A FARM WITH TRULY RESIDUE FREE PRODUCE

It was so nice to get a call from Mary Kelly yesterday 28 Jue 2016 to say get the Irish Farming Independent and read it and tell me if it is ok for me to read it.  Mary with Gerry her husband and their son Derek held an open day on their farm during which they explained, that they integrate holistic medicine to reduce their dependence on conventional drugs, among many other things about how they do their organic farming .  What many people will fail to realize is the courage this has taken in terms of trusting that modalities like homeopathy would work effectively for epidemics such as Rota Virus and Corona Virus with the inclusion of Nosode remedies among many other problems they have dealt with on the farm as does any other farm on a day to day basis from retain placenta to injuries and mastitis without the use of antibiotics and anti-inflammatories and like all farmers they work 7 days a week  365 days a year,something many of us do not truly appreciate and in Mary's case that is on top of having studies to be a homeopath for the last few years!

http://www.independent.ie/business/farming/home-remedies-34837360.html

The Kelly Family have not only manged to integrate a low or no residue approach into their farm successfully, but in doing so have actually managed to reduce the overall animal death rate phenomenally!  They are an example as to why the current possible move to dilute the regulations by raising residue limits, so that more drugs rather than less may be used on farms to speed up the number of farms available to "Organic status" .. As someone who in the past had a period of severe chemical sensitivity I take my hat off to what Gerry Mary and Derek have achieved, but even better is to know from helping other organic farmers that they are not alone.  Local to me there is a wonderful Organic Farm run by John and Sarah Devoy, who have had to expand, as they could not keep up with demand for their organic and truly free range eggs.  It is lovely to see animals having a chance at a life as the Organic Standards in Ireland currently promote a method of farming which is much less intensive and so less stressing for the animals kept there.

A little word on Nosode Remedies.  These are homeopathics made from diseased material such the discharges from infection containing bacteria, viruses, protozoa etc. and diluted to the point that none of the original material remains so that they are completely free of all contamination unlike vaccines which currently all have adjuvants and many other materials to make them work.  I have lots of experience of seeing these ultradilute remedies work and have relied on them to protect my pets for years despite them living at a surgery where they were inevitably going to be exposed to highly infectious disease.  A study in Cuba some years ago went some way to demonstrating how effective correctly used Nosodes can be.  I wonder how long people would have had to wait for a Homeopathic Nosode if it wasn't so poorly turned in to profit.. Trials would only be for efficacy no one would have to worry about side effects, environmental contamination etc.  Linke to Cuba study below

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20674839

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease of major importance in the tropics where the incidence peaks in rainy seasons. Natural disasters represent a big challenge to Leptospirosis prevention strategies especially in endemic regions. Vaccination is an effective option but of reduced effectiveness in emergency situations. Homeoprophylactic interventions might help to control epidemics by using highly-diluted pathogens to induce protection in a short time scale. We report the results of a very large-scale homeoprophylaxis (HP) intervention against Leptospirosis in a dangerous epidemic situation in three provinces of Cuba in 2007.

METHODS:

Forecast models were used to estimate possible trends of disease incidence. A homeoprophylactic formulation was prepared from dilutions of four circulating strains of Leptospirosis. This formulation was administered orally to 2.3 million persons at high risk in an epidemic in a region affected by natural disasters. The data from surveillance were used to measure the impact of the intervention by comparing with historical trends and non-intervention regions.

RESULTS:

After the homeoprophylactic intervention a significant decrease of the disease incidence was observed in the intervention regions. No such modifications were observed in non-intervention regions. In the intervention region the incidence of Leptospirosis fell below the historic median. This observation was independent of rainfall.

CONCLUSIONS:

The homeoprophylactic approach was associated with a large reduction of disease incidence and control of the epidemic. The results suggest the use of HP as a feasible tool for epidemic control, further research is warranted.

2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

A FARM WITH TRULY RESIDUE FREE PRODUCE

What to do if...my pet or I have....

I have added a new section to my website, which while still under construction has useful information. It will be gradually integrated into my developing Homoeopathic First Aid Remedy section. The section is titled What to do if..... my pet has..... It is accessed by pressing on the active button shown below

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which has been added to the home page of my website through which the information can be accessed. The information is about how to deal with minor health problems or emergencies, while awaiting medical attention. It is the practical actions one needs to take alongside the use of first aid remedies. The pages contain much of the information I routinely give my clients by phone to do between the time of first contact and actually being seen. I have started work on the next remedy to appear on the First Aid Section - Aconite - I will update its publication via this blog when complete. The information in this section is equally applicable to all species including humans.

Meanwhile keep Happy and Healthy.

What to do if...my pet or I have....

A Homeopaths Botanical Day Out

As a homeopathic veterinary surgeon a visit to the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland in Glasnevin, Dublin. http://www.botanicgardens.ie/ gives one a wonderful opportunity to view first hand some of the plants that not only are beautiful, but are also used to provide food, fiber, medicines and a multitude of other uses; including acting as the source material for many homeopathic remedies with almost magical healing properties. The Botanic Gardens are an oft neglected resource, which are free to visit and with so much to offer in terms of beauty. There are buses to the entrance as well as car parking nearby and there is even a restaurant For many it is well within walking distance of their home, work or place of study.

