Ask the holistic vet #4 & 5, urinary problems and cancer

August 5, 11:41 AMDenver Alternative Pet Medicine ExaminerMeg Wittenmyer

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One is short and one is longer, so we're doing two Ask the Vet questions this week.  Please keep sending your questions in and we'll keep posting them, hopefully to help someone else who might be having similar issues with their pets.  Dogs and cats alike get addressed.

The first question addresses urinary and bladder issues with a pug.

My pug has had a number of urinary/bladder problems diagnosed by western vets during her 12 years. She has some crystals that were  diagnosed by extremely invasive means of drugging her, and blowing up her bladder and x-raying it. Since then, I have become skeptical of  the western vet model of over-vaccination, processed food, and antibiotics, so she has had none of those for over 7 years. However,  she is 12 now and when I see a bit of blood in her urine I want to get her help if her condition could be getting serious because of age. She  shows no other symptoms and is not kept from urinating as much as she needs to. She is showing no signs of pain, just the tiny bit of blood,  which I noticed on the wee wee pad she uses at night.

Dr. Norman's advice:  This pug has a condition known in Chinese medicine as damp heat of the bladder. There are herbs to treat this condition and to disolve the crystals. If the dog has stones, the herbs may not be successful in dissolving these.

For brevity, this request for help with cancer in her dog has been edited from the original poster's email. 

I do not even know where to begin, but I pray you can help give us some time with our 10 year old Golden Kiara Jordan.   Yesterday she was diagnosed with a meningioma tumor in her lower lobe. It is to close to the spinal cord to operate and she is on prednisone  to reduce the swelling.

I noticed a significant change in her face, it was drooping to the left.  She always sleeps in our bed at night and Thursday morning she stood up and almost fell out  as she stumbled to the left. She could not walk without falling, her mouth hung open and she could not close it. She looked like a  different dog.  I took her right in to our Vet Specialists who have a neurologist on staff there. They did blood work, x-rays and a full  exam and suggested the MRI to determine the cause. But they cautioned us that she was pretty sure it was some type of Cancer.

Dr. Norman's Advice:  There are quite a list of "anti cancer" herbs and supplements. I use mushroom blends (ganaderma, reishi, mitaki) and astragalus to boost the immune system, L-Argenine. There are so many products to choose from and they are easily googled. Noni Juice, Essiac Tea, it seems that each ancient culture has some cancer cure. I also incorporate detoxification, relying largely on zeolites which are the molecules that make up lava rock. They attach to everything, heavy metals, chemicals and viruses. That product is called Waiora. I do personal consults over the phone to tailor make your animal's treatment protocol. At my office I always do acupuncture, not to treat the cancer, but with the intention of strengthening the body. On my web site you can download the cancer diet  . Mainly the diet removes carbohydrates so as not to feed the cancer, choosing foods lower on the food chain and adding lots of vegetables and sea weed.

For more info:

Dr. Turie Norman, DVM, Healing Touch Veterinary

Treating urinary tract infections with acupuncture

About Waiora detox

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