Dog Coughing? Learn about how you can use authentic Chinese herbs to help manage canine cough symptoms.

What you should know about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), using Chinese herbal medicine for pets and people.

First of most importance....if there are not options for different formulas for whatever ails you or your pet, and it's a single formula, then the herbal remedy is not presented authentically.

IF there is only one formula...that is a westernized approach...one medicine=one disease, and that is NOT how Chinese herbal formulas are to be assigned.

It's bothersome to wonder throughout the internet, and to go  to various sites, and because a particular formula has a Veterinarian name, logo, or whatever attached it then its okay, because it is not.

Lets take for an example the chief compliant of "cough", which is called "rebellious lung qi". THERE IS NOT JUST ONE FORMULA FOR THAT COMPLIANT.

Drives me crazy that I see websites that offer one formula for one compliant, when in fact, there are multiple patterns that may associated with one problem. Using our example using coughing:

Chief compliant or  disease name (that's how TCM refers to the problem): This example is the common canine compliant which is coughing...i.e., Rebellious lung qi  (ke sou). Check out the decision tree here. See how many different types of coughing patterns that may exist? (SEE CHART BELOW)

PawHealer.com offers on line the 4 most common canine coughing patterns. Interesting to note is that dogs are different in the terms of patterns than humans. Because dogs are so yang in nature, we must use herbs that deal with either excess yang or floating yang...We have the Lung Qi for Phlegm Heat is the most commonly used formula for chronic dog coughing, whereas in humans it is indicated for an acute situation.

So people!!! Just because they say Chinese herbs vet recommend, it does not mean that it is practiced correctly. Chinese herbal formulas are pattern driven. And that goes for all diseases, such as hind leg weakness, digestive problems, liver issues and matters of the heart.

PawHealer.com is unique in that we try to stay as true as possible to the idea of "one pattern one hundred diseases"....

If you have any questions...feel free to e mail me at holly@pawhealer.com

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We offer our customers a $10 coupon for responding to our request for product experiences. It's our thanks to them for taking the time to do the work of writing the e mail and sending the picture. They use the coupon on their following order.

We sell traditional Chinese herbs, nutritional supplements, and pet products. We do not engage in the practice of veterinary medicine, veterinary surgery, or veterinary dentistry in any of its branches. We do not diagnose, prescribe, or administer any drug, medicine, appliance, application, or treatment for the prevention, cure, or relief of a wound, fracture, bodily injury, or disease of animals. We do not perform any surgical or dental operation upon any animal. We do not perform any manual procedure for the diagnosis of pregnancy, sterility, or infertility upon livestock Equidae.

This information is not intended to be a substitute for visits to your local veterinarian. Instead, these testimonials offer the reader information and opinions written by pet owners concerning animal health and products that they have used.

Dog Bladder Stones...AGAIN? Consider Pawhealer's STONEZYME

Thanks to Julie K for sharing the story of Princess and her struggles with bladder stones:

In 2012 my four year old Pomeranian, Princess, was having a lot of trouble. She would go outside about 10 to 20 times a day trying to relieve herself and try for minutes at a time. This went on for quite some time, and then she started to bleed when she would try to go. I took her to the vet and she was diagnosed with bladder stones and the operations to remove them was $1,200.00 (plus more if extra work was needed). I left the doctor's office in tears as this was a difficult time for us financially, so it made it all that much more difficult. We would have tried to come up with the money somehow, but I came home and did a search and found Paw Healers and starting reading the testimonies. I found a few that matched Princess' symptoms. I called and spoke to Brad and he advised me what to order. I received the Urinary Free Flow and within three weeks her symptoms started to diminish and over the next couple of months all the symptoms were gone. I kept her on this regiment and called Brad again and he switched her over to StoneZyme. She will be on these herbs for the rest of her life. Anytime I have questions, they are always there to help. I have one happy, healthy Princess and I am one happy mama!

Julie is referring to PawHealer's stone-zyme herbal formula. I created this remedy with the idea of preventing damp heat. I used only two herbs...

Hai jin Sha (Lygodi Spora) which is a climbing fern mature  spore.

The herb is sweet and cold in nature and it enters the bladder and the small intestine.

It frees the flow of urine, helps with painful urination, and expels stones, which include gallbladder as well as bladder stones.

This herb is an important ingredient in which to treat bladder pain due to obstruction of the bladder qi. In other words, its helps with pain when there are bladder stones, or any type of problems causing heat.

Combine this herb with Ji nei Jin...which is chicken gizzard skiin:

And you have a powerful combination of herbs in which to digest properly in order to prevent damp heat transforming to stone. Think about a chicken...they pluck the ground and they take in gravel, their digestion system handles the transformation of stone...thus the law of signatures which is like heals like. 

STONE-ZYME is a combination of these two herbs, they are mild and great for long term, and easy to get the dog to eat.

STONEZYME

Disclosure PawHealer® (what we want you to know):

We offer our customers a $10 coupon for responding to our request for product experiences. It's our thanks to them for taking the time to do the work of writing the e mail and sending the picture. They use the coupon on their following order.

We sell traditional Chinese herbs, nutritional supplements, and pet products. We do not engage in the practice of veterinary medicine, veterinary surgery, or veterinary dentistry in any of its branches. We do not diagnose, prescribe, or administer any drug, medicine, appliance, application, or treatment for the prevention, cure, or relief of a wound, fracture, bodily injury, or disease of animals. We do not perform any surgical or dental operation upon any animal. We do not perform any manual procedure for the diagnosis of pregnancy, sterility, or infertility upon livestock Equidae.

This information is not intended to be a substitute for visits to your local veterinarian. Instead, these testimonials offer the reader information and opinions written by pet owners concerning animal health and products that they have used.

A Yorkie's Collapsed Trachea...How PawHealer Helps Manage a Honking Cough...

Thanks to Shirley W. for sharing the story of Kelly-Anamarie a cute little yorkie.

Hello. I'm a 14-year-old yorkie who has been experiencing a collapsing trachea for a few years. Since mum bought me this product, I don't cough as much. She adds it to my food everyday and I don't even taste it. I still love my canned food, even with all the herbs that mum adds to it. Today, mum ordered Hind Leg Weakness: Yang Floating. She's noticing that my hind legs spread out, like I can't control them as well as when I was younger, altho' after awhile, they go back to normal. Since mum loves me so much and adds lots of herbs to my food, I feel and act like I'm younger than I am. I enjoy my walks everyday, and even tho' I sleep more in general, I feel that I'm a very healthy, happy doggie. Kelly-Anamarie

Cough Remedies for Honking Cough Symptoms

Disclosure PawHealer® (what we want you to know):

We offer our customers a $10 coupon for responding to our request for product experiences. It's our thanks to them for taking the time to do the work of writing the e mail and sending the picture. They use the coupon on their following order.

We sell traditional Chinese herbs, nutritional supplements, and pet products. We do not engage in the practice of veterinary medicine, veterinary surgery, or veterinary dentistry in any of its branches. We do not diagnose, prescribe, or administer any drug, medicine, appliance, application, or treatment for the prevention, cure, or relief of a wound, fracture, bodily injury, or disease of animals. We do not perform any surgical or dental operation upon any animal. We do not perform any manual procedure for the diagnosis of pregnancy, sterility, or infertility upon livestock Equidae.

This information is not intended to be a substitute for visits to your local veterinarian. Instead, these testimonials offer the reader information and opinions written by pet owners concerning animal health and products that they have used.

Dog's Love PawHealer's Hip & Joint Saver...Supplements with an herbal twist!

Thanks to Denise K for her appreciation of PawHealer's Hip and Joint Saver.

What we love about this formulation is that it includes the mainstream joint support supplements but we have added deer antler and tummerick.

Dogs love the taste!


