WHat we need to know - to help a client well.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:10 am
Rosemary C. Hyde, Ph.D. wrote: Understanding the diagnosis, the
Very true and important, I agree - and with one proviso in my opinion:
The medical establishment changes its tune as new things are developed
or discovered and veterinarians/doctors are not usually able to keep up.
I find it really pays to always seek the latest research on an illness
such as from PubMed, rather than to rely on an opinion based on medical
school studies of umpteen years ago.
To give an example, a recent client asked if she really had to do what
her vet suggested and euthanise ALL her cats as a cat breeder, because
one of them was diagnosed as having FIP disease. This "advice" was
common from vets (and still is in Canada for example) before the
mechanism of the disease was discovered in 1998. It's shocking to me
that vets are still so far behind the times but most of them know only
what they learned in vet school....
Making USE of that discovered disease mechanism is what led me to the
right rubrics - as well as telling me the disease is NOT contagious as
was assumed before.
Imagine the disaster if one just followed the veterinarian's view....
We homeopaths need to "do our homework" to do a good job.
It applies also to other aspects of care, and in that I include
nutrition and supplements. Another example if I may:
Bordetella bronchiseptica is the bacterial organism associated with
kennel cough in dogs (relatively mild illness) but also a silent killer
pneumonia in cats and sheep (and it's zoonotic between man and all
mammals). Gene research shows that this organism, related to the
whooping cough one - differs genetically by producing an alkali to burn
the lungs in place of the gene to produce the "whoop" of whooping cough,
thus destroying the natural production of alpha lipoic acid in the lung
surfaces. Hence a supplement of alpha lipoic acid is in my view an
essential part of helping an individual with this illness - along with
the simillimum.
That information, you will get easily by looking at recent research
and not from vet school or advice from a vet. In fact I've yet to meet a
vet who ever suggested an alpha lipoic acid supplement for anything,
much less for Bordetella-b. Yet it is allopathic research which points
to the need.......
So I think homeopaths NEED to look at research and that an essential
aspect of knowing how to be a good homeopath is knowing where to look
for good research and how to interpret it. This is more valuable than
what is taught in vet/med school in my opinion, to a homeopath (and I've
tried both though I did not complete an MD.)
A good "School of Homeopathy" in my opinion would teach these things
to the students so that they also would know how to get good recent
information that is current, and to use it to help them help their clients.
Why do it second-hand by learning outdated info in a vet or med school.
Since the advent of the internet and places like PubMed (National
Library of Medicine with world-wide scientific papers at one's
fingertips), it's time to address the information age by using the
readily accessible information much better and more directly - instead
of always being a decade or more behind the real current knowledge.
Hahnemann had no Radar software, computers or internet - but we do
have it. We should use it well, and design the homeopathy training -
and our homeopathy practises - accordingly.
Indeed. For example if one uses the name "Feline Infectious Peritonitis"
for the feline disease abbreviated FIP, and one assumes there is
peritonitis involved - the repertorizing will be totally incorrect. The
name is historical (as of 1998), as we now know the disease involves
blood plasma leaking from damaged vessels, and not peritonitis (even
though the plasma may collect in the peritoneal cavity.) The two
approaches need very different rubrics and the disease responds only to
the correct approach.
Namaste,
Irene
PS I changed the subject heading to match the change in thread.
--
Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."
Very true and important, I agree - and with one proviso in my opinion:
The medical establishment changes its tune as new things are developed
or discovered and veterinarians/doctors are not usually able to keep up.
I find it really pays to always seek the latest research on an illness
such as from PubMed, rather than to rely on an opinion based on medical
school studies of umpteen years ago.
To give an example, a recent client asked if she really had to do what
her vet suggested and euthanise ALL her cats as a cat breeder, because
one of them was diagnosed as having FIP disease. This "advice" was
common from vets (and still is in Canada for example) before the
mechanism of the disease was discovered in 1998. It's shocking to me
that vets are still so far behind the times but most of them know only
what they learned in vet school....
Making USE of that discovered disease mechanism is what led me to the
right rubrics - as well as telling me the disease is NOT contagious as
was assumed before.
Imagine the disaster if one just followed the veterinarian's view....
We homeopaths need to "do our homework" to do a good job.
It applies also to other aspects of care, and in that I include
nutrition and supplements. Another example if I may:
Bordetella bronchiseptica is the bacterial organism associated with
kennel cough in dogs (relatively mild illness) but also a silent killer
pneumonia in cats and sheep (and it's zoonotic between man and all
mammals). Gene research shows that this organism, related to the
whooping cough one - differs genetically by producing an alkali to burn
the lungs in place of the gene to produce the "whoop" of whooping cough,
thus destroying the natural production of alpha lipoic acid in the lung
surfaces. Hence a supplement of alpha lipoic acid is in my view an
essential part of helping an individual with this illness - along with
the simillimum.
That information, you will get easily by looking at recent research
and not from vet school or advice from a vet. In fact I've yet to meet a
vet who ever suggested an alpha lipoic acid supplement for anything,
much less for Bordetella-b. Yet it is allopathic research which points
to the need.......
So I think homeopaths NEED to look at research and that an essential
aspect of knowing how to be a good homeopath is knowing where to look
for good research and how to interpret it. This is more valuable than
what is taught in vet/med school in my opinion, to a homeopath (and I've
tried both though I did not complete an MD.)
A good "School of Homeopathy" in my opinion would teach these things
to the students so that they also would know how to get good recent
information that is current, and to use it to help them help their clients.
Why do it second-hand by learning outdated info in a vet or med school.
Since the advent of the internet and places like PubMed (National
Library of Medicine with world-wide scientific papers at one's
fingertips), it's time to address the information age by using the
readily accessible information much better and more directly - instead
of always being a decade or more behind the real current knowledge.
Hahnemann had no Radar software, computers or internet - but we do
have it. We should use it well, and design the homeopathy training -
and our homeopathy practises - accordingly.
Indeed. For example if one uses the name "Feline Infectious Peritonitis"
for the feline disease abbreviated FIP, and one assumes there is
peritonitis involved - the repertorizing will be totally incorrect. The
name is historical (as of 1998), as we now know the disease involves
blood plasma leaking from damaged vessels, and not peritonitis (even
though the plasma may collect in the peritoneal cavity.) The two
approaches need very different rubrics and the disease responds only to
the correct approach.
Namaste,
Irene
PS I changed the subject heading to match the change in thread.
--
Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."