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This article was written by Dr. Richard Pitcairn, DVM, and shared with his permission.
Most health problems are the result of an underlying energy imbalance, made worse from poor diet and vaccination. they are rarely acute diseases (except injuries). therefore, you may find that the problem does not clear up as you expect or recurs. if the disease (i.e., cystitis) clears up rapidly and then comes back, even with a response to repeated treatment, you need to be thinking that you are dealing with an underlying predisposition to illness. as we cure animals of disease, we find that certain other normal things go away, too. do not be satisfied with the health of your animal until most of the following symptoms are gone. look for these in young, apparently healthy animals, and treat quickly.
Signs Of Underlying Energy Imbalance Often Deemed Normal in Dogs
BEHAVIOR: fear of loud noises, thunder, wind, barks too much and too long, suspicious nature. Timidity, licking things, people, irritability, indolence, eating dog stool (possibly cat stool-) it seems to be normal to eat horse, cow, and rabbit manure, feet sensitive to handling, aggressiveness at play, destructiveness.
STOMACH: mucous on stools, even occasional, tendency to diarrhea with least change of diet. Obesity, bad breath, poor appetite, craving weird things, esp. non-food. stiffness when getting up, early hip dysplasia.
TEMPERATURE: Sensitive to heat or cold. low grade fevers normal for cats, dogs, is 100-101.5
Signs Of Underlying Energy Imbalance Often Deemed Normal in Cats
SKIN: “freckles” on the face, fragile claws, loss of whiskers, attracts fleas a lot, dry, dull coat.
EXCESSIVE HAIR LOSS: waxy ears, frequent recurrence of mites, not grooming well.
BEHAVIOR: too timid or too rough, biting when petted too long, hysteria when restrained, irritability, indolence, not covering stool, not using litter box, perching high, clumsy.
STOMACH: excessive appetite, finnicky appetite, sensitivity to milk: eating weird things, thirst. A super healthy cat on good food will drink at most once a week, constipation, hard dry stools, obesity, thinness, loss of teeth, bad breath: pale gums, red gums, diarrhea on food change, vomiting often, vomiting hairballs more than 12x/year, tarter accumulation in dogs or cats.
UR: puffy around eyes, chronic conjunctivitis, dull eyes, total snots, asthma, coughs.
MOUTH: foul breath, fissures at corners of mouth, salivation from clover teeth: hollow seeming teeth, hard to float, loose teeth at under 20 years old stomach coprophagia/pica, craves salt, fussy eating, intolerant to fat.
ABDOMEN: repeated colic’s, sensitivity to weather changes with git signs, excessively susceptible to parasites, potbellied foals, distended abdomen (hay belly) in adults.
RECTUM: rectum tears easily when palpated, hard dry fecal balls.
EXTREMITIES: warm up very slowly, stiff muscles tie up if warmed up: swollen legs: hot or cold- may or may not go down with exercise, unable to lift back feet, unable to balance on three legs.
FEET: bad odor without pathology, excessive moisture in feet, sensitive to hammering in nails
PERSPIRATION: sweat on upper body but not low r, sticky sweat, unpleasant odor Skin.
GENERALITIES: poor exercise tolerance, fat deposits, crusty necks, around tail head, top of croup, under eyes, disturbed by temperature changes, offensive odors, not wanting to be touched, groomed
Other Species
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