PART I: THE THEORY

The History of Homeopathy   What is homeopathy?  –  The development of modern homeopathy  –  Provings  –  Potentisation  –  Totality  –  Chronic disease  –  The spread of homeopathy  –  Veterinary homeopathy

Research into Homeopathy   How can it work?  –  Clinical trials and their problems  –  Other research approaches  –  The future

The Remedies   Sources of the remedies  –  Animal, Vegetable, Mineral  –  Preparation of the remedies  –  Source material  –  The remedy picture  –  Storage and dispensing of remedies

The Disease: General Considerations   The vital force  –  Challenging the vital force  –  Hering’s Law  –  One disease at a time  – Primary and secondary actions

The Disease: Manifestations of Disease   The nature of disease  –  Attitudes to disease – Hahnemann’s concept of chronic disease

Obtaining the Symptoms   Signs and symptoms  –  Taking the case  –  The herd/flock/kennel/cattery situation  –  Pitfalls and interpretation  –  Miasmatic and constitutional symptoms  –  Observation  –  Conventional investigations and diagnosis

Matching the Symptoms   The materia medica  –  Veterinary materia medica  –  The repertories  –  Computer repertories  –  Veterinary repertories  –  Other levels of prescribing  –  Local prescribing  –  Organ-specific prescribing  –  Pathological prescribing  –  Functional prescribing  –  Proven indications  –  Causality  –  Keynotes  –  The predominant miasm  –  Taxonomic class of remedy  –  Constitutional prescribing

Practical Prescribing   Recognising the problem  –  Dosage considerations  –  Potency considerations  –  Interpreting the response  –  Possible responses  –  Clinical provings  –  Palliation  –  Aggravation  –  Antidoting of remedies  –  The second prescription  –  Unicist prescribing and mixtures of remedies

Constitutional Prescribing   The concept of the homeopathic constitution  –  The advantages of using the constitutional approach  –  Finding the constitution by repertorisation  –  Using constitutional prescriptions  –  Some common constitutional pictures

Obstacles to Cure   Structural  –  Diet  –  Environment  –  Orthodox medication  –  Vaccination  –  Previous infectious disease  –  Surgery  –  Miasmatic influences

Miasms and their Role in Disease   Understanding and using miasms  –  The basic miasms  –  Interpretations of the theory  –  A model for the miasms  –  Creation and inheritance of miasms  –  Recognising miasms  –  Anti-miasmatic remedies

Isopathy and the Use of Nosodes   Uses of Isopathy  –  ‘Never Well Since’  –  Desensitisation  –  Treatment of active disease  –  Prophylaxis  –  Organotherapy  –  Bowel nosodes  –  Prescription on miasmatic criteria

The Bowel Nosodes   Development of the bowel nosodes  –  The associated remedies  –  Clinical uses of the bowel nosodes  –  The bowel nosodes and their associated remedies  –  Bowel nosodes in relation to modern bacteriology

Vaccination – The Homeopathic Perspective   Immunological and homeopathic considerations  –  Harmful effects of vaccination  –  Treatment of vaccinosis  –  Use of nosodes in relation to vaccination

 
PART II: THE PRACTICE

Getting Started   Combining homeopathy and other treatments  –  Ethical considerations  –  The future of veterinary homeopathy  –  How to use Part II

The remaining chapters of Part II are then discussed under the common headings of ‘General Considerations’,  ‘Major Modalities’ and ‘Remedies of Major Use’, and are as follows:

Surgery and First Aid  –  The Upper Respiratory System  –  The Lower Respiratory System

The Digestive System  –  The Stomach and Liver  –  The Urinary System  –  The Female Genital System

The Male Genital System  –  The Musculoskeletal System  –  The Nervous System

The Cardiovascular System  –  The Endocrine System  –  The Skin  –  Behavioural Problems

The Geriatric patient  –  The Homeopathic Approach to Neoplasia

 
General bibliography  –  Glossary  –  Useful addresses and contact points  –  Index