Hip and Joint SaverPawHealer's Hip and Joint Saver





Disclosure PawHealer® (what we want you to know):

We offer our customers a $10 coupon for responding to our request for product experiences. It's our thanks to them for taking the time to do the work of writing the e mail and sending the picture. They use the coupon on their following order.

We sell traditional Chinese herbs, nutritional supplements, and pet products. We do not engage in the practice of veterinary medicine, veterinary surgery, or veterinary dentistry in any of its branches. We do not diagnose, prescribe, or administer any drug, medicine, appliance, application, or treatment for the prevention, cure, or relief of a wound, fracture, bodily injury, or disease of animals. We do not perform any surgical or dental operation upon any animal. We do not perform any manual procedure for the diagnosis of pregnancy, sterility, or infertility upon livestock Equidae.

This information is not intended to be a substitute for visits to your local veterinarian. Instead, these testimonials offer the reader information and opinions written by pet owners concerning animal health and products that they have used.

JU YU RYN's the Dog had a Honking Cough..Thanks for the referral Dr Swift DMV...

Thanks to Dr. Russel Swift DMV for referring Ju Yu Ryn to Pawhealer for her trachea problems. Dr Swift provides us with great pet products like Pettigreen, and all of our glandulars and organ meat whole food supplements.

Dr. Swift knows I have been working on phlegm related coughing for seven years now. Coughing is our thing at PawHealer.com. Read about Ju Yu Ryn!!

Thanks to Jacli P. for sharing their story...

"Ju Yu Ryn is a small sweet shih-tzu who suddenly began panting heavily for no apparent reason more and more often. Ju Yu Ryn, always the most playful of her sisters (there are three of them) suddenly played less and less and seemed to labour even when she was just walking. She also developed a loud honking cough and separating herself from the family to seek out cold places alone. Keep in mind that she has always slept cuddled up with her two sisters and all the sudden she insisted on being alone and laying on the cold marble floor. There was also the unexplained vomiting. When Dr. Swift diagnosed her with a collapsed trachea we were heartbroken and full of despair. But he suggested we try this combination. That was two years ago now and she has been more or less right as rain ever since. We have seen a huge turn around for our little girl. Within just a couple of weeks of starting these herbs the cough had lessened considerably, the play levels had started to come back up. Now you would never guess she has this problem. She is back to her old self and without any costly, dangerous, invasive surgeries. We are very grateful for this approach and highly recommend it."

Thankfully Ju Yu Ryn is a responder to the herbs. It takes hard work to manage chronic dog coughing. Lots has to do with what you feed your dog. From a traditional Chinese medicine point of view...phlegm is the genesis of chronic coughing problems. The phlegm obstructs the lung network vessels that's why Ju Yu Ryn had trouble breathing. The function of the herbs are to dry up phlegm...digestive and lung phlegm. The digestion is the maker of phlegm and the lungs are the holder of phlegm.

HOUND HONEY HEART SYRUP

LUNG QI SUPPORT for PHLEGM HEAT COUGH PATTERN

Disclosure PawHealer® (what we want you to know):

We offer our customers a $10 coupon for responding to our request for product experiences. It's our thanks to them for taking the time to do the work of writing the e mail and sending the picture. They use the coupon on their following order.

We sell traditional Chinese herbs, nutritional supplements, and pet products. We do not engage in the practice of veterinary medicine, veterinary surgery, or veterinary dentistry in any of its branches. We do not diagnose, prescribe, or administer any drug, medicine, appliance, application, or treatment for the prevention, cure, or relief of a wound, fracture, bodily injury, or disease of animals. We do not perform any surgical or dental operation upon any animal. We do not perform any manual procedure for the diagnosis of pregnancy, sterility, or infertility upon livestock Equidae.

This information is not intended to be a substitute for visits to your local veterinarian. Instead, these testimonials offer the reader information and opinions written by pet owners concerning animal health and products that they have used.

Trying to manage your dog's collapsed trachea and heart problems? Consider Herbals!....

