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20-06-2006, 06:18 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

Sacha writes
On 20/6/06 16:16, in article , "Janet
Baraclough" wrote:

There was a fascinating programme on tv several years ago about a farmer
using a homeopathic remedy for his cows. I remember that it involved
putting mere drops of the remedy into the huge drinking trough but the
incidence of (I think) milk fever, dropped by something like 60% Now, the
cows didn't know they were being treated, so that can't be imagination. A
homeopath I knew gave her farming friends on Dartmoor borax to put in the
animals' drinking water and not one of those farms got F&M even though it
was raging all around them. She wasn't supposed to do it, of course but I
think by then people were desperate. And personally, I swear by arnica for
bruises.

A vet friend of mine told me that the placebo effect also works on
animals.

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Kay