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14 March 2009

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I agree that while we should accept conventional medicine - for ourselves and our animals - it would be narrow minded and defeatist to rule out alternative approaches. I've just read 'The Horse Boy: A Father’s Miraculous Journey to Heal His Son' by Rupert Isaacson.

The child who is autistic showed an affinity with horses so his parents, unable to get satisfactory help through normal channels, took him to Outer Mongolia to be healed by Shamans.

There is an informative review here -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/4943287/Triumph-of-the-human-spirit.html

I'm with you on that. And good homeopaths are worth their weight in gold.

I have no problem with proven alternative medicine therapies, and would have been fascinated by Geoff's talk. I wish I could have been there.

Sadly, I myself have tried homeopathy on two occasions and found absolutely no benefit at all. I'd be willing to try it again, but so far, no luck.

My beautiful chocolate lab had a traumatic collapse in November. She couldn't walk and was in a lot of pain.
After spending £800 the vet couldn't/wouldn't give a diagnosis (he was heading the euthanasia route)so the insurance company won't pay. He prescribed all manner of outrageously expensive drugs that seemed only to make her sick and tired.
I want her to have a doggy life, a happy life, so decided to stop giving them (what are they for exactly, anyway!?!). My friend's husband is a registered homeopath and got me some drops, and we went back to the glucosamine tablets.
She'll never be the same but she's happy. I'm happy. She potters now rather than roars about but, hey, she's 10.
I haven't been back to the vet again since, fortunately haven't needed to. Dawn.

Couldn't agree with your post more. An interesting read, thank-you.

Thank you for all your thoughtful comments. I think Colleen is spot on about good homeopaths being worth their weight in gold (ditto good doctors, of course).

Jay, speaking as a patient rather than as a practitioner, I would say that it's the practitioner who makes the difference - some are much, much better than others at tuning in to what is happening with a patient. Over the years, I've consulted six homeopaths, of whom three prescribed remedies that really helped and it was with those three that I felt the greatest sense of rapport. One is now in South Africa and another in San Francisco but the third, thankfully, stayed in the London! And it's a tribute to my current homeopath that, despite having various auto-immune conditions, I am in much better general health in my sixties than I was when I was younger. So much so that I can't remember when I last went to see him . . . or a GP, come to that.

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