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This would allow an impartial committee to review the 200 papers they intend to submit as an encap- sulated presentation of the evidence.
Dr. Swartz also spoke briefly and requested that the AVH have a say as to who is chosen to provide input to that committee.
Of note, all members of the RC6, except Dr. Goldman, spoke out against Resolution 3 and it was decided that the best course was to recommend sending it to the EB with a recommendation to refer it to the COVS.
The final meeting was the House of Delegates (HOD) meeting. The vote on the resolution was phrased as: Vote “yes” if you want Resolution 3 to be referred to the EB with a recommendation to refer it to the COVS, and vote “no” if you are opposed. The discus- sion from the floor included statements from the delegate from WA who noted that it was “hypercrit- ical” and “arrogant” to condemn one modality. The delegate from WY also spoke out against Resolution 3. These delegates noted that a large percent of the drugs contained in Plumbs [veterinary formulary] do not have mechanisms of action delineated. The del- egate from WA likened not knowing how acupunc- ture and homeopathy work to not knowing how a cat purrs--it just does.
Dr. Goldman and the alternate delegate from CT, whose name was not stated, spoke out against homeopathy. Dr. Goldman asked what harm there was in alienating a small number [of AVMA mem- bers] who do homeopathy? They noted homeopathy was “indefensible” and that the reputation of CAVM was “harmed by the inclusion of homeopathy.” The alternate noted that homeopathy has not changed in 200 years, and that “do no harm” is threatened by homeopathy. After these two members finished, the speaker explained that the discussion should be directed to the resolution and not conducted as a discussion on homeopathy.
A vote was then taken, with 77.6% voting “yes,” and 22.4% voting no. Of important note is that at least two states, PA and DE, voted “no” because they wanted the resolution dropped, not referred.
What is unclear is just what percent of the “yes” votes were voices of disapproval of the Resolution 3 versus skepticism wanting an impartial review by the COVS.
At this point, the EB will decide whether or not to for- ward the resolution to the COVS. No time frame was given, but it is anticipated that this will happen shortly as the decision of the COVS on this resolu- tion will impact their revisions on the CAVM Guidelines.
A great opportunity has been afforded practitioners of homeopathy. Not only were so many more AVMA members educated about homeopathy over the past two months, but now practitioners of the modality will have the opportunity to provide the COVS with all the research, including basic science and clinical trials, that has been published since the AVMA’s first Guidelines on CAVM were developed a decade ago.
Quiz: Find the chronic remedy by Edward de Beukelaer
Mosie (6 year old pointer female) was first treated, when she developed bad burping due to gastro-enteritis, which required hospitalisation. At the same time she was suffering with severe neck pain due to a C 6-7 slipped disc.
Carbo animalis was given based on the acute symptoms, lack of reaction, coldness of the feet with a warm head, vomiting of brown fluid, severe ulceration of the stomach, thought to be cancerous (endoscopy). In a few days, the remedy resolved the part of the gastro-enteritis the conventional treatment had not been able to clear.
A follow up one month later for her severely fearful character is organised.
Her lack of reaction, lack of confidence, her attraction to children and her general story of not being able to cope with life leads to a prescription of Lac humanum, which makes her a bit more confident. The remedy allows her to come out of herself a bit. She sleeps better. She is more confident in, what she does. She sat on the settee next to the husband for the first time.
A year later, she is still ‘living in a hole’. She is still very fearful and developed a cough. The cough is worse when lying on her back. She cannot cope with any change. She is wary of people. Her back is very stiff. Bambusa sorts the cough but not really the underlying fearful state.
Repertorisation for Bambusa:
Cough, lying on the back agg + Cough, Lying in bed agg Sleep, falling asleep easily + Sleep, falling asleep early Back, stiffness
April 2011 (7 months later)
I see Mosie again, because she still ‘wants to live in a hole’. She cannot cope with any- thing. She wants to be in front of the 5 dogs but everything is scary.
She is totally confident about what she should do. She is not mobile when plays, she is like a puppet, she goes rigid, total panic here. She was brought up in kennels till the age of 1 year with only one man feeding and occasional times of running in the field. She can’t seem to relax enough to interact. She moves so stiff. She is completely different from my other dogs. She still runs away from people. I have seen her wagging her tail once only. She does not want to be noticed. In the garden or any familiar place she is fine. We have to take her in the car to the field to run, because she cannot cope with any- thing unusual she might encounter on the walk to the field. In the car she would like to crawl in a hole. She is much better with noises in the house now. She will do her best to be in the front of all the dogs. She will let our other dogs run around and she will attack them, as they come by to play. But she has a heightened awareness of everything, she thinks too much, she is suspicious of everything. She has no self-esteem. That is why, she likes the pups so much. Everything is much bigger, than it really is. Oh my god it is going to bite! Not worried about the lorries passing by the side of the garden. When she is in the garden, she is fine. She is perfectly happy with our other dogs, she sleeps in a heap with them. She lets them eat out of her bowl.
Spatial awareness is not always working; she may walk into a door that she expected to be fully open, she will stretch and fall off the settee. She would fall in a hole, when she is engrossed in playing. In the car on the way to the surgery she was trembling in a cor- ner. Throughout the consultation she is trembling in a corner in the surgery.
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