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Horses generally accept herbal medicines very readily and may even lick them from a suitable receptacle. Failing that, more appetising and tasty herbs can be added to the mixture. We do not advocate adding sugar as a tempter, although local honey may be appropriate in some cases. If a horse is being fed in addition to grazing or hay, it is common practice simply to add herbal medicines to the daily ration. There is a vast and confusing array of unlicensed commercial and proprietary herbal products and mixtures of herbs available, on the market, each vying for your money. It is not a foregone conclusion that these will be suitable for your horse (or pony or donkey), beneficial, of good quality or even necessary. Caveat emptor - buyer beware. The reasons behind this remark are argued more fully on the Herbs page. It is important to consult an experienced herb vet, in order to avoid potentially dangerous incompatibility with conventional medication, dangers in pregnancy and lactation and dosing or species anomalies. Herbal vet application: a sample of the horse diseases and equine conditions that we are called upon to treat with herbal medicine are (in alphabetical order):
Arthritis Asthma Azoturia Behavioural Problems Broken Wind Colic COPD Cough Crib Biting Cushings Disease Cushings Syndrome Dermatophilus Diarrhoea DJD Equine Dysautonomia Gastric Ulcer Grass Sickness Greasy Heel Headshaking (Headshaker) Heaves Hives Hoof Quality Hormonal Problems Infertility Itch Joint Joint Ill Laminitis Ligament Liver Disease Lymphangitis Mareishness Moonblindness Mud Fever Myoglobinuria Myositis Navicular OCD Pedal Ostitis Periodic Ophthalmia Periodic Uveitis
Rain Scald Recurrent Ophthalmia Recurrent Uveitis Ringbone Setfast Sidebone Sinusitis Spavin Stomach Ulcer Sunburn Suspensory Sweet Itch Tendon Tying Up Urticaria Uveitis White Line Separation Wind Sucking Wounds
Meadowsweet - Filipendula ulmaria The treatment may also include other therapies, in an integrated programme (e.g. veterinary homeopathy and/or veterinary acupuncture along with natural feeding). Return to Herbs Return to Horses Return to Horse Diseases Herb vet at work: We see animals at the AVMC premises for phytotherapy (herbs) and we regularly visit an area stretching from Wales to London, from Devon to Kent, from South to North Midlands and from Bristol and West Midlands to the Wash and East Anglia. Visits are mainly to see horses but we can also arrange house calls (home visits) for domestic pets. We see many patients from London and visit London homes.
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Among all our domestic species, it is possibly true that horses and ponies are
the ideal species in which to use herbs. They are archetypal herbivores, relying
in the wild upon herbage for all their nutritional, physiological and biochemical needs.
They also appear to have the capability to self-medicate with
naturally-available herbs (
Allergy
*Herbal vets don't grow on trees but some important herbal
medicines do! Take salicylic acid, for instance, harvested from willow bark to
give us aspirin. At the AVMC, however, we
would give horses and ponies willow bark or meadow sweet (another plant that is rich in
salicylate), in the raw state, in preference to the manufactured chemical
extract. N.B.: These herbs should not be given in conjunction with
conventional NSAIDs and vice versa. The veterinary herbalist should know this
but many conventional vets will not, hence the potential dangers.