How Bach Flowers can help in the process of the disease

Idiopathic epilepsy is the most common cause of seizures in dogs. Although it may appear sporadically in almost all breeds and also in crossbred dogs, it is particularly frequent in certain pure breeds where the disease is considered hereditary, as in the case of the German shepherd, beagle, teckel, St Bernard and cocker spaniel. It is not as common in cats.

A typical epileptic seizure starts with sudden loss of consciousness and generalized stiffness, followed by erratic movements of head and limbs, urination and salivation. Sometimes seizures are milder: there is no loss of consciousness but there is an alteration of the state of mind, incoordination and more discreet body movements. The crises usually last between one and three minutes, and the recovery phase, of a variable duration, usually includes disorientation or other neurological signs.

REMEDIES ADMINISTERED ORALLY

(Refer to ‘Preparation of a remedy for oral application’, p.21.)

Females in heat

Rescue Remedy + Beech (irritability) + Holly (hypersensitivity in this period) + Scleranthus (hormonal stabilizer) + Walnut (adaptation).

4 drops, four to six or more times per day depending on the animal to be treated.

Firework celebrations

Rock Rose (panic) + Star of Bethlehem (trauma, shock) + Sweet Chestnut (extreme distress) + Rescue Remedy (emergency).

Minimum two applications per day.

Inflammation and infection of the third eyelid

Eye-drops prepared with sterile saline solution.

Beech (irritation) + Crab Apple (cleanse) + Vervain (inflammation).

If in one week the swelling of the gland does not subside, add Vine (liquid causing pressure).

2 drops in each affected eye, minimum two times per day.

Learning process

Cerato (trust and self-confidence) + Clematis (improves attention) + Chestnut Bud (assimilation, learning process) + Larch (disability) + Rock Water (resistance to change) + Walnut (adaptation).

4 drops, four times per day.

Mastitis

Cream made with a neutral base cream or Aloe Vera gel.

Beech (irritation) + Crab Apple (cleanse) + Holly (rash) + Star of Bethlehem (trauma) + Vervain (inflammation) + Chicory (congestion and retention).

Minimum two applications per day.

Prepared with sterile saline solution.

Crab Apple (cleanse) + Elm (overwhelming pain) + Vervain (inflammation) + Vine (liquid causing pressure).

Formula from Orozco (2003).

2 drops inside the affected ear, minimum two times per day.

Skin allergy

For allergy to the contents of the anti-parasite pipettes, to fleas or other parasites, to plants, etc. cream made with a neutral base cream or Aloe Vera gel.

Agrimony (unbearable itching) + Beech (irritation) + Crab Apple (cleanse) + Vervain (inflammation).

Minimum two applications per day.

Traumatisms

Being run over by a car, a fall, a bone fracture, a contusion, etc. Cream made with a neutral base cream or Aloe Vera gel.

Elm (overwhelmed due to overload of any type) + Hornbeam (occasional weakness of the area to be treated) + Star of Bethlehem (traumatism) + Larch (if there is inability to move the affected part) + Vervain (if there is inflammation).

Minimum two applications per day.

Cherry Plum (lack of control) + Scleranthus (instability) + Walnut (adaptation) + Rescue Remedy (emergency).

If the animal has to travel by airplane inside a cage, add the following remedies to the above formula:

Rock Rose (panic) + Sweet Chestnut (anxiety/anguish).