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Flea Spray with Sunscreen for Dogs

2010-03-23T07:51:00.000-07:00

Flea the Scene 8oz....$14.00

Happytails Flea the Scene

Skin soothing insect spray with sunscreen

A perfect complement to products like Frontline & Advantage
No overwhelming medicinal aroma like some sprays

Nothing ruins a relaxing day in the sun like uninvited guests. Mosquitoes, fleas and annoying neighbors can all turn that perfect afternoon into sheer torture. All natural Flea the Scene is a 3-in-1 spray that will take the sting out of flea season while soothing and protecting your canine companion.

Flea the Scene also soothes irritated skin with Indian Frankincense and aloe vera while providing UV protection with an all-natural sunscreen (don’t forget that dog's get sunburned too!).

All natural Flea the Scene:
It's all natural and perfectly safe even if your dog licks it off

Perfect product for a day at the beach or a walk in the park
Yes you can use it on yourself

Flea the Scene contains no SLS or Parabens...and of course, is cruelty free..well except to mosquitoes, fleas and annoying neighbors

Just a Dog

2010-03-21T12:51:00.000-07:00

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JUST A DOG

From time to time, people tell me, "lighten up, it's just a dog,"
or "that's a lot of money for just a dog."

They don't understand the distance travelled, the time spent,
or the costs involved for "just a dog."

Some of my proudest moments have come about with "just a dog."

Many hours have passed and my only company was "just a dog,"
but I did not once feel slighted.

Some of my saddest moments have been brought about by
"just a dog," and in those days of darkness, the gentle touch
of "just a dog" gave me comfort and reason to overcome the day.

If you, too, think it's "just a dog," then you probably understand
phrases like "just a friend," "just a sunrise," or "just a promise."

"Just a dog" brings into my life the very essence of friendship,
trust, and pure unbridled joy.
"Just a dog" brings out the compassion and patience
that make me a better person.
Because of "just a dog" I will rise early, take long walks and look
longingly to the future.

So for me and folks like me, it's not "just a dog"
but an embodiment of all the hopes and dreams of the future,
the fond memories of the past, and the pure joy of the moment.

"Just a dog" brings out what's good in me and diverts my thoughts
away from myself and the worries of the day.

I hope that someday they can understand that its' not "just a dog"
but the thing that gives me humanity and keeps me from being
"just a man" or "just a woman."

So the next time you hear the phrase "just a dog,"
just smile,
because they "just don't understand."

~Unknown Author~

100 ways you can help Save a shelter dog or shelter cats Life

2010-03-06T17:08:00.000-08:00

Can you:
1. Transport a dog?
2. Donate a dog bed or towels or other bedding items?
3. Donate money?
4. Donate a Kong? A Nylabone? A Hercules?
5. Donate a crate?
6. Donate an x-pen or baby gates?
7. Donate a food dish or a stainless bucket for a crate?
8. Donate a leash?
9. Donate a collar?
10. Donate some treats or a bag of food?
11. Donate a halti or promise collar or a gentle leader?
12. Walk a dog?
13. Groom a dog?
14. Donate some grooming supplies (shampoos, combs, brushes, etc.)?
15. Go to the local shelter and see if that dog is the breed the shelter says it is or go with rescue to be a second opinion on the dog?
16. Make a few phone calls?
17. Mail out applications to people who've requested them?
18. Provide local vet clinics with contact information or educational materials on responsible pet ownership?
19. Drive a dog to and from vet appointments?
20. Donate long distance calling cards?
21. Donate the use of your scanner or digital camera?
22. Donate the use of a photocopier?
23. Attend public education days & try to educate people on responsible pet ownership?
24. Donate a gift certificate to a pet store?
25. Donate a raffle item if your club is holding a fund raiser?
26. Donate flea stuff (Advantage, etc.)?
27. Donate HW pills?
28. Donate a canine first aid kit?
29. Provide a shoulder to cry on when the rescue person is overwhelmed?
30. Pay the boarding fees to board a dog for a week?
31. Be a Santi-paws foster to give the foster a break for a few hours or days?
32. Clip coupons for dog food or treats?
33. Bake some homemade doggie biscuits?
34. Make book purchases through Amazon via a website that contributes commissions earned to a rescue group?
35. Host rescue photos with an information link to your website?
36. Donate time to take good photos of foster dogs for adoption flyers, etc.?
37. Conduct a home visit or accompany a rescue person on the home visit?
38. Go with rescue person to the vet to help if there is more than one dog?
39. Have a yard sale and donate the money to rescue?
40. Be a volunteer to do a rescue in your area?
41. Take advantage of a promotion on the web or store offering a free ID tag & instead of getting it for your own dog, have the tag inscribed with your Club's name & phone number to contact?
42. Talk to all of your friends about adopting and fostering rescue dogs?
43. Donate vet services or donate a spay or neuter each year or some vaccinations?
44. Interview vets to encourage them to offer discounts to rescues?
45. Write a column for your local newspaper or club newsletter on dogs currently looking for homes or ways to help rescue?
46. Take photos of dogs available for adoption for use by the Club?
47. Maintain website listing/showing dogs available?
48. Help organize and run fundraising events?
49. Help maintain paperwork files associated with each dog or enter info into a database?
50. Tattoo a rescue dog?
51. Loan your carpet steam cleaner to someone who fostered a dog that was sick or marked in the house?
52. Microchip a rescue dog?
53. Donate a bottle of bleach or other cleaning products?
54. Donate or loan a portable dog run to someone who doesn't have a quarantine area for a dog that has an unknown vaccination history and has been in a shelter?
55. Drive fosters' children to an activity so the foster can take the dog to obedience class?
56. Use your video camera to film a rescue dog in action?
57. Pay the cost of taking a dog to obedience class?
58. Be the one to take the dog to an obedience class?
59. Go to the foster home once a week with your children & dogs to help socialize the dog?
60. Help the foster clean up the yard (yes, we also have to scoop what foster dogs poop)?
61. Offer to test the foster dog with cats?
62. Pay for a dog to be groomed or take the dog to a "do it yourself" grooming place?
63. Bring the foster takeout so the foster doesn't have to cook dinner?
64. Pay house-cleaning service to do spring cleaning for someone who fosters dogs?
65. Lend your artistic talents to your club's newsletter, fundraising ideas, t-shirts designs?
66. Donate printer paper, envelopes and stamps to your club?
67. Go with a rescue person to the vet if a foster dog needs to be euthanized?
68. Go to local shelters & meet with shelter staff about how to identify your breed or provide photos & breed info showing the different types of that breed that may come in & the different color combinations?
69. Go to local businesses and solicit donations for a club's fundraising event?
70. Offer to try and help owners be better pet owners by holding a grooming seminar?
71. Help pet owners be better pet owners by being available to answer training questions?
72. Loan a crate if a dog needs to travel by air?
73. Put together an Owner's Manual for those who adopt rescued dogs of your breed?
74. Provide post-adoption follow up or support?
75. Donate a coupon for a free car wash or gas or inside cleaning of a vehicle?
76. Pay for an ad in your local or metropolitan paper to help place rescue dogs?
77. Volunteer to screen calls for that ad?
78. Get some friends together to build or repair pens for a foster home?
79. Microchip your own pups if you are a breeder, and register the chips, so if your dogs ever come into rescue, you can be contacted to take responsibility for your pup?
80. Donate a small percentage of the sale of each pup to rescue if you are a breeder?
81. Buy two of those really neat dog items you "have to have" and donate one to a rescue?
82. Make financial arrangements in your will to cover the cost of caring for your dogs after you are gone - so rescue won't have to?
83. Make a bequest in your will to your local or national rescue?
84. Donate your professional services as an accountant or lawyer?
85. Donate other services if you run your own business?
86. Donate the use of a vehicle if you own a car dealership?
87. Loan your cell phone (an cover costs for any calls) to someone driving a rescued dog?
88. Donate your "used" dog dryer when you get a new one?
89. Let rescue know when you'll be flying & you'd be willing to be a rescue dog's escort?
90. Donate a doggy seatbelt?
91. Donate a grid for a van or other vehicle?
92. Organize a rescued dog picnic or other event to reunite rescued dogs that have been placed?
93. Donate other types of doggy toys that might be safe for rescued dogs?
94. Donate a roll-a-treat or Buster cube?
95. Donate clickers or a video on clicker training?
96. Donate materials for a quarantine area at a fosters home?
97. Donate an engraving tool to make ID tags for each of the rescued dogs?
98. Donate sheets of linoleum or other flooring materials to put under crates to protect fosters floor?
99. Remember that rescuing a dog involves the effort and time of many people and make yourself available on an emergency basis to do "whatever" is needed?
100. Do something not listed here to help a rescue

Dog Rescued from Iraq

2010-03-02T08:32:00.000-08:00

Great post on Paw Nation!

Maj. Brian Dennis and Nubs the Dog today.
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

When Maj. Brian Dennis of the United States Marine Corps met a wild stray dog with shorn ears while serving in Iraq, he had no idea of the bond they would form, leading to seismic changes in both their lives. "The general theme of the story of Nubs is that if you're kind to someone, they'll never forget you -- whether it be person or animal," Dennis tells Paw Nation.

In October 2007, Dennis and his team of 11 men were in Iraq patrolling the Syrian border. One day, as his team arrived at a border fort, they encountered a pack of stray dogs -- not uncommon in the barren, rocky desert that was home to wolves and wild dogs.

"We all got out of the Humvee and I started working when this dog came running up," recalls Dennis. "I said, 'Hey buddy' and bent down to pet him." Dennis noticed the dog's ears had been cut. "I said, 'You got little nubs for ears.'" The name stuck. The dog whose ears had been shorn off as a puppy by an Iraqi soldier (to make the dog "look tougher," Dennis says) became known as Nubs.

Dennis fed Nubs scraps from his field rations, including bits of ham and frosted strawberry Pop Tarts. "I didn't think he'd eat the Pop Tart, but he did," says Dennis.

At night, Nubs accompanied the men on night patrols. "I'd get up in the middle of the night to walk the perimeter with my weapon and Nubs would get up and walk next to me like he was doing guard duty," says Dennis.

The next day, Dennis said goodbye to Nubs, but he didn't forget about the dog. He began mentioning Nubs in emails he wrote to friends and family back home. "I found a dog in the desert," Dennis wrote in an email in October 2007. "I call him Nubs. We clicked right away. He flips on his back and makes me rub his stomach."

"Every couple of weeks, we'd go back to the border fort and I'd see Nubs every time," says Dennis. "Each time, he followed us around a little more." And every time the men rumbled away in their Humvees, Nubs would run after them. "We're going forty miles an hour and he'd be right next to the Humvee," says Dennis. "He's a crazy fast dog. Eventually, he'd wear out, fall behind and disappear in the dust."

On one trip to the border fort in December 2007, Dennis found Nubs was badly wounded in his left side where he'd been stabbed with a screwdriver. "The wound was infected and full of pus," Dennis recalls. "We pulled out our battle kits and poured antiseptic on his wound and force fed him some antibiotics wrapped in peanut butter." That night, Nubs was in so much pain that he refused food and water and slept standing up because he couldn't lay down. The next morning, Nubs seemed better. Dennis and his team left again, but he thought about Nubs the entire time, hoping the dog was still alive.

Excerpt, "Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle,"
Little, Brown for Young Readers

Two weeks later, when Dennis and his team returned, he found Nubs alive and well. "I had patched him up and that seemed to be a turning point in how he viewed me," says Dennis. This time, when Dennis and his team left the fort, Nubs followed. Though the dog lost sight of the Humvees, he never gave up. For two days, Nubs endured freezing temperatures and packs of wild dogs and wolves, eventually finding his way to Dennis at a camp an incredible 70 miles south near the Jordanian border.

