Certified Veterinary Homeopathy by Dr. Glen Dupree

Consider the typical patient that comes into my practice from a conventional allopathic practice. These patients have usually been run through the gauntlet of reductionist medicine where they have received a separate medicine (or several medicines) for each diagnosis. While these medicines may have been tested and found safe for the patient and effective for the respective diagnosis under controlled circumstances according to allopathic standards, I truly doubt if any of the medicines have been tested under field conditions for the specific collection of diagnoses and with the exact combination of other medicines seen in each individual patient.

It is true that most of these patients are suffering from some form or forms of naturally occurring disease processes. However these are often minor as compared to the sufferings caused by overmedication, unneeded medications, and the side effects of these combinations of medicines.

It is not uncommon for me to take the patient off most or all of the conventional medications s/he had been taking, correct the diet and any attendant dysbiosis, and then not have to treat the patient further because the patient's health and vitality exceed the care giver's expectations at this point. No big medicines and no magic, just following the first rule of medicine - Do no harm.

Seeing this on a daily basis makes the elegant simplicity of the fourth law of Homeopathy so much more dramatic. The fourth law states that the patient in the Homeopathic practice should/must be treated with a single dose of a single medicine.

This only makes sense since we are treating a single patient, not a multitude of diagnoses. The patient is taken as a fully integrated, interdependent totality of symptoms. This totality has been used to select a remedy/medicine which is capable of causing a similar complex of symptoms, according to the provings of the medicine. According to the Law of Similars this is the medicine which should cure the patient of the totality of their symptoms - so why is more than one medicine ever necessary if you are truly treating the whole patient?

The single dose also makes sense when you consider that Homeopathy is not fast food, drive-through style medicine. In conventional medicine we are dependent on the artificial chemical manipulations of the large doses of medicines given in opposition of the symptom to alter the symptom picture of the patient. The results are quick but not very satisfying in the long term - just like a drive through McMeal. In Homeopathy, we realize that the medicine catalyses a cascade of events that elevate the health of the patient, negating the imbalance that had previously resulted in the production of symptoms. This takes time but produces lasting results. Thus a single dose of medicine is given, time is given for the medicine to work, and the medicine is only repeated when the action of the previous dose has exhausted itself.

Most Homeopathic patients do require more than one medicine over their life time and nearly all require more than one dose over time. The fourth law does not forbid this, but merely controls it. For instance, the first remedy selected for the patient is not 100% correct for the patient. Some symptoms will improve, others will remain static, and perhaps new symptoms will appear. This new symptom picture may necessitate a new remedy. But this new remedy is again given singly and only after the action of the first remedy is completed. The courses of action of the two remedies are never superimposed on each other.

The same holds true for repeating a dose. As long as the patient is responding to the previous dose, no more doses are given as they would confuse the curative cascade. Once the action of the given dose wanes, the medicine can be repeated in a single dose if the patient so requires. The time of this redose may be minutes in a truly acute, life threatening situation or days to weeks to months in a more insidious situation. The response of the patient dictates when the new dose is given, rather than the redose being predicated on the chemical half-life of the medicine.

In following this fourth law, we find that Homeopathy is a very controlled, very scientific form of medicine. The fourth law removes the variables inherent in using unproven or untested combinations of drugs/medicines and it allows time for the assessment of the action of the medicine on the patient before additional treatments are speculatively given. Everything within the treatment protocol is tested, the variables are eliminated, and nothing is left to chance.

Can the same be said for the medicine of the masses - conventional allopathic medicine?

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