From the link.....
Homeopathy for dogs and cats is an adaptation of the classical system of medical treatment that looks at a cure for the individual as a whole and the homeopathic veterinarian does not just treat the illness itself.
The phrase "Holistic health", though not specifically used here, should cause alarm bells to ring.
The founder of modern homeopathic medicine was an 18th century doctor called Samuel Hahnemann at a time when conventional medicine was at best crude and often fatal.
This is why homeopathic treatments caught on. Bleeding and purging, which were part of the conventional medical treatment of the time killed people, but homeopathy was at least harmless.
This is no longer the case.
The general principles of homeopathy are two fold.
Homeopathy maintains that like can be cured by like.
No reason or explanation has ever been given for why this should be so.
Homeopathic remedies are effective in very dilute doses.
And the more dilute the more potent!
Counterintuitive? Sure.....but so is relativity and quantum physics
Consider a common illness displaying symptoms that are easily recognised - a viral throat infection. Apart from a painful sore throat, the patient would be very hot and flushed, the pupils of the eyes can be dilated, there is frequently a headache and in severe cases the patient may be delirious and hallucinating (this is a very common picture in children). Orthodox treatment would only alleviate the symptoms by using paracetamol or some similar painkiller.
Because there is no cure for a viral illness (or rarely).
Either the body's immune system eliminates the virus or the patient dies (or lives with the virus)
homeopathic treatment would be with Belladonna. Why? Because if Belladonna is taken in too high a dose by a healthy individual it causes a hot, red face, dilated pupils, a headache and possibly even hallucinations. In other words, if given to an otherwise healthy individual, it causes the very symptoms that the patient with the throat infection is suffering from.
Makes a lot of sense doesn't it?
If you have a headache, give the patient something that causes a headache. Makes perfect sense!
The normally poisonous substance is rendered safe by administering it in a minute dose prepared in the homeopathic manner.
It is rendered safe by diluting it completely out of the solution
Whilst orthodox medicine is often extremely efficient at treating the illness for which it has been prescribed, it can sometimes also produce unwanted side-effects. (e.g. Antihistamines may alleviate the symptoms of hay fever but may cause quite extreme drowsiness - in some cases making daily activities such as driving a car really quite dangerous).
It is often the case that a treatment that has no
side effects is having no
beneficial effects
One advantage of homeopathic treatment is that no side-effects occur.
See above. There is nothing in the homeopathic treatment to cause
any effects.
There is no clash between the two systems of orthodox and homeopathic treatments
No, you can swallow your antibiotic with plain water and expect absolutely no interference with the antibiotic.
and most practitioners prefer to think of homeopathic medicine as complementary, not alternative, to orthodox medicine.
Most prefer to think of it as non-medicine.
Thanks to the manner of their action and their high dilution, homeopathic medicines are extremely safe;
...and useless.
in fact it is impossible to take an overdose.
Not so. Drinking 9 liters of water a day can be fatal.
To do this it would be necessary to swallow about 12 million tablets at one go.
Try swallowing only1 million!!!
In addition to being safe, free of side-effect, easy to give (most homeopathic remedies are easy to administer, usually in the form of powders, granules, tablets or pills with a neutral or sweetish taste which makes them easy to take), homeopathic medicines are cheap. An average course of treatment costs very little in comparison with some modern drug regimes.
But the cost-
benefit is zero
BJ
