Complementary Veterinary Medicine Branch Newsletter
Published by: Complementary Veterinary Medicine Branch of the NZVAElectronic ISSN: 1172-580X
The Newsletter of the Complementary Veterinary Medicine Branch of the NZVA helps provide educational opportunities and support to veterinarians, to make use of integrative medicine, thus encouraging sustainable healthcare options and working towards a healthier planet.
The content in this newsletter has been provided by representatives of the Complementary Veterinary Medicine Branch (CVMB) of the New Zealand Veterinary Association Te Pae Kīrehe (NZVA). The views expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily represent those of the NZVA and the NZVA does not necessarily endorse any products or services advertised.
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Articles
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - April 2015 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - April 2018 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - August 2015 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - August 2016 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - August 2017 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Autumn 2020 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Autumn 2021 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Autumn 2022 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Autumn 2023 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Autumn 2024 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Autumn 2025 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - December 2015 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - December 2016 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - December 2017 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - December 2019 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - February 2017 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - July 2018 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Spring 2022 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Spring 2024 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Summer 2020 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Summer 2021 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Summer 2022 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Summer 2023 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Summer 2024 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Winter 2020 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Winter 2021 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Winter 2023 - Full newsletter
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Newsletter - Winter 2025 - Full newsletter
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- April 2022 Newsletter President's Report
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Branch Animal Welfare Strategy 2015
- Complementary Veterinary Therapy Student Conference at Massey University 2016
- CVMB Conference October 24-26 2015
- New Zealand Veterinary Association ’s Veterinary Impact Award 2020 - Dr Liza Schneider
- NZVA Conference 2016
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report
- President's Report December 2021
- President's Report December 2023
- President's Report July 2024
- President's Report July 2025
- President's Report June 2021
- President's Report June 2023
- President's Report March 2021
- President's Report March 2023
- President's Report March 2024
- President's Report March 2025
- President's Report November 2024
- Summer 2022 Newsletter President's report
- The Value in Our Veterinary Profession
- Winter/Spring 2022 Newsletter President's Report
- 2017 CVMB Conference: Regenerative Therapy in Veterinary Practice
- Animal Wellness Examinations and Health Screening Profiles
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Branch Conference 2017
- NZVA MAG (Member Advisory Group) Update
- NZVA MAG (Member Advisory Group) Update
- NZVA Policy on Complementary and Alternative Therapies
- One Health in Practice: Environmental Effects of Herbicides and Mycotoxins
- Rose's Blog
- Rose's Blog
- Rose's Blog
- Rose's Blog April 2022
- Rose's Blog December 2021
- Rose's Blog December 2022
- Rose's Blog December 2023
- Rose's Blog July 2024
- Rose's Blog July 2025
- Rose's Blog June 2021
- Rose's Blog March 2021
- Rose's Blog March 2024
- Rose's Blog March 2025
- Rose's Blog November 2024
- Rose's Blog September 2022
- Success Stories: When going the extra mile makes a difference!
- Success Stories: When going the extra mile makes a difference!
- Success Stories: When going the extra mile makes a difference!
- The Treatment of Chronic Illness: 2019 Pan Pacific Integrative Veterinarians’ (IVA) and Complementary Veterinary Medicine Branch (CVMB) Conference
- 2017 Massey Complementary Veterinary Therapies (MCVT) Annual Vet Student Conference
- A Message from Dr. Bruce Ferguson, DVM, MS, President AATCVM
- Jacqui Snell - My Journey - Becoming a Holistic Veterinarian
- My Journey with Homoeopathy - Dr Barbara Stumbles
- NZVA Conference 2024
- NZVA MAG (Member Advisory Group) Update
- NZVA Policy: The use of complementary and alternative treatments by veterinarians
- Rose's Blog June 2023
- Rose's Blog March 2023
- Sustainable Vet Healthcare: A Vehicle to Optimal Health & Well-being
- SustainaVet
- Case Study: 'George' - The Golden Retriever
- Csae studies: Bitsy and Misha
- Holistic Parasite Control for Pet Owners
- Homeopathic Management of a Case of Acute Anaemia in a Dog
- Massey Vet Student's Complementary Veterinary Therapy Club Sustainable Health Care Conference 2023
- NZVA Complementary Branch Conference Presentation Summary
- Rose's Blog
- Sustainable Health Care and Nutrition
- Welcome To Our Newest Committee Member, The Addition of Acupuncture to Equine Practice
- Western Herbs for Veterinary Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Case Report: Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Herbal medicine used to treat a dog with cervical and thoracolumbar disc disease
- Case Study: 'Paco' The Mixed Breed Terrier
- Healthy gut - Healthy mind
- Herbs for Cancer
- Integrative Vet Students, NZVA Complementary Branch Conference Update, Veterinary Acupuncture Lecture
- Natural Pet Food Group Cyclone Gabrielle Update
- NZVA Policy change: The use of complementary and alternative treatments by veterinarians
- NZVA's Outstanding Service Award 2023 Awarded to Rose Unsworth
- The Compementary Veterinary Branch would like to Welcome our Newest Committee Members
- The Top 5 Mushrooms For Dogs: Multi-Dimensional Healing
- VetSalus Update : August 2024
- Western Herbs for Geriatrics
- Case Studies
- CVMB Symposium 2025: The Point of Healing - Integrative Options for lameness, analgesia and rehabilitation
- E-mail to the NZVA In response to November 2017 Vetscript's Letter to the Editor
- Integrative Veterinary Conference Australia (IVCA) 2024
- Join us for our 2015CVMB with the legendary Dr Bruce Ferguson!
