Doris D. and Her Half Wolf Bear

Dr. Pink and I received a call from Doris about 4 weeks ago. Doris is from Arkansas and she was calling the PawHealer team to see if we could help with her 12 year old Bear.

Bear is a Chow mixed with a Wolf, he weighs 80lbs and sadly, according to Doris, Bear was loosing all the use of his hind quarters.

Doris told us that Bear had been diagnosed with Arthritis of the hips and the right leg. However the symptoms that Doris was conveying to Dr. Pink Pinkerton (herbalist extraordinaries) and me (The PawHealer) sounded more along the line of some sort of paralysis. See Doris told us that Bear was actually dragging himself around and he was not able to lift up his hind quarters.

Here is Bears medical history;

Male Wolf/Chow 80lbs
Bad breath
Takes medicine for seizures because he had distemper as a puppy and almost died
No problems with bladder control, does have some bad teeth
Does not seem to run hot, he does bark a lot (he watches over Doris)

The team did not have much to go on as you can see, so we clung to the idea that Bear had some sort of internal deficient heat. We based this on the fact that he had bad breath (heat causes the breath to become sour) as well as bad teeth problems. The other clue of course was the weakness of the hind quarters.

Dr Pink and I did not see it as Bi Syndrome (Arthritis) because it sounded as if Bear was loosing sensation of his limbs, and the way the Doris described Bear's situation was that of being flaccid, as if he had lost control of his limbs, not as if he was any pain.

Based on the hind quarter weakness and based on the past medical history of Distemper, Dr. Pink Pinkerton and myself believed that Bear was suffering from Liver-Kidney Yin deficiency.

We prescribed to Bear a famous Kidney Yin tonic called Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan to clear deficiency heat (causing weakness of lower back and hind quarters) and we also included Si Miao San for the heat in Bear's stomach causing the bad breath, and we sent it out to Doris while keeping our toes and fingers crossed hoping that it worked for her wonderful and trusted friend Bear.


7 Days later;

We received a call from Doris....Bear had actually gotten worse and he couldn't get up at all. Doris was distraught and was looking into buying a cart for Bear. She just couldn't put Bear down because besides not being able to stand, Bear was doing fine. He was hungry, he was thirsty and continued to do his watch dog duties.

Dr. Pink and I instructed Doris to DOUBLE the dosage of herbs, and not give up. After we hung up, we felt terrible for Doris and Bear....we thought our herbs had failed to help Doris out.

7 Days later after the last phone call;

We were checking messages and we had a message from Doris. We dreaded what we maybe were going to hear, I thought Bear must be worse or dead...When we got Doris on the phone, we were shocked with what she told us.

Bear was actually walking....up to that point Doris was helping Bear walk with a sling. Because it was a beautiful and warm day, she left Bear out to enjoy the morning. When she came back to bring him in the house, incredibly Bear was walking around the parameter of her house and had actually climbed a small hill!

Doris was calling the PawHealer team to order more herbs for Bear because he was doing so much better!

How exciting and exhilarating for the PawHealer team.

This time around we filled decided that we wanted to tonify Kidney Essence with the very famous formula You Gui Wan. We also modified the formula with some herbs that will provide pain relief as well as to continue to nourish the Kidneys.

Dr. Pink Pinkerton and I think of Doris everyday. Bless her heart for helping her dog friend Bear through such a difficult time. Many people would of just given up hope...

We feel honored that Doris D trusted the PawHealing team to help her with the wonderful Bear.

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Unhappy Non-Customer

This person never bought herbs from Pawhealer. But she is unhappy with us and wants to let others know it.

So I thought I would do it for her. She believes that we are only interested in selling herbs, which of course is not true. There is very little money to be made selling herbs for pets online. We do this because we love to help animals and its that simple. She also does not believe that I have a dog with renal disease. Anyone how reads my blogs knows about Sweet Orbit and his journey of living with Kidney disease...Yes I do have a dog, I have four of them!

But we feel it is important that we give this pet owner a chance to say what she thinks of us.

