The Role Of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Canine Cushing's Disease

Although our website uses words for various diseases, including Cushing's Disease it's important for the reader to understand that in the terms of Traditional Chinese medicine there is not such a disease known to us as Cushing's  so therefore we can make no claims or do we offer any cures for this disease .

However we do in fact have established patterns of disharmonies that you may recognize and we do use herbals to help restore a natural balance and which may help relieve symptoms that may be related to Cushing's.

The idea of using herbals for Cushing's is said best by a very well known holistic veterinarian, Dr. Steve Marsden, and he  has this to say about the use of herbals:

"The use of Chinese herbal medicine to treat hyperadreocorticism (Cushing's) consistently relieves symptoms and improves laboratory values without the use of pharmaceuticals". (Manual of Natural Veterinarian Medicine, Susan Wynn, Steven Marsden)

What is Canine Cushing's Disease?

Cushing's Disease is a constellation of clinical abnormalities that may be caused by the prolonged exposure to cortisol or related corticosteroids. In most instances this condition is from an excess secretion of the hormone ACTH. This hyper-secretion may be due to the continued use of steroids such as prednisone or cortisone or less commonly its root cause may the result be a non-pituitary tumor.

 Various Canine Symptoms From A Western Perspective:

• Profound fatigue
  
• A rounded belly
• Obesity
• The dog seems to be excessively hot
• The canine may display constant thirst
• Perhaps you will have noticed extreme and rapid hungering
• Tongue color may present with a deep or purple-red tongue
  

Traditional Chinese Medicine Disease Categorizations:

• "neng shi shan ji" ability to eat with rapid hungering

• "shui zhong" water swelling or edema

• "fei pang" obesity

• "yi nu" easy anger or irritability

• "zi han" excess panting

• "dao han" nighttime panting

• "bu mian" loss of sleep

Traditional Chinese Medicine Disease Causes:

• Former heaven natural endowment insufficiency (born with a weak constitution)
• Unregulated eating
• Over taxation
• Aging
• Enduring disease
• Iatrogenesis (over use of medications)
  

Traditional Chinese Medicine Patterns:

• Kidney yin vacuity with effulgent fire
  
• Spleen & kidney yang vacuity with dampness and phlegm
  

It's important for the reader to understand that PawHealer.com will provide you with a set of herbs that best works for the pattern of disharmony that your dog is experiencing.

At the time of check out which is after purchasing the formula, we ask you a series of questions. We do this because the information you provide us is then is used to formulate herbs based on the individual dog which are to ...based on the two patterns that were listed above.

Not only are you getting herbals that have thousands of years of documented effectiveness, your also getting hands on personal service for your dog!


Source Texts: We used these text as references and content, however through our vast clinical experience we have formulated our own herbal formulas that we have found to  work best for our canines.

(1)  The Treatment of Modern Western Medical Disease With Chinese Medicine; Bob Flaws & Philippe Sionneau
(2)  Manual of Natural Veterinary Medicine; Susan Wynn & Steve Marsden