The Nature of Animal Healing by Martin Goldstein D.V.M

Author:Martin Goldstein, D.V.M. [Goldstein, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-42236-1
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 1999-03-14T05:00:00+00:00

Even for holistic veterinarians, the decision to believe that a healing crisis is under way is an arduous one. I’ve often seen a holistic veterinarian do great things for an animal initially and then decide, nine months later when the pet comes back with a seeming turn for the worse, that that approach has failed. And so out come the drugs, or the euthanasia solution—just when the pet may be about to slough off his most deeply ingrained toxins.

What I say to those veterinarians at those times is what I say to the owners: Don’t be afraid! Fear is such a terribly destructive force in medical care. So often, it inhibits us from letting the patient help himself. But also: Recognize the whole picture. How was the patient in the days preceding this apparent decline? A pet on the eve of a healing crisis will have seemed energetic, even frisky. “This feeling of strength is probably the most distinguishing feature that characterizes a healing crisis from a disease crisis,” observes John Sherman, a doctor of naturopathy from Washington State who has studied the phenomenon. “The vital force is on the ‘ascendency’ in a healing crisis, whereas there is a lack of vitality in a disease crisis…. When the vital force intrinsic to the body has finally worked up to this acutely reactive event, taking any suppressive medication, even an aspirin, could damage the immunity and vitality of an individual.”

If holistic veterinarians hesitate, what of conventional ones? The fact is that most seem incapable of accepting, even as a remote possibility, the notion that drugs might not always be the best approach to severe ill health, let alone that without them, a healing crisis might occur—as the case of Bristol Hill makes clear.

By the time I saw Bristol Hill, he was a three-and-a-half-month-old kitten with bone infections who’d been subjected to so many intravenous injections that his veterinarian had run out of veins to hit with a needle. The veterinarian simply hadn’t known to consider any other course of treatment besides drugs. And now euthanasia was the logical and humane choice. When I saw Bristol, I felt we had a truly hopeless case, and the blood analysis seemed to confirm that opinion: his white blood cell count after two months of constant intravenous antibiotics was over 50,000, when it should have been between 6,000 and 16,000. Because the infections had spread to his joints, all four of Bristol’s legs were crippled. Moreover, the chronic drug therapy had overwhelmed his immune system, and Bristol had become quite anemic. Though I was tempted to go along with the recommendation of euthanasia, I decided there was nothing to lose in putting him on injectable vitamin C and giving him a couple of homeopathic remedies for chronic and acute infections. Five days later, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Bristol was sloughing off toxins from everywhere, but at the same time he appeared so much stronger. Alarming as the process appeared, I knew it was a healthy one.

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