She is entitled to her opinion, so I will post it for her;

Holly, Want to let you know I would like you to take Mickeys and mined blogspot off your website. Because I didn't like your answer to what you was saying about Mickey and I and about me canceling your herbs. I feel that you are progressing Mickey condition wrong with the public. And I feel you had no business telling about my business of if it was wrong or not of my caring of Mickey. I feel I have been doing all I can to help my baby Mickey and I am still doing it. And any how, how do I know for sure that your herbs would help Mickey any? If the blogspot about Mickey and I am not off your websie by the end of the day the public will hear my side of it and the truth. I have the right to tell you to remove the wesite. I see now all you are worried about is selling your herbs and you are not going to use us to do it. I did like the website you had about us at first, but didn't like how you address the of the second one you address about us. Like I said if the website isn't off by the end of today Feb.19, 2008, I will take what ever actions I can about this matter. And let the public know it was all about your herbs and not about the caring of Mickey.
Your co operation in this matter is greatly appreicated.

Phyllis

Re: Kidney Failure about Mickeys Website


Holly we'll see who has the free speech !!!!!!!!! You have a sick dog too or have no dog at all. Don't you worry about my sick dog KISS !!!! You are the one that maded my dog worse by your stew, at lease he was doing ok til he ate it and couldn't stop with the diarrhea. That shows how much you care about animals when you address Your the one with the sick dog. That's ready showing care for animals !!!!! I have to say too YOU ARE SICK the way you talk. And I'm not emailing you anymore and I do have the right to tell you to stop emailing me at once.




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Herbal Formulas For Honking Coughs

We've had great success with this particular problem which is a chronic cough. Especially effective if the dog has just recently started the awful "honking cough". If the cough is not too far advanced, I simply use herbs to scour and rid the Lung of toxic Heat.

What does that mean in English? From a TCM perspective there's a deep seated pathogen (germ) that lurks deep down in the airways that causes this respiratory distress.

This as a two phase cough. Phase one is the horrible honking cough. I treat this as an infectious type of cough and use herbal antibiotics to scour the lungs. This phase of treatment can take as few as thirty days and up to about sixty days.

The second phase is the weak cough that is left after phase one's herbal treatment. Its a very weak cough, but is always there. I still view this as infectious, but the Lung heat is not as intense, so in this case, I mildly continue clear heat as well as rebuild the Qi of the Lungs.

It is important that if your dog is in phase one, and we treat the cough, and then the cough is reduced, you MUST then do phase two herbal formula. This is to actually tonifytonify the Lung Qi.

In plain English this means that we are actually introducing herbs that help the dog's body repair Lung function. If this step is not followed after phase one, then most likely the cough will return.

Phase two's herbal formula rebuilds Lung tissue and rebuilds the dog's constitution. Please understand that this is a serious disease, and it takes time to heal this very chronic and devastating condition and it takes follow through.

Herbal formulas for Honking Cough





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We Don't Understand...

Dr Pink and me (pawHealer) are a little irritated today.



Yesterday we posted about the sick dog that had Kidney disease. We are very familiar with this disease because our family member Sweet Orbit also has renal failure but we control it through food and herbs.

We received many messages from Micky's owner about his worsening condition and we have tried to help her figure out what is best for her Mickey because Micky is getting five shots a day of sodium/chloride, and something is not working.


Mickey is not eating and that is a very bad sign. The PawHealer team gave Phylis our opinion which is that since Mickey is getting worse, she needed to review Micky's current treatment plan because treatments are given to make a dog BETTER not worse.

We also gave her some links to review so that she could understand our concern, we could not find a treatment protocol that matched what her Mickey was receiving. And since we live our selfs with renal failure, and have never heard of this as a mainstream treatment, we feel it is worth questioning.

The team also recommended that she get a second opinion. There is a saying;

"There are no wise men"

What does she do next?

Phylsis cancels her order of herbs!

The one thing that Dr. Pink and the PawHealer know for sure that will help her dog and most especially it will help with the problems with his tender stomach.

There is a saying;

The definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over and expecting to get a different result....




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Mickey; A Sick Little Dog With Kidney Disease

Dear Dr. Pink Pinkerton and PawHealer

Hi, I seen your website for Traditional Chinese Medicine for Cats and Dogs. I would like to know if you have something that can help my dog with kidney failure. His kidney count was 61 and the vet had him for a day with an IV in him,when I took him home his count was 36. I have him home now for about a week and half. And I am giving him fluid shot in his neck now once a day. He is drinking water good, but I'm having a problem with him eating. One day he will eat good and the next day he won't eat. The vet got me to buy Hills Prescription Diet k/d dry and can dog food, but he won't touch the can food at all. The vet want him to eat the dry above food everyday, but I can't get him to do it. I want to know if you have any kind of Medicine that would help him and help him start eating more. I couldn't find anything on your website where you can order anything for Kidney Failure. Please ASPA. Thank you for any help you can give me.
Your co operation in this problem with my dog kidney failure is greatly appricated.

