Herbal Treatment Results

[Stitch]

Anyone here had any experience with using Rod McDowells or similar herbal treatments for their dogs?

I was wondering what the success rates are for those who have used them???

I am tempted to try them on one of my guys but just don't have the confidence in them that I do in mainline medications.

What do you think?

[persephone]

I think it depends what you are treating?

We have one dog on the collie nose herbal stuff.... some minor improvement noted, but time will tell.

Used a painkiller/anti inflamm for old sally Horse.. worked well!! Gave her some good extra months

have used a potion for problems with kidneys and diabetes in old cats.. once again.. gave us & them some quality time at the winding down of their lives

Have used herbals for the humans too... seemed to do the trick.

Edited May 15, 2009 by persephone

[Stitch]

Persephone, with the Collie Nose treatment was that internal or external?

[persephone]

Collie Nose treatment was that internal or external?

Both! Both smell/taste foul too

Mc Dowell Herbal are always very approachable, and are willing to 'tailor' meds to suit allergies etc. Their vet is extremely helpful over the phone.

Edited May 15, 2009 by persephone

[Her Majesty Dogmad]

I've had some great results - rescued an old dog from a pound and she was found to have kidney probs, my vets gave her just a few weeks to live so I took her to the All Natural Vet at Russell Lea with her test results. They prescribed Chinese herbs and she lived in fantastic health for 12 months before getting a gastric bug which my other dogs recovered from but she died within the fortnight.

Last year, my old Italian Greyhound was getting dementia and he was keeping me up a lot in the night. Back to the All Natural Vets and they prescribed Chinese herbs and he started sleeping all through the night!

My older cattle cross had a total collapse last year and could not move for a month. Took her 3 time a week for chiro and accupuncture and the vet gave her Chinese herbs. This time, the Chinese herbs didn't work so well as she wouldn't actually eat anythign with even a hint of them in there! After 3 months she was back to relative normality with the chiro/accupuncture though. Even after x-rays etc, there was nothing to explain the cause of the collapse so I monitor her exercise etc to be on the safe side.

[Staffyluv]

We have uses chinese herbs for Ollies cancer treatment from All Natural Vet Care.

He has also had chemo as well as holistic treatment, so I can't say for sure if it was one or the other or both but he is still here more than 3 years after dxd (and they originally gave him 12-18 months)...

I personally do believe that in the right hands, holistic treatment is a wonderful tool

[Allerzeit]

We used Robert McDowell's treatments for Stewie's Osteosarcoma - we had Stewie for 10 months after diagnosis with high quality life - when I wouldn't have been surprised to lose him in around 6 weeks - and I'm confident that the natural treatments played a large part in that.

We also use his treatments for joint and bone health, and we previously used one of his allergy mixes for Abby. I'm not convinced that we got much out the allergy mix, but I have been impressed with his bone healing mix and advice on helping reduce lamness in Enya with her flattened foot

I don't believe that holistic is the be all and end all - and I wouldn't dismiss conventional medicine - but I do strongly believe it can be of great benefit and I will always give it a go to see if it helps

[Stitch]

Thanks for all your replies.

It is an interesting subject - I wish that vets would combine the two types of medicine and have a hollistic approach.

Use the best of both worlds!

[FionaC]

Thanks for all your replies.

It is an interesting subject - I wish that vets would combine the two types of medicine and have a hollistic approach.

Use the best of both worlds!

A lot do combine them both but there are also Herbalists that have studied and practice specifically in treating animals .... to be a Herbalist (human) you study fulltime for 4 years including supervised clinic hours etc ... there are a few courses you can do in terms of animal herbal medicine - the one I'm doing at the moment as a post-grad to my human herbal medicine qualifications requires 100hrs of supervised clinic working with a vet and although I've not finalized who I will be doing that with yet (won't be till next year) - I've spoken to a good half a dozen or so local vets that expressed an interest in me doing it through their clinic ....... many of those vets I know would refer to a Herbalist for complimentary treatments as part of an ongoing treatment plan if they had them available ......

[persephone]

Just found THIS PAGE

[Kelly_Louise]

I have quite a number of Robert McDowells herbal remedies. I first started using them when Chloe had her osteotomy surgeries. I was using Rescue Remedy, Post Op mixture, Bone repair mix. I can't tell you how successful they were, but I know that I felt they really did assist her. Her bones healed very well.

I am still using his Rescue Remedy, now with Sasha, and it works really well with her. It helps her take the edge off her nervous energy. I want to try her on it when a storm has hit, and that will certainly tell me if it works as well as I think or not!!!

I found him really nice to deal with as well, and helpful in showing me which remedies I should use to get the best results. I'm thinking of getting the Cushings support remedy for Chloe as well (when finances allow).

I would definitely use Robert McDowell for any herbal remedies that I needed.