"There he was, all beaten and chewed up," says Dennis. "I knew immediately that Nubs had crossed through several dog territories and fought and ran, and fought and ran," says Dennis. The dog jumped on Dennis, licking his face.

Most of the 80 men at the camp welcomed Nubs, even building him a doghouse. But a couple of soldiers complained, leading Dennis' superiors to order him to get rid of the dog. With his hand forced, Dennis decided that the only thing to do was bring Nubs to America. He began coordinating Nubs' rescue effort. Friends and family in the States helped, raising the $5,000 it would cost to transport Nubs overseas.

Finally, it was all arranged. Nubs was handed over to volunteers in Jordan, who looked after the dog and sent him onto to Chicago, then San Diego, where Dennis' friends waited to pick him up. Nubs lived with Dennis' friends and began getting trained by local dog trainer Graham Bloem of the Snug Pet Resort. "I focused on basic obedience and socializing him with dogs, people and the environment," says Bloem.

A month later, Dennis finished his deployment in Iraq and returned home to San Diego, where he immediately boarded a bus to Camp Pendleton to be reunited with Nubs. "I was worried he wouldn't remember me," says Dennis. But he needn't have worried. "Nubs went crazy," recalls Dennis. "He was jumping up on me, licking my head."

Dennis' experience with Nubs led to a children's picture book, called "Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle," published by Little, Brown for Young Readers. They have appeared on the Today Show and will be appearing on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on Monday.

Was it destiny that Dennis met Nubs and brought him to America? "I don't know about that," says Dennis. "It's been a strange phenomenon. It's been a blessing. I get drawings mailed to me that children have drawn of Nubs with his ears cut off. It makes me laugh."
by Helena Sung (Subscribe to Helena Sung's posts)

Pets Immune System

2010-03-01T15:32:00.000-08:00

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PET BOOST FORMULA FOR INCREASED IMMUNE RESPONSE AND ENERGY

The immune system works constantly to keep environmental disease forces at bay, including viruses, harmful bacteria, and external heat and cold. It also keeps our animal friend's normal control factors on course, keeping uncontrolled cell division in check. Our pet's immune system can get run down,making them susceptible to any number of dangers.

This formula addresses a weakened immune system. Recent research into baical skullcap (scute) shows an antibiotic effect against six types of pathogenic bacteria and promising activity against retro-viruses such as HIV. Ginseng's immuno-stimulating activity is multidimensional. It enhances antibody responses, cell-mediate dimmunity, and production of interferon. It also increases natural killer cells, acts as a lymphocyte and reticuloendothelial system proliferative an dimproves phagocytic functions.

Astragalus strengthens and helps to prevent and fight colds and bacteria. A recent study in Houston found it restored T-cell function in nine out of ten cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.Atractylodes is often used with ginseng in immune enhancing formulas. It tonifies the digestion and energy and increases white blood cell count.

Kelp is the source for organically bound iodine to maintain a healthy thyroid.Garlic is used to reduce the risk of cancer and infections and is extremely protective of the cardiovascular system. This formula adds up to major support for your animal friend's immune system.

.Fatigue

.Recurrent illnesses

.Compromised immune system

.Recurrent upper respiratory infections

.Slow injury recovery

.Viral infections

.Feline Infectious Peritonitis

.Feline leukemia

.Feline Immuno Deficient Virus

.Cancer/ radiation, chemotherapy

Ingredients:
Asian ginseng root, atractylodes rhizome, poria sclerotium (hoelen), licorice
root, kelp thalus, garlic bulb, astragalus root, schisandra fruit, stevia
leaf.

$24.95

Running with your Dog

2010-02-26T16:12:00.000-08:00

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OK, it is time to start working off those holiday pounds and your canine pal should probably do the same. Dog running partners are much more motivating than humans. Unless they are sick, a dog will never say I just don t feel like it this morning and they will probably roust you from your bed even if you don 't feel like it. A dog will not make fun of your lycra or criticize your form. He will not mind running the same boring route everyday. And, a dog that exercises is a happy dog all day long.

Before you head out with your new jogging partner, you need to make sure that he or she is up to the task. The ideal running dog weighs 30-70 pounds and has a short to medium length hair coat. Giant dogs like Great Danes do not have appropriate body proportions to support long distance running. And, believe it or not, Greyhounds are not great for long distance either. They can sprint like the wind, but long trots are not really their forte. Obvious breeds that cannot become running partners include small or miniature dogs, those with squashed noses like Bulldogs and Pugs and short legged dogs like Basset hounds and Dachshunds.Young growing dogs should not be considered a good long distance partnereither. At this early age, it is best to begin training the puppy to obey commands so he or she will heal, stop, slow down and respect traffic. My dog even understands right and left . This is very helpful when I decide to make a sudden turn or if she us out ahead of me. All this obedience training can be donewithin a couple of blocks of your home while you are waiting for the dog tomature. Most are ready for long distance training by the time they are 2 years old.

Once you have determined that your age and breed of dog is going to make an appropriate running partner, go see the vet. He or she will check out the dog sheart, joints, muscle and weight. If all goes well, he ll get a clean bill of healthand you can begin training. If your dog has been enjoying the couch as much asyou have over the holidays, you should probably start very slowly. Start with halfa mile every other day. Increase the distance by 10% each week and give the doga day off for every day of running. In no time you will both be enjoying the spring for an hour or so at a time.

Always keep your dog on a leash. Some people like the waist leash attachments and others think they are dangerous because the dog could pull you over if he sees a squirrel or other dog. Know your companion and his habits when makinga decision about what type of leash to use. Stay visible. Use reflective vests,collars and leashes. Flashing lights around the dog s collar are very effective. Ifyou must run near traffic, remember that your dog's nose is the same height as automobile exhaust pipes. Try to keep him away from these nasty pollutants.Check your dog s paws before and after the run. If you are running on the beach,where sand can clump between the pads, you might want to do this more often.

As it starts to warm up, be very cautious. Dogs do not sweat like humans. The dissipate heat through panting and through seat glands in the paws. If the surface is hot, it will be more difficult for the dog to cool off. Let him run through puddles, along the edge of the ocean and stick to morning or late evening running when the roads and beaches are cooler. Carry a collapsible water bowl to allow your partner to refresh himself frequently and keep is tongue cool. Include your dog in warm up and cool down walking to help prevent injury.

The most important point to remember is that dogs will run to the edge of the earth for their human companion and may not complain until an injury is severe.It is up to us to make sure that we stop immediately if a dog seems exhausted,sore or hot. If you notice excessive panting, increased salivation, red gums,vomiting, diarrhea or weakness, stop immediately, get some water, walk homeand consult your veterinarian.

In generally, you probably should not enter running races with your dog. Some runners are terrified of dogs and under crowded circumstances, leashes can be asource of trips. However, there are some races that encourage canineparticipation, and these can be great fun. As my friend and client ran across thefinish line of our local Reindeer Run with her dog Lulu, she could not have been more proud of her pal and running partner. The trophy they were awarded isnow a symbol of their powerful human-animal bond that drives so many of our lives.

Article written by:

Katherine Saenger, DVM

Bees Ferry Veterinary Hospital

3422 Shelby Ray CourtCharleston, SC 29414

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Diarrhea,Chronic Gastritis,Distention in Dogs

2010-02-26T15:51:00.001-08:00

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DIA-RELIEF for Pets

This formula helps soothe the intestines and bring their functioning back to normal.Often diarrhea is merely a symptom of disharmony in the intestinal function of re-absorbing water from the wastes passing through it. It may be nature’s way of flushing some toxins from the system, often from bacteria or parasites. For mild diarrhea, consider mixing the herbs with mixture of white potato and sweet potato.
If they are off their diet, try mixing the formula with apple sauce or apple juice.Marshmallow root cools, soothes and helps to rehydrate the mucosa while stimulating the immune system. Plantain helps to pull out toxins, cool inflammation and helps to reduce pain.

It is considered by TCM to clear heat and dampness thereby helping the intestines to process water. Goldenseal root acts as an herbal antibiotic, and barberry strengthens the intestinal lining by stimulating bile flow from the liver. Fennel helps with pain and gas, drying dampness and promoting normal digestive function.

$21.95

The Hoxsey Formula for Dogs

2010-02-25T15:50:00.000-08:00

The Hoxsey Formula

By Geoff D’Arcy, Lic. Ac., D.O.M.

Harry Hoxsey’s cancer treatment is one of America’s most documented non-conventional, alternative treatments of cancer. The lineage of this unique formula spans a remarkable 150 years. Passed down through his family from his great grandfather, this formula peaked in use in 1950 and flourished into Harry’s 14 cancer clinics, ranging across the United States. Harry Hoxsey had the largest privately-owned cancer clinic in the world, seeing 10,000 patients in Dallas alone. To this day, his treatment is still available through the Bio-Medical Center at Tijuana, Mexico.

The Hoxsey treatment evolved and centered around one herbal formula handed down from generation to generation in the Hoxsey family. Hoxsey and his formula still enjoy popular appeal, even though they have suffered 40 years of harsh attacks in the press, relentless prosecutions in the courts, (he was arrested more times than anyone in U.S. medical history, 100 times just in Dallas,) persecution by government agencies (Public Warning Against Hoxsey Cancer Treatment" that the FDA ordered mounted in 46,000 U.S. Post Offices,) and a virulent personal vendetta mounted against him by the head of the American Medical Association, Morris Fishein (and editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association from 1924-1949).

According to Hoxsey, the formula was developed by his grandfather, a horse breeder in Illinois. His favorite stallion had a cancerous growth, and he observed this horse eat grasses and flowering wild plants in a pasture on his farm. The cancer disappeared. John Hoxsey believed it was the local plants that had healed his horse. He added some other herbs and made the formula available to other horse breeders.

Harry Hoxsey inherited the formula in 1919, from his father, he challenged Harry to treat cancer patients "if need be, in defiance of the high priests of medicine" Harry's father, was a veterinary surgeon, he believed that the formula “might be of equal benefit to human beings stricken with the same disease," John Hoxsey began "quietly treating cancer patients" under the supervision of two MDs in the region of Girard, Illinois. Harry Hoxsey supported and bolstered by his family’s experience of the formula’s results, who made it famous, and brought the formula to thousands of people around the U.S.
How did Harry and his formula survive? Why weren’t they extinguished? It’s an amazing story full of Hollywood-like intrigues. They survived by the most amazing truth of all ……testimony of healed patients. This was Hosxey’s only defense at every trial and Senate committee meeting. He never lost one ‘AMA quack trial’ or slander trial because of this moving, powerful defense from the experience of hundreds of cancer survivors. Battling against the American medical establishment of the day, not one cancer patient ever testified against him. Given to carrying wads of cash to be able to post bail at any time,(his fortune coming from Oil investments) when arrested, his patients would gather at the jail in a show of support, hastening his release. Senators, judges, lawyers and some doctors endorsed his anticancer treatment. Along with hundreds of patient supporters, once seriously ill with cancer, would testified they owed their lives and continued health to him. Hoxsey’s ‘larger-than-life’ personality, unfortunately fit the stereotypical image of a quack coupled with a confrontational style, set him head-on to clash with the medical authorities for decades. Maybe being caught up in the swinging pendulum of medical focus of the day, that began with the swing away from herbal medicine to pharmaceuticals that happened from 1920’s to the 1950’s McCarthyism.

