Hi Beverly, Alva, and everyone,
I can't recall if the original posting (from Beverly) was about treating the
cat or the human, but I feel compelled to offer my opinion as a homeopathic
vet.
There are 2 issues, if I recall correctly, about this case.
The first issue is the matter of the human's symptomatology paralleling that
of the house cat's. I can't recall who usually gets sick first in this
house. I thought Beverly was asking about "sympathetic" remedies to consider
for this case. A very common scenario in veterinary medicine is to see the
pet become afflicted with the owner's disorder- lymphoma in the exact same
lymph node(or other cancers identical to that of the owner) or coughing or
gastroenteritis are a few of the conditions that come to mind. The question
then becomes, is this because the patient is pathologically sympathetic to
the other species with which it shares a house? ie, should the focus be on
the sympathetic rubric? Or, can a virus/bacteria/chlamydial organism cross
species and truly infect the other being?(allopathic point of argument) Or
can the miasm infect the other species via a truly energetic pathway?(this
is my clinical impression having witnessed the gastroenteritis scenario too
many times!).
So, the question becomes, in this case, which rubrics to use? I would use
the sympathetic rubric or related ones if this is truly the very obvious
reason behind the human or cat's reason for getting sick. Otherwise, read
on...
When confronted with a (feline) patient who is accompanied by a medical
record bearing an allopathic diagnostic name, like chlamydia, for example, I
selectively ignore this piece of data and focus on the patient's symptoms
alone. It all goes back to the seed versus soil discussion. Chlamydia is
commonly implicated as the causative agent(allopathically-speaking here) in
cattery or multiple cat situations. ie, STRESS. Is is also considered a
zoonotic agent, ie, it can be passed from the cat to the human. Does this
mean all cats which came from infected situations (catteries, shelters,
rescuers, etc.) are infecting our cat owners? Seed v. soil. The owner has
the susceptibility. I would prescribe based on the owner's symptoms. The
name of the organism is irrelevant. Except in cases like the intensely
sympathetic cat/dog/human above, I base my prescription on the patient's
symptoms alone.
Have fun!
Shelley Epstein
on 1/17/02 4:28 PM, Dr. Alva Irish at
dr_irish@bellsouth.net wrote: