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IAVH Newsletter
President’s letter
Dear friends,
I was privileged to be invited to speak at the Annual Congress of the Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis (LMHI), which was hosted by our colleagues in the Japanese Physicians Society for Homeopathy, at Nara. The LIGA is the international association for medical doctors and comprises members from all over the world.
Not only were I and Shelley Epstein invited to present papers to the Congress, we also took part in the veterinary workshop alongside some of our Japanese colleagues, including Minako Kuroda (Director of JPSH), Keiji Morii (Japanese representative of IAVH) and Futoshi Hamada (President of the Japanese Academy for Veterinary Homeopathy). The programme was fascinating and I hope we will be able to read about some of the subjects covered in subsequent IAVH journals.
The Congress was also an opportunity to forge links with the LIGA, and I had the opportunity to address the whole LIGA Council as a part of their meeting. I had some very fruitful conversations with LIGA members about, how our two organisations can co-operate to our mutual benefit. I hope to be able to report on progress in this area over subsequent months and years.
The commercial exhibition presented us with a further an opportunity to spread the word about IAVH and I am grateful to the organisers for provid- ing us, free of charge, with a space, where we could display our posters, speak to delegates and hand out fliers. Several people showed interest and our fliers will by now have landed in such important places as Argentina and India. I’m very grateful to Minako Kuroda (pictured with me below) for organising this opportunity.
During my time in Nara I became aware that there are still hundreds of veterinarians around the world, who are doing sterling work in practising and promoting homeopathy but who are not yet incorporated in IAVH. I hope we will in the future be able to support many more of them and in turn receive their support for our increasingly global organisation.
Meanwhile we continue to grow in strength and numbers and your Board members are working hard for the benefit of all. I’d like to thank all those working on our behalf, on our various projects and once again to thank the members of LMHI, and the organisers, in particular Dr Ronko Itamura and Minako Kuroda, for their hospitality and help for the IAVH.
Modern communications have brought us to a situation, where we can- not confine our interests to our own nations or even continents. Hence we must all take note of President Obama’s re-election and the terrible floods in New York every bit as much as civil war in Mali or Presidential elections in Venezuela. In the world of homeopathy there are still attacks on those, who practise it but every such piece of discouraging news is more than bal- anced out by a positive event somewhere in the world. This is the strength of a global organisation such as IAVH. Instead of getting bogged down in local matters and indeed in our own styles of practice, we can take comfort in the knowledge that ‘out there’ we have friends, who are on our wave- length and who are forging ahead. A friend of mine once told me ‘it is important that we keep in touch – there are not many of ‘us’ and we need to stick together.’ From a global perspective there are not many of ‘us’ practising veterinary homeopathy. So it’s important, we stick together and talk to each other. And be sure that before very long the ‘not many’ will become ‘the many’. I hope those in the North are enjoying the beautiful
Autumn colours, those in the South are enjoying the joy of Spring and those in between are grate- ful for the warmth and sunshine the rest of us are missing!
As our Japanese colleagues would say ‘Ja mata ne’ (See you later!)
UK National Report
Dear Friends,
As my duties with IAVH take up so much of my time, I find it a little difficult to keep fully up to date with, what is happening in UK and in particular our national organisation, the BAHVS. So while I remain absolutely committed to BAHVS, I have asked Nick Thompson to take on the mantle of National Representative for UK and Ireland. This is very logical, as he is also PR representative for both BAHVS and IAVH and therefore has a ‘finger on the pulse’ of homeopathy in our coun- try. I am very grateful to Nick for taking over this position and for sup-
plying the following report.
Peter
2013 is going to be an exciting year for the BAHVS because of the superb work that’s been done this year.
First, our website is undergoing its first facelift and only six months after it was born. We really are striving for per- fection in communication, clarity and breadth of our message with the http://bahvs.com/ site.
Second, we’re going to the birds with our conference this year. It will be held at the stunningly beautiful
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Arundel, West Sussex. (http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit/arundel/wildlife/nature-reserve/)
21st to 23rd June 2013
I would like to take this opportunity to invite any and all from our IAVH family to please come and join us for this fantastic event in such glo- rious natural settings. Speakers will include Jonathan Hardy (UK), Shelly Epstein (USA) and Geoff Johnson (UK), among many other international and homegrown experts. The President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons will be there with other stalwarts of conventional veterinary medicine, so please come along to tell them about YOUR experiences with homeopathy. We’re going to make this an evidence-based conference on the Saturday for them and would love full house. We can only fit 94 people in the conference hall, so it’s first come, first served, so get booking! There are many B&Bs, hotels and guesthouses in the historic town of Arundel, so delegates can choose accommodation to suit their budget and taste.
Finally and very importantly, a stack of work is going into the database of ALL published animal and agro-homeopathy research papers. This is a joint project between BAHVS and IAVH, in the hands of our [BAHVS, Ed] President Mark Elliott. Please visit the website at http://homeopathicvet.org/, have a look around and delight in the wealth of information backing up our conviction to veterinary home- opathy. If you know of any papers that we could add to the database, then please contact us.
Everyone at the BAHVS would like to wish our friends and colleagues in the IAVH a happy, healthy and productive 2013. See you in beau- tiful Arundel!
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