Homeopathic Mange Treatment For Foxes

[vetuste_ennemi]

Is this effective? If so, how?

We were "treating" a fox for sarcoptic mange a few years ago using medicine supplied by the National Fox Welfare Society, but stopped when we realised the "medecine" was homeopathic. They gave good reasons for not supplying conventional medecines to the public, but couldn't convince me that the homeopathic alternative worked. Can any of you guys convince me otherwise?

This from their website:

http://www.nfws.org.uk/mange/Mange_FAQ.html

[EDDIE51]

^ Good point Woofgang !

[kvalidir]

Our vet gives us Stronghold to use on the odd occasion we've had a mangey fox since we had established a good feeding pattern with it and it's not a toxic issue with dogs. He didn't mention a homeopathic option but I'll certainly ask him his opinion.

[webbo3]

any of my facebook fiends on here will tell you about my fox and the difference in a year with treatment.


Dave.

[wolf63]

Dave's fox was a scrawny looking lass last year - this year her coat looks very healthy. Maybe the fox got better on her own - but TLC and some homoeopathic medicine won't hurt.

[jim360]

I don't doubt that it got better, I just doubt that it's reasonable to attribute that to the homeopathic treatment in particular, as opposed to any other factor.

There's no getting away from the fact that "blabla 30c" is just a fancy name for "water". Nothing more, nothing less.

[mstlou]

Homeopathy works for babies and animals especially effectively. It is a myth that there are no medical trials showing that it works! There are loads (search for them you will find them). But there are some forms of medical trials that aren’t suitable for homeopathy because often it takes an individual treatment for a patient - homeopathy takes mental state, physical state, age, mood, all sorts of things in to question and then chooses a remedy related to that. Which is why conventional medical trials often aren’t going to work with homeopathy because if you were testing say 10,000 people you’d need many different remedies for the same issue with them because they are all different people. If you research in a homeopathy book for one issue they will suggest many different treatments - only the right one for the right person will work. But medical trials tend to focus on one particular treatment/drug or remedy which will never bring about successfully results with homeopathy - for a trial of that size each participant would have to be assessed individually to pick the right remedy for them. This is why it is easy to dismiss it, for people that want to. However there are huge numbers of medical trials showing it’s effectiveness that look for individual remedies for each (but obviously they can’t be a double blind trial because you can’t pick the right remedy for a blind trial - the practitioner has to know who they are treating to choose which remedy). It’s complex. I have looked through pages and pages of differently designed trials for homeopathy showing it’s effectiveness - and I have experienced it myself - whether it is via a placebo of not i don’t know - i don’t know that with any treatment - and who cares as long as it works - and with the right remedy homeopathy does work! Actually the last treatment i had was too strong for me I had to stop for several months before trying again. Also look up the study that looked at the placebo effect with knee surgeries - even surgery can be a placebo effect. So it’s a lot more complex than people realise. If something can work without being harmful or having side effects then surely that is a good thing, right?