We appreciate the interest in our article A Systematic Review of Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine: “Miscellaneous Therapies” published in Animals, Volume 11 [1]. Our article is one in a comprehensive series of systematic reviews of original research on complementary and alternative veterinary medicine (CAVM) methods used in sport and companion animals. The commentators refer to research on homeopathy in humans and farm animals [2]. The scope of our systematic literature review was to study the scientific documentation for equine, canine and feline species. As is evident from our systemic review, the scientific documentation, irrespective of clinical condition, provides no reliable evidence for the clinical efficacy of homeopathy in the treatment of dogs, cats and horses.
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