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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
REMINDER FOR UPCOMING WEBINAR
Friday, January 20, 2012
Texas Carpet Bombs with Oral Rabies Vaccine
This is an interesting link sent to me by a client. Precautionary Principle be damned, Myopia full speed ahead.
http://www.naturalnews.com/034696_rabies_vaccines_airdrop_Texas.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/034696_rabies_vaccines_airdrop_Texas.html
Monday, January 16, 2012
Upcomng Webinar on the Classic Miasms of Homeopathy
It has been a few months since I last posted on here. Actually it doesn't seem that way but the dates tell me it has been over 6 months. In those 6 months I took a break from teaching and writing to allow myself time to heal. The process is not complete but is well on its way.
So now it is time to get geared back up and start a new series of webinars. Below is the announcement that went out today. This webinar will be followed in the coming months with a series of basic and advanced webinars based on veterinary homeopathy. I'm pretty excited about getting started again.
So now it is time to get geared back up and start a new series of webinars. Below is the announcement that went out today. This webinar will be followed in the coming months with a series of basic and advanced webinars based on veterinary homeopathy. I'm pretty excited about getting started again.
THE CLASSIC MIASMS: A Webinar in Treating Chronic Disease in our Animal Companions The Classic Miasms series will take an animal centered approach to the study of the classic miasms of Hahnemann. We will begin with a genus epidemicus approach to each miasm based on the symptoms we can define in our animal companions and will follow with a comparative materia medica study of the major anti-miasmatic remedies exclusive of the common genus epidemicus symptoms of each remedy. This approach will help identify the unique characteristics of each remedy and the indications for their use while keeping in focus the symptoms common to each remedy within the particular miasm. Materials will also include a chart comparing the miasms according to their appearance in each body system This webinar will help improve the effectiveness of your treatment and the efficiency of your case management in deep seated chronic disease in your animal companion. Class will begin Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 7:00 PM Central and will continue each Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evening at the same time through March 15, 2012. Space is limited to 45 participants. Registration will include a minimum of 12 hours of instructional time, unlimited access to recordings of each session for review or if a class is missed (recordings will be available for at least 6 months after the last session), full class notes, a comparative chart on the symptoms of the miasms, files of the PowerPoints used each week, and membership in a Yahoo group for discussion between classes. For Registration and Cost Visit the Webinar Page HOMEOPATHYFORTHEANIMALS.COM For The Animals Veterinary Homeopathy Consultations Glen Dupree, DVM Author, Homeopathy in Organic Livestock Production Available at homeopathyfortheanimals.com |
Monday, June 20, 2011
A Different Perspective
In reviewing my past few posts and reading what others of like mind are writing, I have decided to look at things differently today.
Most of what is being written from the "wellness" side of the page focuses on the horrible (as we perceive them) things done on the conventional side in the name of health care and how wrong-headed this approach really is. It is easy to get into this mode since our views are so opposite from theirs (if you will forgive me for giving voice to such dichotomy). I mean there is such a huge difference between wellness (on our side) and disease maintenance (on their side) that it is easy to get into an "us vs. them" mentality rather than seeing that both approaches are made with the best of intentions (on some level and to some degree) - even if those intentions may not result in the improved long-term health of the patient.
So let's forget about "them" for a minute and focus on "us". Have you stopped lately to think how far we've come in in our thinking and actions in such a short period of time? OK, I realize that most of the medical modalities (homeopathy, acupuncture, herbs, etc) and the sustainable agriculture practices we talk about are centuries old so from that perspective it is not such a short period of time unless we are thinking in geological terms. But for this current resurgence it has been a really short period of time - just a few decades.
A few years ago there were so few people who had ever heard of homeopathy that it was for all practical purposes extinct in the US. With the other "alternative and complementary" modalities things may not have been that dire but none of these modalities were in the public eye until the very last part of the 20th century. The same holds true for the grass-fed, sustainable, organic agricultural practices. Now it is not difficult at all to find practitioners or producers in just about every region of our country. And the numbers are growing every day.
