What is Holistic Veterinary Medicine?
The philosophy of Holistic medicine is 2400 years old dating back to the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates in 400 B.C. In Holistic veterinary medicine we are treating the whole animal on a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level and not just treating your pet’s symptoms or disease. Holistic veterinary medicine seeks to find the underlying cause of disease and not just alleviate symptoms. Every animal is a living, energetic being who is constantly adjusting to its surrounding environment and attempting to stay in a state of equilibrium or balance. Therefore, holistic veterinary medicine takes into account the animal as an integrated whole being and all the factors that contribute to health and well being; environment, nutrition, lifestyle and emotional happiness. In holistic veterinary medicine, we acknowledge that the vital force (Chi) of life is in every cell of our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual being. Each cell has its own consciousness. With holistic therapies we c
Holistic (or Integrative or Complementary) Veterinary Medicine is the examination and diagnosis of an animal, considering all aspects of the animal’s life and employing all of the practitioner’s senses, as well as the combination of conventional and alternative (or complementary) modalities of treatment. When a holistic veterinarian sees a pet, besides giving it a comprehensive physical examination, he/she wants to find out all about its behaviors, distant medical and dietary history, and its environment including diet, emotional stresses, and other factors.
