calliecritturs
Posted : 2/9/2010 6:37:33 PM
Milk thistle doesn't do anything for the stomach -- it's primarily a "protectant" for the liver. It also has some pretty good detox properties for the liver.
Given in HIGH **herbal** doses (literally like 5-10 times the normal 'human' doseage and beyond -- a doctor will actually make it into an additive for IV therapy) it helps also protect the kidneys.
(Billy is walking proof of that.)
The bigger guns 'herbal'/alternative detox is SAM-3 -- given together they work AWESOME to mitigate damage from the really harsh steroid & steroid-like drugs. Just milk thistle alone is usually sufficient for day to day stuff including heartworm prevention, antibiotics and that kind of stuff "de-toxing"
Slippery elm -- it's kinda the silcon of the herbal world -- superb at coating the stomach/gut/digestive tract to help move something thru that is troublesome. It is an **incredible** anti-inflammatory for the gut AND for the lungs.
Also - for disc stuff there is NOTHING better than acupuncture. Seriously -- and there are Chinese herbals with anti-inflammatory properties we can't even begin to touch.
If you look at most any lung/bronchitis type herbal stuff it's always got slippery elm in it. So it's an awesome ingredient for a cough syrup and even taken orally to help reduce lung inflammation in a whole host of situations.
So to sum slippery elm up it coats & soothes the lungs/gut/digestive tract and reduces inflammation. To a lesser degree it also will help protect against some harsh stomach irritants like nsaids.
NONE of these are homeopathics. That's a whole different realm and there *are* superb homeopathic detoxes -- HEEL's detox kit is awesome for humans and dogs -- but the dose is far lower for a dog. But homeopathics are SO different I'd talk about them in a whole different thing.
Feel free to email me about it --