Alternative medicine is enjoying a boom as people start to take control of their own lives. As an alternative medical practitioner, a homeopath, I am very excited about this. When people take control of their own lives, there is no limit to what becomes possible. The limitations occur when you hand over that control to others. No one else but you, has your own best interests so much to heart.
Once you start taking control of your own life, you start to question whatâs best for your family, including your pets.
You might now be asking yourself what could be the best alternative medicine for dogs.
There are many different alternative medicine modalities about and you need to do a bit of research to decide what is most appropriate. Thereâs homeopathy, reiki, naturopathy, Chinese medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, flower essences, herbs, acupuncture or pressure, massage, Bowen therapy, to mention just a few. Many of these modalities will only be able to work in a limited way. For instance (and Iâm no masseuse, so could be wrong), massage will probably only be good for strained muscles. And, although some can act on a deep level, they can be slow to show results, such as flower essences.
And alternative medicine for dogs, really starts with their diet. If youâre feeding your dog an unhealthy diet, it doesnât really matter what modality of health care you use – itâs not going to bear fruit. âYou are what you eat.â
Commercial dog food have few regulations and even fewer which are enforced. From the poor quality âmeatâ by-products, to the nutritionless filler, to the dangerous preservatives, your dog is slowly being poisoned. Label claims of âpreservative freeâ or ânaturalâ are largely meaningless.
Once you start feeding your dog a wholesome and REALLY natural food, you will see huge improvements in health. Sometimes, thatâs all you need.
But sometimes, you need to do more. Then you need to scour whatâs available in alternative medicine for dogs.
As a homeopath, you could say Iâm biased (I agree!), but out of them all, the alternative medicine for dogs I consider has the greatest breadth and depth of real healing, is homeopathy.
Homeopathy has the potential to deal with ailments as diverse as ligament damage, to heart disease, from an embedded grass seed to depression. The only areas where I consider medical services are required is the setting of a broken bone and the stitching up of extensive wounds.
I donât know of any other alternative medicine for dogs, where all this is possible. And homeopathy addresses the cause, rather than the effect.
Lets look at that for a minute. Imagine a woman has just given birth, and has since developed haemorrhoids, or piles. Now there is a common homeopathic remedy for piles called Hamamelis. And this may well help. But itâs unlikely to cure. So you might have to keep taking it for a long time.
Thereâs another common homeopathic remedy called Pulsatilla. And this helps with many ailments that develop from childbirth, including piles. Taking Pulsatilla is more likely to cure them for good.
So if you can treat the cause, expect outstanding results. A permanent cure is the aim.
One of the things I love about treating animals is their desire to help in the choosing of the right remedy. Most dogs are pretty outgoing and will make it very clear when youâve selected the right remedy – theyâll lick the bottle, their lips or your hand, theyâll sit expectantly and wag their tail, theyâll look interested and attentive.
If, on the other hand, you selected the wrong remedy, theyâll turn their head away, walk off, perhaps even snarl at you if you persist.
To me, their body language is very clear. You really donât need to be an animal communicator.
Once you have gained a bit of an understanding of whatâs available, choosing an holistic vet, for the more difficult ailments, who practices alternative medicine for dogs becomes easier, and you become involved with your dogâs treatment.
I am passionate about your right of freedom to choose. But to choose, you have to know something about the subjects you want to choose between. So you need to listen to both, or all, sides of every aspect of every junction in your life that offers you that choice. Alternative medicine for dogs gives you plenty of choice!
Madeleine Innocent is a practicing homeopath, a specialised modality of natural health care. She treats both people and animals in her busy West Australian practice. Madeleine loves to spread the good work of homeopathy and other areas of natural health care and writes extensively on the subject.
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