Homeopathy

About the Book

Homeopathy: What to Expect? is an informative and very accessible examination of homeopathy. The author uses his experience of successes and disappointments of veterinary homeopathic prescription to advocate a realistic view on homeopathic medicine which is applicable to all. Much emphasis is placed on what conditions are necessary for the successful use of homeopathic medicines and on their surprising efficacy when used appropriately.

After a short historic overview and a thorough examination of its principles, homeopathy is placed within the context of conventional medicine and alternative techniques, offering some original and unexpected insights. The second part of the book is a collection of 101 veterinary cases by 17 different authors. A variety of species tell the stories of their recoveries. Their authentic stories are entertaining and will sometimes make readers smile but above all represent the reality of daily homeopathic practice. The cases are selected for their educational value both for the curious and the initiated. Even established homeopaths will discover a few real gems.

The book is complementary to the many self-help homeopathy books, some of which may occasionally promise more than they deliver. The purpose is to help health consumers to integrate homeopathy into their health strategy in a sensible manner and to show that more can be achieved in medicine than is generally expected.

About the Author

The author was born in Belgium where he graduated as a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Ghent. After a first year in practice in the United Kingdom he moved to France where he worked for 13 years in a blooming mixed practice. Unsatisfied with conventional medicine, he started to study homeopathy in 1991. A four-year course in Paris was followed by a five-year course in Liege (Belgium) where he discovered classical homeopathy. In 2001 he moved to the United Kingdom where he now works as a homeopath in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. He has been invited several times by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Ghent (Belgium) to present homeopathy to his conventional colleagues and contributes regularly to the magazine edited by the CLH (homeopathy school in Belgium). He wrote Homeopathy: What to Expect? to help the promotion of insightful integration of classical homeopathy in medicine.

Reviews

"Whether you are new to homoeopathy or already trying to use it, this book has something for you.

"On the internet there are many posts that do the rounds advising people to use remedy 'A' for this disease or that disease, and it is difficult to understand the correct use of homoeopathy and how such treatment is completely inappropriate. This book explains how homoeopathy should be used to get the best benefits for your animals or family. It covers the history of homoeopathy; the techniques involved and explains why multiple homoeopathic remedies are a bad idea. For people wanting to consult with a homoeopathic practitioner, it explains that patience is needed and helps you to understand what YOU need to put into the consultation. When coming from an allopathic mindset it can be difficult to understand what information the veterinary homoeopath or human homoeopath needs; this books helps you get the most out of your consultations. Without this understanding, it can be frustrating for you and the homoeopath, and can make a cure take a lot longer.

"The book has 101 veterinary case studies that will help you understand the aspects of your animals or family's health, that can be most important to a homoeopath. Coming from a allopathic perspective, we tend to think of the disease label as being highly important but this book will help you realise that a disease label is not what your homoeopath needs to know. If like me you are trying to learn how to treat your animals with homoeopathic remedies, then this book will improve your understanding of how cases should be worked and what are the most important aspects to the case.

"If you are intending to consult a veterinary homoeopath, this book will ensure that you know if you have a practitioner who understands the correct use of homoeopathy. With the rise in the internet, you hear of so many cases where animals are being given multiple remedies on a daily basis; the worse case that I recently heard of concerned a dog where a vet had prescribed 13 different remedies per day, to be repeated on a daily basis.

"All in all, I can't recommend this book highly enough. Reading books on homoeopathy can rarely be called enjoyable, informative yes but usually very heavy reading; this book comes into the enjoyable category. Homeopathy What To Expect will at times bring a smile to your lips and a tear to your eyes, but most of all it will make you realise that it does not matter whether your animals 'disease' is due to bacteria, virus, injury or parasite, homoeopathy might have the answer; behavioural problems can also be addressed. Anyone who reads this book cannot fail to be inspired to turn to homoeopathy as a first resort and conventional medicine as a last resort, instead of the other way round."

- Published on www. seaviewanimalshelter.1to1.org/

"Thought I'd let you know have read the book started it Friday and finished it Saturday. Enjoyed it and found the first part intriguing and the case histories interesting. I will read it again as I enjoyed it plus I'm one of those people that read a book then read it again but only if it can captivates me and you're lucky because it has me thinking about the thought that has to go into working out what remedies can be used for the different problems that can affect animals (and as you point out humans as well) so have started to read again but a bit more slowly to help things gradually sink into the little grey cells! I won't pretend that even after a second, third or even fourth reading I'll get to grips with the dilution an how it works but will really try! There's not many books that I read which will get me back to them once read so I congratulate you on being able to write your book without lots of things i.e words that I don't understand and complicated theories that you need a degree to understand."

Three Days Later... "It's me again! finished the book again on Wednesday, found reading it a bit slower things are begining to sink in and make more sense to me. I've gone from not caring a monkies how it works to wanting to understand how it does (this is first in a long time since I've put some thought into what I'm reading) I'm not going to kid myself that the understanding that I achieve will come anywhere near what I would like to, but I've never really cared about what how or why because it's never mattered just as long as it works. But now I've read the book again I realise it's more important to me to understand the practise and take a keener interest in how the remedies work and through the second reading because of how you have written the book it makes it more understanderable as I said before there's no long words for me to fight with! Can't abide reading something that I've got to keep reaching for the dictionary, quickest way for me to down a book and never pick it up again, but that's me. Can't imagine me reading the Organon! And am most grateful that I never lived the days of blood letting. "This is no soft soap to boost your ego! If I hadn't found it interesting I most certainly would not have read it and would have been honest enough to have told you. This is purely me enjoying a good book and once again I congratulate you on your achievement in keeping me intrigued."

- Carolyn Haynes, UK

"I received your book in the mail yesterday (here in Maine, USA) and have already finished reading it except for the cases; those I'll read this evening probably. My heartfelt thanks for writing such a wonderful book that explains Homeopathy - and more importantly to me, I like how you discuss Classical Homeopathy. "Please feel free to use my comments. I'll certainly be telling everyone I know to get a copy as I believe it is an outstanding book and long overdue."

- Darla Graves Palmer, USA

"Thanks for your book which seems to me the best explanatory treatise I have so far met on the subject of homeopathy. I shall enjoy learning all about it."

- Margaret Hearn, retired veterinary surgeon

The book is mentioned on their recommended reading list.
www.bihusa.com/ content/students/books.htm

- The British Institute for Homeopathy USA