Richard Walter in his article ‘Hoxsey Therapy’ reports : “In 1953, the Fitzgerald Report, commissioned by a United States Senate committee, concluded that organized medicine had "conspired" to suppress the Hoxsey therapy and at least a dozen other promising cancer treatments. The proponents of these unconventional methods were mostly respected doctors and scientists who had developed nutritional or immunological approaches. Panels of surgeons and radiation therapists had dismissed the therapies as quackery, and these promising treatments were banned without a serious investigation”

In 1954, an independent team of physicians from around the U.S. made an inspection of his Dallas clinic and issued a n amazing statement. After reviewing hundreds of case histories and interviewing patients a the doctors released a signed report declaring that the clinic is successfully treating pathologically proven cases of cancer, both internal and external, without the use of surgery, radium or x-ray. The pendulum was swinging away from blind reaction against Hoxsey.

After all the bitter opposition by the medical establishment of the day, and after all the invitations by Hoxsey not one study on this formula was ever conducted. What ever the reasoning, this Hoxsey lineage and experience has never been utilized even after a few retrospective outcome studies have proven the percentages of patient mortality outcomes past five years, should stimulate some medical research interest. (Assessment of outcomes at alternative medicine cancer clinics: a feasibility study. Richardson MA, Russell NC, Sanders T, Barrett R, Salveson C. 2001)
Medical historians have studied use of the ingredients in this formula, they were used by native American tribes and observe the transmission of this usage these herbs to local settlers and their doctors. Remember the context of the times American Eclectic Physicians were a group of doctors devoted to clinical research and the use of herbal preparations in treating disease. They flourished a hundred years upto1939 and had medical schools that taught sophisticated methods of herbal formulation and prescription, the main of medicine at that time Their work is a rich resource to this day. Out of this climate came the Hoxsey formula and other similar formulas containing some of the same ingredients.
Reported by Kenny Ausubel in his article Tempest in a Tonic Bottle: “To Francis Brinker a Naturopathic Doctor and historian, there is a striking similarity to an old red clover-based Eclectic formula. He traced the origins of the Trifolium (red clover) extract back to the nineteenth century, when Parke, Davis, and Co. produced a Syrup Trifolium Compound similar ingredients to Hoxsey formulas, the formula was also described in an official American Pharmaceutical Association listing of drugs called the National Formulary in 1926 and 1936.

Yet another Extract of Trifolium Compound was listed in the 1898 King’s American Dispensatory, the preeminent compilation of medicines used by Eclectic doctors. It was prescribed for syphilis, scrofula, rheumatism, and glandular and skin conditions. This "Compound Fluidextract of Trifolium" contained all the Hoxsey ingredients except buckthorn, and also had mayapple root, Podophyllum peltatum “

"Alteratives, known in folk medicine as ‘blood cleansers,’ were seen as assisting organs that remove metabolic waste and toxins from the circulation. Alteratives were believed to improve the quality of the blood by assisting digestion, improving circulation, and accelerating the processes of elimination, thereby correcting faulty metabolism. The knowledge concerning their action was wholly empirical. Health was seen as a product of the quality of the blood, since the blood brings nourishment to tissues and cells and must remove the cellular waste.

"Cleansing the blood," Brinker continues, "occurs as it is filtered through the organs which excrete cellular waste products. When these organs of elimination do not function adequately, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain a healthy ecology of the cells. This makes them more susceptible to carcinogens.²⁰

"This model for the action of alteratives was practically applied by the late-nineteenth-century Eclectic prescribers in the treatment of chronic and cancerous conditions. Such was their success that the alteratives were considered to have been among the most useful medicines in Eclectic therapeutics."

The Hoxsey formula’s real purpose was not to kill cancer cells directly. Rather, it was to create an overall terrain unfavorable to the growth of cancer cells. Simultaneously its effect was the enhancement of the body’s own immune response and capacity to eliminate toxins. From these perspectives, the Hoxsey tonic is a credible approach.

In 1988, the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the United States Congress commissioned the following "contract report" as a background paper to aid in its consideration of the Hoxsey Therapy. The OTA, at the request of Congress, was the first Federal agency to review the Hoxsey Therapy and other major unconventional or alternative cancer treatments during a five year long process that resulted in the OTA's 1990 publication Unconventional Cancer Treatments by Patricia Spain Ward, PhD, a widely published academic medical historian. She reported” Hoxsey's formula, however strangely concocted by modern scientific standards, does indeed contain many plant substances of marked therapeutic activity [emphasis added].” She further added; “In fact, orthodox scientific research has by now identified antitumor activity of one sort or another in all but three of Hoxsey's plants and two of these three are purgatives, one of them (Rhamnus purshiana) containing the anthraquinone glycoside structure now recognized as predictive of antitumor properties (Kupchan, 1976). Between 1964 and 1968 four articles appeared in Lancet, Pediatrics, and Nature, describing the mitogenic activity of pokeweed, which triggers the immune system by increasing the number of lymphocytes, causing the formation of plasma cells, and elevating levels of immunoglobulin G (Farnes, 1964; Barker, 1965; Barker, 1966; Downing, 1968).
In 1966 two Hungarian scientists, engaged in a screening program at the University of Szeged, published their findings of "considerable antitumor activity" in a purified fraction of burdock, a plant which they included in their project because of its use as a folk remedy for new growths and ulcerations (Dombradi, 1966). In 1972 Kupchan described the growth-inhibiting activity of sesquiterpene lactones, a structural group which includes burdock (Kupchan, 1972). In 1984 researchers at Nagoya University, Japan, found in burdock a new type of desmutagen: a substance uniquely capable of reducing mutagenicity both in the absence and in the presence of metabolic activation. So important is this new property that these scientists named it the B-factor, for burdock factor (Morita et al., 1984).
Two recent studies from the East, one Japanese, one Chinese, have established the presence of antitumor substances in barberry (which Hoxsey also sometimes called berberis root). Testing tumor size in mice by the total packed cell volume method, Hoshi and his co-workers found strong antitumor activity in berberrubine, an alkaloid isolated from Berberis vulgaris (Hoshi, 1976). Also in 1976, Owen et al. derived from berberine a new antitumor substance which they have named Lycobetaine (Owen, 1976).
At the University of Virginia in the mid-70s, Kupchan and Karim isolated an antileukemic principle from buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula). Their discovery that the efficacy of this substance in leukemia is vehicle-dependent led these scientists to advise re-testing of other anthraquinone plant substances for similar antitumor activity (Kupchan, 1976).
Modern research is vindicating Hoxsey life mission?.
According to the study, funded by the N.I.H.( "Assessment of Outcomes at Alternative Medicine Cancer Clinics: A Feasibility Study,"). at a point five years after a new group of Bio-Medical Center (Hoxsey) cancer patients began their treatment in 1992, 11.4 percent of them were alive, 34.9 percent were deceased, and 42.9 percent were lost to follow-up. These results are conservative, but — in contrast to the dismal outcome of most standard forms of cancer therapy on late stage patients — seem promising. The study's authors conclude, "Given the widespread use of both clinics, [and] intriguing anecdotal reports at both sites . . . we recommend prospective monitoring systems to provide reliable information on the clinical outcomes associated with these treatments."

James Duke, Ph.D., is a recognized expert in the field of natural plant medicines. Duke noted that all the Hoxsey herbs have a long empirical tradition of Native American usage for cancer, several stretching back as far as three thousand years some of the plants in Hoxsey’s tonic contained chemical compounds of considerable interest to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Duke evaluated the safety of the herbs in Hoxsey’s tonic and found that only one, poke root, was potentially toxic. However, the amount of poke root included in Hoxsey’s formula was presumably well within the safe range. Duke concluded that eight of the nine Hoxsey-tonic herbs have chemical constituents containing anti-tumor activity (as shown in animal models), five have antioxidant effects, and all nine have antimicrobial activity that may be linked to cancer-fighting effects. Duke’s assessment was that the Hoxsey tonic ingredients showed very significant chemical and biological anticancer activity.
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center performed an extensive human studies literature review of the Hoxsey treatment and found four studies applicable to cancer. The studies report response to therapy although none of the studies used controls against which to measure response. Individual components of the formula have been tested in the laboratory or in animals. Seven of the nine herbs in the formula have shown some anti-cancer activity. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center recommends that more studies of both the external and internal components of the Hoxsey formula are needed.

The Formula

Hoxsey used variations around the following herbs: He also used external applications of different salves for external application. Mostly the center of nearly all treatments were some variation of the following herbs.
The nine herbal ingredients listed on the label of his tonic were:
Red clover (Trifolium pratense), Red Clover -- Red clover showed no activity when tested in the P388 system (254). NCI tested red clover 94 times, with one test showing activity that was not considered significant.
Burdock root (Arctium lappa), Burdock -- Arctium lappa, two studies reported antitumor activity in animal tumor systems, while two others reported no significant activity for this herb. Burdock Root, Arctium lappa, contains chemicals that have shown anticancer activity in laboratory tests on cancer cells, and has other compounds with potent immune-enhancing effects. Burdock has been long used as a folk cancer remedy in Chile, China, India, Canada, Russia, and the United States. A Japanese study discovered a new substance in burdock uniquely capable of reducing mutagenicity. Herbalists also recommend burdock as a blood purifier, that clears toxins and heat. This is also used in another Cancer herbal formula’Essiac’.
Stillinga root (Stillingia sylvatica, also called queen’s root), Stillingia -- No tests of stillingia have been reported, although one of its constituents (gnidilatidin) has tested positive in animal systems. NCI has no record of testing it for antitumor activity.
Berberis root (barberry; Berberis vulgaris), Barberry -- Two studies have reported antitumor effects of substances isolated from barberry. NCI reported one test of barberry, which showed no antitumor activity. Licorice -- One study reported that licorice was inactive in the Sarcoma 37 test system. NCI tested licorice 19 times, with one sample showing activity that was not considered significant.
Poke root (Phytolacca americana), Pokeroot -- One published study reported no significant antitumor activity of pokeroot in three animal test systems (Ehrlich ascites, Leukemia SN36, and Sarcoma 180) (969). A component of pokeroot is well known, however, for its ability to induce the proliferation and differentiation of lymphocytes in the blood (720), a property that might be relevant to an immunologic response to cancer but which might not be picked up as positive activity in these animal tumor models. NCI tested pokeroot for antitumor activity 43 times; in one of these tests, activity was reported in the Walker 256 system, but this test system was later withdrawn because of problems with its validity.
Cascara amarga (Acosmium panamense), Cascara -- also contains aloe-emodin and emodin, which have shown antitumor activity in animal tests systems. No antitumor activity was found when a powdered plant suspension of cascara was tested in the Sarcoma 37 system. NCI tested cascara 16 times and found no antitumor activity.
Prickly ash bark (Zanthoxylum americanum or Z. clava herculis), Prickly Ash -- No tests for antitumor activity of prickly ash have been reported in the literature, although some of its components (e.g., chelerythrine and nitidine) have tested positive in animal systems. NCI tested this plant for antitumor activity 5 times, with no positive results.
Buckthorn bark (Rhamnus frangula). Buckthorn -- antitumor activity of a component (aloe-emodin) of buckthorn has been reported in the P388 tumor system (495) and in theWalker 256 system (summarized in (384) (the Walker 256 test was later withdrawn from use because of problems with its validity). Two other components, emodin and dihydroxyanthroquinone, may also have antitumor activity in animal systems. NCI tested buckthorn in animal systems three times, with no antitumor results.
Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra), This is used as a formula harmonizer, helping to harmonize the other herbs into an effect team.
The tenth ingredient was potassium iodide.
Taken together, the data indicate that many of the herbs used in the Hoxsey internal tonic or the isolated components of these herbs have antitumor activity or cytotoxic effects in animal test systems. The complete Hoxsey herbal mixture has not been tested for antitumor activity in animal test systems, with human cells in culture, or in clinical trials, however. It is unknown whether the individual herbs or their components that show antitumor activity in animals are active in humans when given in concentrations used in the Hoxsey tonic. It is also unknown whether there might be synergistic effects of the herbs used together.

