HERB - Comfrey and dogs...

[Lughnasa@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-06-16 09:01:29 EDT, you write:

> 
>  Christianna said something that sounded like:
>  > What condition do you use this cream for?
>  
>  What we use comfrey compresses for are bone/muscle injuiries. It seems
>  to help quickly heal them. I don't remember it helping my psoriosis at
>  all though. For this I am lucky enough that getting enough sunshine and
>  vitamin E clear it up. (Of course I don't always do that. *sigh*)
>  
>  > I am looking for something to
>  > ease my poor little black dog's terrible skin problems.
>  
>  Our golden recently had similar problems to what it sounds like yours is
>  going though.
>  
>  We tried brewer's yeast and vitamin E 'cause they had always worked
>  in the past, but they failed to work.
>  
>  They thought it was a food allergy of all things. We put her on the
>  Purina Lamb & Rice food for a while, which made it better, but it didn't
>  go away.
>  
>  They gave her corizone pills and a anti-histamine, but it didn't go
>  away.
>  
>  We finally bathed her once a week with dandruff shampoo (Yes, they make
>  doggy dandruff shampoo) for about a month and a half and the problem
>  went away. As of yet, the problem has not come back yet eventhough we
>  have stopped bathing her except once a month or so. (Reminds himself to
>  bath his dog soon.)
>  
>  This may or many not be a solution for you, but it worked for us.
>  
>  Ciao,
>  
>  -- 
>  Phelim "Pug" Gervase  | "I want to be called. COTTONTIPS. There is
something 
> 
>  Barony of Bryn Gwlad  |  graceful about that lady. A young woman bursting 
> with 
>  House Flaming Dog     |  vigor. She blinked at the sudden light. She writes
>  pug at pug.net           |  beautiful poems. When ever shall we meet again?"
>  
Try baby shampoo (Johnson's) or, better yet, dry scalp shampoo.  If you can
find it.  Also, try a once-a-month flea treatment.  Even one flea on sensitive
skin can set those "hot-spots" off.   (Caution: The treatment gets weaker with
washing.)

Kris
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