This thread is scary, holistic use to mean looking at the body as a whole mind/body interaction and you don't treat just a symptom, but look for factors contributing to that symptom. Now the word can be used by anybody, and many quacks are using the word. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and there is a great deal of difference between vaccinating and over vaccination. Holistic treatment can be downright dangerous, just because a plant is natural, it doesn't mean it's safe. People have this belief that if we can buy some herb it must be safe, this isn't true. The food and drug administration doesn't require testing on herbs that are not being sold as a specific remedy for something, so lots of these things have never been tested. The way holistic practitioners get around this is to not label the ingredients for any special treatment, just have "literature" on what such and such an herb will do. If you want to treat yourself with "Holistic" treatments, feel free to, you are only risking your health, but it's abuse to treat you dogs and children with much that is written as being holistic. Remember these "holistic practitioners" are selling you a product, and trying to convince you it's better than conventional medicine. Don't take their word for it, on something as important as your dog's health. |