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An excerpt from Robert's Online Book: Herbal Horsekeeping Herbs and Trauma Because of their reactive natures as flight animals and the confined conditions in which we often keep them, horses are inclined to injure themselves. This applies to the times when they are at liberty in the pasture, when being ridden, and, particularly, when they are being transported (See Chapter 8: Herbs and Travel). Swift and appropriate first aid can go a long way towards m...
Herbal Horsekeeping Herbal Horsekeeping is a genuine do-it-yourself manual for the beginner and for the expert alike. It is a good read, a general interest book, and a detailed reference guide for all of you who love and care for horses. It will help you understand how most of the health problems common to horses come about and how you are able, cheaply and safely, to support the healing of thes...
Alternative medicine is very much do-it-yourself medicine much as was practiced by all those in charge of stock for the past several thousand years. It is only recently that we have been encouraged to leave most of our stock care medical treatments to professionals of one sort or another. There are many things we can do for ourselves in cases of accident or injury suffered by our animals to provide immediate assistance and to minimise the distress of the incident. I have put toge...
When I first studied Herbal Medicine, (having come from an Engineering and Science background) I had great difficulty coming to terms with, and understanding how on earth all this knowledge was arrived at in the first place. How many dead Herbalists did it take to decide which herbs were poisonous? And then -How many more trials did it take to find out that Dandelion was good to treat Liver conditions? It seemed impossible to me that such detailed knowledge could first be acq...
Tying-Up is a pretty good description of what happens to horses suffering this condition. They move with difficulty and look for all the world as if their hind quarters especially, are tied up with ropes and therefore are able to move only with difficulty and with pain. I often wonder if this was a condition which wild horses suffered from and I doubt very much that this was the case. It is not that the domesticated horse is weaker or necessarily that it works harder. Think of the work a...
We all know people who get car sick, airsick or sea sick and there must be a few horses out there which get motion sickness in the same sort of way. I don't know of anybody who has died or had their career ruined as a result of travel related illness but I hear of lots of horses to whom this has happened. In discussing this problem with my clients and friends I began to appreciate just how much time some horses spend on the road and that the problem ranges all the way through Ignorance, P...
The practice of applying poultices to the body goes back a long way and was a major way in which medical results were achieved. It was also something which remains in our cultural consciousness as although we all know what a poultice is, very very few of us actually use them at all or maybe, have never even seen them used. There are remnants of the Poultice still found in the practice of "Blistering" which is really a poultice gone wrong. Let me explain. In medieval medici...
These days, a large number of performance horses are highly strung to the point where it impedes their performance, and, in some cases, make the animal dangerous. Many riders and trainers have resorted to the use of chemical sedatives and tranquilizers to calm their horses, but not only are these products often illegal to use in competitive situations, they can damage the horse's overall health and well-being. Judiciously used herbs are a far better alternative for treating the...
Before we kept horses in artificial environments, they roamed free across large tracts of land, and kept themselves healthy by grazing on a large variety of grasses, grains, herbs, and other seasonal plants. Because they had freedom of choice, they followed their instincts to eat the plants they needed for certain times of the year (breeding, coming up to hard winters, etc. ), and 'self-medicated' for any salts, minerals or deficiencies to deal with existing or impending health or injury probl...
Most Horse Owners and Trainers nowadays give Vitamins and Minerals to Horses as part of their daily Program. Since the discovery of Vitamin C and its link with the disease Scurvy explained, we are accustomed to being told by the media and by health authorities that our health will be improved if we take additional Vitamin and Mineral supplements in addition to our normal diets. We are told that it is something about the modern lifestyle, stress and the denaturing of our soils etc....
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