Thanks to Silje D. for sharing Chiko's photo and experience while using Pawhealer's herbs. Silje was looking to help manage a cough associated with a "collapsed trachea".

In the terms of Chinese medicine, we call coughing,  rebellious lung qi, which is a  metaphor.

Coughing, is caused when the lung's network vessels become obstructed. No One really knows what causes the onset of a collapsed trachea.

However, traditional Chinese medicine looks at coughing, from several perspectives.

After years of working with herbal remedies for the coughing dog, I can say that in the majority of times, it seems to have started as a result of chronic phlegm that has transformed into heat...this is called phlegm-heat.

Unfortunately, the lung heat jumps to the sovereign (heart), and that eventually leads to congestive heart disease. (again that is a western diagnosis)...

Anyway, there are no miricle cures, there is only hard work when managing canine heart disease and collapsed trachea. Good food, the right supplements, and a good vet are all part of  the healing journey.

"We tried the lung qi support formula for our japanese spitz chiko because he has been diagnosed with tracheal collapse. When he had been using it for one week he stopped coughing, so we are very pleased with this product. Thank you"

Manage Heart and Trachea Formula

Disclosure PawHealer® (what we want you to know):

We offer our customers a $10 coupon for responding to our request for product experiences. It's our thanks to them for taking the time to do the work of writing the e mail and sending the picture. They use the coupon on their following order.

We sell traditional Chinese herbs, nutritional supplements, and pet products. We do not engage in the practice of veterinary medicine, veterinary surgery, or veterinary dentistry in any of its branches. We do not diagnose, prescribe, or administer any drug, medicine, appliance, application, or treatment for the prevention, cure, or relief of a wound, fracture, bodily injury, or disease of animals. We do not perform any surgical or dental operation upon any animal. We do not perform any manual procedure for the diagnosis of pregnancy, sterility, or infertility upon livestock Equidae.

This information is not intended to be a substitute for visits to your local veterinarian. Instead, these testimonials offer the reader information and opinions written by pet owners concerning animal health and products that they have used.

Does Your Dog Suffer from Hind Leg Weakness and Pain? Try Pawhealer!

This is Beukeboom and like many dogs..he has hind leg weakness. Generally  weakening of the legs is due to aging taxation. Bigger dogs weaken in the rear quarters more often than smaller dogs. 

What's important to know is that dogs and people can benefit by using herbal formulas to tonify and help age more gently and gracefully. 

Unfortunately the cycle of life cannot be denied..from birth we enter the yang cycle to slowly through the years end with the yin cycle..it's natural and its a part of nature and life.

However, we certainly can make it a more smoother and easier transition. 

Chinese medicine does this my supplementing yang, specifically the ministerial fire which resides within the kidney system. Any pain and weakness of lower back, hips and knees, can be ascribed to the weakness of the yang qi.

The Hind leg Weakness used by  Beukeboom is below. Click the link to see the formulas that are available. This is a warming formula which supplements yang to transform yin.

Hind Leg Weakness Yang Floating

 

Disclosure PawHealer® (what we want you to know):

We offer our customers a $10 coupon for responding to our request for product experiences. It's our thanks to them for taking the time to do the work of writing the e mail and sending the picture. They use the coupon on their following order.

We sell traditional Chinese herbs, nutritional supplements, and pet products. We do not engage in the practice of veterinary medicine, veterinary surgery, or veterinary dentistry in any of its branches. We do not diagnose, prescribe, or administer any drug, medicine, appliance, application, or treatment for the prevention, cure, or relief of a wound, fracture, bodily injury, or disease of animals. We do not perform any surgical or dental operation upon any animal. We do not perform any manual procedure for the diagnosis of pregnancy, sterility, or infertility upon livestock Equidae.

This information is not intended to be a substitute for visits to your local veterinarian. Instead, these testimonials offer the reader information and opinions written by pet owners concerning animal health and products that they have used.