K wrote:
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.
I've heard that, too. Feeling "looked after" must be good for the kind
of animals we have around us -- that is, by definition, social ones
which can be tamed. Extremely difficult to test; but I do remember one
of that Cotswold family who produce the organic meat saying that when
one of their younger cows was ill with something she sought out her
mother, with whom she hadn't associated for a couple of years, and
stuck with her like glue till she was better. They've also observed
their stock seeking out various plants when they aren't well. None of
that's homoeopathy, though.
--
Mike.