brucea
Well-Known Member
A difficult combination to deal with because the best practice for COPD is contraindicated for the laminitis.
We've had an episode of acute laminitis mid January. Just when you think the days are starting to get longer, this pony gets a January laminitis attack. It's endocrine, he has no grass, correct levels of Prascend, a low sugar and starch diet, a great living arrangement...but still every year he has an acute laminitis attack when we notice the days getting longer.
We've done as much as we can with Prascend, the Agnus Castus does nothing for him. So recently I have been workign wiht a qualified medical herbalist to formulate an approach to addressing each condition.
Breathing. We are using plantain and coltsfoot. Plantain helps the lungs to be less reactive and tones down the inflammatory response. Coltsfoot helps to clear out any irritants and excess mucous. It took 3 days to see a major difference, He is far less reactive now and will tolerate a new bale of straw for example.
Laminitis. We are attacking this on two fronts. Management of pain and hoof health.
For management of pain we are using a combination of devil's claw and burdock, with a very small amount of boswellia serrata. Danilon makesthis pony very withdrawn and seems to cause ulcer symptoms.
For hoof health and capillary strengthening we are using schizandra (also supports liver and is anti-oxidant) and Hawthorne.
General support - we are adding a mix of siberian ginseng (address fatigue, weakness, convalescence), nettle and rosehip. These are powders, all the rest are liquids. Liquids act faster.
The progress over the last 10 days has been phenomenal. We have nursed this pony through 5 laminitis events now, and I can confidently say that this is the best recovery we have seen. There is still tenderness in one foot, but overall the pony is 100% brighter, more mobile, calm engaged with the rest of the herd and on a pain scale about 3/10, a vast improvement on the 7/10 in mid January.
So I'm starting to think that a bottle of a very basic liquid herb mix of devil's claw, burdock, schizandra and hawthorne should be kept in the back of my fridge as a basic emergency laminitis treatment.
We've had an episode of acute laminitis mid January. Just when you think the days are starting to get longer, this pony gets a January laminitis attack. It's endocrine, he has no grass, correct levels of Prascend, a low sugar and starch diet, a great living arrangement...but still every year he has an acute laminitis attack when we notice the days getting longer.
We've done as much as we can with Prascend, the Agnus Castus does nothing for him. So recently I have been workign wiht a qualified medical herbalist to formulate an approach to addressing each condition.
Breathing. We are using plantain and coltsfoot. Plantain helps the lungs to be less reactive and tones down the inflammatory response. Coltsfoot helps to clear out any irritants and excess mucous. It took 3 days to see a major difference, He is far less reactive now and will tolerate a new bale of straw for example.
Laminitis. We are attacking this on two fronts. Management of pain and hoof health.
For management of pain we are using a combination of devil's claw and burdock, with a very small amount of boswellia serrata. Danilon makesthis pony very withdrawn and seems to cause ulcer symptoms.
For hoof health and capillary strengthening we are using schizandra (also supports liver and is anti-oxidant) and Hawthorne.
General support - we are adding a mix of siberian ginseng (address fatigue, weakness, convalescence), nettle and rosehip. These are powders, all the rest are liquids. Liquids act faster.
The progress over the last 10 days has been phenomenal. We have nursed this pony through 5 laminitis events now, and I can confidently say that this is the best recovery we have seen. There is still tenderness in one foot, but overall the pony is 100% brighter, more mobile, calm engaged with the rest of the herd and on a pain scale about 3/10, a vast improvement on the 7/10 in mid January.
So I'm starting to think that a bottle of a very basic liquid herb mix of devil's claw, burdock, schizandra and hawthorne should be kept in the back of my fridge as a basic emergency laminitis treatment.