Veterinary, Homeopathy, Animals, Grief, Menstrual cramps, Homotoxicology

Re: “Homeopathy or Psychotherapy with Props”

I find it also necessary to respond to Dr. Douglas Lobay’s negative comments concerning homeopathy [Townsend Letter, June 2018]. While I certainly don’t feel myself at the level of the Ullmans as a homeopath, it has been an integral part of my veterinary practice for many years.

Many of you hopefully read my article on the use of tautodes a while back, but I’d like to, in this letter, relate my story with homeopathy and a couple of cases.

In mid-1984, a colleague of mine from the West Coast called to tell me that he was going to see something interesting about this medical therapy called homeopathy the next weekend and it was not very far away from me and could I make it. I told him I couldn’t on Saturday because I was fully booked on appointments, but I could come up for the Sunday. At that time I didn’t even know what the word meant, but the speaker was going to be a veterinarian from the UK who had even written a couple of books.

So, I went and was intrigued enough that I bought a kit that had 144 homeopathic medicines and a bunch of books. As serendipity tends to rear its head in my life, the Monday after, my new 28-year-old technician came in and looked like death warmed over. I asked her what was wrong, and she said she had severe menstrual cramps. She related that she had suffered with them since the initiation of her menstruation, and at times they had been so severe that she couldn’t even go to work She had tried everything available without significant success. So, I said let’s look at one of the little books I had gotten and see what we can find. As it turned out homeopathic Phosphorus fit her symptom pattern and I opened the first container in my kit. Talk about placebo (which I prefer to use as opposed to “Psychotherapy and Props”) effect – by the time she walked to the end of the hall the cramps had stopped and her color came back, to the incredulity of both of us. Later in the afternoon, the cramps began to start again, and she took a second dose and that was the end of her problems for that cycle. Homeopathic Phosphorus totally controlled her cramp problems until she had a baby and her whole hormonal pattern changed.

So that was an exciting and somewhat brain-rattling start. The one remedy I remembered specifically from that day’s lectures was the use of homeopathic Ignatia at a 1M potency for grief. I’ll report one case of many successes with that remedy.

An older lady came in with her dog that I had seen over the years with a history that her happy little dog was suddenly just totally depressed, not wanting to eat or do much of anything. A physical examination showed nothing of consequence and after asking her if something had happened recently in her home, she said her husband had just died. He had died at home with a moderately extended illness and toward the end was totally bedridden. At that time the dog spent all of its time, with the exception of eating, drinking and excretory functions in the bed with him. She had gotten like this after he died. I gave a dose of the remedy to the dog and a dose of the owner. The owner reported rather excitedly the next day the dog was totally normal. About two weeks later the owner’s niece was in with their dog and told me she didn’t know what I had told her aunt but that suddenly she was dealing with their husband’s death so much better.

Probably the most extraordinary story is that of Rocky, an 18-month-old great Dane. The history was that he had had multiple episodes of infection starting at his lateral two digits and going all the way up to shoulder. At the time I saw him, he had recently finished a one-month course of injectable penicillin and gentamicin, thankfully with no toxicity, but things were starting all over again. Also, in the history had been attempted cultures and even a biopsy which had been not useful. Since the owner hadn’t come to me for anything conventional, and I had absolutely no argument with anything that had been done except the worry of the gentamicin, and I was just beginning to feel energy disturbances it was apparent that there was an energetic disturbance where the dewclaw (the residual thumb on the medial side of the paw) had been removed at probably two days of age leaving just a small clean scar. My comment to the owner is that I thought he had somehow got an infection which had gotten deeper into his tissues even though it had not manifested at the time. She was dumbfounded by my speculation, particularly since all of his problems had been on the lateral side of his leg. Nonetheless, I treated him with homeopathic Silica in a 30C potency to drive out unwanted material and a dose of homeopathic Staphysagria for “resentments from surgery” and she went home. She called back the next day to report an astonishing experience. She lived about 60 miles away from my practice and on the way home she suddenly smelled something terrible in her van. It didn’t smell like stool, so she stopped and looked in the back, and Rocky was sitting there with the old dewclaw incision having opened and a teaspoon to tablespoon of pus on the floor of the van. He drained for several days, and then was well and went on to finish his championship, which he had been trying to do since he was a puppy

I’ll share one other case that also defies any Newtonian description, but even more lies in the realm of quantum physics and perhaps even trans/inter universe or dimensional shifts. A golden retriever that I had seen for a number of years after, incredibly, a successful chiropractic experience stopped all back pain and most of its urinary incontinence came in for her every six months or so check-up. The owner (a very astute lawyer and sister of a veterinarian) described a new phenomenon, that her dog had an exceptionally smelly and greasy coat, which was quite evident in the exam room. She related that she had bathed the dog the prior day and that it was getting so severe in her home she had to figure out something. Since the odor was somewhat sulfurous, and because sulfur is a commonly useful homeopathic medicine for retrievers, I decided to give the dog a dose of Sulfur in a 200X potency. We were in the exam room for about a half an hour and as we left the owner said that she couldn’t believe it, but it seemed the odor had disappeared. It had, incredibly, and the greasy feel of the coat had also disappeared. Anybody that can explain that, to me, in Newtonian terms or placebo terms is welcome to. By the way, it wasn’t a perfect cure, because the owner would have to repeat the dose every month or two, which she did when symptoms started to recur.

My approach to homeopathy, even though I’ve had lots of classical training is distinctly eclectic, including the fact that I do use a fair amount of homotoxicology and other homeopathic prepared substances. For those in this readership with professional degrees that use homotoxicology in their practices, I have negotiated a nice relationship with the Bio Pathica company in the UK. This is important after the Heel Corporation closed BHI in this country, and a large number of products were no longer available. Some products are available here, but at significantly higher prices than from Bio Pathica. For anyone interested, please contact me by e-mail and I will send you the current pricing and ordering information since I have also negotiated that 10% of all orders will go into a research fund. 

Carvel G. Tiekert, DVM

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