There are associations of complementary and alternative health care practitioners, entire organizations dedicated to the local production of fresh whole foods, and consumer advocacy groups pushing for more access to these goods and services.
Things are changing quickly and dramatically to the point where even the common media and the aloof politicians are paying attention.
So why do so many of us look at the negatives of the other side and not the positives of what we are doing and accomplishing? I think it is because we are on the leading edge of this movement. From this position, we look ahead and can see only uncharted territory or else we see areas populated by "them" with their conventional, pharmaceutical, agrochemical mindset. We don't often stop and turn around to see the growing numbers that are now following our lead.
But if we did, we would see an entirely different scene than the free thinkers of even a quarter of a century ago would have seen. We would see a ground swell of interest in health and wellness, of living and working with nature, and of having access to true nutrition.
And make no mistake, everyone who is talking about and working toward health and wellness, not submitting to the dictates of conventional medicine and chemical agriculture, is a true leader in this movement. You can make a difference locally and globally - and you are making a difference - by your collective presence, by your actions, and by your influence.
This is an exciting time when we really don't have to criticize those who are following the industrial chemical models of living but can look at the positives happening in our world because of our collective awareness and actions and let these positives speak for themselves.
Most of what is being written from the "wellness" side of the page focuses on the horrible (as we perceive them) things done on the conventional side in the name of health care and how wrong-headed this approach really is. It is easy to get into this mode since our views are so opposite from theirs (if you will forgive me for giving voice to such dichotomy). I mean there is such a huge difference between wellness (on our side) and disease maintenance (on their side) that it is easy to get into an "us vs. them" mentality rather than seeing that both approaches are made with the best of intentions (on some level and to some degree) - even if those intentions may not result in the improved long-term health of the patient.
So let's forget about "them" for a minute and focus on "us". Have you stopped lately to think how far we've come in in our thinking and actions in such a short period of time? OK, I realize that most of the medical modalities (homeopathy, acupuncture, herbs, etc) and the sustainable agriculture practices we talk about are centuries old so from that perspective it is not such a short period of time unless we are thinking in geological terms. But for this current resurgence it has been a really short period of time - just a few decades.
A few years ago there were so few people who had ever heard of homeopathy that it was for all practical purposes extinct in the US. With the other "alternative and complementary" modalities things may not have been that dire but none of these modalities were in the public eye until the very last part of the 20th century. The same holds true for the grass-fed, sustainable, organic agricultural practices. Now it is not difficult at all to find practitioners or producers in just about every region of our country. And the numbers are growing every day.
There are associations of complementary and alternative health care practitioners, entire organizations dedicated to the local production of fresh whole foods, and consumer advocacy groups pushing for more access to these goods and services.
Things are changing quickly and dramatically to the point where even the common media and the aloof politicians are paying attention.
So why do so many of us look at the negatives of the other side and not the positives of what we are doing and accomplishing? I think it is because we are on the leading edge of this movement. From this position, we look ahead and can see only uncharted territory or else we see areas populated by "them" with their conventional, pharmaceutical, agrochemical mindset. We don't often stop and turn around to see the growing numbers that are now following our lead.
But if we did, we would see an entirely different scene than the free thinkers of even a quarter of a century ago would have seen. We would see a ground swell of interest in health and wellness, of living and working with nature, and of having access to true nutrition.
And make no mistake, everyone who is talking about and working toward health and wellness, not submitting to the dictates of conventional medicine and chemical agriculture, is a true leader in this movement. You can make a difference locally and globally - and you are making a difference - by your collective presence, by your actions, and by your influence.
This is an exciting time when we really don't have to criticize those who are following the industrial chemical models of living but can look at the positives happening in our world because of our collective awareness and actions and let these positives speak for themselves.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Decreasing levels of health
I remember not too long ago that I would look at practitioners who had been in practice 20 or more years and wonder how they could keep going after so many years and being so old. Now that I have been in practice way more than 20 years it doesn't seem like such a big deal.
