by Tish Streeten
Juliette de Bairacli Levy is the pioneer of holistic veterinary medicine. She is also a world-renowned herbalist, author, breeder of Afghan hounds, friend of the Gypsies, and traveler in search of herbal wisdom. For more than seventy years Juliette has been living with and learning from the original animal herbalists – the Gypsies, peasants and indigenous peoples of the world, and the animals themselves.
Juliette de Bairacli Levy was born in England in 1912 into a very wealthy family. Her father was a Turkish Jewish rug merchant and her mother was Egyptian. With her three sisters and two brothers, Juliette grew up in Manchester amidst maids, butlers, nannies, gardeners and chauffeurs. She was educated in the best schools in Britain, and then because of her great love for animals, she went on to study veterinary medicine at university. But while at university Juliette became disgusted with the vivisection practices going on in the- laborato ries and with the fact that these institutions were not teaching her how to heal.
Thus, like Paracelsus, the great mediaeval doctor, Juliette went to live with the peasant and Gypsy herbalists of the world in order to learn the true medicine. These people, she could see, were successful. They hadnt got sick, weak looking animals. They had magnificent animals, and they themselves had wonderful hair and wonderful teeth and the joy of life was shining in their faces.
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