Picture Delphinium - homeopathic remedy Staphysagria

National Botanic Garden Glasnevin Dublin October 2009 - Tom Farrington

I have always loved plants and remember in my college days visiting the Botanic Gardens to view the medicinal and poisonous plant beds, so that I could recognise them in cases of poisoning in what would be my future patients. Little realizing at the time that many plants that were not used as poisons or medications still had healing properties. (I often think there is little difference between the poisonous and medicinal plants when I hear of all the cases of death by medical misadventure)

Picture Turmeric Plant

National Botanic Garden Glasnevin

Dublin October 2009 - by Tom Farrington

It is such a pleasure to see the delicate beauty of plants from which the some many homoeopathic remedies are made. My next article for IrishAnimals www.irishanimals.ie is on Turmeric one of the many plants on display in the central pavilion of the Curvilinear Glasshouse Range and not just a valuable spice, but has a long history of use in medicine with the latest confirmation of its medical use coming just after my visit to the botanic gardens. In an article by Eithne Donnellan The Irish Times - Wednesday, October 28, 2009 she quoted research published in the British Journal of Cancer that researchers in University College Cork lead by Dr Sharon McKenna had found that Curcumin the main active chemical in Turmeric when extracted and brought in contact with oesophageal cancer cells they self digested within 24

hours. It is now to be tested against other cancers, but there are still obstacles to its use as a way to get it into the body avoiding the digestive process has yet to be developed.

It is of particular interest in the pharmaceutical world as it works with a novel mechanism that means it can be used for cancers resistant to current chemotherapeutics. Turmeric has many more medical uses some of which are covered in my article shortly to appear at www.irishanimals.ie.

The following day a visit to the National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7,(Another free day out once again with a nice restaurant)

http://www.museum.ie/ yielded an equally fascinating if round about insight into homeopathic remedies in the section on Silver. In homeopathy silver is the remedy Argentum Metallicum and it 's related salts such as Argentum Nitricum (silver nitrate).

Picture Silver Ingots and Silver Ore - Tom Farrington

In homoeopathy Argentum Met. or Silver is used, among other uses, for conditions of the throat, such as loss of voice in the "Silver Tongued Speaker" . It is thus no surprise that it is a remedy for performers when one realises that the best flutes and trumpets are made from silver - one has just to hear the music a silver coin makes when it hits the ground. Silver is one of the top performance medals and greatly prized cups for performance are generally of silver more commonly than gold which is often the top medal. One of the aims of alchemy was to turn lead to silver and then gold. In the case at the museum beside the silver ingots was a piece of silver ore showing the natural relationship of the beautiful silver so often associated with the moon in archetypal images and mythology, while in nature it is closely associated with the dull lead appearing as a leaden stripe through the ore. Silver is used in what is now old fashion photography as silver nitrate (also known as lunar caustic) which changed on exposure to light Yet in the digital photographic revolution that has followed silver is still one of the doping metals used in CMOS and CCD chips used to capture a digital picture. Mirrors are "silver" backed showing that silver not just captures light but also reflects it. Silver both as a metal and a homoeopathic faithfully reflects the world around it. One wonders how much of history is so accurately reflected, as while in the same museum we saw a cabinet given by Oliver Cromwell to his daughter on her marriage. The cabinet was puritanically plain black on the outside and absolutely beautifully adorned on the inside. I commented to my wife how much it conflicted with what I new of Cromwell who wanted to be painted warts and all to which my wife quipped back maybe he had never opened it. With that final comment I suggest you explore some of these wonderful free Irish national treasure troves mentioned in this blog, when you are in their vicinity, and may be take a fresh tour of my website pages and links there in at http://farrington.vet.googlepages.com/

A Homeopaths Botanical Day Out

SEEKING NEW & OLD INFORMATION

The internet is to me is a wonderful resource where one can quickly find information. (I do thankfully have a fast broadband connection - many years ago a client living in New York and
working for a major news corporation sent me a picture of a pets ailment which took me three full days to download, but was in the end a wonderful help in treating the patient, as I lived a continent away) I often use this wonderful resource to look up a word or phrase within a book I have sitting in my own shelf knowing that I have seen what I am looking for within a book, but unsure where especially when it is something which isn't indexed.

An example of a recent search related to the use of a homeopathic mother tincture. I regularly use search sites such as Google Books http://books.google.com/books ; The Guttenberg Project http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page or The Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/index.php and then when I have the exact page for something which isn't in the index take out my own book, go to the exact page and sit back and read it.

There are so many wonderful resources like this and gradually I am adding some of them to my website http://farrington.vet.googlepages.com/homeopathyresources%26links. The internet also gives one the chance to put out there some of the knowledge that one gains through ones own work and perspective on a subject or work built on the knowledge others have freely and generously shared their knowledge with you and to this end Pets & People Homeopathy have added a new button to its main page http://farrington.vet.googlepages.com/home called FIRST AID REMEDY SERIES. Clicking on this button

will take people to a master page with buttons, such as the one heading this blog, for various remedies initially starting with those with a first aid theme. Each of these remedies will have information which will be updated over time and will link out to other resources in relation to that remedy. Much of the information will come from cases where there has been a successful outcome to the use of the homoeopathic remedy or typify that remedy either as a description or via a picture of a patient. The first in this series is Arnica Montana probably the most famous of homeopathic remedies in general use for all sorts of first aid situations for more click http://farrington.vet.googlepages.com/arnicamontana.

SEEKING NEW & OLD INFORMATION