Besides a few gray hairs and some stiff joints, being in practice this long has given me to opportunity to observe the general health of our companion animals over several generations. I can see quite a paradox developing over these years. As our diagnostics and medicines have (supposedly) gotten better, the general health of our patients is and has been declining.
When I was in vet school we rarely saw cancer in dogs or cats. Allergies were seen periodically but were easily controlled (not cured) with a shot of long acting steroids. Periodically we would see a patient that was epileptic and rarely one that had an autoimmune disfunction like Lupus. Sometimes we would see gastritis if the dog got into the garbage but never chronic long-term inflammatory bowel disease. FIP in cats was nearly unheard of. Probably the worst we would routinely see in cats was cystitis/Feline Urologic Syndrome. There were some common respiratory conditions and skin conditions but nothing really monumental as compared to the array of syndromes seen today.
Now, a few decades and many dog and cat generations after I graduated from vet school, we have CAT scans, MRIs, in-house diagnostics that surpass anything the commercial laboratories were offering, 100% complete and special prescription diets, really powerful second and third generation antibiotics, vaccines that were not even imagined when I was in school, chemotherapeutic agents, and whole new classes of drugs that were not even under development back then.
With all this advanced technology and more powerful pharmacy, we now also have a near epidemic of cancer in companion animals (about 50% of my small animal consultations are for various cancer diagnoses), a rash (if you will pardon the pun) of non-responsive allergies, autoimmune diseases that would rival anything seen in human medicine, and new contagions and degenerations assaulting these animals on a routine basis.
If our medicine is so improved, why do we not have a cure for these diagnoses? Or more importantly, why are we routinely seeing so much deep seated and serious disease that could not even be imagined a few years ago when we have all these new and improved tools that are supposed to bring us health?
Maybe the environment is that much more toxic? Maybe medicines have gotten more manipulative but less curative? Maybe we are breeding more chronic illness into these animals? Maybe their nutrition has strayed so far off the evolutionary path that their bodies are starving while at the same time obese? Maybe because medicine is not looking at disease as a static diagnosis to be manipulated rather than a life long pattern to be improved?
Whatever the answer, I think it is important for us to seriously address the cause of this general deterioration of health in our companions, not just for their sake but for ours.
Consider this. The intergenerational span of dogs and cats is less than a year (and that is being generous). So in the nearly 30 years that I have been in practice, in the nearly 30 years that medicine has gotten more aggressive/more manipulative/less curative in the larger sense, in the nearly 30 years that nutrition and environment have been altered, we have seen several generations of dogs and cats pass our way. In these generations we have seen an overall deterioration in the collective health of the domesticated members of the species.
As humans our medicine, nutrition, and environment have all followed the same path as that described here for our animals. And we can see the toll it has taken on them. The human intergenerational span is considerably longer than that of dogs and cats so perhaps we show our changes on a slower course than do our companions but make no mistake it is the same path.
Our dogs and cats are the sentinels showing the future for the human species if we continue down this same medical path, and it is scary.
If you find this way of thinking fantasy, consider the levels of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia, and other degenerative disease present in our human population today as compared to 75 years ago. Look at the near epidemic rate of ADHD, ADD, and Autism in our children today as compared to even 50 years ago. And that is not even touching on the extreme mental and emotional disorders that have brought us events such as Columbine or the Jeffrey Dahmers of the world.
The answers to these issues are not found in doing more and more of the same but in exploring alternatives that hold the promise of true cure and of health on all levels - regardless of the lobby, regardless of the politics.
Besides a few gray hairs and some stiff joints, being in practice this long has given me to opportunity to observe the general health of our companion animals over several generations. I can see quite a paradox developing over these years. As our diagnostics and medicines have (supposedly) gotten better, the general health of our patients is and has been declining.
