What is Homeopathy? Homeopathy is a system of medicine developed more than 200 years ago by German chemist Samuel Hahnemann. It is a form of “holistic”...
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Herbs and Pets As you may know, it is potentially dangerous to give herbs to pets, especially cats. Many people commonly extrapolate a dose of herbs by using...
Suffering from decision fatigue? HMDM to the rescue
Our everyday lives are loaded with decision making (making a tooth paste choice alone is not the same as it used to be a hundred years ago), so decision...
The Return to Wholeness and Homeostasis: Escaping the Reductionistic Prison
Homeostasis, Balance and Equilibrium are used interchangeably throughout the article. Over the last century, science has been held captive to the legacy of...
How to Optimize Your Pet’s Quality of Life Using BEAM
Highlights: Understand what BEAM is How BEAM reflects both quality of life and cellular energy Using symptoms to improve and enhance your pet’s quality of...
Holistic vs Homeopathic
Maybe because they both start with an H, many people confuse holistic treatments with homeopathic treatments. Clients will tell a veterinarian that they have...
Give Arnica A chance – Dispelling Homeopathy Myths
Would you like to learn a safe, effective and inexpensive way to help people and pets heal? You are in the right place. Arnica is an over the counter...
Laughter Is Medicine
You may have heard of laughter yoga - although it may sound funny, laughter actually has great benefits for our health: from stimulating internal organs by...
Confused About Your Pet’s Symptoms, and Maybe Even Your Own? Gain Clarity With a Big Picture Perspective
Why our pets, or ourselves, for that matter, develop health problems can be a trickier question than it might appear. Say, for example, you take your puppy to...
How to Listen to and Learn From Your Pet’s Symptoms to Take Effective Holistic Action
Learning to view your pet’s symptoms as trustable, intelligible communications that can provide clues to underlying imbalances and guide holistic health...
Faced With Making a Medical Decision for Your Pet? Push “Paws” to Ensure a Fairy Tale Ending
Once upon a time, not so very long ago (in the last year, actually), there was a beautiful, golden-haired girl named Sam. Sam’s energy, enthusiasm, and love...
How to Use Clues From Your Animal Companions to Promote Optimal Health
Learning to use your pet’s symptoms* as valuable clues for understanding underlying imbalances and addressing them holistically is one of the most important...
A Way To Connect Modern Veterinary Medicine And Ancient Wisdom: An Introduction To Terrain Theory
Germ Theory: Not the Whole Story What human being has not been warned about germs, those infectious micro-organisms (pathogens) that are too small to be seen...
Fatal Viruses and One Health
The information on this blog is primarily about using HA! for animals. However the same scientific data that is used here for animals can be applied to...
One Way to Re-Connect Nature and Veterinary Medicine
" An increasing body of research is showing that pets, people and the planet are all interconnected. This interrelationship is called One Health and helps...
Internal Balance and covid?
Have you ever had an intuitive sense that your pet is sick, but your vet says that your pet is fine because the exam and tests are all normal. Regardless, you...
HMDM In Action – 2 Cases
The following cases describe how Holistic Medical Decision Method can be used in everyday life. case number 1 - Ear infection Let’s say your dog has an ear...
Give Reiki A Chance?
How would you like to be able to help restore balance in your pets' bodies in a free and 100% safe way? That's what Reiki can do. It is a form of medicine...
Discovery of Vitality, Balance and Homeopathy
Graduating from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine in 1980 at age 30, I was not thinking at all holistically. I had done a two-day...
How To Improve Your Dog’s Performance in Agility
Any pet may suffer an injury or develop a problematic symptom. Especially those canine athletes who do activities like agility, flyball, herding, etc....
Practicing Proactive Prevention and Treatment to Best Help Our Pets (Brain Tumor Case)
Seemingly without warning, your beloved companion animal develops a life-threatening illness. Sue and Bear’s story can help you decide what to do. Bear is a...
Size of the Medication Dose Matters. A lot!
In the mid-1990s, I was called out to see Justin, an Irish Wolfhound who was unable to get up. This was a big problem because he weighed 180 pounds....
Why Routine Diagnostic Tests are so Important
Your nine year young pup or kitty seems fine. But she’s not. The veterinarian just called with the blood test results from her wellness check up: thyroid,...
Flower Essences for Lame and Arthritic Pets
Flower Essences (FE) can help your pets with both physical and emotional health challenges. They are great for lame, stiff and arthritic pets. Unlike...
Arnica is Safer and Often More Effective Than Rimadyl
What to do after injury? A frequent question I get from community members is what to do right after an injury. Whether the injury was from a bad turn during...
Heal Your Pet With a Hug
While researching the connection between wellness and vitality, I came across an article with the intriguing title of: "Therapeutic Touch Affects DNA...
The 6 Ps That Help Keep Your Pets Healthy
Learning to communicate with your companion animal using her symptom language can greatly improve her health and your choices of care. You’ll become better at keeping her well by identifying early hints of internal imbalance. Your pet’s symptom language will also help you manage her health challenges. Learning how is simple and easy. You don’t even to know the meaning of the “words” to get started.
You Can Learn Your Pet’s Language
Nature can be seen expressing herself just by looking. Symptoms are the natural language of your pet's body. It seems intuitive to work with nature and in...
Treating Symptoms Like Weeds In Your Garden
Some quick thoughts while weeding my garden this morning. Improving health is like gardening. We know that contact with soil is healthful. For various...
More About Using Your Pet’s Symptoms to Help Health Challenges
Symptoms Are The Path To Healing
Main take home message:Acute symptoms reflect internal health. How you treat them really matters. Let’s look at one of the very best ways to help your...
Understand Symptoms To Help Your Pets Have Better Lives
Chi is a 16 year young kitty. He’s a purring machine who loves everyone! One morning, he woke up sneezing and discharging from his nose. That’s it. He was...
You Can Help Your Animal Heal
Vitality. Healing. What do they mean and how are they relevant to you? Every pet's vitality (energy) is critical for staying well and getting better from...
How Holistic Medical Decision Making Helped Me
The right road may be the road less travelled. This is not my usual post. It is not directly about your animals. What follows is my own medical story....