Homeopathy in Organic Livestock Production
Glen Dupree, DVMWritten for both organic farmers and homeopaths, this book is a comprehensive and indispensiable guide for the application of homeopathy on sustainable livestock farms.
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Companion Animals Acute Prescribing In a crisis, the dry pellets of the remedy may be dropped directly into the patient’s mouth. If the situation does not allow for that or if you are not comfortable with a dry dosing method, simply drop 1-3 pellets into a volume of water (the exact amount is not that important). Stir or shake well. The pellets may or may not dissolve, depending on the hardness of the pellet, but this does not matter as long as the solution is stirred or shaken well. Read More Dosing Equine Patients The same thoughts in dosing, potency selection, and timing of redoses in companion animals in acute or chronic disease apply equally as well to the equine patient. Read More Dosing Livestock Normally in dosing livestock I don’t use dry dosing because of logistical difficulties of administration. The restraint of some livestock, the anatomy of some livestock (poultry and longhorn cattle in particular), and the numbers involved in many instances of acute disease on the farm make it difficult to individually open the patients mouth safely to administer the dry pellets. The exception to this is the use of dry pellets intra-vaginally in dairy cows, since this is the most convenient mucous membrane for the farmer as the cow is in the stanchion being milked. Read More |