When I was in vet school we rarely saw cancer in dogs or cats. Allergies were seen periodically but were easily controlled (not cured) with a shot of long acting steroids. Periodically we would see a patient that was epileptic and rarely one that had an autoimmune disfunction like Lupus. Sometimes we would see gastritis if the dog got into the garbage but never chronic long-term inflammatory bowel disease. FIP in cats was nearly unheard of. Probably the worst we would routinely see in cats was cystitis/Feline Urologic Syndrome. There were some common respiratory conditions and skin conditions but nothing really monumental as compared to the array of syndromes seen today.
Now, a few decades and many dog and cat generations after I graduated from vet school, we have CAT scans, MRIs, in-house diagnostics that surpass anything the commercial laboratories were offering, 100% complete and special prescription diets, really powerful second and third generation antibiotics, vaccines that were not even imagined when I was in school, chemotherapeutic agents, and whole new classes of drugs that were not even under development back then.
With all this advanced technology and more powerful pharmacy, we now also have a near epidemic of cancer in companion animals (about 50% of my small animal consultations are for various cancer diagnoses), a rash (if you will pardon the pun) of non-responsive allergies, autoimmune diseases that would rival anything seen in human medicine, and new contagions and degenerations assaulting these animals on a routine basis.
If our medicine is so improved, why do we not have a cure for these diagnoses? Or more importantly, why are we routinely seeing so much deep seated and serious disease that could not even be imagined a few years ago when we have all these new and improved tools that are supposed to bring us health?
Maybe the environment is that much more toxic? Maybe medicines have gotten more manipulative but less curative? Maybe we are breeding more chronic illness into these animals? Maybe their nutrition has strayed so far off the evolutionary path that their bodies are starving while at the same time obese? Maybe because medicine is not looking at disease as a static diagnosis to be manipulated rather than a life long pattern to be improved?
Whatever the answer, I think it is important for us to seriously address the cause of this general deterioration of health in our companions, not just for their sake but for ours.
Consider this. The intergenerational span of dogs and cats is less than a year (and that is being generous). So in the nearly 30 years that I have been in practice, in the nearly 30 years that medicine has gotten more aggressive/more manipulative/less curative in the larger sense, in the nearly 30 years that nutrition and environment have been altered, we have seen several generations of dogs and cats pass our way. In these generations we have seen an overall deterioration in the collective health of the domesticated members of the species.
As humans our medicine, nutrition, and environment have all followed the same path as that described here for our animals. And we can see the toll it has taken on them. The human intergenerational span is considerably longer than that of dogs and cats so perhaps we show our changes on a slower course than do our companions but make no mistake it is the same path.
Our dogs and cats are the sentinels showing the future for the human species if we continue down this same medical path, and it is scary.
If you find this way of thinking fantasy, consider the levels of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia, and other degenerative disease present in our human population today as compared to 75 years ago. Look at the near epidemic rate of ADHD, ADD, and Autism in our children today as compared to even 50 years ago. And that is not even touching on the extreme mental and emotional disorders that have brought us events such as Columbine or the Jeffrey Dahmers of the world.
The answers to these issues are not found in doing more and more of the same but in exploring alternatives that hold the promise of true cure and of health on all levels - regardless of the lobby, regardless of the politics.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
What a relief......
I just finished an article explaining the studies showing how safe high fructose corn syrup is in our diet. I feel much better knowing this. And the corn processing industry should feel better, also, since they are the ones who funded the studies.
By the same token, I guess I can also feel better about GMOs, processed white wheat flour, and artificial sweeteners. After all the food industry wouldn't be promoting something that was not absolutely safe for our consumption, would they?
And the pharmaceutical industry? Surely they would never allow any medicine to be produced and promoted until it had been thoroughly tested for both safety and efficacy. I mean they would never stand for a medicine to be released to the public only to be recalled because of unexpected side effects or lack of effectiveness.
No, we are in good hands. Nothing to worry about...........
