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existence. You can take the animal out of the wild, but you cannot take the wild out of the animal!
Other obstacles, permanent or temporary, are imbalanced, inadequate, excessive, or contaminated feed. Also known to be a major obstacle is constant exposure to allopathic drugs or toxins in the environment, excessive and unnecessary vaccinations producing a state of vaccinosis, suppressive surgery, and permanently changing weather patterns as a result of global climate change. These factors all weaken the life force and its ability to respond to a homeopathic medicine.
Failure of Response
Other factors should be considered when a failure of response to treatment has occurred in any species, and for any condition. The disease itself energetically or pathologically may just be too intense and life threatening, the life force too sluggish, or too weak to mount a response. These factors make the disease incurable. Hopefully, when in acute crisis conditions or illness, the life force will be vital enough to respond, and indeed the medicine chosen may even be given to improve and stimulate the life force to respond to a given state. Such
homeopathic medicines for shock and collapse like the so- called corpse reviver Carbo vegetabilis, or others such as Arsenicum album, Strontium carbonicum, and Camphor can be used to boost decreased vitality before other acute medicines are used to cover the entire case.
The metaphor I use in explaining this concept to clients is that the vital force is rusty, or the battery is dead, and we need a jump start to get the engine running for the first time. Once the engine is fired up it can be tuned or adjusted, and then every time the key is turned on (after a lull in reaction) the response will be quicker, and the engine will start much easier because it is all warmed up, with plenty of the proper lube, oil, and fuel. The life force is now fully awake and ready to go.
One of the major limitations in remedy response for acute or chronic disease are the limitations of the homeopathic prescriber. This involves a lack of knowledge, experience or confusion in recognizing or interpreting the symptoms and applying the principles and laws of homeopathic practice. There is quite a steep learning curve at first, and cookbook prescribing is initially a crutch. If one is to boost morale, ensure successful outcomes, and become proficient at the modality, study is necessary. Hopefully this paper will encourage and interest the readers to further that endeavor in non-domestic animal practice.
Acute Conditions to be Treated
It is not practical to cover all the acute conditions in all the species and with all the homeopathic medicines that have been used in the treatment of emergencies. What is presented here are the most common, or main conditions encountered in a broad cross section of species. In my practice of homeopathy, the medicines are depended on to do their work unhindered by allopathic interference. Homeopathy is often called too slow or too difficult to apply; yet we repeatedly find that, in acute situations,
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