Page 17 - Spring 20

So, with this little chicken, even though it broke my heart that she was dead, I threw her in the compost pile because that’s the next step for her, she’s going back to the earth. But when she hit the compost pile, she squawked like it knocked the air out of her lungs. I said, “there’s still a little air in her lungs, maybe there’s a little life in her.”
I picked her up by her wings and I had my egg bucket in the other hand and I’m walking back to the house. I put her in the kitchen, and went and got the Carbo veg. I put her in front of the fire place and gave her the Carbo veg, not really thinking there was any hope for her. I turned around after I put her down and this little chicken, which was totally lifeless did this strange thing. It was like the resurrection, she just started stretching like this, (demonstrating the stretch) and I’m looking at this dead chicken; and she died again. She went completely limp. I said, “Did I see that?” So, I started looking at her, and I was sitting there for 5 or 10 minutes, when all of a sudden, her little beak opened once, then closed. And I sat there for a few minutes and her beak started opening and closing about once every 5 minutes. I said, “This is ridiculous, I got to go do my chores.” I gave her another dose of Carbo veg and went out and did my chores.
When I came back in after about a half an hour, the beak was opening and closing very slightly, (you had to look really closely, about every minute) and then a little bit more frequently until it looked like she was
obviously breathing. So, I just kept dosing a little bit more Carbo veg every so often until she started squawking or something (impression of a little squawk groan sound). I said, “This is the kind of sound a chicken makes when she’s laying an egg!”
Now chickens like to announce to the world, just like the roosters like to crow when they’re king of the mountain and they’ve done their job – the little hens like to announce that they’ve laid their eggs. They make a lot of noise, which is great fun on the farm. So, I’ve got squawking hens going on all day long as they’re cackling and making these noises. And this is what it sounded like she was doing, except she obviously had water in her lungs, so I went for the Antimonium tartaricum. And within an hour she laid an egg. She was in the process of laying the egg before the Antimonium tartaricum, it was just when she cackled, I knew she had water in her lungs so that is when I gave her the Antimonium.
This is a true story. When the egg came out it had a water line on it from where she had been floating in the water. There was a water line on the lower half of the egg, it was saturated with water. When she started jumping out of the box – I have these milk crates with leaves in them – it was time to put her out in the barnyard; and she is out there still, running around.”
This article first appeared in the Summer 2019 edition of the Journal of The Academy of VeterinaryHomeopathy
15
Carbo Vegetabilis Antimonium crystal