- Mindfulness and self-care for a fragile profession
- Nutraceuticals: Improve patient outcomes safely, effectively and easily
- Parvovirus: Successful outcomes with Intravenous Vitamin C and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Rose's Blog
- SustainaVet
- SustainaVet
- Treatment of Degenerative Myelopathy in a dog using Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine
- Case Study: 'Abby' the German Shorthaired Pointer
- Complementary Veterinary Members Branch President Report from The Massey Complementary Veterinary Therapies Group
- CVMB plays its part in helping fellow veterinarians in Australia recover from 2020 devastating bush fires
- Experiencing Value in the Holistic Veterinary Profession
- Livestock and Climate Change - Introductory Webinar
- Monograph: Acupuncture Point - PC6 - Nei Guan (Inner Pass)
- NZVA Bay of Plenty Regional Branch Meeting Raw Feeding Talk
- One Health: Absurdly incomprehensible ... but there is hope
- Popular culinary herbs and how they can help companion animals
- Rose's Blog
- SustainaVet
- Vaccinate or Titre Test? Making sensible evidence-based decisions
- 2018 NZVA Mega-Conference: CVMB Stream Summary
- 35 herbs for natural health and healing
- Case Report: Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Herbal medicine used to treat a dog with cervical and thoracolumbar disc disease
- Case Study: Rehabilitation and Acupuncture for Pain Management in a Canine Patient
- Case Study: Tess - The Staffy X with Urinary Incontinence
- CVMB Conference 2015
- Holistic Parasite Control
- Members Advisory Group 2024, Complementary Veterinary Medicine Presentation
- Omega-3: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Vaccinate or Titre Test? Making sensible evidence-based decisions
- Case Study : Billie - Mixed Crossbreed with Skin Disease
- Conference 2021
- Maintaining Brain Health and Memory in Elderly Pet Animals
- Meet some of our CVMB Committee
- Monograph Acupuncture Point - GV 20 - Ba Hui (Hundred Convergences)
- SustainaVet
- SustainaVet - Conference 2024
- Alterrnative Therapies for Pain Management
- Massey Students Holistic Veterinary Therapies Annual Conference
- Some Observations on the Treatment of Superficial Pyoderma in Dogs with Totarol
- SustainaVet - Vets and Communicating Good Science
- The Use of Acupuncture for Temporary Improvement of Chronic Epiphora and Periorbital Dermatitis in an Angora Rabbit
- Vaccinate or Titre Test? Making sensible evidence-based decisions - Part 3
- Veterinary botanical medicine - show us the evidence
- Vets Valuation
- Antibiotics and Plant Based Alternatives
- Case Study: 'Latte'
- Conference 2023
- Copazan Oral Gel: Functional Biomaterial and Periodontal Disease in Veterinary Medicine from concept to application in vitro
- Nutritional Therapies for Cancer
- Probiotics, Prebiotics and Synbiotics: What they do and how they can help prevent problems and improve health
- Vet Expo Sydney 2023
- Vet Sustain Conference 2020
- Why The War Against Homeopathy?
- Case Report: 'George' The Schnauzer - Right HL Lameness
- CVMB and NZVA Conference Update
- Electroacupuncture treatment for Radial Paralysis in foals (and calves)
- How I approach Idiopathic Canine Epilepsy
- In Memory of Bruce Ferguson
- Massey Complementary Veterinary Therapies Club
- Resources for Neutraceuticals: Our main veterinary resources used by our members
- Soil and Animal Health links
- SustainaVet - Conference 2025
- Homeopathy and Cardiovascular Disease
- Massey University Complementary Veterinary Therapies Club Annual Conference 2024
- Values and the Veterinary Profession
- Waste Reduction
- Case Study: Numbi - The Fox Terrier - Fractured Pelvis - Rehabilitation Therapy
- Concurrent Herbal Therapy to support the treatment of Canine Diabetes Mellitus and Chronic Suppurative Pododermatitis
- Homeopathy and The Dynamic of Treating Cancer
- Integrative Veterinary Conference Australia 2024, Natural Diet for Dogs and Cats with Liver Disease, Natural Diet for Cardiac Disease in Dogs and Cats
- Needles That Go A Long Way!
