Homemade Recipes that WORK! with CANSEMA BLACK SALVE - Heal Sarcoid Tumors on horses

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Tips, Tricks and Homemade Recipes that WORK!REMEDIES FOR YOUR HORSETexas-oriented Draft linksUseful Equine LinksBack to MAIN PAGE NOTICE: The advice posted on this page does not and SHOULD not take the place of a Veterinary consultation. When in doubt, get the vet out! Having gotten the important disclaimer out of the way, here are some homemade recipes and cure alls for common ailments for horses that have worked for me. I'm always on the lookout for tips, tricks and homemade cures, so if you have one you want to share here, please write me with the details. If I post it here, your will be given acknowledgement for your contribution. My e-mail is: stacy If you have any doubts about the ingredients or use of a recipe below, contact your vet prior to application to your horse. 1. HOMEMADE FLYSPRAY This one is a favorite of mine! I discovered it this summer through a friend. She recommended it highly. It has worked for everyone that has used it to date with no side effects, including on my own horses. I also use it around the outside of our house and barn as a perimeter spray to control bugs and flies. Its safer and more effective than store-bought stuff and it smells better! (I have a 16month old daughter) The only downfall of this concoction is that in "tough" fly country, it seems to last about 8-10 hours, but the price is right to make more! HOMEMADE FLYSPRAY__________________________ mix equal parts in a spray bottle of the following: 1/3 PineSol of any scent (I like orange)1/3 Apple Cider Vinegar1/3 Water Shake well and apply liberally to your horse. Be careful around the head, eyes and any open wounds. If in doubt, do a patch test for sensitivity on your horse and/or consult your vet prior to application. Enjoy! 2. Cure for Summer Itch Who hasn't had the one horse in the herd that would faithfully rub out mane and tail every spring and summer? Well, I did! I tried cortizone shots and topical creams (SWAT, et all) to no avail before bemoaning about it one day with my small pet vet, (a former large animal vet and very wise old guy). He suggested that I use the anti-fungal stuff for roses sold in gardening nurseries. Follow the instructions on the bag/box for application on my horse. It WORKED!! The oozing of the wounds stopped, the itching stopped and the wounds began to heal. I used it in conjunction with the homemade flyspray to keep flies away and my horse healed up within a month! No more scratching! Best of all, I didn't need to use cortizone shots any longer to provide relief to my horse. Prolonged levels of cortizone in the system can lower immunity... exactly the opposite of what you want! 3. Sarcoid Tumors I had a horse turn up with a benign sarcoid tumor on her neck. It was ugly, it was unsightly, and moreover, the vet said that removal surgery was expensive and since those tumors often come back, a likely waste of money. He said that sometimes surgery STIMULATED growth of the sarcoids. He likened them to warts on people. Well, warts can usually be removed with topical applications, so with that in mind, I did some research on the internet in hopes of finding something homeopathic and relatively cheap to try on her before considering the more expensive surgery. That sarcoid had to go one way or the other. That's when I read about XTERRA. Its a topical treatment available through the vet --- but its $$$$. The price tag ($90) was a little steep for me. I checked the active ingredients and discovered that BLOODROOT and ZINC are the major components. Kept searching the internet, and came across some inexpensive bloodroot salve and ordered the smallest container for $10. I put the bloodroot salve on the tumor ONLY - careful not to overlap into the hair - every other day for a month. I used a cottontip swab to apply it more accurately than my finger. The tumor shrank to a flat spot and has remained that way and I saved $80 in the process. The salve is black and smells awful but it works! I even have some left over if I need it again. I have since learned about CANSEMA BLACK SALVE which contains both bloodroot and zinc. Still cheaper than XTERRA, but haven't had a need to try it yet. 4. A Sweet Cure to Avoid Proudflesh on Wounds Horses will be horses. I first used this cure in 1989 when one of my horses had a catastrophic leg injury that almost ended her life. The injury exposed the bone. There was nothing "commercial" that was safe to use to clean the injury daily while it healed. Two highly respected vets recommended euthansia due to the extent of the injury and its location on the leg that made it a bad candidate for surgery. Desperate to save an otherwise healthy young mare with a drive to live, I talked to an experienced horsewoman about dealing with this injury. Since we had nothing to lose except the mare, she recommended this cure. It worked FANTASTICALLY. It took seven months of daily care for her wound to heal completely, but it is nearly invisible at first glance. I still own the mare today. She's operating on all four legs without pain and she's still toting beginner kids around -- something 2 vets predicted she would never be able to to again. Without following my friend's advice, they'd probably be right. When you have a nasty wound that needs to heal from the inside out, do the following EVERY day to keep the flesh pink and granulating in: Apply a generous handful of DRY WHITE GRANULATED SUGAR (same as the kind you cook with) to the wound. Allow it to liquefy and melt off. Once you get back to "living flesh", the sugar may cause some discomfort to the wound, so when your horse begins to fidget, it is time to rinse off the sugar. It should turn pink as it liquefies. Since sugar is a natural acid, it eats away dead flesh, so expect very light bleeding. This is normal -- it is an indicator that the sugar treatment is working. Rinse off the sugar with a gentle spray of clean water from a hose if possible. Continue to irrigate the wound for 5-10 minutes after rinsing the sugar away, then pat wound dry with a sterile towel. Apply Corona salve generously to wound. Corona, made with lanolin, will keep the wound pliant while it heals. Cover or bandage wound if applicable. Spray the homemade flyspray around the wound area but NOT WITHIN 4 INCHES OF IT. Do not contaminate the wound with the flyspray. Lastly, do your horse a favor... if the wound drips to other parts of your horse's body, apply a generous coating of vaseline to the skin/area that follows the drip-line. This will prevent "wound scald" to the good skin below the injury ....and since the drip doesn't stick to the hair, it keeps the smell and the flies down. Repeat these steps daily until the wound granulates in. Should heal with little or no scarring. This recipe has been tested by me and several of my friends who've had horses get injured in "hard to bandage" areas. On most of the horses, you can't tell there ever was an injury today. http://www.sportshires.com/tips.htm Happy Trails! TEXAS SPORT SHIRES"Building a Better Sport Horse!"Stacy RiebartschDallas, Texas USA ph: 817-329-1019 e-mail: stacy