Sceptic to Enthusiast in 3 days

As a manager of 370 dairy cows in Cheshire I wonder how many stock people out there were, are, like me, to reduce the use of those expensive antibiotics and improve herd health at the same time!

Someone suggested that homoeopathy could help. Well I tried those nosodes, they were useless, so to me that meant Homoeopathy obviously doesn’t work.

OR DOES IT?

We decided that perhaps it might work better if we understood something about it so my herdsman and I attended a 3-day course, Homoeopathy At Wellie Level (HAWL) run by Chris Lees and her colleagues at the School of Agricultural Homoeopath. I have to say I am now not a Sceptic but a big Enthusiast.

The course gave us a whole different perspective on treating our animals, it gave us the basic tools to start using homoeopathic remedy’s to great effect and the more we use them the more confident we get, the better the results. Don’t get me wrong; we don’t get it right every time.We change remedy if the chosen one does not appear to be working. But what I can say is, in the last few months, out of 44 treatments from Foul in the foot to Pneumonia to Mastitis we have only resorted to antibiotics on 7 occasions.
My first success was with a remedy called Caulophyllum, which acts on the womb. A maiden heifer had obviously been calving for a while, calf’s feet just showing and backwards. Normally, I would be getting the calving aid and pulling like mad, upsetting and possibly damaging the heifer and probably getting a dead calf. Instead I treated it with Caulophyllum and left her for 25 minutes. When I returned the calf was out to the thigh and just a rope was needed to pull a live calf and as a bonus the heifer parted with her after-birth 45 minutes later.

Now, if we have a sick animal, instead of heading to the drugs cabinet for an appropriate antibiotic, we head for our books, records and remedy box. We treat the whole animal and not just one symptom.

Our hope is in the future to understand our animals better and improve their health to the extent that we get less disease.

Do not be put off if your nosodes don’t work, they are, in my opinion, not really Homoeopathy.

Many thanks to Chris and the team for making me more aware of my animals and the wonder of Homoeopathy.

Alexander Mossop (Cheshire)