Holistic vererinary medicine is a comprehensive approach to animal care involving alternative and conventional diagnostic and therapeutic modalities.  This approach includes but is not limited to:

• Acupuncture
• Homeopathy
• Botanical medicine/herbs
• Chiropractic
• Physical therapy
• Ayurveda
• Neutracueticals
• Massage therapy
• Chinese medicine

as well as conventional medicine, surgery and dentistry.

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Homeopathy
Homeopathy is a medical discipline in which non human animals are treated by the administration of substances that are capable of producing clinical signs in healthy animals similar to those of the animal being treated.  These substances are used therapeutically in very small doses.  Homeopathic remedies are based on dilution (the more diluted a remedy is, the more potent its action).

Nutrition
Nutrition is the use of micronutrients, macronutrient (diet), nutritional supplements, and trace minerals as therapeutic agents.

Botanical Medicine
This uses the plant and plant derivatives as the therapeutic agents.  These plants could be of different geographic origin: Eastern (Ayurveda), Chinese, Western and Latin America.

Chiropractic
The chiropractic adjustment is the single most effective treatment for neuro-musculo skeletal disorders, period.  The purpose of the chiropractic adjustment is to restore normal joint function, which improves body motion.

Ayurveda
Ayurveda, meaning literally "the Science of Life," is the ancient and traditional holistic healing system of India.  As a holistic system, Ayurveda encompasses not just the treatment of disease but also the creation and maintenance of health and wellness.  It emphasizes living in harmony with the laws of nature.  Ayurveda is primarily used as a preventive medicine that takes into account your animals specific type of constitution (doshas) to find the source of the animal's imbalance.  There are three main types of doshas - Vata, Pita, and Kapha.  The actual practice of Ayurveda involves the integration of the use of herbal supplements with diet, massage, exercise, and meditation (in humans) in an attempt to create a balance between these three doshas as they relate to an individual's constitutions.

Traditional vs. Holistic
The world's disillusionment with modern medicine is but one manifestation of a wider concern over the ultimate benefits of modern technology.  The products of our research laboratories - food additives, insecticides, drugs with unknown long term and genetic effects are threatening our health as rapidly as medical research can solve the mysteries of disease.  The depletion of our energy resources and the unbalancing of our ecology are creating a serious danger to our health.

The alternative health movement is seeking ways to treat illness with minimal disruption to the internal environment of the body.  This new breed of health practitioner is exploring medical systems that have demonstrated their effectiveness in other cultures for thousands of years, such as Indian Ayuredic medicine and the ancient Chinese system of acupuncture.

Most alternative approaches to  health care revolve around a central concept that is as old as the art of healing itself: that all living beings possess on a deep level the will and wisdom to be healthy and that the wisdom of the organism can and should be enlisted in effecting a cure.