Refferences.

· Kenny Ausubel’s new book When Healing Becomes a Crime—the study of this Dallas-based promoter of natural cancer cures

· Hoxsey Therapy by Richard Walters

· Resources

· 1. Ken Ausubel, "The Troubling Case of Harry Hoxsey," New Age Journal, July-August 1988, p. 79.

· 2. Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, vol. 114, 1962, pp. 25-30; and see Walter H. Lewis and Memory P.F. Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany: Plants Affecting Man's Health (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1977).

· 3. F.E. Mohs, "Chemosurgery: A Microscopically Controlled Method of Cancer Excision," Archives of Surgery, vol. 42, 1941, pp. 279295, cited in Patricia Spain Ward, "History of Hoxsey Treatment," contract report submitted to U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, May 1988, pp. 2-3.

· 4. Ward, op. cit., p. 8.

· 5. Kazuyoshi Morita, Tsuneo Kada, and Mitsuo Namiki, "A Desmutagenic Factor Isolated From Burdock (Arctium Lappa Linne)," Mutation Research, vol. 129, 1984, pp. 25-31, cited in Ward, op. cit., p. 7.

· 6. Harry Hoxsey, You Don't Have to Die (New York: Milestone Books, 1956), pp. 44-48.

· 7. Ibid., p. 59.

· 16. Francis Brinker, "The Role of Botanical Medicine in 100 Years of Naturopathy," HerbalGram, No. 42, spring, 1998, pp. 49-59; "Where Does Eclectic Come From?" Eclectic Institute, Inc. promotional literature, Sandy Oregon, 1998.

Resources

· Bio-Medical Center P.O. Box 727 615 General Ferreira Colonia Juarez Tijuana, Mexico 22000 Phone: 011 52 66-84-9011 01152 66-84-9081 01152 66-849082 01152 66-849376

· You Don't Have to Die, by Harry Hoxsey, Milestone Books (New York), 1956. Out of print; check your local library.

· The Cancer Survivors and How They Did It, by Judith Glassman (see Appendix A for description).

· "Does Mildred Nelson Have an Herbal Cure for Cancer?- by Peter Barry Chowka, Whole Life Times, January-February 1984.

· "The Troubling Case of Harry Hoxsey," by Ken Ausubel, New Age Journal, July-August 1988.

Other Material

· Video: Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime (originally entitled Hoxsey: Quacks Who Cure Cancer?), 1987. Ninety-six minutes. An excellent, very moving documentary on the Hoxsey therapy, covering its history, the Bio-Medical Center, and the politics and economics of cancer. Produced and directed by Ken Ausubel and coproduced by Catherine Salveson, R.N., it premiered at the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York and was shown on cable television. Available from Realidad Productions (P.O. Box 1644, Santa Fe, NM 87504; 505-989-8575

Refferences from Ken Ausubel Herbal Gram Article

1. Fraud Fighters." This is America" series, RKO Pathé, (1949) MCMXLIX.

2. Morris Fishbein, The New Medical Follies, (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927), p. 148.

3. "Cough Medicine for Cancer," JAMA, Vol. 155, No. 7, 6.12.54, pp. 667-68.

4. Anne Raver, "A Man with a Garden That’s a Medicine Cabinet," New York Times, 10.15.98.

NAPRALERT; Father Nature’s Farmacy database (USDA) founded by James Duke, Ph.D. (http://www.ars-grin.gov/~ngrlsb); Dr. Duke’s private database; research conducted by Francis Brinker and published as "The Hoxsey Treatment: Cancer quackery or effective physiological adjuvant?" Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, Vol. 6, No. 1, 8.15.96, pp. 9-23;

Patricia Spain Ward, "History of the Hoxsey Treatment," contract report to the Office of Technology Assessment," 1987, republished in Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, 5.97, pp. 68-72; Unconventional Cancer Treatments, OTA report to Congress, 1990, (GPO #052-003-01203-3), pp. 75-80;

7. Ralph W. Moss, Herbs Against Cancer (Brooklyn: Equinox Press, 1998), p. 277.

8. Jonathan L. Hartwell, Plants Used Against Cancer (Lawrence, MA: Quartermain Publications, 1982); originally published in eleven installments in Lloydia, 1970-1971.

9. James Duke, "The Herbal Shotgun Shell," HerbalGram, No. 18/19, Fall 1988/Winter 1989, pp. 12-13.

10. Francis Brinker, N.D., "The Hoxsey Treatment: Cancer quackery or effective physiological adjuvant?" Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, Vol. 6, No. 1, 8.15.96, pp. 9-23.

11. Harry Hoxsey, You Don’t Have to Die (New York: Milestone Books, 1956).

12. That formula listed alfalfa, buckthorn bark, cascara sagrada, prickly ash, red clover, potassium iodide, and honey drip cane syrup.

13. Here Cascara sagrada was replaced by Cascara amarga, a very different plant.

16. Francis Brinker, "The Role of Botanical Medicine in 100 Years of Naturopathy," HerbalGram, No. 42, spring, 1998, pp. 49-59; "Where Does Eclectic Come From?" Eclectic Institute, Inc. promotional literature, Sandy Oregon, 1998.

18. Public advertisements, Parke, Davis and Co.; Organic Materia Medica, Parke, Davis and Co., Second Edition (Detroit, MI: 1890), 1904; National Formulary, Fifth Edition, American Pharmaceutical Association, 1926; National Formulary, Sixth Edition, 1935.

19. King’s American Dispensatory, Felter and Lloyd, 1898-1900, p. 1996.

23. Father Nature’s Farmacy, http://www.ars-grin.gov/~ngrlsb/; also, http://www.inform.umd.edu/PBIO/MEDICAL_BOTANY/index.html.

36. Dombradi C.A., and Földeák S., "Screening report on the antitumor activity of purified Arctium lappa extracts," Tumor, Vol. 52, 1966, p. 173.

37. Kupchan M.S., "Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Tumor Inhibitors of Plant Origin," Swain, Tony (ed.), Plants in the Development of Modern Medicine (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1972), pp. 261-78.

38. Morita K., Kada T., and Namiki M., "A desmutagenic factor isolated from burdock (Arctium lappa Linne), Mutation Research, Vol. 129, 1984, pp. 25-31.

39. There are several books on Essiac, but the most objective critical analysis is contained in Herbs Against Cancer by Ralph Moss, pp. 108-35.

41. Uckun et al., "Pokeweed antiviral protein as a potent inhibitor of human immunodeficiency virus," Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Vol. 42, No. 2, 1998, pp. 383-88; also see "Editorial: Phytolacca in Carcinoma," Eclectic Medical Journal, Vol. LVI, No. 1, 1896.

42. It is important to note that this modified antiviral poke protein is derived mainly from the plant’s leaves, though similar or equivalent factors have been isolated from the root as well.

44. Brinker, "Periscope: Phytolacca," The Eclectic Medical Journals, Vol. II, no. 5, Oct/Nov., 1996, p. 2-4; W.H. Davis, M.D., "Art. XLVIII. - On the effects of Phytolacca Decandra on the glands," Eclectic Medical Journal, Vol. 36, 1876, pp. 259-60; "Phytolacca in Carcinoma," Eclectic Medical Journal, editorial, 1896, pp. 335-36; F.R. Millard M.D., "Some of the Uses of Phytolacca Decandra," Medical Surgical Reporter, Vol. LXXV, 10.3.1896, pp. 420-22.

45. Poke is conventionally used as a screening procedure for immune competence.

46. Hoshi A., Ikekawa T., Ikeda Y., et al., "Antitumor activity of Berberrubine derivatives," Gann, Vol. 67, 1976, pp. 321-25;Owen, Tsung-Yao, Show-yin, Su-Yin, Wang, et al., "A new antitumor substance-Lycobetaine," K’o Hsueh Tung Pao, Vol. 21, No. 6, 1976, pp. 285-87; Wolf S., Mack M., "Experimental study of the action of bitters on the stomach of a fistulous human subject," Drug Standards, Vol.24, No.3, 1956, pp. 98-101; lkram M., "A review on the chemical and pharmacological aspects of genus Berberis," Planta Medica, Vol. 28, 1975, pp. 353-58; Suess T.R., Stermitz F.R., "Alkaloids of Mahonia repens with a brief review of previous work in the genus Mahonia," Journal of Natural Products, Vol. 44, 1981, pp. 680-87; Velluda C.C., Goina T., Ticsa I., Petcu P., Pop S., Csutak W., "Effect of Berberis vulgaris extract and of the berberine, berbamine, and oxyacanthine alkaloids on liver and bile function," Lucr. Prez. Conf. Natl. Farm., Bucharest, 1958, pp. 351-54, (contained in Chemical Abstracts [C.A. henceforth] Vol. 53, p. 15345a); Turova A.D., Konovalov M.N., Leskov A.L., "Berberine, an effective cholagogue," Med. Prom. SSSR Vol. 18, No. 6, 1964, pp. 59-60 (C.A. Vol. 61, p. 15242f); Amin A.H., Subbaiah T.V., Abrasi K.M., "Berberine sulfate: antimicrobial activity, bioassay, and mode of action," Cancer Journal of Microbiology, Vol. 15, 1969, pp. 1067-76; Kumazawa Y., ltagaki A., Fukumoto M., Fujisawa H., Nishimura C., "Activation of peritoneal macrophages by berberine-type alkaloids in terms of induction of cytostatic activity," International Journal of Immunopharmacology, Vol. 6, No. 6, 1984, pp. 587-92; Schmitz H., "The influence of berberine on cellular metabolism," Z. Krebsforsch. Vol. 57, 1950, pp. 137-41, (C.A., Vol. 46, p. 4680i); Shvarev I.F., Tsetlin A.L., "Antiblastic properties of berberine and its derivatives," Mater. Vses. Konf. Issled. Lek. Rast. Perspekt. Ikh Ispol’z. Proizvod. Lek. Prep., 1972, p. 245, (C.A., Vol. 83, p. 674m); Taylor A., McKenna G.F., Burlage H.M., "Anticancer activity of plant extracts," Texas Reports in Biological Medicine, Vol. 14, 1956, pp. 538-56; Unconventional Cancer Treatments, op. cit.

Barberry has traditionally been used for cancers or tumors of the liver, neck and stomach. The bark of the stem is considered cleansing and toning to organs of digestion and elimination. It contains numerous protoberberine alkaloids, such as berberine sulfate, which has shown activity in a number of tumor systems. It also contains the alkaloid oxyacanthine, which is active against at least one tumor system. Brinker, op. cit.

The species of barberry which Hoxsey cited is Berberis vulgaris, which grows in the Midwest. According to Ward: respective 1976 Japanese and Chinese studies established the presence of antitumor substances in this variety of barberry. Testing tumor size in mice, Hoshi and his co-workers found "strong antitumor activity" in berberrubine, an alkaloid isolated from Berberis vulgaris. (op. cit.) Also in 1976, Owen et al.. derived from berberine a new antitumor substance which they have named Lycobetaine (op. cit.).

47. Berberine is also present in another popular herb, goldenseal, which has strong antibacterial and antifungal properties. Bark of the two species of northern prickly ash Z. americanum and Z. clava-herculis contains the alkaloids chelerythrine and nitidine. Nitidine exhibits cytotoxicity and has shown high activity in leukemia test systems. Chelerythrine was cytotoxic to tumor cells in test tubes. Studies include: Rao K.V., Davies R., "The ichthyotoxic principles of Zanthoxylum clava-herculis," Journal of Natural Products, Vol. 49, No. 2, 1986, pp. 340-42; Jacobson M., "The structure of echinacein, the insecticidal component of American coneflower roots," Journal of Organic Chemistry, Vol. 32, 1967, pp. 1646-47; Fish F., Waterman P.G., "Alkaloids in the bark of Zanthoxylum clava-herculis," Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Vol. 25 (Supplement), 1973, pp. 115P-16P; Fish F., Gray A.L., Waterman P.G., Donachie F., "Alkaloids and coumarins from North American Zanthoxylum species," Lloydia, Vol. 38, 1975, pp. 268-70.

