. Carcinosin shares many aspects of Tub, as well. Peter shared a recording by The Strawbs, expressing the Carc love of nature, and though Rick Wakeman’s organ was instantly recognizable, Marcela’s video of her country was more fun. Sorry, Peter!
Tannetje Koning, President SCWD, closed the educational part of the conference. All attendees and accompanying partners were invited to dinner at Het Pomphuis in Ede, a
pleasant walk from the hotel, especially as we managed to avoid the rain. Time sped by with delicious food and beverages, and we shared stories and experiences in a relaxed and charming setting.
The National Reps and officers were back to work on Sunday for the board meeting, ably reported by Helene Widmann.
I would like to encourage all IAVH members to attend the joint meeting with the ECH in Vienna, 17 through 19 November 2016. The ECH is a medical organisation and the lectures will be both medical and veterinary, delivered in English, and open to all participants: www.homeopathyeurope.org
There is also a need for more speakers, both medical and veterinary at the meeting. You are encouraged to submit the names of speakers that you would like to hear, or to submit your own name to Stefan Kohlrausch: Info@petvetclinic.org
Hope to see all of you in Vienna!
Further reporting of the meeting by Dunya Reiwald (Switzerland) Most of the participants arrived on Friday evening, and met at a wonderful old Amsterdam Restaurant, where we ate and drank beer, apart of some exceptions like Swiss Dunya, who never made the effort to get used to the strange beverage and others, who simply think it is nicer to have wine with a good meal. Of course we learned later by the late president Peter Gregory, that ‘nice’ should never be used for a nice thing, because the adjective makes it exactly less nice that it actually was.
The next day, a hard day of work, we gathered in Veenendaal to have attend a conference about our preferred topic under these circumstances, which is homeopathy in pets. David Bettio spoke about a study made in Italy about Leishmania, which showed that homeopathy does eliminate the symptoms in some dogs. The final results are not yet available. Stefan Kohlrausch then informed us how to use the Mendeleev Periodic Table to find better remedies for new-born puppies. It seems the characteristics of these Leishmania dogs is shyness and no aggression. Many can be cured within 4 weeks.
Minako Kuroda showed that idiopathic epilepsy can very well be cured with homeopathy. And one must not forget to include the weather rubrics. Then Don Hamilton reminded us about the dramatic damage from the use of ketamin. Indeed the medicine provokes terrible fear in the animal and leads to posttraumatic disorders. Ketaminum (Freeman’s Homeopathic Pharmacy) is then often the best remedy. Sara Fox Chapman followed in how to cure hyperthyroidism holistically in cats. The side effects of conventional drugs are well known and alternative medicine will focus on improving quality of life and avoiding side effects. Thyroidinum is often used together with acupuncture for the anorexia. The thyroid levels may not normalize, but the cats feel good.
Malene Jørgensen told us something about BARF’ing and kidneys. Cats can concentrate urine even after azotaemia and hypertension will increase the renal failure. So the diet and the understanding of cat ethology are essential. Cats are dependent on constant supply of amino acids and BARF’ing provides them with exactly what they need: food for a very short intestinal tract. Fish oil is best and to avoid low protein diets! Also prebiotics and probiotics are helpful. The future will maybe be in protomorphogens, cell specific growth regulators. N.B. food can influence the gens.
We then went deeper into homeopathy, with Edward De Beukelaer, our new Belgian president from England, who presented Limenitis bredowii California, a butterfly, his latest addition to the new materia medica à la Marc Brunson, whose aim is to obtain remedy keys based on the MM, published cases and the 153s. At the end one phrase should sum up the remedy. A great task, where each and everyone are invited to participate.
Bernard Hornig on his side is working on a similarly tremendous project, which is to create a repertory for non-highly educated animal homeopaths. He showed us flow charts for mastitis in the cow that could be of great help to find the right remedy. Then a repertory for pets could follow. Here also, help is needed.
Marcela Muñoz Montoya showed wonderful videos of French poodles, the name given to all small dogs with curly hair in Columbia, with spinal cords injuries. First there can be vascular anomalies, then metabolites will enter the blood and secondary events like haemorrhagic necrosis will occur. So to improve the local blood flow is essential. The videos showed how the right homeopathic remedy puts dogs back on their feet. A marvellous film about Columbia at the end of the presentation made us forget the rain in Veenendaal.
Peter Gregory followed perfectly by coming in front dancing around to present us Carcinosinum, the remedy of the suppressed and over- controlled. The feeling of worthlessness and the lack of self-love are preponderant. And of course the constant search for perfection, the desire to please, and to keep clean and tidy are essential. Very important also is the fact that those animals can get really aggressive when reprimanded.
Of course we ended up with very full heads and were extremely glad to rest half an hour before the next step, our dinner in an old water pump house in Ede. We gathered after some members of the board still had to discuss the very important decision about to be made in the EU Parliament about homeopathic remedies. But this was not part of our dinner conversation. At least not at our table, where we concentrated on much more agreeable matters, such as car accidents in Spain and their causes, films like “Kiss me stupid” from Billy Wilder or even simply joking around, like all humans do, when together in, hell, what else can I say other than, nice company ☺
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