Fred Treats a Bad Headache
Thought of the Week
Animal Communication
Administering to Children and Animals

Fred has suffered from headaches from time to time in his life, as perhaps many people have. His mother didn’t like him to take any medication, as she preferred to find out the reason why, and deal with that.

She’d usually send him to bed, where he was glad to be.

So now, he tended to do the same. But he found it awkward to take too many days off work. He wanted to treat the headaches without medication, but found himself a bit embarrassed the following day. A headache didn’t seem to be a very serious ailment, to take time off work.

So he had resorted to take the odd analgaesic, when he had a headache at work.

With the arrival of the homoeopathic first aid kit, and his recent successes, he decided to try to work out the most appropriate medicine for them, the next time he experienced a headache.

It came one Saturday morning. He and Shirley had planned a day out and he knew she would be disappointed if they didn’t go, but he didn’t want to take any more pain killers. They don’t do your body much good, especially your liver.

His headaches normally start in the evening and gradually build up during the following morning, peaking around mid morning. The pain starts in his neck and then seems to radiate to his forehead.

This one was no exception. Normally the pain increases to a maddening headache. His head feels very heavy and all he wants to do is to lie down.

So, at the first hint of the headache, he pulled out the kit and looked through the instructions.

Shirley wondered if he was dehydrated, but he wasn’t interested in drinking at all. Which was odd for him, as he normally was quite thirsty.

He made a list of his symptoms:

• headache slow to start
• headache starts in the neck and radiates to forehead
  
• head feels very heavy with difficulty in raising it from the pillow
  
• thirstless
  

The instructions didn’t have the specific headache symptoms, but it did list Gelsemium as a slow onset medicine, with a heaviness and a thirstlessness.

That’s my three keynote symptoms, he thought to himself.

The kit’s remedies were 30c, and the instructions suggested a dose every 15 to 20 mins in middle to serious symptoms.

He took one dose, then another about 20 minutes later. He started to feel quite drowsy, and did doze off for a while before his daughter woke him up trying to crawl up his leg.

Busy playing with her, he didn’t connect for a while. Then he realised that his headache had receded to a mild awareness.

He took another dose, and the headache was gone, along with the heaviness and the thirstlessness.

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Animals and Gelsemium

When working out if your pet needs Gelsemium, look for the heaviness, the desire to sleep, the unnatural thirstlessness. You also might be able to feel some warmth in their forehead.

Gelsemium is also a great medicine for anticipation anxiety. So if you take your pet to places where they get nervous (vets, shows, places where other more dominant animals are, even the journey itself, etc) and they start to tremble in advance, this is a great remedy.

But, I also suggest, question if what you’re doing is right. The animal is clearly distressed. Maybe what you are subjecting them to is not what they want.

And another one of the great uses of Gelsemium is a slow onset (days) cold or flu, when you have a fever (with shaking), fatigue and muscle aches.

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Thought of the Week

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

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Animal Communication

Some years ago I adopted a dog who had been run over some months before. He had sustained lower spinal injury and couldn’t walk and spent a month at a vet.

Although he recovered the use of his back legs to a large degree, he wasn’t able to perform his function as a sheep dog. So the farmer was going to get rid of him. I couldn’t bear to see a dog killed just because he couldn’t work, so said I’d have him.

He was incontinent in both departments, so was quite a challenge for me homeopathically. But I was sure his state could be improved.

And it was. He did improve in many ways. He races after his ball, annoys the horses and his incontinence did improve a lot, although not completely.

He greets everyone who comes to see me, human and animal, showering love all over them, whether they want it or not. He is one of the most demonstrably loving animals I’ve come across.

One of my patients has recently learnt the art of animal communication, and she wanted to ‘read’ Toby.

What she came back with was such a profound message, I wanted to share it with you.

She said Toby’s sole (or soul?) purpose in this life was to be loved and to show people that you can be loved and loving even with physical health problems or disabilities.

Apart from the obvious lesson there, that we make ourselves miserable when we’re not ‘prefect’, what struck me was that not everyone can be healed of their problems, even with such a wonderful energetic system as homeopathy.

Their life's journey or lesson is to experience that trauma, those conditions for themselves and for others.

I have always been puzzled why he doesn’t react to the most obvious treatment, taking into consideration blockages. And puzzled why he doesn’t want the remedies.

Now I know.

Now, I won’t try to make everyone perfect and want better health for someone, often more than they do themselves.

You can take a horse to water...

If you would like to contact Elisabeth, here’s her email address. She’s very thorough.
elisa.sil@tadaust.org.au

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Administering to Children and Animals

Staying on the subject of animals and homeopathy, I want to talk about dosing animals and children.

I never force a homeopathic medicine on to any child or animal. Some children have been forced to take medication as well as natural health produces. So, when a child comes to me who has had medication forced on them, I let them hold the bottle of my chosen remedy.

If, after a few minutes, they tell me they like the feel of it, then I’ll ask them if they want to take it. Only then, will I offer them a dose. If they don’t like the feel of the bottle, then I accept they know far more than I do, so it’s the wrong medicine.

Back to the drawing board.

Someone told me that her child walked around, tightly clutching her remedy of choice when she needed a dose. No-one could prize the bottle away from her. After a while, she’s let go of the bottle. The remedy had done it’s work. And she was always better.

The energy of the remedy can be transferred through the bottle. Which is probably how animals recognise the correct remedy, just by showing them the closed bottle.

Some animals give very clear body signals about what they want and don’t want. Others are less clear, My other dog will take every remedy I offer her. Cats generally tend to refuse everything. Horses are often easy to read as they tend to nibble or mouth the remedy they like or turn away if they don’t like it.

One of the best ways of dosing animals is to put the remedy in a small bowl of water. Make sure their normal, unremedied water is still available so they can choose.

Then if they like the remedy, and feel it will help them, they will take perhaps only a single lap each time.

One of my patients has several bowls of different homoeopathic medicines out for her cats, and is fascinated by which they go for. I love hearing what they are choosing.

That was another steep learning curve for me. That small children and animals know much more than we do. They are more instinctive, have a better connection to their inner self.

The use of force is not only unnecessary, but counter productive.