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Expect Hering's Law of Cure:
"All cure starts from within out, from the head down and in the reverse order as the symptoms have appeared."
Hering's Law of Cure is not mutable. True healing must first begin on the inside of the body. Then and only then will internal signs of healing progress to the visible outward signs.
There are 4 factors to overcome dis-ease in the body. They are: 1.)mechanical and chemical nerve supply to the area, 2.)blood supply that is detoxified and able to supply nutrients, 3.)blood circulation to the area, and 4.)raising the cellular level to overcome enervation.
It takes at least 2 weeks to build up a body chemically. And this only occurs when the body is given what it requires to reach the point of healing. This is why I suggest muscle testing or applied kinesiology to aid in the determine whether or not a body does require a specific nutrient and how much of the nutrient daily. Finally, muscle testing can be used to determine whether or not the nutrient is compatible with the rest of the body's dietary plan and supplements.
Along the path to healing, there will be multiple episodes of "Healing Crisis" or Reversal Process. They occur at approximately the same point in the body's timeline in which they originally occurred. The body will have to go back through each "symptom" which was suppressed by chemical drugs. Each cell has memory of the way it reacted or should have reacted to the invasion of the toxin. This scenario can be frightening to both the caregiver and the horse.
A healing crisis occurs when the body has received enough nutrition to throw off the toxins lodged in the cellular level. Thus, the crisis normally occurs once the body has experienced a re-birth of its former physical and mental vitality. Just about the time you thought you had your "old" horse back.
When giving herbs, the horse's caregiver should watch for certain signs of detoxification similar to those a human would experience. After a period of cleansing the body, the bowels will begin to move more profusely as toxins begin to leave the body. The bowel contents may contain mucus and smell strangely. During this time, there are "good" days and "bad" days as the body liquifies and pushes out trapped toxins. And yes, horses do suffer the same headaches which humans experience at these times. Watch for the area over the eyes to become arched. Usually, the eyes will be very glossy and reflective due to the "fever" in the energized body. No one has ever died of a healing crisis - they only wished they had.
It is not possible to explain to the animal it is not truly ill but merely passing through the stages required for true healing. If the healing crisis is too severe for the horse to handle calmly, you should take steps to slow down the reactions in the body. Indian Tobacco herb extract or Lobelia taken internally has been known to reduce the symptoms. However, if you give any Lobelia, realize you have prolonged the crisis from the usual 3 - 4 days to a week or longer. If you give any chemical drug, know you have probably stopped the healing process and must go through the symptoms anew. This may be required if the animal frets itself into a colicky state.
A simple example of a pattern of chronic ill-health is asthma or heaves when dealing with a horse. The body did not develop heaves overnight. It only appears that way.
Whether you knew it or not, the horse was suffering long before the heave diagnosis. Prior to heaves, the horse suffered from pneumonia which developed from hay fever, hay fever which developed from sinus infections, sinus infections which developed from a "simple" case of an upper respiratory bug, the bug which was allowed to develop from allergies, allergies which developed when the bronchials were damaged due to a "simple" case of bronchitis, bronchitis which developed from a cough, and a cough which developed after catching the "common" cold.
More Examples of Healing Crisis
One of the most memorable case involved a 9 year old professional barrel gelding. The horse was brought to us regarding an "elusive" lameness condition. Periodically the animal fell going around a barrel. He had been to 4 of the top universities to discover the reason he would unexpectedly end up on his side. He was suspected of having a lower leg problem.
The owner was shocked to learn we thought the problem was in the shoulder and the periodic lower leg swelling was just a symptom. When the owner decided to leave the horse to our ministrations, I took the routine extensive health survey of all prior known problems.
Through deep tissue massage therapy and various other modalities, we were able to pinpoint the area of underactivity in the shoulder. We caused enough irritation to be able to duplicate the lameness and accelerate the deeper healing required of the original injury years earlier.
By now 2 weeks had passed. One morning, I entered the barn to find him stretched out on the stall floor. He did not appear ill but would only rise to eat or to drink. After another day passed of this behavior, I called the owner to find out what she had omitted in her remembrance of the health history. I wanted to know "when" this horse had colicked so badly he had to have been in a vet clinic. Oh! She forgot he had spent a week in the bottom of a vet's stall without anyone knowing whether or not he had the strength to overcome the colic. It was "H" week for the horse and me. Together, we would go back through the colic episode. Thank goodness for both of us he only felt miserable enough to lie calmly in the stall and did not flop around.
It must have been a bad colic!
While we were gone to a show, someone was hired to feed. Unfortunately, I never thought to describe a healing crisis. I did not know I needed to explain. What a mistake! The hired help had a few more gray hairs because of my neglect.
Per our routine, the person put the feed in the stalls before letting the horses into the barn. Our gang knows which stall belongs to which horse and respect their friends'positions in the barn. You just open the pasture gates individually and allow them to go down the alleyway to the back of the barn.
Before the person could work her way down the aisle closing stall doors as she went, out into the alley falls the sorrel gelding. He proceeds to flop around on the ground in all signs of a major colic. He bites at his sides and kicks at his belly. By the time the caregiver recovered from her shock, made the decision he must be colicking, and she should call the vet, the gelding quietly stood up and walked back into the stall to finish his meal.
My Stallion's "Colic" Crisis
It was Friday night and we were on the way out to a party. Like every well-trained caregiver, we stopped by the barn to check on our bosses. Standing in the back of his stall, wringing wet on a cold winter night, was my stallion. He was not panicky. Needless to say, we stayed home and watched to see if his healing episode would require our interference. We had no idea how severe his symptoms would be as I had only owned him since he was coming 5 years old. My nerves were thankful he did not get any worse.
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