How to Find a Qualified Homeopathic Vet

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Welcome. I wanted to give you a quick look (let's get me out of the way a little bit here) at how to choose a homeopathic veterinarian when you've got a chronically ill animal, meaning the illness is lasting for more than a day. That's chronic. It's usually weeks or months, right? Itchy skin, chewing the feet too much, ears that are intensely itchy or painful or both.

All the chronic things last, and conventional medicine has no answers. They cannot cure chronic disease. Homeopathy can, and so I'll often send you to a homeopathic veterinarian. I want to show you how to choose a good one, because they're like anything else. You can label yourself a homeopathic veterinarian, like you can label yourself a holistic veterinarian, and really not know how to cure chronic disease. So what you're looking for is narrowing that field down to those who do it a lot and get success.

So here's the page we'll start with. It's called Recommended Resources on my website. From the homepage, just enter "recommended resources" and this link will get you there. Once you're on this page, we'll scroll just a little bit to get some choices. What we want is not food, not online courses, not pests, but sources of information, and that'll zoop you down the page to where you'll see this listing called Holistic Veterinarians. When you click on that, you'll see that I'm no longer taking new patients, but I want to help you formulate a way to get somebody good for you.

The Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy is the national organization in the States. Many people who are trained in homeopathy and practice it belong to the AVH. So you'll click on this link, and that will open up the Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy page. You're going to go to Find a Vet. That's what you want to do. There's a little bit to read before you go about your search, so do read this page carefully. There's good info here to help you decide who you're going to work with. It talks about who certified members are and who affiliate members are, that sort of thing. Once you've read it, agree and proceed.

What I want you to take away from this is that the main search parameter is the percentage of homeopathic cases a veterinarian uses in their practice. That ranges from under 25 percent to 100 percent. Some people are fully in homeopathic practice, like I was when I was seeing patients. They could be 75 to 99 percent, could be half, could be under 25 percent. You want the people in one of these top two groups working with you to cure chronic disease. Why? Because they are totally invested in homeopathy. They are doing it most of their practice day. They're not choosing acupuncture for some, or treating some with allopathic medicine, or suppressing some patients' symptoms with drugs, and treating some with homeopathy. These folks are using homeopathy either solely or almost wholly in their practice.

So we're going to start with this group right here. We'll do a search, and the map will populate with the people doing that percentage of homeopathic cases, 75 up to 99 percent. It's not showing you the 100 percent group, but we'll do that in a moment. If you see somebody in your general vicinity, that's fine. Go ahead and look at them. But there are too few of us out there doing homeopathy, especially at a high rate, like full time. So another search term will be "does phone consultations" because, like I did for years, it matters not where you live. You can get somebody on the phone who both does a lot of homeopathy and consults by telephone.

That was a little slower for me when I tested this out, but when we raise the map up, there they come. These people have a high percentage of homeopathic cases and they do phone consultations. When you scroll down, you'll see their names, and each one has more information when you click on their name. Let's look at Dr. Doyle for an example. Jane's a friend and a colleague. She practices in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. There's her website, there's her phone number, and you can email her. Here's the species she treats. Like we learned from our search, she does mostly homeopathy, and here it is: she does phone consultations. So if Dr. Doyle fits for you after you've interviewed her a bit or visited her website, and you've said, "Yeah, I think I want to work with her," it doesn't matter if you live in Alaska and she's in West Virginia. You can work with her.

The same thing is true for all these folks. You just have to see where these people are and whether they're of interest to you. You can search by location just for fun, and see if there's anybody in your neck of the woods who does mostly homeopathy. But this is the more important thing right here: how much homeopathy do they do? That'll tell you how good they're going to be at curing chronic disease.

Then let's do one other search. We'll change this parameter to 100 percent, a group that's not included in the 75 to 99 percent group, and we'll get a different population of people. You want to add these people to your list of potential interviewees as well. Same sort of thing: let's look at Marybeth Minter. Website, email, species treated, percentage of cases treated with homeopathy (100 percent), and she does phone consultations.

You now have a way to find somebody who's good for you, but you'll likely have a list of several people. You'll want to narrow that list down by viewing their websites, maybe talking to them for a fifteen-minute consult on the phone. I used to do that for a while to help people decide if we were right for each other. Some do that by email. I ended up doing that by email. We'd email back and forth and decide if I could help, if I was a good fit for you, that sort of thing. And then you set up a phone consultation.

Know that it's a process. It's not going to cure chronic disease overnight, but that's something you'll learn as you study more about homeopathy. The longer somebody has been chronically ill, the longer it takes to cure them. But you can cure them with a trained homeopathic vet at your side. So you become a team of three: the animal; you, the observer who can talk about symptoms carefully; and your vet, who can ask pointed questions about those symptoms and get what he or she needs to prescribe.

So that's it. You start at Recommended Resources, and you'll find Holistic Veterinarians once you scroll down. Once more: Sources of Information, then Holistic Veterinarians. Click here, and you'll end up at the AVH. Then you go to Find a Vet and go through that process of sorting by how much homeopathy they do and whether they do phone consults. Thanks, everyone. I hope this has been helpful.