Are Herb Based Medicines Effective Treatments For Many Pet Ailments?

Since the ancient Chinese empires and for thousands of years since then, Herbs have ruled! How come these days I pick up a low level vibe or undercurrent regarding the efficacy of using herbs for medicinal purposes, and especially using herbs to counteract common pet discomforts such as joint and muscle pain, chronic constipation or skin irritations.

You see herbs and their amazing healing properties I think are not really seen by many as serious because we are too blindfolded and pre-conditioned from years and years of indoctrination of the dogma of the allopathic medical community, and the 'big pharma' companies. They get to us. And its our fault too because we live in a such a rush, rush society that we want everything fast, fast, fast and an instant cure but that's simply not the way things work in nature. Think about when we were kids. Headache equals Asprin. Fast, fast and who's the fastest? Excedrin or Asprin?

Many herb-based remedies have fast acting chemical properties too. Peppermint is a stunning example of this. Other natural remedies require much longer periods for the affects and healing to become noticeable. This isn't a terrible thing, but in my view we've all been brainwashed into believing that it is. My mother Bernice used to say, and we've all heard it a million times before, "the best things in life take time," and so I think she's right. All organic and natural remedies take time for their curative properties or characteristics to show up in the body.

Here's something interesting for you to know, and I'm jumping around here a bit, but in Switzerland, there is a very famous clinic called the Paracelsus Clinic, run by a Dr. Rau, a world expert in biological medicine. For any patient taking treatment there, which is all natural biological medicine, you are told it will be taking two years to reverse the issues damaging your body. Two years! Yes, that's how long it takes to detoxify a human body and get it back on its natural course.

So back to the world of herbals. I guess the thing to say is that herbal remedies take time to counteract various ailments in the human or animal body but lets travel up in the sky for 50,000 feet because there is another very important perspective to add here.

Herbals must be taken in the context of the entire organism, the body - be it pet or human. So a holistic approach is necessary if herbs are to truly rule. Putting it another way around, if you eat terrible food and slowly poison your body, then anything currative will have a harder time influencing major systems or organs.

A true herb lover recognizes that all body systems are interdependent - an intricately balanced micro-community made up of organs, tissue, chemicals, electrical pathways and a life force, so taking a curative approach to disease or ailments means a wider, bigger view of herbal healing, so its therefore difficult to resolve overnight.

I think this is why we see so many examples of people starting down the path of alternatives and buying special concoctions for say dandruff or arthritis then giving up because it doesn't work as fast, and then they forget that the currative powers of herbs also must be seen in the context of the holistic health of the body too.

So my major point of this article is that Herbs Do Rule! However, you have got to think of them in the bigger picture and the overall health regime of your pet. Good health is balanced health.

As Greg Tilford says in his pocket guide Herbal Remedies for Dogs and Cats, "the key to accessing the full potential of hebal medicine rests in how well we can embrace a holistic perspective of the natural healing process. For most of us this means putting old predispositions aside, revving up some imagination, and engaging in some open-minded observation. We don't need bioscience degrees to embrace the principles of effective herbalism, but we must learn to identify good health, and we must learn to recognize subtle changes in the subject we are treating. "

He goes on to say, "... In holistic medicine, "good health" is viewed as the maintenance of proper balance within a complex, finely-tuned system. All elements of the mind, body, and spirit must be maintained at optimum levels of cooperative efficiency if the healing process is to occur, and we must realize that if any element of the collective whole fails at its job, an imbalance (disease) will result. To accomplish this, a proactive approach toward health and well-being is an absolute necessity, and proper diet is needed as the foundation from which to base our holistic efforts of assisting the body at what it is designed to do best: heal itself."

William Greenbaum, aka love ya woof! is the Founder and President of All Pet Naturals, http://allpetnaturals.com, the premier online webstore for organic, natural herbal and homeopathic medications and remedies for dogs, cats and horses. The mission of the company is to bring about positive results to pet lovers and pet care professionals and give your companion animals the longest, healthiest, happiest life possible. Visit us on the web today for news, tips and superior, safe and effective natural and organic pet remedies.