Welcome a dog into our home implies accepting a great responsibility, giving it enough time and enough attention so that its development is optimal and progressively understanding those behaviors and signs that indicate that something is getting out of balance in your body.
Many owners are increasingly aware of how important it is to treat their pets' pathologies with more natural methods that respect the body. Precisely homeopathy is a completely natural and harmless therapy that provides excellent results when applied to animals.
In this AnimalWised article we talk about the application of homeopathy for dogs with epilepsy.
Epilepsy in dogs
Epilepsy in dogs is a hereditary neurological disease that manifests itself through seizures that may be accompanied by loss of consciousness, prostration, pedaling on the legs, excessive salivation and loss of sphincter control, which causes involuntary urination and defecation.
There are numerous triggers that can cause a seizure in dogs, but at a physiological level the same phenomenon will always occur: uncontrolled electrochemical discharges occur in the brain, which translates into the symptoms we mentioned above.
This is an incurable disease whose treatment is aimed at reducing and preventing epileptic seizures, generally a dog suffering from this pathology will show their first seizure between 6 months and 5 years of age.
How does homeopathy treat epilepsy?
Homeopathy for animals is a completely natural and harmless therapy that is widely used today, however, the attention and advice of a homeopathic veterinarian will always be required, even more so when treating a pathology of these characteristics.
In the field of homeopathy there are numerous therapeutic approaches to epilepsy, in addition, all of them can be achieved through different homeopathic remedies, let's see what the most important objectives will be of treatment:
First, the individual characteristics of the dog and the specific modalities with which epileptic seizures occur will be studied. In this way, our pet will receive a treatment that takes into account its individual factors
The dog's mental state will be studied, this is one of the most important objectives since in homeopathy diseases also have an emotional cause, in fact, any imbalance in the dog's mental state will aggravate the epilepsy
The homeopathic veterinarian will not only select a remedy that is appropriate to the individual characteristics of the dog and the exact way in which it manifests the seizures, but also has the option of giving a basic treatment, which without being individualized, meets the goal of improving neurological functions
What homeopathic remedies can be used to treat epilepsy?
Any homeopathic remedy can be suitable to treat epilepsy in dogs, and this is because each remedy corresponds to a specific way of externalizing the disease and a specific mental state, hence it is It is so important that the treatment is carried out by a homeopathic veterinarian adequately trained in this therapy, since only he can carry out the individualization of the case and the subsequent prescription of homeopathic remedies.
However, we can only set out by way of example which are those homeopathic remedies that should be taken into account when treating a pathology that affects the nervous system:
- Gelsemium
- Causticum
- Conium
- Plumbum
- Agaricus Moscaricus
- Zincum
Can epilepsy be treated with homeopathy alone?
Yes, it is possible to treat epilepsy only with homeopathy since there are references of homeopathic doctors who have successfully treated epilepsy in humans and only using this therapy.
However, it is very common for homeopathic treatment to be combined with pharmacological treatment (generally barbiturate drugs will be used), which means reducing the dose of the drugaccording to the progression of homeopathic treatment.
