Certified Veterinary Homeopathy by Dr. Glen Dupree

Often when the client has followed these suggestions for diet, vaccination, and low-impact husbandry the patient improves enough that the client is not interested in pursuing other avenues of health care. Chronic disease is returned to latency and, without big "in your face" symptoms, the client is satisfied with the health of their pet.

But what for the client who is not satisfied with mediocrity in their pet's health? Or what for the patient whose chronic disease is not returned to latency, who still exhibits active symptoms?

In my practice the medical modality which most consistently and completely answers this call is the art and science of Homeopathy. In this article and the following articles I would like to explore and explain this simple but powerful medicine.

Of all the medical modalities I have studied, Homeopathy is the most elegant. With only a few laws, Homeopathy is capable of addressing any set of symptoms presented by a patient of any species. This means that with Homeopathy we are not bound to or limited by the diagnosis. After struggling in the discipline of conventional medicine for several years, it was liberating beyond words to find a medicine which could treat the patient regardless of the presenting complaint and to offer both the patient and the caregiver a hope for cure - not just a temporary relief of symptoms but a permanent, gentle return to health.

Homeopathy is powerful in its simplicity. There are only four laws to obey but within these four laws is the ability to treat any patient of any species with any set of symptoms.


These four laws are:: 1. Like cures like. If a medicine is capable of causing a symptom or a set of symptoms when given in large quantities to a person, then it is capable of curing a patient who is exhibiting similar symptoms when given in minute quantities. This mimics the old alchemical philosophy of fighting fire with fire.; 2. All medicines used have been proved in healthy people. To prove a medicine, a group of reasonably healthy people are given the medicine in sufficient quantity to provoke a display of symptoms. These symptoms are collected and cataloged as if they occurred in one individual. Thus all the symptoms the medicine is capable of causing are known and can be used to assess the appropriateness of this medicine for the individual patient who is displaying symptoms.; 3. The medicine is chosen based on the totality of symptoms of the patient. Homeopathy is a medicine of the patient, not of the diagnosis. The medicine chosen should match the symptom picture of the patient on all levels - mental, emotional, functional, physical, and pathological.; 4. The medicine is given singly and in the least dose and frequency necessary to effect the cure. Once the medicine is chosen as matching the totality of patient symptom, a single dose of a single medicine is given with the expectation that all levels of the patient will be affected. The medicine is only repeated when the curative process slows. The medicine is changed as the patient's symptom picture changes but again is given singly.

Thus the Homeopathic medicine is used to catalyze curative changes on all levels of the patient, rather than chemically and artificially manipulating the patient's symptoms.

A fifth, but less rigid, tenet is that the medicine used should be prepared through a process of dilution and succussion according to specific instructions in the HPUS (Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States) by the process defined in the Organon written by Samuel Hahnemann. This preparation moves the medicine beyond the chemical properties and the attendant side-effects normally associated with medicines and places it in the realm of energy-based medicines. I say this is a less rigid tenet because if the totality of the patient's symptoms is matched to the totality of the medicine's symptoms as elicited through the proving, cure can be wrought even by a mother tincture given in volume. However the Homeopathically prepared medicines are much less likely to give unexpected and unwanted side effects.

This simple, elegant form of medicine has been called the medicine of the twenty-first century. I believe this to be a timely observation as we are beginning to see the fallacies and short falls inherent in our current system of conventional medicine.

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