Thanks Again,
Phyllis


Bless her heart, Pink Pinkerton and I feel very sad for this lady and her sick dog. But never fear, we do believe that we can help this little dog become a bit more comfortable by giving herbs that will enhance the appetite as well as support these broken down Kidneys.

The first thing we did is tell Phyllis how to cook food based on food therapy which will also help the action of the herbs. Here is a basic diet for dogs with Kidney failure;

In a crock pot cook

Kidney (yes the organ meat) and all the blood that can be added to make the stew juicy
black or brown rice (pre-cooked and added after its soft_)
precooked Kidney beans
yams (the yams should be very soft and mushy by the time it's done cooking)

Let it cook for about 4 hours on high so that it all blends together.

You can also switch Livers for the Kidneys...alternate them.

Now for the formulas that we selected for Mickey;

Xiang Sha Liu Jun Zi Tang; this formula will help her dog with the appetite problem. This is accomplished by transforming damp that's accumulating and causing the dog to have stomach upset. This means that right now Micky cannot digest food, and his loss of appetite is the signal for him not to eat, because he cannot properly move the food through his digestive system

The next formula is a famous formula called You Gai Wan.

The indications for this formula are exhaustion from long term illness, aversion to cold, coolness of the extremities, weak back and knees, and in bio-medicine terms Renal Failure.

In other words, cold is setting into the body, the Kidney's which has the job of warming the body is beginning to fail. It is the job of this formula to help re-light the Ming Men Fire that is generated by the Kidneys and keeps the body from cooling. We want to warm Mikcy back up!

We hope the best for Micky because he has been in Phylis's life for 15 years, bless her and bless Micky....



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Ella's itch and her Collapsed Trachea..Doing Great!

This is from Cathy Ella's dog mom. Ella was suffering from a minor case of Collapsed Trachea. But in Ella's case, because of her weak lungs, she was having significant skin problems. You can read about the Ella from a previous post.

We worked out a formula for Ella, but Cathy who is a chief, decided to take Ella's health into her own hands. Cathy went out and bought every book about a cooking a healthy diet for Ellathat would promote the healing of her lungs, as well as taking the herbs.

Ella didn't like the herbs much, but she did like Cathy's cooking. As you can see by Cathy's message to us, Ella is a much healthier and happier dog.


Hi Pawhealer and Dr. Pink Pinkerton


Just wanted to give you the latest. The
> > cough has all but stopped, when she does have it
> its
> > not for longer than a couple of seconds. The
> itching
> > has just about ceased altogether, her fur is
> looking
> > softer and smells wonderful, she has more energy
> and
> > is playful and energetic. I am making all her food
> and
> > don't think we will go back to commercial, doesn't
> > matter how 'holistic' it is. I'm making her
> delicious
> > stews of chicken and veggies and now also make her
> > biscuits. Thankyou for all your help and advice,
> I've
> > learned an awful lot these past couple of weeks.
> > Hope you are in good health, Cathy and Ella






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Another Thank You To the PawHealer Team

We've been so busy, that Pinky and I have neglected to keep up with our posts. We're going to make an effort to post at least every other day. That's because we are having wonderful success with our very complex cases.

This thank you note is from a pet owner whose dog has Congestive Heart Failure. Dr. Pink Pinkerton and I conferred and we decided to make a fundamental change to Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang, which is a formula that helps move the blood through the heart.

We added a very famous herb called Dan Shen the base formula. This wonderful herb is the most studied herb for heart related issues. And as you can read from the thank you note below, our modification helped the quality of life for a very sick little dog.

Here is the thank you note from a very happy dog mom!

Dear Admin,

There is a request posted by Theresa

Detail Are

First Name	Theresa
Last Name
Address
Subject	My Order
Phone No
Best Time to Call	after 4:00 or anytime on weekends
Details	This is my second order of this and the last time you sent me Xue Fu Zhu Tang/Dan Shen. This seems to finally be working and my dog is coughing much less than before. Thanks so much, Theresa

There is nothing that doesn't make me and Pinky feel as good. We love helping others!


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