Cordell G.A., Farnsworth N.R., "Experimental antitumor agents from plants, 1974-76," Lloydia, Vol. 40, No. 1, 1977, p. 1-44; Stermitz F.R., Larson K.A., Kim D.K., "Some structural relationships among cytotoxic and antitumor benzophenanthridine alkaloid derivatives," Journal of Medical Chemistry, Vol. 40, No. 8, 1973, pp. 939-40.

48. Buckthorn was also traditionally used for hard spots on the liver and spleen.

49. Kupchan S.M., Karim A., "Tumor inhibitors. 114. Aloe emodin: antileukemic principle isolated from Rhamnus frangulus L.," Lloydia, Vol. 39, No. 4, 1976, pp. 223-24.

50. Ibid. For other studies, see the appendix [of Ausubel’s book].

51. Kupchan M.S., and Karim A., op. cit., 1976, pp. 223-24.

52. Taylor A., McKenna G.F., Burlage H.M., "Anticancer activity of plant extracts," Texas Reports in Biological Medicine, Vol. 14, 1956, pp. 538-56. Other studies include: Fairbairn J.W., "The active constituents of the vegetable purgatives containing anthracene derivatives," Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Vol. 1, 1949, pp. 683-92; Hoerhammer L., Wagner H., Hoerhammer H.P., "New methods in pharmacognostical education. XIII. Thin-layer chromatography of components of Rhamnus cortical drugs and their preparation," Deut. Apoth.-Ztg., Vol. 107, No. 17, 1967, pp. 563-66, (C.A., Vol. 67, p. 84920u); Mary N.Y., Christensen B.V., Beal J.L., "A paper chromatographic study of aloe, aloin and of cascara sagrada," Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Vol. 45, 1956, pp. 229-32; Lish P.M., Dungan K.W., "Peristaltic-stimulating and fecal-hydrating properties of dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate, danthron, and cascara extracts in the mouse and rat," Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Vol. 47, 1958, pp. 371-75; Tyson R.M., Shrader E.A., Perlman H.H., "Drugs transmitted through breast milk," Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 11, 1937, pp. 824-32; Dwivedi S.P.D., Pandey V.B., Shah A.H., Rao Y.B., "Chemical constituents of Rhamnus procumbens and pharmacological actions of emodin," Phytotherapy Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1988, pp. 51-53; Kupchan M.S., Karim A., op. cit., 1976.

53. Eli Jones, Cancer: Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment (Boston: Therapeutic Publishing Co., Inc., 1911).

54. McKenna G.F., Taylor A., "Screening plant extracts for anticancer activity," Texas Reports in Biological Medicine, Vol. 20, 1962, pp. 214-20.

55. Adolf W., and Hecker E., "New irritant diterpene-esters from roots of Stillingia sylvatica L. (Euphorbiaceae)," Tetrahedron Letters, Vol. 21, 1980, p. 2887. Stillingia has long been used for respiratory infections and syphilitic symptoms.

56. Brinker, op. cit.; Gibson M.R., "Glycyrrhiza in old and new perspectives." Lloydia, Vol. 41, No. 4, 1978), pp. 349-54.

Doll R., Hill I.D., Hutton C., Underwood K.J. II, "Clinical trial of a triterpenoid liquorice compound in gastric and duodenal ulcer," Lancet, 10.20.62, pp. 793-96; Tangri K.K., Seth P.K., Parmar S.S., Bhargava K.P., "Biochemical study of anti-inflammatory and anti-arthritic properties of glycyrrhetic acid," Biochemical Pharmacology, Vol. 14, 1965, pp. 1277-81; Tamura Y., Nishikawa T., Yamada K., Yamamoto M., Kumagai A., "Effects of glycyrrhetinic acid and its derivatives on D4-5a- and 5b-reductase in rat liver," Arzneimittel Forschung, Vol. 29, 1979, pp. 647-49; Bannister B., Ginsburg R., Shneerson J., "Cardiac arrest due to liquorice-induced hypokalaemia," British Medical Journal, 9.17.77; Wash L.K., Bernard J.D., "Licorice-induced pseudoaldosteronism," American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, Vol. 32, No.1, 1975, pp. 73-74; Abe N., Ebina T., Ishida N., "lnterferon induction by glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhetinic acid in mice," Microbiology and Immunology, Vol. 26, No. 6, 1982, pp. 535-39.

57. Licorice’s pharmacological activity is ascribed to the saponin constituent glycyrrizin and its derivative, glycerrhetic acid. Glycyrrizin has been shown to induce interferon production in living mice, which can lead to enhanced immune response. (Abe et al., op. cit.)

58. Nishino H., Kitagawa K., Iwashima A., "Antitumor-promoting activity of glycyrrhetic acid in mouse skin tumor formatian induced by 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene," Carcinogenesis, Vol. 5, No. 11, 1984, pp. 1529-30; Kitagawa K., Nishino H., Iwashima A., "lnhibition of the specific binding of 12-O-tetradeconoylphorbol-13-acetate to mouse epidermal membrane fractions by glycyrrhetic acid," Oncology, Vol. 43, 1986, pp. 127-30; Kumagai A., Nishino K., Shimomura A., Kin T., Yamamura Y., "Effect of glycyrrhizin on estrogen action," Endocrinologica Japonica, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1967, pp. 344-48; Reiners W., "7-Hydroxy-4’-methoxy-isoflavon (formononetin) aus sussholzwurzel. Uber inhaltsstoffe der sussholzwurzel," II. Experientia, Vol. 22, 1966, p. 359; Taylor A., McKenna G.F., Burlage H.M., "Anticancer activity of plant extracts," Texas Reports in Biological Medicine, Vol. 14, 1956, pp. 538-56.

59. Arase Y.K., Ikeda N., et al., "The Long term efficacy of Glycyrhizin in chronic hepatitis C patients," Cancer, Vol. 79, 1997, pp. 1494-1500.

60. Because alfalfa has not been listed in the Hoxsey formula since 1949, I have not presented data on it here. It too has a strong anticancer profile, including the anti-angiogenic genistein. See Father Nature’s Farmacy and appendix [of Ausubel’s book].

61. The Eclectics used potassium iodide as a treatment for syphilis, rheumatism, and scrofula (an erosive infection of the lymph nodes of the neck). Brinker, op. cit.

62. Letter from Dr. G.M. Anderson, Defender, 4.56. Conventional doctors employed it extensively earlier in the century to promote the absorption of broken-down tissues and dissolve fibrous lesions after pneumonia, bronchitis, pleurisy, syphilis and other diseases.

63. Arthur Bryan, "Clinical Observations in Treatment of Chronic Swellings with Topical Injections of Potassium Iodide," The North American Veterinarian, Vol. 7, No. 11, 11.26, pp. 23-24; Bryan, "Therapeutic Indications for Potassium Iodide," Veterinary Medicine, Vol. XXV, No. 4, 4.30, pp. 144-51.

These studies carefully documented potassium iodide as "one of the few specific cures" for actinomycosis [lumpy jaw], inflammatory fungal swellings in horses, cows, and other animals. It was used both orally and by injections. Its practical results were unmistakable. The administration of potassium iodide caused the resolution and repair of these large lumps and inflammations. It was able to dispel pumpkin-sized, hard swellings "resembling a bloody sponge bleeding copiously," within two weeks, in one case. In another instance, it eliminated a cauliflower-size growth on an animal’s hoof. In the 1926 study, the author concluded, "I unhesitatingly recommend potassium iodide injection for all growths chronic in character," as well as cysts, warts, collar tumors, and other similar maladies.

Bryan’s follow-up 1930 publication documented an even broader range of astonishing cures including cancer. One case was "an ugly, inoperable neoplasm, diffuse hemorrhagic and with an offensive odor located around the vulva of a Holstein cow. I used a saturated solution of potassium iodide and it resulted in extensive necrosis [tumor death] all around the original tumified area. Due to the laboratory diagnosis of malignant carcinomatosis [cancer], the owner refused to keep the cow, and she was slaughtered two weeks later. A microscopic examination of sections taken at this time revealed almost no cancer cells. The potassium iodide evidently destroyed and disintegrated the tissues which it penetrated to, bringing about cell shrinkage or necrosis with resorption of the detritus and broken down tissue structures." (Bryan concluded that he believed it to be only a temporary treatment, however, since the spread of the cancer might theoretically continue afterward.)

64. Letter from Arthur Bryan to AMA Bureau of Investigation, 3.11.51.

65. Letter from Edmund M. Burke to Oliver Field, AMA Bureau of Investigation, 6.11.51.

66. Letter from Dr. Gordon A. Granger, FDA, to R.M. Davenport, with list of medical citations, including testimony of Dr. Maxamillian A Goldzieher from Hoxsey trials; "Four Doctors Blast Claims of Hoxsey," Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, 10.17.56.

Bryan also wrote Hoxsey in 1951, eager to draw attention to his exciting findings. Dr. Durkee replied, noting "We have felt that the iodides, especially potassium iodide, reacted as a catalyst at the time the medications were prepared, and that the end result of this was what gave us the reaction." Letters from Arthur Bryan to Hoxsey Cancer Clinic, 2.19.51 and from J.B. Durkee, D.O., Medical Director, to Bryan, 3.28.51.

During Dr. Ivy’s visit to the clinic, Dr. Durkee reported to him that he thought that "the mixing of the ingredients in the internal solution produced a new anti-cancer substance. This they said was indicated because the solution got cold and this occurred when the KI was added." "Abstracts of ‘Tests’ and ‘Cures’," Committee on Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy, National Research Council, 2.1.51, containing Dr. Ivy’s "Notes: On a Visit to the Hoxsey ‘Cancer Clinic’," 2.10.49.

67. Robert G. Houston, Repression and Reform in the Evaluation of Alternative Cancer Therapies (Washington DC: Project Cure, Inc. 1987), p. 7 (quoting Schweitzer, 1962).

68. Dr. Max Gerson, A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases and the Cure of Advanced Cancer by Diet Therapy (Bonita, CA: The Gerson Institute in association with Station Hill Press, fifth edition, 1990; first edition copyright 1958); "Cancer Research: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations," US Senate, 79th Congress, Second Session on S. 1875, US Government Printing Office, 7.1-3.46, pp. 98-123. According to Gar Hildenbrand, former director of the Gerson Institute, Dr. Gerson said he found a severe imbalance in cancer patients of the ratio of sodium and potassium, with a deficiency of the latter. He was convinced by laboratory findings of the time that potassium iodide would better supply iodine to replenish deficiencies and enhance metabolism quickly. Dr. Gerson believed, as subsequent research has shown, that iodine helps increase cell metabolism by stimulating the thyroid gland’s production of hormones, in turn retarding and inhibiting tumor growth.

