So no provings then, no sx similarity, no individualisation, not Hahnemannian then. Not a homeopathic rx either. Settles it for me.
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If I use the 1996 remedy in 30C, made from a vaccine for all four
upper respiratory infections common in cats, and which includes one
that has gastric symptoms in addition to upper respiratory ones - I
find that it is extreme;y effective (based on statistics in my own
use of it since 1996) both for prophylaxis and for actually using it
during an outbreak of any of the four illnesses to rest0re heath OR
when used for any other similar illness - such as the killer one that
broke out in late 1997 dubbed "Plane Flu" as it originated in an
airport holding kennel, and was spread by cats staying there between
flights.
This remedy (which I call URI 30C) is one I make sure I always
have handy - and my clients all report similar effectiveness when
they use it on their cats or on cats at shelters they manage etc. It
will even get rid of long-term chronic "snuffles" in cats over time,
such as the herpes which lives in the brain between outbreaks. In
twelve years and countless cats, there has been one failure in
prophylaxis, for one cat who got the most severe illness of the four
and succumbed to the illness. (The rest of the cattery was all fine.)
It was a specially virulent strain in CA a few years back which
killed all cats having conventional vaccination.
However, the Bordetella bronchiseptica remedy is nowhere near so
useful. I find that 30C is good for prophylaxis, but needs a "boost"
frequently to maintain effectiveness - somewhere between every 3
months in populations where the disease has occurred or is high risk
(like shelters etc) - to about every 6 months in healthy populations.
A long break in its use undoes the prophylaxis.
In a Bordetella outbreak, 30C remedy is useless or nearly useless.
However the same remedy in 200C is helpfuil along with a properly
matched remedy. Based on at least 20 cases in an outbreak for
example, a matched remedy got about 75% success, and when the Bord-b
200C became available and was added in it changed the stats to almost
100% survival, including newborns from affected queens.
Someone else who tried the Bord-b-200C remedy alone in may cats
got poorer results, including some deaths. The combination of this
with matched remedy seems effective.
Comparing the URI-30C and the Bord-b 30C and 200C then for example -
it is very clear that the former - a mixed and "similar" remedy is
far more powerful to build health than the Bord-b one, made from a
specific single organism.
Most animal prophylaxis remedies are not true nosodes, but remedies
made from the vaccine for the illness. So they potentize not only the
organism but also any adjuvants etc. (It has become popular to call
them nosodes.)
I do think an identical can be helpful in prophylaxis - mkore so than
doing nothing by far - but I just have found in MY expereince that
mixtures that pertain to illnesses that all have similar sym[toms -
seem to work better.
I use two such mixtures that have a great track record:
URI 30C AS ABOVE
FIP/FeLV/FIV 30C - which is made from a mix of three immune -
compromise disease substances. All three diseases affect the same
general aspects of the body. This seems somehow MORE effective than
any of the three singly.
So I do think single remedies are and can be prophylactic - and I use
them as such - but not as well as mixtures of illnesses with similar
symptoms. The single ones fail more often.
Yes a single or a similar-mix remedy will prevent the same AND any
similar illness. If anything it is better at preventing a similar
illness, than a same one.
For example in the cat flu called Plane Flu which had NOT been
included in the URI 30C remedy - there was complete effectiveness in
prophylaxis using URi 30C, where without it death ensued in all cases
within 3 months from a form of viral pneumonia affecting the entire
lung system. (It was isolated as a new virus by Onderstepoort
University in SA with the help of my vet who collected cultures from
affected imported cats in the SA cat fancy, including one I imported.
My other cats did not "catch" it thanks to my URI 30C use. In other
importing catteries there were significant deaths till URI 30C was
implemented, and the virus died out.)
This is key.
Influenza is a virus which changes significantly from one season to
the next - so that a flu prophylaxis from a prior year will become
less identical and more similar as time goes by. This indeed is why I
use a 1996 URI remedy in cats. People using the current ones have
indeed reported they are less effective.
I have a remedy made in 1996 at the request of myself and other cat
breeders who agreed to purchase it if made- by the homeopathic
pharmacist at A White in Cape Town. We supplied the 4-in-1 vaccine
drops from which to make it. I have used it ever since, and sent it
to many others who have also used it with success.
So I did not select a specific year - just got around to arranging
one in that year, and find it effective
The experiment has happened - inadvertently - several cat folks using
more recent versions have written to me to ask for some of mine as
the one they got seems not to work well
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