Homoeo Info

Nothing is too good for my golden retriever, Brandy, who gets premium kibble, at least three walks a day and her own spot on the couch. So when she started having seizures and my regular vet suggested she might have to start taking a heavy-duty drug to control them, I wanted a second opinion.
Dr. Susan Krakauer, who calls herself "The Roving Vet," brought it right to my door. Krakauer -- who will be part of the Wellness Show this weekend at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre -- specializes in homeopathic veterinary care, and she visits four-legged patients in their own homes.
Krakauer says she became interested in homeopathy even before she attended veterinary school. After graduation, she worked at the Vancouver Animal Emergency Clinic, "where you see conventional medicine at its best, treating trauma and shock," she says.
But she also saw dogs and cats with chronic illnesses who would be brought to the clinic when their symptoms worsened. Conventional drug treatment sometimes stabilized them, she says, but they would often end up coming back when the disease flared up again.
"With conventional medicine, there are so many dead ends," Krakauer says. "You often find you are kind of managing symptoms, but you are never really making the animal better. So I just felt intuitively that there must be other forms of medicine that actually get to the root of these problems."
Homeopathy, which dates back to the 1700s, focuses on treating the whole person or animal rather than a specific ailment. It's based on the theory that small doses of natural substances can stimulate the body's ability to heal itself.
Joanne Blain, Vancouver Sun/Vancouver Sun, Canada - Jan 28, 2008

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