69. David West, M.D., who headed the Hoxsey Research Foundation, contended that potassium iodide "inhibits glycolosis" (the anaerobic metabolism of sugars), which he characterized as causing the specific biochemical lesion of the malignant cell. He agreed with Dr. Max Gerson that malignant tissues are impoverished of potassium and iodine, and corrected it with potassium iodide. Dr. West and many naturopathic physcians explicitly considered it an alterative. Dr. David West, "Answering Commissioner Larrick," Defender, c. 1953, pp. 7-8; also, E. Edgar Bond, B.L.M.D., "What’s in the Hoxsey Treatment?" National Health Federation Reprint 4H, c. 1953; "2 Hoxsey Witnesses, Both Doctors, Bared as Crime Violators," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10.30.56; "Potassium Iodide Claimed Beneficial," Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, 10.30.56; Dr. David West, "Answering Commissioner Larrick," Defender, 6.56; West, "Hoxsey Chemotherapy," Defender, no date; Physicians of the period commonly employed potassium iodide for a wide range of diseases including pneumonia, bronchitis, pleurisy, and syphilis. It was believed to promote the absorption of deposits of broken-down tissues, while stimulating the thyroid and other glands which enable blood cells to combat infectious processes.

70. Letter to the editor from Alan Morris, "For a Clear KI Policy," New York Times, 11.21.88; "Report on the Accident at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station," US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG-1250; "States Will Now Receive Drug for Public Use in Nuclear Mishaps," New York Times, 8.22.98; "Atom Agency Tries to Avoid Financing Fallout Drug," New York Times, 4.24.99.

Potassium iodide is also used by conventional medicine to protect against radiation. It is administered in tandem with the diagnostic usage of radioactive iodide. Studies further show that it is an effective antioxidant for its free-radical scavenging properties. It is used to treat a disease called Sweet’s syndrome which is associated with cancer but is not cancer. Mouse tests have shown both pro- and anticancer effects. Medline on the world wide web at a public site has numerous references on potassium iodide from which this is drawn: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed.

71. Cited in Unconventional Cancer Treatments (OTA).

72. Letter from Dr. Richard Early to Martin Murphy, President and CEO, Hipple Cancer Institute, Dayton, Ohio, personally provided to author.

73. Steve Austin, Ellen Baumgartner Dale and Sharon DeKadt, "Long term follow-up of cancer patients using Contreras, Hoxsey and Gerson therapies," Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1994, pp. 74-76.

74. Ward, "History of the Hoxsey Treatment," op. cit., p. 70.

Canine and Feline Cancer

2010-02-24T17:07:00.000-08:00

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Cancer is responsible for more deaths in dogs than any other disease.Almost half of all pets that that are 10 years or older will succumb to cancer.

Preventing cancer or detecting it early are keys to keeping the disease at bay.

Spay or Neutering your dog or cat at an early age can reduce your pet's risk of developing tumours.

Keep light coloured pets away from too much sun.

Feed a healthy balanced diet and provide plenty of exercise.

What are some of the signs of cancer?

Swelling that persists or gets worse
Sores that do not heal
Loss of weight
Bleeding or discharge from any body opening
Offensive Body odor
Difficulty eating or swallowing
Lack of energy or stamina
Reluctance to exercise
Persistent Lameness or stiffness.
Difficulty breathing
Difficulty urinating or defecating

The following treatments are available if you pet develops Cancer

Surgery
Chemotherapy
Radiation Therapy

Pet Treats...How to stop your Pets weight gain

2010-02-22T11:17:00.001-08:00

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Treats can be a hidden cause of your pets weight gain since you may not realize how many you are actually giving to your cat or dog each day .Don't forget that family members also are culprits for those extra pounds.

A study published in 2003 showed that 25% of dogs in the USA are overweight

The average 20 pound dog burns approximately 700 calories per day.
Based on this fact a few misplaced treats or leftovers from the table can go a long way in matching the said calories.
Helpful hints in the battle of the bulge
1. Resist the urge to feed table scraps they are high in calories and low in vitamins and nutrients also can lead to stomach discomfort and bowel problems.Not to mention you will have a pet that begs at the table.
2.Consider a treat that is specially formulated for your pet and will provide beneficial results.
a. Dental Treats that clean teeth
b.Treats with added vitamins and minerals and antitoxidants.
c.Arthritic Treats that help with pain management.
That being said there are some people foods that do make excellent healthy treats.
Cooked vegetables-green beans,carrots,peas-are great for both cats and dogs.Feed as a Treat or mix with their daily meals.
Some air popped popcorn or a bit of low fat rice cake are also good additions(no butter or salt).
For a high protein treat,cooked egg white ,a little cottage cheese or plain yogurt.
For an extra special treat I make frozen yogurt "ice cubes" for my pets.They stand in line!
And if all else fails we have a wonderful new all natural weight loss supplement from Pet Naturals.
It is called K-9 Carb Down, it is derived from a natural extract from the white kidney bean.
It has shown in canine trials to quickly reduce pounds and inches from your dogs waistline.
Pet Products

Reform Animal Welfare Law in South Eastern US

2010-02-22T11:13:00.000-08:00

Target:

Animal lovers anywhere.

Bladder Support for Dogs

2010-02-20T06:58:00.000-08:00

BLADDER SUPPORT is an advanced combination of ingredients that work together to support normal bladder function and health. It is especially helpful for female dogs after spaying and for senior dogs to help maintain bladder health and control. It is a highly palatable smoke-flavored tablet.

45 tablets $14.99

Pet Naturals Bladder Support Supports bladder control and health in dogs.

An advanced combination of ingredients that work together to specifically support bladder muscle strength, emptying, and health.

Recommended for bladder control in dogs, spayed or senior dogs.

Pumpkin Seed Powder has been used for prostate and bladder health. It strengthens bladder muscles, supports bladder emptying, and has beneficial cleansing action.

Soy Protein Extract contains isoflavones that provide phytoestrogens to help maintain bladder muscle tone that is lost after spaying or due to aging because of lower estrogen levels. Rehmannia glutinosa is a diuretic that enhances renal function, and it increases levels of estradiol in females and testosterone in males to help bladder control. Wild Yam provides phytoestrogens, calms urinary tract muscular spasms.

Vitamin B6 helps to reduce fluid retention. Corn Silk, contains mucilage that helps protect the urinary tract.

Saw Palmetto Extract supports bladder control and muscle tone.

Olive Leaf Extract reduces the ability of bacteria to adhere to the lining of the bladder and urethra, to reduce the number of bacteria in the urine.

Dogs love the taste of our BLADDER SUPPORT! BLADDER SUPPORT For Dogs is a highly palatable smoke flavored tablet.

Also available in 90 Tablets $27.99

Active Ingredients Per Chewable Tablet:
Pumpkin Seed Powder . . . . . . . . . 150 mg
Rehmannia Glutinosa (root) Powder . . 150 mg
Wild Yam Extract . . . . . . . . . . .150 mg
Soy Protein Extract . . . . . . . . . 100 mg
Corn Silk Powder . . . . . . . . . . . 60 mg
Saw Palmetto Extract . . . . . . . . . 60 mg
Olive Leaf Extract (15% Oleuropein) . .50 mg
Pyridoxine (Vitamin B6) . . . . . . . .25 mg

Inactive Ingredients: brewers yeast, microcrystalline cellulose, silicon dioxide, smoke flavor, stearic acid, vegetable stearate.
Directions For Use:
Under 15 lbs: Give 1/2 tablet daily.
25 lbs and over: Give 1 tablet per 25 lbs of body weight daily.
When giving more than one tablet, divide between AM and PM.
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Organic Norwegian Kelp for Dogs

2010-02-18T16:08:00.000-08:00

Norwegian Kelp is an excellent and economical form of ocean kelp. Kelp is widely recognized as a rich source of 100% natural minerals, vitamins and amino acids.

• Used to reduce stress and improve digestion, enhance skin and coat condition and pigmentation.
• Improves dry skin
• Helps with allergies
• Many find it useful for thyroid conditions.
• Powder form can be added to your dog’s food.

Kelp is also very helpful in the treatment of mange

Dosage:
1 to 25 lbs. - 1 teaspoon
30 to 70 lbs. - 2 teaspoons
75 lbs. and over - 3 teaspoons
Puppies - 2 teaspoons
Pregnant/Nursing dogs - 3-4 teaspoons

Available in a 1 lb bag

To Purchase $13.99 Organic Norwegian Kelp

English Pointer in need of a family!

2006-01-06T18:48:00.000-08:00

As quoted by Dogs Hope Rescue

Here is Prairie - my most recent rescue - a very sweet and beautiful dog, given up because "she wouldn't hunt."

My mission is to re-image the attitude people have towards hunting dogs - most of them make outstanding family pets.

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

Free shipping on many Pet Products

2005-12-01T11:54:00.000-08:00

Dear Valued Customers,
We have lots and Lots of New Products More being added weekly.
Botanical Dog and Botanical Cat is pleased to announce Free Ground shipping on many of its Pet Products (Not just for the Holidays)
http://www.botanicaldog.com
Even if you choose items that don't come with Free Ground Shipping spend $75.00 or more and the entire order ships without Shipping Costs (Some overweight items do not apply and only in the continental USA)

Many of our Dog and Cat Vitamins come with Free Shipping.

And if you havent visited the site lately .We have many many more products since you last stopped by.

We have collars,leashes,carrirs,bowls. And Coming Soon more pet accessories.

If you miss us this time around.Don't forget to check out our ads starting in January in Animal Wellness Magazine.

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Help us help future pet Hurricaine victims

2005-09-28T17:23:00.000-07:00

Dear Jane ,
Over the past three days alone, our Disaster Animal ResponseTeams in Louisiana have rescued more than 700 animals --bringing the total number of animals we've helped save acrossthe region to more than 7,000.

While our work in the areas hitby Katrina and Rita will continue for months, perhaps years, ourdisaster teams' efforts have been truly remarkable -- thanks toyour support.

But even as you read this, we know that pets -- animals who, forsome reason, haven't yet made any rescue lists -- remain trappedin their homes or out on the streets. Many remain stranded orhomeless for one tragic reason:Their caregivers, when forced to evacuate, were not allowed totake their pets with them. Government officials and human reliefagencies did not have an emergency plan in place to accommodatepeople and their pets.With your help, we can change this for future disasters: Takeaction NOW and ask your U.S. Representative to support the PetsEvacuation and Transportation Standards Act (PETS Act) to ensurerelief agencies plan for pets and that a tragedy of thismagnitude never happens again.https://community.hsus.org/campaign/pets_act_house/u6sxkwrq5ww86x?

Last Thursday, Congressmen Tom Lantos (D-CA), Christopher Shays(R-CT), Barney Frank (D-MA), Don Young (R-AK), and JamesOberstar (D-MN) introduced the PETS Act to ensure that in futuredisasters, people will not be forced to leave behind theirhousehold pets and service animals such as seeing-eye dogs, asthey were in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.The PETS Act requires local and state emergency preparednessauthorities to include pets and service animals in theirdisaster evacuation plans. Local and state authorities mustsubmit these plans to qualify for grants from the FederalEmergency Management Agency.

With your help, we have a chance topass this bill and save pets during future disasters: 1. Take Action and urge your U.S. Representative to co-sponsorH.R. 3858, the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act,and do everything possible to get it passed SOON. It will onlytake a minute using our easy online tools.https://community.hsus.org/campaign/pets_act_house/u6sxkwrq5ww86x?

2. Spread the word. Urge your friends and family to contacttheir representatives about this bill. We cannot win unless wehave a large, loud majority urging our legislators to protectpets during future disasters.https://community.hsus.org/campaign/pets_act_house/forward/u6sxkwrq5ww86x?