By the same token, I guess I can also feel better about GMOs, processed white wheat flour, and artificial sweeteners. After all the food industry wouldn't be promoting something that was not absolutely safe for our consumption, would they?
And the pharmaceutical industry? Surely they would never allow any medicine to be produced and promoted until it had been thoroughly tested for both safety and efficacy. I mean they would never stand for a medicine to be released to the public only to be recalled because of unexpected side effects or lack of effectiveness.
No, we are in good hands. Nothing to worry about...........
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Random thoughts on Homeopathy
While there is much in homeopathy that makes no sense to the general medical public (or even to the general public if they stopped to think about it) since it falls so far outside of their experience and the narrowness of their formal education, there is just that much that makes me appreciate homeopathy as a therapeutic modality.
Homeopathy is a very elegant, deceptively simple field of medicine. With only 4 rules we are given the ability to treat any symptoms in any species without having to make exceptions or rewrite the rules.
These same 4 rules (the Law of Similars, The Use of Proved Remedies, The Totality of Symptoms, and The Use of Single Doses of Single Medicines - if you are curious about these there is an explanation of each on my website) remain unchanged through time so we don't have to learn and relearn ways of treatment as the fads and fashion of medicine change.
Once you understand the approach of homeopathy, you realize that medicine doesn't have to be fear based. The symptoms being produced by the sick body aren't something terrible. They are simply the body's way of telling the astute observer what there is that needs to be treated. These symptoms also guide the homeopath to the correct remedy for the patient. Nothing scary there, even if the symptoms may be really terrible in the eyes of the unlearned public.
By taking the fear out of the loop, we are free to treat any set of symptoms in any patient without the pressures and trepidations that so often accompany the therapies of conventionally diagnosed diseases. Cancer, itchy skin, kidney failure, snotty nose - it doesn't matter. Each of these cases are approached in the same way based on the 4 rules of homeopathy and without the judgement that commonly accompanies the diagnosis in conventional medicine.
But in this is also part of the downfall of homeopathy. By making it so simple to treat any disease process and by taking fear out of the situation, homeopathy loses 2 of the big factors common in conventional medicine - the convoluted complexity that seems to elevate the all-knowing doctor to a god-like status and the fear that drives the patient/client to spend what ever is necessary to conquer the evil disease.
There is money to be made in fear and poorly understood disease. There is little money to be made in health. I think as a culture we really have that backwards.
Homeopathy is a very elegant, deceptively simple field of medicine. With only 4 rules we are given the ability to treat any symptoms in any species without having to make exceptions or rewrite the rules.
These same 4 rules (the Law of Similars, The Use of Proved Remedies, The Totality of Symptoms, and The Use of Single Doses of Single Medicines - if you are curious about these there is an explanation of each on my website) remain unchanged through time so we don't have to learn and relearn ways of treatment as the fads and fashion of medicine change.
Once you understand the approach of homeopathy, you realize that medicine doesn't have to be fear based. The symptoms being produced by the sick body aren't something terrible. They are simply the body's way of telling the astute observer what there is that needs to be treated. These symptoms also guide the homeopath to the correct remedy for the patient. Nothing scary there, even if the symptoms may be really terrible in the eyes of the unlearned public.
By taking the fear out of the loop, we are free to treat any set of symptoms in any patient without the pressures and trepidations that so often accompany the therapies of conventionally diagnosed diseases. Cancer, itchy skin, kidney failure, snotty nose - it doesn't matter. Each of these cases are approached in the same way based on the 4 rules of homeopathy and without the judgement that commonly accompanies the diagnosis in conventional medicine.
But in this is also part of the downfall of homeopathy. By making it so simple to treat any disease process and by taking fear out of the situation, homeopathy loses 2 of the big factors common in conventional medicine - the convoluted complexity that seems to elevate the all-knowing doctor to a god-like status and the fear that drives the patient/client to spend what ever is necessary to conquer the evil disease.
There is money to be made in fear and poorly understood disease. There is little money to be made in health. I think as a culture we really have that backwards.
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