Dr Clare Middle
BVMS CVA CIAVH
Practical Truths to Improve Efficacy in Veterinary Homoeopathy
Abstract
Providing the evidence to scientifically prove the efficacy of homœopathic medicine in veterinary practice is encumbered by several very real and practical obstacles.
My observations from over twenty years of using natural diet, Homœopathy, acupuncture, herbs and several other natural therapies, along with normal conventional veterinary treatments, is that some cases benefit from more than just one treatment modality.
If I was forced to choose only one modality to use on my patients, it would be Homœopathy, because I feel this to be most often the successful treatment in many difficult cases. However, for the purpose of gaining research evidence, it would help the outcome to define any ‘obstacles to cure’ and then classify cases in order to remove these with non-homœopathic means first, if this is necessary to treat the case.
Examples of such obstacles to cure are:
- Pets on commercial dried (that is, high carbohydrate) foods which are impairing full liver metabolism leading to impaired immunity or reducing nutrient levels.
- Owners who do not observe a clear dominance difference between multiple dogs in a household, or who do not discipline their dogs sufficiently, causing a stress factor.
- Pets on excessive, repetitive vaccination or parasite prevention drugs or exposed to environmental toxins such as white ant spray.
- Dog breeds with genetic poor physical conformation predisposing them to disease.
- Pets who have been on long term immunosuppressive drugs or who have received immunotherapy injections for allergies.
It would therefore seem ideal to run a research trial to test the efficacy of Homœopathy on animals from whom as many of these obstacles to cure could be removed prior to the trial. I will detail some cases where obstacles to cure were cleared in a non-homœopathic way to allow Homœopathy to then work, and of course some case histories in which Homœopathy worked well and removed the need for other, maybe more cumbersome therapies to be required.
I hope these cases may illustrate a broader, more practical and more possible perspective of recording the evidence needed to prove the efficacy of Veterinary Homœopathy in practice.
Biography
I graduated in veterinary science from Murdoch University in 1979, and I have worked in small animal practice in Perth, WA since then. I have post-graduate certificates in veterinary acupuncture (International Veterinary Acupuncture Society) and Homoeopathy (Brauer 1996 and International Association of Veterinary Homoeopathy 2004). I was the inaugural president of the Australian Holistic Veterinarians, which is a group affiliated with the Australian Veterinary Association, to promote holism in the veterinary profession and which runs an Australian course for vets to obtain the certificate of the International Association of Veterinary Homoeopathy and the VetHom (HPTG, UK). I give lectures to interested groups on Bach Flowers for animals, homoeopathic first aid for pets and general holistic veterinary care. I write articles and do Q & A columns for Nova and Glow magazines. I have recently written a small book “Real Food for Dogs and Cats” which is a scientific guide to easily feeding a home-prepared diet to pets. I sold my vet clinic in East Fremantle in 2004 (having been there for 17 years) as I did not want to rely on income from unneeded vaccines, drugs and dried pet food, and I now work from a private consulting room, treating small animal cases which have not responded to normal veterinary treatments. I live at Bibra Lake, WA. My ‘hierarchical pack’ consists of myself, my husband, two children, two cats and one dog, in that order from most to least dominant, I think.
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