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How to find money for veterinary care
Even if you are not one of the many people who are short of money right now, it is smart to think about financing your animals’ health care. There are many ways you can find money to treat your cherished animals. Some veterinarians, especially integrative ones, will be willing to barter with you. What skills do you have? Can you clean their parking lot, sidewalk, clinic? Are you a bookkeeper or accountant? Are you great with the internet and able to help them build a web sit

Christina Chambreau, DVM
May 132 min read


Flower Power – Flower Essences and Essential Oils
Imagine for a minute – no angry dogs, no hissing or spraying cats, great appetites, no fear of thunderstorms and lovely interactions for all in the family. Although nothing is 100 percent, the energetic power inherent in Flower Essences and Essential Oils can help you and your companion be happier and healthier. FLOWER ESSENCES Flower Essences are one of my most favored treatments. They really are completely safe, often effective and are a natural way to help animals be he

Christina Chambreau, DVM
May 1215 min read


Overview Of Homeopathy - History, Principles And Use
Although formally conceived by Samuel Hahnemann, MD, a brilliant German physician in 1800, the roots of homeopathy go back to Hippocrates, Paracelsus, the Mayans, Chinese, Greeks, Indians (Asian & American), and Egyptians. All used the philosophy of like cures like. Hippocrates and other Greek physicians observed that if a person chronically ill with one disease was infected with a more severe disease that had similar symptoms – the chronic disease would disappear

Christina Chambreau, DVM
Apr 114 min read


Ways To Lessen Damage From Vaccines
Most importantly, follow the package insert which says “for use in healthy animals only”. If you are dealing with chronic illness, see if the vaccine can be postponed, but know the legal risks of doing this in your local area. Muscle test/ask nature or contact an intuitive to see if this is a safe (or sort of safe) time to give the vaccine. Even if you are forced to give the vaccine, keep your thoughts very positive, knowing that in almost every case, any negative effects can

Christina Chambreau, DVM
Mar 202 min read


Selecting and Working With An Integrative Veterinarian
Your cherished companion is ill and you do not like the conventional suggestions, or they have not been working. Better yet, you know now that there must be better ways to maintain health and increased longevity, so you want to find a holistic veterinarian. You have done internet searches and found no one near you. You may have found a website with referrals, but no one local or you went and they suggested the same old conventional treatments. So frustrating!!! I am here to h

Christina Chambreau, DVM
Mar 48 min read


Holistic Methods And Philosophy
Something different—Holistic “Holistic” is an approach to thinking about health that focuses on the whole animal rather than a “disease.” The holistic approach uses both conventional and alternative treatments. Integrative practitioners are taught to use all the symptoms an animal has now and has ever had in the past to find and treat the individual’s underlying predisposition to illness. Each dog with thin hair, lethargy and obesity may need a different treatment – different

Christina Chambreau, DVM
Feb 2113 min read


7 Keys To Having Healthy Animals, People & Planet
Listen to an interview with master herbalist, environmentalist Greg Tilford where I talk about the perspective of focusing on the whole and give an easy 3 step method (HMDM) to decide which health building steps you want to implement. 1. Know the current level of health Most health problems are the result of an underlying energy imbalance. As we cure animals of “disease”, we find that other things we thought were normal go away, so we can use these clues to know that animal

Christina Chambreau, DVM
Feb 128 min read