The intention of these notes is to offer a reference to everyone interested in learning homeopathy. You can use it with your animal companion in non-severe cases or as an aid until you reach your emergency veterinarian. They should never substitute veterinary care when needed. If you are not sure which remedy to use, or if you try a remedy and don't see the desired effect and don't know what to do, always consult with a veterinary homeopath. Read these notes while your dog companions are healthy, don't pretend you will find the perfect remedy in them when an emergency situation arises.

You can purchase most of the homeopathic remedies mentioned in these notes from

Some important issues before referring yourself to the notes, so you can better understand them:

If you are new to homeopathy, please read the Introduction to Veterinary Homeopathy first. Here you will find a list of conditions in alphabetical order. To read a certain condition on line, click on its name. Under each condition a list of possible remedies is given. Pick the remedy that best matches your dog companion's symptoms. In order for you to better understand the symptoms of each remedy, you may want to read the Remedies page, where you'll find a small materia medica that includes 35 remedies. Don't give all or several of them. Remember we look for an individualized treatment. More never means better. If you try a remedy without success, you might want to move onto another one, or consult with a veterinary homeopath.

The potency that should be administered varies with each homeopath's criterion. When the selected remedy is appropriate there will be effect regardless of the potency. The suggested potencies are those that I believe to be most adequate. However, in a situation that requires immediate care, the potency that's handy should be used. 15c, 30x and 30c potencies usually work great in first aid.

The dosage, as opposed to allopathic drugs, is independent from the animal's size. One pellet, 10 tablets, or a whole tube of granules have the exact same effect. Personally, I like giving 3 globules in each dose. Another good option is diluting the one dose in half a glass of water and then give 10 drops of the solution each time, strirring or shaking it before each intake. This makes the potency of the selected remedy to be a tiny bit higher each time, thus increasing the degree of dinamization or energy of the remedy. This is called giving a "plussed" remedy.

The frequency of dose intake is indicated by the intensity of symptoms and the potency of the remedy. The more acute the pathology and lower the potency, more frequent the intakes and viceversa. In first aid and emergencies, since they are acute conditions, my recomendation is to start the intakes very frequently, every half hour or every hour, and as we see improvement, space them every 4, 6, 8 hours. They have to be repeated frequently as the acute disease "eats the remedy." The minute symptoms cease or better considerably, the administration of the remedy should be discontinued. The administration of a homeopathic remedy for a long period of time, despite not having side-effects, can, in sensitive individuals provoke the proving of that remedy, and this is not desirable.

CONDITIONS (more will be added soon - sorry still under construction)

Flatulence (gas build-up)

Shock

If you're thinking about purchasing a basic homeopathic kit, please let me recommend the Helios Homeopathy Basic Eighteen Kit For Home & Family, which includes the following remedies in sucrose pills (30c each): aconitum, apis, arnica, arsenicum, belladonna, bryonia, cantharis, chamomilla, gelsemium, hypercium, ignatia, ledum, merc viv, nux vomica, pulsatilla, rhus tox, ruta and silicea. To complete your first-aid cabinet along with this kit you may want to add some topicals such as Arnica Cream, Calendula Cream or Calendolon Ointment, Hypercal Cream or Hypercal Spray, and Cream for Relief of Minor Burns and Scalds; and specially if you travel with your companion animal, Nelsons Complementary Health Travel Kit, which is not strictly homeopathy, but includes some useful natural remedies: Nelsons tea tree antiseptic cream 30g, travella travel sickness 72s, Nelsons apis mel clikpak 6c and Bach's rescue remedy.

For a deeper knowledge, please direct yourself to the books page, where you will find my suggested readings, or to the links page, where other sites with more information have been included.

Please note that by purchasing from my pages you help Weimaraner Rescue.