Our Menu for Healing is also affectionately known as “The Love Sandwich” because, as you can see, our list begins and ends with love. Its tremendous healing power can never be overstated!

At BrightHaven, we believe that love is such an essential, transformative and powerful healing force, we celebrate it each and every day! The unquestionable understanding of the importance of love to living a full life is but one example of the deep wisdom shared with us by our beloved animal teachers over the years.

The BrightHaven animals know all about love!

Feeding an appropriate diet is one of the best ways to maximize an animal’s health and well being, as food provides the body with its primary energy and nutritional source.

Every single feline and canine resident BrightHaven resident, regardless of age or physical condition, was fed this diet. Even the oldest animals showed a remarkable improvement when switched from a conventional method of feeding to our natural menu.

Another important consideration: Older or sick animals must transition very slowly to any new diet and also elders or those closer to the end of life may need some treat food to help them get to know and eat their new food.

During holistic hospice or end-of-life care: Diet may change, depending on what the animal will eat. It’s normal for appetites to wax and wane, changing from one meal to the next.

We ran routine blood panels–probably more often than most as we endeavored to check homeopathic remedy responses and progress. We also performed very regular urinalyses for our paraplegic animals. Other less often performed diagnostic work was the occasional fecal check or tissue analysis.

Due to the fragility of our hospice patients we rarely ran more detailed diagnostics that would involve taking them away from their home, preferring to make contact with mobile veterinarians who are able to come to the patient if necessary to perhaps perform an ultrasound.

During holistic hospice or end-of-life care: Diagnostics are likely not needed as focus is on comfort care, not cure.  

BrightHaven has seen astonishing results in our animals over the years and when one looks at our track record of animals’ health and longevity, one may wish to remain open to this method of care.

Meaning of Holistic vs. Homeopathy

Before talking more about this fascinating subject, it’s important to understand that homeopathy is a holistic modality. Oftentimes people get confused between the two words, thinking they mean exactly the same thing.

Holistic medicine treats the entire being: body, mind, emotions and spirit. “Dis–ease” denotes an “out of ease” or unbalanced state. Often, holistic approaches can detect problems at the dis-ease state and correct the imbalance before serious illness sets in.

What is Homeopathy?

Basically homeopathy is a form of holistic medicine used by over 200 million people worldwide to treat both acute and chronic conditions. It is based on the principle of “like cures like.” In other words, a substance taken in small amounts will cure the same symptoms it causes if that same substance was taken in large amounts.

Homeopathy is a complete system of medicine that involves treating the individual, animal or human, with highly diluted substances, given either in tablet or liquid form, with the aim of triggering the body’s natural system of healing. Based on each patient’s very specific symptoms as well as health history, a homeopath will match the most appropriate medicine.

Learn more about the amazing results we’ve seen with classical veterinary homeopathy.

During holistic hospice or end-of-life care: Homeopathy can be used at all life stages.