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Handy Holistic Hint for Hoof Cracks

"Natural remedies for hoof cracks:

 

HOMEOPATHY:

  • Graphites - generally horse appears heavy and skin has poor healing ability
  • Thuja - the horse is averse to cold weather and has a tendency to warts

HERBS:

  • Burdock, Chickweed, Comfrey and Nettles"

 

This top tip was from the Natural Remedies (Threshold Picture Guides) book by Christopher Day MA, VetMB, MRCVA, VetFFHom

 

Natural Remedies (Threshold Picture Guides)

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A Dr. of Chiropractic, Gina McCulloch trained for 4 years at Oxford Brookes university in England, to qualify as a chiropractor. She graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in 2001. She completed a specialist Diploma in Animal Chiropractic in the UK and then travelled to the United States and Germany to further her animal chiropractic education. Here she took Postgraduate and Advanced courses in Animal Chiropractic. She graduated and was one of the first British chiropractors to successfully pass the independent American Veterinary Chiropractic Association (AVCA) board certification exams. She is a certified member of the International Veterinary Chiropractic Association (IVCA) and American Veterinary Chiropractic Association (AVCA) and the International Equine Body Workers Association (IEBWA). She was a regular examiner for the IVCA board certification examinations in Europe until she and her family moved to Australia in 2006. She has also undertaken extensive (1600+ hours) massage, muscle therapy & energy technique courses (including Acupressure, CranioSacral Therapy (CST), MyoFascial Release (MFR), Healing, Reiki, Stretching & Rehabilitation, Sports Massage (Basic & Advanced), Equine; Nervous System Function, Exercise Physiology, Biomechanics, Gait Abnormalities and Applied Anatomy, Principles of; Saddle fitting, Farriery science, Dentistry, Nutrition, and Behaviour.) She is a member of the International Equine Body Workers Association (IEBWA) Gina is currently loving living “down under” and writes a regular blog for the naturallycomplementary.com community as the Bush Dr. She shares her Aussie home with; 2 horses, 1 dog, 1 cat, numerous wild kangaroos, birds and snakes, a long suffering husband, and an animal loving son and daughter.
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