Page 3 - Summer 12

Malene Jørgensen Editor
You have to admire people when they stick their neck out (see guest ed on this page). In this case I think it’s a plea for help, it’s a vehicle to motivate and somewhere in there may well be an element of truth. Make of it what you will!
We have a bumper edition for you this time and thanks as always to everyone who’s contributed as well as the advertisers who’s help is crucial to the publication.
I’d like to pass on our thanks to Andreas Schmidt (IAVH) for organising and funding a great weekend in Budapest in April and also to say what a fantastic Animal Energy con- ference we’ve just had in Eastbourne. Both conferences covered in this issue. Enjoy!
Committee – BAHVS President – Mark Elliott homeopathicvet@btinternet.com
Senior Vice-President – Sue Armstrong health@balancedbeing.com
Junior Vice-President – Jane Keogh j.keogh5@btinternet.com
Hon. Secretary – Stuart Marston sec@bahvs.com
Treasurer – Wendy McGrandles wendy@glenbrae-vet.co.uk
Magazine Editor – Malene Jørgensen malene@laforcevitale.eu
Communications Officer – Nick Thompson nickthompson@holisticvet.co.uk
IAVH Representitive – Peter Gregory pg.ahimsa@virgin.net
Faculty Veterinary Representitive
John Saxton
john.saxton@talk21.com
Committee Member – Cheryl Sears cheryl.sears31@btinternet.com
Committee – IAVH President – Peter Gregory pg.ahimsa@virgin.net
Treasurer – Andreas Schmidt a.schmidt@dplanet.ch
General Secretary – Helene Widmann helene.widmann@chello.at
Coordinator subcommittee for education:
Stefan Kohlrausch
stefan.kohlrausch@arcor.de
Head of IAVH Office – Markus Mayer office@iavh.org
Newsletter subcommittee
Malene Jørgensen
malene@laforcevitale.eu
IAVH Communications Officer
Nick Thompson
nickthompson@holisticvet.co.uk
LIGA contact – Marc Bär info@homeopatte.ch
Yes, that's what I’m suggesting. Disband the BAHVS.
It seems to be dying a rather slow and painful death, so at one level, it would seem compas- sionate to put it out of its misery in the great veterinary tradition. The opposition, that small band of monomaniacal myopic zealots called the skeptics, is creating a climate in the media unfavourable to homeopathy and we all seem to be following suit! The homeopathic vets in the UK are like minestrone soup; firm chunks of vibrant, pithy colour in a rather thin, wishy- washy, tepid background; getting annually colder.
A move to dissolve the BAHVS would be a homeopathic stimulus - the Association is expiring, so why not treat it homeopathically and give it a single dose of BAHVS Extinction 1M and see what happens after that?
There are individuals in the vet world, in the UK, Europe and beyond, who's passion for home- opathy is undiminished. The IAVH has Peter Gregory as their new President; he could be a bridge to allow some of the worldwide enthusiasm for homeopathy back into UK veterinary medicine. The same is true for Malene and The Mag.
The IAVH is booming - they’re soon to link with colleagues in Japan to take the worldwide numbers to over 500 members in over 27
countries. In Austria, there's actually a dirth of hom vets - they cannot get enough! Just picture it.
One of the IAVH PR initiatives I’m germinating as we speak is to write a generic one or two page client newsletter for IAVH vet members for them to use in their waiting rooms or in practice mailings. The 'original' document is to be emailed to all the members for them to cus- tomise to their own practice style, then put out/sent out for their clients to read about amazing case studies, stories, facts and hap- penings all around the world. It's another tsunami of good news about homeopathy to complement all the fantastic work done here in the UK in the last two years.
We gathered stories from BAHVS members to promote homeopathy in the media recently, and now we’re going global! Any help you can offer, like a 2-3 paragraph story (for client read- ership) of your favourite case would go down fantastically. You will be read in waiting rooms in countries you cannot even pronounce.
Come on, it's not all doom and gloom. If you care, even a little, for veterinary homeopathy, please help.
The British Association of Homeopathic Veterinary Surgeons (BAHVS) was formed in 1981, to advance the understanding, knowl- edge and practice of homeopathy. It aims to stimulate professional awareness of homeopa- thy and to encourage and to provide for the
training of veterinary surgeons in the practice of homeopathy.
It is an open forum for differing approaches to the subject of veterinary homeopathy and it’s application, allowing for constructive inter- changes of ideas.
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Nick Thompson plays Devil’s Advocate
Guest Editorial – Disband the BAHVS
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