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This was my very first experience with homoeopathy and what got me into studying it further.
In the days when I used to vaccinate my dogs, three months on from the booster jab, Lucky was beginning to lose his fur. First noticed it on his leg, and was spreading to his body.
I had no intentions of taking him back to my vet and decided to ask to be referred to a homeopathic vet, which he agreed.
The consultation was something I'd never experienced before. Spent approximately half an hour answering all kinds of questions about Lucky himself: had he been through any upheavals; what was he fed on; what made his leg worse, what made it better; his likes/dislikes, and so on. This, I later learned, is what's known as repertorising the symptoms, making a note of the main remedies that run through all of them and then reading them in a materia medica to pick the one most similar to the complaint.
He gave me three tablets and showed me how to give it to him and I then had to give the other one the night after and the following one the night after that and then wait two weeks. If the fur didn't start growing back by the end of the two weeks then I would have to take him back for him to re-take the case. Luckily the fur started to grow back and he's been fine ever since.
We took her on her favourite riverside walk but the weather had been really hot for a couple of days, and the river was stagnant with a lot of debris and flies. Due to the river being the way it was we decided to keep Pippin well away from it. We let her off her lead but, silly us should have known better, she made a bee-line for the river, jumping in and drinking from it!
By the time we got her home an hour later she was in a very bad state: she was ok while lying still but the moment she moved she started gasping for breath and coughing. On repertorising the case I found that Bryonia fitted the symptoms really well - especially 'worse from movement'. Gave her a 30c. Two hours later she was a little better so, on going to bed, gave her another 30c (this was in the days before I knew about MS). By the morning she was perfectly well, back to her normal self.
Yep, yours truly. I must have eaten something that really affected me badly because I couldn't stop being sick, my head was throbbing, I didn't want to speak or do anything. We were on our way back from holidays when this happened and I'd eaten a cooked breakfast that morning, so assumed it was something I'd eaten. Anyway, took Arsenicum 30c and went straight to bed when I got home. About two hours later I was fine.