When a disaster strikes in the future, The Humane Society of theUnited States wants to work hand-in-hand with governmentresponders. Animal rescue is an enormous task, and we can't doit alone.As The HSUS and other animal groups continue to search for,rescue, and shelter animals in Louisiana, Mississippi, andTexas, it's heartening to know that you're standing with us.Please contact your Representative today and urge him/her toco-sponsor and unequivocally support the PETS Act so it can beadopted before Congress adjourns for the year. This law willsave the lives of both pets and the people who love them.Thank you for your swift action and for all you do on behalf ofanimals.Sincerely,Wayne PacellePresident & CEOThe Humane Society of the United StatesP.S. Our teams are continuing to rescue and shelter animalsacross the devastated region. For the latest update on ourresponse to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, please see this page:https://community.hsus.org/ct/47aYJ9S1gXt4/********************************************Copyright 2005 The Humane Society of the United States AllRights Reserved Humane Society Disaster Relief Fund 2100 L Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 disaster@hsus.org 202-452-1100 https://community.hsus.org/ct/4paYJ9S1gXtr/ ********************************************

A Testimonal

2005-09-24T09:38:00.000-07:00

Thank you so much!

The products arrived yesterday, September 23.

WE LOVE THEM!
Thank you also for your email(s) and such incredible love in the packaging,my husband, Larry was/is very impressed.

Put some of the powder on Ramona's skin and it worked wonders.(Hot Spot Powder)

I will do some more ordering this weekend after I have had a chance to lookthrough the booklets.

Again, thank you for serving the animal kingdom so caringly.

R. Kelly

How to check your dogs pulse

2005-09-23T16:37:00.000-07:00

1.Position your dog on his side.

2.Slide your hand under the top back leg

3. Feel for the crease where the body meets the leg

4. Place your Index and Middle fingers along the groove wer the artery is located.

5.Count the pulse for a minute.or measure a 20-second pulse and multiply by 3.

Http://www.botanicaldog.com
For more Pet care information

More Katrina Pet Updates

2005-09-22T10:03:00.000-07:00

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Humane Society of the United States
DISASTER UPDATE: ANIMAL RESCUES CONTINUE IN RAVAGED AREAS
*************************************
Dear Jane ,

As our Hurricane Katrina response heads into its 20th day, our
Disaster Animal Response Teams continue their quest to rescue
stranded pets while we brace for the potential arrival of
Hurricane Rita. Here's the latest update on what's happening in
Louisiana and Mississippi, along with new photos and a video of
our teams on the ground:
SLIDESHOW:
https://community.hsus.org/ct/D7aYJ9S1vmbD//
VIDEO
Windows Media:
http://stream.realimpact.net/?file=realimpact/hsus/katrina/katrina.wmv&type=wmv
RealPlayer:
http://stream.realimpact.net/?file=realimpact/hsus/katrina/katrina.rm

+ Three weeks after Katrina struck the region and the flood
waters rose in New Orleans, our rescue teams are doing all they
can to reach stranded pets in time. We've rescued nearly 6,000
pets and other animals so far. Many animals are in remarkably
good shape, but others are severely dehydrated or have wounds or
chemical burns. For some, we are arriving too late to help.
While individual National Guardsmen and military units have
helped us, the federal government has refused to formally make
animal rescue a top priority.

+ The temporary animal shelter at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in
Gonzales, Louisiana, remains at capacity. To make room for new
rescues, we've transported more than 1,500 animals out of the
facility to other shelters. Our top animal sheltering
professionals are finding the task of running the massive
facility to be the most challenging assignment of their lives.
Despite the federal government's lack of response in helping
with rescues, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Public
Health Service have been a tremendous help at this facility, as
have officials from the state of Louisiana. We're still in need
of volunteers to help with the task of managing what has become
the nation's largest animal shelter!
https://community.hsus.org/ct/DpaYJ9S1vmbK/

+ Amid the stress and hardship here, our staff and volunteers
are witnessing the most incredible reunions of pets and their
people - more than 400 so far. At our temporary shelter in
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, a bell near the entrance is rung each
time an animal is reunited with her owner. When that bell rings,
cheers and applause break out through the facility.

+ While our on-the-ground response remains our top priority, we
have begun looking toward the future. Yesterday, the American
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and The
HSUS announced the creation of a reconstruction fund to rebuild
animal shelters damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Each
organization is donating an initial $2.5 million, for a total
of $5 million. We hope to eventually build that fund to at
least $10 million.

To stay on top of everything that's happening in the region,
please bookmark www.hsus.org and be sure to visit it frequently.
We are adding new stories, information, and photos every day.
For all you do for animals, thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Laura Bevan
Incident Commander
HSUS National Disaster Animal Response Team
P.S. Do you have a question about our disaster response for
animals? Then please read our frequently asked questions:
https://community.hsus.org/ct/DdaYJ9S1vmbJ/
If you don't find your answer there, then call us at
1-800-HUMANE-1 between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Eastern time, or reply
to this email (disaster@hsus.org) with the topic of your
question identified in the subject line. Thank you!
********************************************
Copyright 2005 The Humane Society of the United States All
Rights Reserved
Humane Society Disaster Relief Fund
2100 L Street, NW Washington, DC 20037
disaster@hsus.org 202-452-1100 www.hsus.org
********************************************

Jenny - English Pointer

2005-09-21T07:02:00.000-07:00

Jenny - English Pointer
Originally uploaded by Dogs Hope Adopted Dogs.

This lovely sweet small English pointer is available for adoption at Dogs Hope Rescue in Midland, NC.

We want a picture of your "Naturally cared for Dog"

2005-09-20T19:09:00.000-07:00

Please post photo's of your Dog's that are cared for naturally.Including natural diets,vegan,vegatarian and raw food.Treated with Herbal Remedies,Homeopathy and other Natural and Organic treatments.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/naturaldog

Sign a petiton for Katrina Pet Victims

2005-09-16T16:54:00.000-07:00

Dear Friend,
Please help get the word to the federal and state governmentsthat the animal victims of Hurricane Katrina need their help.Volunteers in the region are doing all they can to rescuestarving and stranded pets and other animals, but they needfederal assistance now. Here is a link to the web page with thephone numbers you should call: You can also email

https://community.hsus.org/campaign/katrina_governmentresponse?rk=2pqRFF113RImW

Botanicaldog

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Organic Norwegian Kelp Pet Supplement

2005-09-13T14:56:00.000-07:00

Hazards of common Flea Insectides

2005-09-11T06:40:00.000-07:00

Imidacloprid (often sold as Advantage)

Imidacloprid is toxic to animal nervous systems. In a test conducted by an imidacloprid manufacturer, it caused tremors in laboratory animals.

For more information about this study, click here and look under acute neurotoxicity.

Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences showed that imidacloprid causes damage to DNA (the genetic material in living cells) in laboratory tests with human blood cells.
To see an abstract of this study, click here.

In a test conducted by an imidacloprid manufacturer, pregnancy loss (miscarriage) was more common in laboratory animals exposed to imidacloprid than in unexposed animals.

For more information about this study, click here and look under reproductive toxicity and rabbits.

Fipronil (often sold as Frontline)

Fipronil insecticide products disrupt hormone function. Scientists at the Universidade Federal do Parana in Brazil showed that an application of Frontline to laboratory animals caused dramatic changes in the levels of two sex hormones and disrupted the animals' reproductive cycle.

To see an abstract of this study, click here.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classifies fipronil as a carcinogen (a chemical that can cause cancer).

To see the list of pesticides that have classified by EPA for their ability to cause cancer, click here.
Fipronil insecticides are persistent. Researchers at Murray State University showed Frontline persists for at least 56 days on pets' skin.

To see an abstract of this study, click here.

To see NCAP's detailed information about the hazards of imidacloprid and fipronil, click here.

Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
PO Box 1393, Eugene OR 97440-1393 Ph. 541-344-5044 Fax 541-344-6923 info@pesticide.org

For A safe alternative to these products.

VISIT:
http://www.botanicaldog.com

For a full range of Natural and Organic Flea Products

Hurricaine Katrina Pet Information

2005-09-10T19:44:00.000-07:00

Noah’s Wish, a not-for-profit organization that works exclusively to rescue and shelter animals in disasters, is rescuing animals from evacuated homes in Slidell, Louisiana. A temporary shelter will have the ability to house hundreds of animals. Trained Noah’s Wish volunteers, Veterinarians, and Veterinary technicians will work around the clock to provide medical services, care and much-needed love and affection to these traumatized animals.Click Here to help Noah's Wish.

Hemp Supplement for Pets

2005-09-06T15:13:00.000-07:00

PROMEGA HEARTS, made from hemp seeds, is a high energy, high protein, high fiber pet food.

Unlike many manufactured pet foods, PROMEGA HEARTS, does not attract pets with sugar, molasses or other unhealthy sweeteners. PROMEGA HEARTS, is 1/3 protein, 1/3 essential fats and 1/3 nutrient-rich fiber, unlike pet foods made with inexpensive meats and grains, PROMEGA HEARTS, contain only minimal percentages of undesirable carbohydrates and saturated fats.

Hemp is a better source of all required proteins than milk, meat or eggs. Hemp is a complete protein source - more balanced & digestible than soy. Hemp Oil is unique with over 90% unsaturated, omega, essential fats. Contains all the essential or omega fats required for cellular health. Contains several times more omega 3 essential fat than any fish. Hemp seeds are rich with vitamins, minerals and enzymes. Contains minimal carbohydrates: Much preferable to grain-based feeds.

Restores tissue elasticity, improves circulation and reduces inflammation. Because PROMEGA HEARTS have a superior balance of "required" nutrients--especially protein--PROMEGA HEARTS are very satisfying allowing you to replace larger amounts of inferior grain-based carbohydrate foods with smaller amounts of PROMEGA HEARTS.

Older animals with diabetes,arthritis, heart disease and many disorders of the digestive system usually respond well to diets containing significant amounts of PROMEGA HEARTS and have a significant increase in energy with less aches and pains. As well, pets using PROMEGA HEARTS always enjoy superior hair and skin with greatly decreased shedding.

Available at http://www.botanicaldog.com/proddetail.php?prod=Prom0001
$ 9.99 for 1 LB Container.

Botanical Cat

2005-08-31T08:05:00.000-07:00

We are currently working on the launch of http://www.botanicalcat.com and http://www.botanicalliving.com .We will announce the launch dates.

Botanical Cat-will feature natural and organic products for cats and also interactive toys.

Botanical Living-will feature people and baby products for eco living.

DAILY DOSE OF HEALTHY LIVING FOR DOGS

2005-08-31T07:57:00.000-07:00

Complete Range of Vital Ingredients Essential for Healthy Dogs

Sound health for dogs of any age or breed starts with proper nutrition, exercise and a balanced supplement that addresses a dog’s specific needs. Just like humans, pets usually do not receive an ideal amount of necessary nutrients from their diet and require daily supplementation.
Botanical Dog offers dog owners three formulas, Natural Dog Daily, Natural Dog Senior Senior and Natural Dog Daily Motion that contain balanced vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, amino acids, antioxidants and digestive enzymes for dogs in all life stages.
No other canine multi-vitamin formula contains such a complete range of vital ingredients essential to the health of dogs. Natural Dog Daily provides more than 40 synergistic nutrients including:
Water and fat soluble vitamins, including vitamins A, C, D, E, K and a complete and balanced stress B complex;
Digestive enzymes that ensure nutrients reach the small intestine and help improve absorption and utilization of nutrients from the dog’s diet;
Linoleic acid (Omega 3) to promote healthy skin and coat;
Eleven vital minerals to support proper composition of body fluids, formation of red blood cells and bone, and maintenance of healthy nerve function; and
Antioxidants (A, C, E and selenium) to support the immune system.
For maximum support of geriatric dogs, Natural Dog Senior offers a complete anti-aging formula to support immune, heart, liver, eye and brain health. The senior formula contains DMG, EPA, DHA, Taurine, L-Glutamine, alpha lipoic acid, and grape seed, milk thistle and bilberry extracts. For dogs experiencing hip or joint discomfort, Natural Dog Motion combines a complete foundation with chondroitin sulfate, glucosamine, antioxidants and amino acids for comprehensive support of joint and connective tissue function and bone health.

