Naturopathy and Homeopathy
Naturopathy focuses on health.
Naturopathy is inner balance and good health maintained through nature.
Natural supplements, exercise, pure water, fresh air, sunshine, rest and moderation.
When the body does go out of balance, then Naturopathy employs the use of nature’s remedies such as herbs, essential oils, minerals, etc., in addition to the laws of health, to support the body so it can bring itself back into balance. Naturopathy has been around since the beginning of time.
The use of natures’ remedies support the healing process. Naturopaths determine the root cause of the body’s disease from the symptoms, suggesting a course of action to get the body of their horse back into balance. I believe as an Equine Therapist and Naturopath that you must get to the root of the reason of imbalance/ disease so the body can heal.
If you don’t know what causes an imbalance in the body that has brought on the disease, how can you assist the body to balance and be healthy?
I look at the symptoms as indicators of the root of the disease and believe in the true holistic approach to health. The animal as a whole, mind, body, and spirit, as well as his living environment is taken into consideration when evaluating the horses health.
Using herbs, exercise and water are three of the most important ways of healing. Relieving stress through massages and aromatherapy.
The purpose and goal is to help bring the body back to a natural balance.
Homeopathic Remedies
Homeopathy is an alternative method of treatment, that is based on the principle that like cures like.
Samuel Hahnemann, a German doctor and the founder of Homeopathy, was the first person to purposely utilize this method of treating disease.
Hahnemann disagreed with the accepted reason why the medicine Quinine helped in treatment of cases of Malaria. He began to take Quinine on a regular basis. After a short time he produced the symptoms of Malaria in his own healthy body. The symptoms would disappear when he stopped the medicine, only to appear again if he repeated the dose.
He concluded that quinine was good to treat Malaria not because of its bitter quality, but because in crude form, it could produce symptoms of the disease.
Hahnemann then began to treat patients according to this principle, using smaller and smaller doses of the medicines. He found they would not only respond, but would have few of the side effects that were so common to the medications used by more conventional practitioners. He theorized that the Homeopathic remedies, in their minute doses, carefully selected to match all to the patients symptoms, gave the body the information it needed to heal itself. Although no one has been able to prove or disprove this theory, Homeopathy is accepted in most parts of the world today as a very scientific method of treating disease.
Homeopathy will not mask symptoms and no side effects will occur. Furthermore it stimulates and strengthens the horses immune system. Which can be beneficial for every kind and breed.
Homeopathic remedies are given internally in extremely small doses. Hahnemann discovered that by putting the remedy through a series of dilutions, and agitations he was able to make it more potent in action each time.
Most horses take the medicine very willingly. The remedies are absorbed by the mucous membranes and does not need to be swallowed.
The final solution is absorbed by small sugar globules which are taken orally.
Homeopathy is used and known world wide. I have seen many great results treating diseases, illnesses and injuries, in humans and animals.
Naturopathy & Homeopathic Remedies are for general well- being, health & balance and better performance.