Tese homeopathic remedies, which can have a shelf life of 100 years, are made in liquid form. For ease of use, the remedy is commonly sprayed on sucrose or lactose pellets. While nosodes have been in use for more than 200 years, the nosodes for today’s modern diseases have been around for only about 20 years.
DO NOSODES WORK LIKE VACCINES? Robin Cannizzaro, DVM, CVA, of Wholistic Veterinary Care in Florida, points out a bit of a discrepancy in what people think of nosodes. “Tey’re often considered homeopathic vaccines, which is a misnomer, because they don’t act the same way as vaccines,” she says.
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Joyce Harman, DVM, MRCVS, of Harmany Equine Clinic in Virginia defines a nosode as “a homeopathic remedy made from diseased tissue. A good example would be, say, strangles, where you have a lot of pus-like material that comes out of the nose or out of the lymph nodes; it is made into a homeopathic remedy through the process of dilution and succussion. It’s diluted anywhere from 1 to 30 to 200 times. It’s shaken – or succussed– between each dilution.”
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omeopathic nosodes have been in use in humans and animals since the 1800s. Today, the Food and Drug Administration considers them a prescription item, requiring veterinarian involvement for animal use.
Kimberly Henneman, DVM, FAAVA, CVA, CVC, of Animal Health Options in Utah elaborates on this difference, “Tey work according to classical homeopathic principles in that they stimulate the body’s response to similar disease processes. Tey do not work by directly challenging the body’s immunity to stimulate either cellular immunity or antibody production [as vaccines do]. Te actual physiological mechanism of action has not yet been elucidated,” Dr. Henneman continues, “however new physics research is showing that solutions made according to homeopathic principles, dilution and succussion, change the crystalline and electromagnetic nature of the water in which they are made.”
One theory is that nosodes work by creating an artificial disease in the body. “Tere’s
one idea that homeopathic medicines may occupy a space, a resonance that the natural disease would occupy should the animal come into contact with the natural disease,” offers Dr. Cannizzaro. “If at the time the space is occupied by the nosode, then the disease has no place to settle and reside. If there’s no resonance with the patient whatsoever, then it just kind of disappears and nothing much happens.”
Dr. Harman offers her explanation, “We’re putting into the body a very, very dilute substance that really puts a picture into the body, an energetic picture that triggers a healing response. It’s sort of like turning a switch with this very dilute energetic substance that says to the body ‘you need to fix this problem.’ With a nosode, what we’re doing is trying to tell the body energetically that it’s capable of dealing with a bug.”
VACCINATION SUBSTITUTE? Dr. Harman cautions against simply substituting nosodes for traditional vaccines: “Tere are vets out there who are touting
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