Botanical Dog Calming Therapy Shampoo

2005-06-05T17:26:00.000-07:00

Botanical Dogs Calming/Puppy Therapy Shampoo was specially formulated, to provide a calming and luxurious bath time experience for your sensitive dog or puppy· Organic lavender essential oil the #1 calming remedy in the world· Reduces stress and anxiety during grooming sessions· Shea butter and Goatsmilk rehydrate sensitive skin· Silk proteins encourage shine and manageability · No harmful ingredients for your puppy's sensitive skin· Our Products contain no SLS,SLES,DEA,TEA, phosphates or dyes· 100 % biodegradable. Recyclable Bottle http://www.botanicaldog.com/proddetail.php?prod=ASK0002&PHP

Coat Therapy Shampoo Comments

2005-05-29T19:01:00.000-07:00

Hi, JB-
Just wanted to let you know that I bathed Gretta this morning with the shampoo you gave me.

She smells so nice and looks so clean!

I'm very pleased with the product.

I went to the web site to leave some favorable comments, but couldn't find anywhere to do so.

Let me know if I can help!

Stay warm - it is way too cold to head for the beach to walk.

Talk to you soon- Karen Fedder

Flea Away Dog Biscuits and Chicken Liver cookies

2005-05-29T12:55:00.000-07:00

I've tried these two this past month and they are a"hit"! Tracey Avers,Botanical Dog Independent Pet Product Consultant .

Flea-Away Dog Biscuits
The flea repellent in these biscuits is the garlic.
You can also try
mixing a little raw garlic into your dog's regular food.

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup wheat germ
1/2 cup brewer's yeast
1 teaspoon salt
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 tablespoons olive oil or sesame oil
1 cup chicken stock, or beef or vegetable stock
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Grease two to three baking sheets. In a medium bowl, combine the first four ingredients. In a large mixing bowl,combine the garlic and oil. Alternately, add the flour mixture and thestock into the oil and garlic, beating until the dough is well mixed.Shape the dough into a ball. On a lightly floured surface, roll the doughto a 12-inch circle. Using a two-inch biscuit cutter, cut the dough intorounds. (Or use a cookie cutter with a dog-biscuit shape.) Transfer thebiscuits to greased baking sheets. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, or until thebiscuits are well browned. Turn off the heat and allow the biscuits to dryin the oven for several hours or over night. Store in the refrigerator orfreezer.Makes about 2 dozen biscuits.

Chicken Liver Cookies

2 cups flour
1 cup wheat germ, or 1 cup cornmeal, or 1/2 cup of each
1 egg, lightly beaten
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/2 cup chicken broth
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley, or 2 teaspoons dried
1 cup chopped chicken livers, cooked

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
In a medium bowl, combine the flour andwheat germ or cornmeal. In a large mixing bowl, beat the egg with the oil,then add the broth and parsley, and mix well. Add the dry ingredients tothe wet ingredients a little at a time, stirring to combine. Fold in thechicken livers. The dough will be firm. Turn the dough onto a lightlyfloured surface and knead it briefly. Roll the dough to a thickness of 1/2inch, and cut it into desired shapes. Place cookies one inch apart ongreased cookie sheets. Bake for 15 minutes or until firm. Store cookies inthe refrigerator or freezer.

Makes about 24 small, or 15 medium-sized cookies.

Arthritis Care

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A common problem in older dogs is arthritis.Fortunately there are many options available.

There are some simple steps you can make to ease any discomfort that they may be having.

Ensure that your pet gets all the vital nutrients he needs by providing a premium diet.
Keep your dog as slim as possible.Weight management is one of the most effective ways to combat all levels of arthritis.
Increase you pet's fitness level,with daily exercise such as walking and swimming.It will help increase his mobility and muscle strength.
Give your pet a glucosamine and chronroitin supplement.
Include vitamins such as C,A,E and Manganese.Be careful not to overdose.
make sure your pet has plenty of Omega3 and Omega 6 essential fatty acids in his diet to combat inflammation

Adding these simple steps will help ensure a healthy and happy Senior Dog.

Women Majority Prefer Pets to Partners

2005-05-05T14:21:00.000-07:00

For those in the pet, pet accessories, and pet services businesses, here's aheads-up for your "behavioral targeting" strategies.

According to a study of pet owners by BizRate Research for Shopzilla, pampered pets are becoming women's priority vs. their partners.

The study reports that 56% of women feel that their pets are more affectionatethan their partner, while only 41% of men feel that way. And 45% of women think their pets are cuter than their partners, twice as many as men. In this study, women said they had a deeper emotional connection with their pets than men did.

Other findings include:
a.. 73% of female pet owners report they are more inclined to date or marry someone who also has a pet
b.. 72% of women pet owners report their pets make them happier than their jobs. (compared to only 60% of the men)
c.. Women are inclined to spend about $50-$100 a month on their pet
d.. 39%% of women pet owners would consider taking their pet to a petpsychic, groomer or therapist
e.. 37% of the female owners will consider a pet funeral (almost twice asmany as men)
f.. The survey saw that 36% of women owners take their pets along with themto run errands such as shopping or going to the hair salon
g.. 70% of female pet owners feel that their pets reflect their personality

In the past 10 years, the pet industry has doubled in size to $34 billion ayear in revenue, according to the American Pet Product ManufacturingAssociation), and the most registered dog breeds are Labrador Retriever,Golden Retriever and German Shepherd says the American Kennel Club.

Pet Safe Insect Killer

2005-05-02T18:55:00.000-07:00

Every year hundreds of pets are killed by ingestng insect poison.

Which leaves the dilemma,How do you kill insects without putting your dog or cat at risk?

Mix equal parts baking soda and sugar.Leave in areas were the insects will find it.

While this mixture is not toxic to animals or children,it can cause upset stomachs.Try to discourage pets from licking it!!

It is probably a good idea to place behind a piece of furniture or in a "doggie proof" cupboard.

Extra Tips to help with Natural Flea Control.

2005-05-02T18:49:00.000-07:00

Try adding Brewer's Yeast and Vitamin B to your pet's food.It also keeps their skin healthy and shiny,even if they never encounter fleas.

Garlic Powder will also naturally fight flea infestation... Add a little to your dog's food.

Lavender.Insects of all kinds dislike the scent.

Make sure to vacuum regularly and wash pet's bedding.Also wash the baseboards near where the dogs sleep.

Gator alert !

2005-04-30T17:21:00.000-07:00

An estimated 100,000 alligators live in the ponds ,lakes and rivers of South Carolina.

Florida reports numerous pet deaths due mainly to residential development encroaching on their territory

There are some precautions that you can take when out with your pet.

Attacks occur when unleashed pets are permitted to swim or wander along the banks of ponds and lakes especially at dusk,when gators are most active.

When beaching or anchoring your boat,don't let the dogs jump ashore without checking for lurking gators.

Avoid walking near the edge of lakes ,rivers or streams especially those with murky waters.

Never let your dog swim in areas known to be inhabited by alligators.

And remember that alligators are more active in the warmer weather

2005-04-20T19:48:00.000-07:00

Marlowe -The wonderful English Pointer we adopted 6 months ago.

New Product At Botanical Dog and Botanical Cat

2005-04-19T16:41:00.000-07:00

Petal Cleanse - If you are allergic to your Dog Or Cat

Your first and last stop for safe pet allergy relief!

Petal Cleanse™ Frequently Asked Questions
Why Petal Cleanse™?
Pet ownership is higher than any other time in history, with more companion animals spending a larger percentage of their lives indoors. This has led to an increase in the number of cases of reported allergy-induced illnessed reported each year (ie. eczema, asthma, sutffiness, chronic congestion, and hives just to name a few). This in turn has caused a significant increase in the number of animals that are being given up for adoption to kill and no-kill shelters. Petal Cleanse™ is the answer to more than 90% of these unwanted pet surrenders!

What is Petal Cleanse™?
Petal Cleanse™™/C for cats and Petal Cleanse™™/D for dogs, are clear, colorless liquids composed of a delicate balance of Cleanse™rs and moisturizers that gently remove the dander, saliva and urine from the coat, and encapsulate the allergy-causing compounds known as Fel d1 and Can f1, as well as other microscopic allergens. The moisturizers condition the coat and skin to further reduce the amount of material shed.

Is Petal Cleanse™ Safe and/or Natural?
Petal Cleanse™™ /C and /D are clear, mildly-scented solutions for your pet’s coat comprised of a delicate balance of Cleanse™rs and moisturizers containing: quarternium salts from the UK, glycerin, amino-acids, B vitamins, aloe vera gel, rosemary and lime flower extracts. The Cleanse™rs gently remove the dander saliva and urine from the coat, and encapsulate the Fel d1, Can f1 and microscopic allergens utilizing this unique proprietary blend of ingredients. The moisturizers condition the coat and skin to further reduce the amount of material shed.

Healthy Treats: Banning the bad ingredients.

2005-04-18T18:08:00.000-07:00

When buying doggie treats make sure that they do not contain the following:

Artificial Preservatives: No BHA, BHT,and ethoxyquin.

No Artificial Colors

No Propylene Glycol- Keeps pet food moist and chewy.It can cause central nervous system damage and kidney failure.

Botanical Dog will be adding lots of yummy pet treats in the near future.

Look for our New Vegetable Mix coming soon!

Canine and Feline Cancer

2005-03-31T16:09:00.000-08:00

Swelling that persists or gets worse
Sores that do not heal
Loss of weight
Bleeding or discharge from any body opening
Offensive Body odor
Difficulty eating or swallowing
Lack of energy or stamina
Reluctance to exercise
Persistent Lamenss or stiffness.
Difficulty breathing
Difficulty urinating or defacating

The following treatments are available if you pet develops Cancer

Surgery
Chemotherapy
Radiation Therapy

Your Guide To Better Dog Care

2005-03-29T14:06:00.000-08:00

Inadequate grooming does not maintain a healthy coat .A Daily and Weekly
grooming routine is essential.

Pets rely on us to help them maintain optimum health care

Lack of regular grooming results in skin problems, eye problems and ear problems

Mats that are allowed to form in the coat pull on the skin and inhibit air flow. This
creates a moisture imbalance. This condition allows for yeast, bacteria and
and fleas to make themselves at home in your dog’s fur.

Excessive hair growth in the ears causes yeast and bacteria. Many pet owners
do not include ear cleaning in their regular grooming routine. This can lead to costly
vet bills.

Hair allowed to grow around the eyes leads to conjunctivitis. And eventual blindness.

Brushing two or three times a week alleviates many of these problems.

Combing with a good Flea Comb combats flea problems.

In the summer months most long haired breeds benefit from a full body shave. This
procedure helps combat skin irritations such as Hot Spots

And finally every Good Dog deserves a doggie massage.

Pet Health Hazard's: Part 1

2005-03-25T15:17:00.000-08:00

Flea and Tick Collars.

They release a toxic nerve gas that kill fleas.Therefore your dogs and cats breathe the fumes both day and night.The chemicals can even enter your pet's bloodstream through the skin.
Over time there can be brain and nerve damage and even cancer.

Insect Powders and Sprays.

Many of these products found at your local pet shop contain nerve affecting chemicals called carbamates.This chemical may cause muscular twitching ,slowed breathing ,a lower rate of hearbeat and sometimes death.

Pet Shampoos.
Many contain harsh chemicals and detergents

Cat Litter.
The dust from your cat's litter can get into your pets lungs.Causing asthma,bronchitis and even lung cancer.

Rawhide Chews.
Often manufacturered in third world countries where health standards are lower.These chews may contain insect eggs and also may have been processed with a high mercury content.It is possible that they also contain hydrogen peroxide,chromium and arsenic.Bacteria can also be present.