- New Light Therapy Produces Fast Skin Recovery for Pets
- Obituary - Dr Lyn Thomson
- Reconnecting with the Heart of Practice, Mindfulness Practices you can incorporate easily
- Sustainability Statements 2024 Conference
- SustainaVet - Conference 2023
- The Use of Acupuncture to Successfully Treat Hip Pain and Behavioural Symptoms in a Young Large Crossbreed Dog with Canine Hip Dysplasia
- A General Integrative Approach to Cancer Treatment
- Essential Micro-Organisms
- Integrative Veterinary Conference Australia 2024 - Part 2
- Nutrition Case Study
- Rose's Blog
- SustainaVet
- Cancer Diets: Functional Nutritional Intervention
- Fish Oil or Flaxseed Oil: Which is Superior for Dogs and Cats?
- Functional Nutritional Intervention and Joint Supplements
- Holistic Vets Achieves Platinum Status in TCC Resource Wise Business Programme
- The Good PEA - Every Vet should hav it on their shelf
- Care and Nutrition for Older (Senior) Dogs
- Case Study: 'Pogo' the Chihuahua Cross with Itchy Skin
- Case Study: Pippin - The Chihuahua with Progressive Alopecia
- Organic Vege Growing Workshop - How to Grow Nutrient Dense Organic Veges at Home
- The Use of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Bilateral Hip Dysplasia in a Dog
- Vitamin D
- Complementary Veterinary Medicine Branch SIB NZVA AGM 2023 Agenda
- NAET - Nambutripads Allergy Elimination Technique
- SustainaVet - Are you aware of VetSalus?
- VetSalus Launches N.Z.'s First Veterinary Carbon Calculator
- Green Lip Mussels - Pilot Study
- Herbal Treatment of a dog with Chronic Pancreatitis
- How Omega-3 Fatty Acids Support the Whole Pet
- Nutrition Case Study: Mr Brownie - The Chihuahua - Laryngeal Paralysis and Renal Disease
- The Interconnection of Plants, Animals, Their Ecosystems and the Veterinarian
- Encouraging Wellness in Our Animal Friends
- Minutes Complementary Veterinary Medicine Branch SIB NZVA AGM 2022
- SustainaVet - VetSalus Update - April 2024
- Cancer-fighting superfoods
- Natural Treatment Systems for Food Allergies
- The Grass Can Be Greener
- Vets for Climate Action
- Dandelion: The Best Weed in Town
- Holistic Approaches for Shelters, Rescues and Ferals
- Case of Presumed Cushing's Disease in a Female Springer Spaniel: Homeopathic approace
- An update on the NZVA Clinic Climate Champions and Climate Care Program Development
- Compassionate Communication in the Workplace: "Breakdowns and Breakthroughs"
- Integrated Herbal Medicine Treatment: Mast Cell Tumour in a Puppy
- SustainaVet - Conference 2025
- The Color of Music?
- Passing of AHVMA Founder Dr Carvel Tiekert
- Rearing heifers without drenching
- Successful use of acupuncture to treat facial paralysis in a horse
- Sustainable Vet Practice: Join us on Social Media!
- Effectiveness of the homeopathic preparation Zeel compared with carprofen in dogs with osteoarthritis
- Value and the Veterinary Profession
- Mindfulness in Homeopathic Practice
- Prolotherapy and Knee Problems
- Why not Join the IAVH (International Assoc of Vet Homeopathy) and be part of a global community of like-minded vets?
- Nutrition and Thyroid Function
- Ulrike Wurth - 1950-2018
- One Health in Practice
- What Do You Want to Be Today?
- A truly sustainable future for our profession
- The use of acupuncture as adjunctive modality to treat symptoms of Intervertebral Disc Disease in a Beagle
- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
- Rustproofing your Dogs
- Sustainable Health Care
- Helping Rescue Dogs with Homeopathy
- Homeopathic treatment of geriatric animals
- Homeopathy in Veterinary Practice in New Zealand and the NZVA's Complementary and Alternative Therapy Policy
- Management of an Aggressive Fibrosarcoma in a Shih Tzu Pup
- A Tribute to Tana, a very special rescue dog
- Toby's Tortuous Twenty Hours
- Care of Your Aged Animal
- An Integrative Approach to Arthritis