An Intro to Chinese Veterinary Medicine - Signe Beebe and Michael Salewski

Treating animals is such new territory when you're mainly a human acupuncturist so I was so happy to hear this introductory class from Drs. Signe Beebe and Michael Salewski!

This was a special 2 hour webinar and first up was Signe Beebe talking about tonic herbs for treating mainly small animals like dogs and cats. In the hour after, Michael Salewski, gave a sneak peek at what he will be covering with horses.To tune into the full 1-hour webinar, click here [1]!

Here are some highlights:

• Tonic herbs can increase production of hormone, have immunologic, adaptogenic, endocrinological, and cardiovascular pharmacological effects 
• Why do animals get deficiencies? Same as humans - genetics, poor Kidney jing, aging, chornic illness, poor diet, chronic drug therapy, overwork, over breeding, emotional stress. 
• Qi tonifying formulas primarily treat the Lung and Spleen.
• Blood tonifying formulas treat blood deficiency syndromes that often impact the Spleen, Heart, and Liver.
• Use direct moxa for horses, the effect goes deeper in.
• The best place to take the pulse on a horse is the carotid artery. (I didn't know this!!)
  

~Donna

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