The Equine Cushings Cure

Equine Cushings disease is caused by a tumor in thefine. You should have a grinder for this purpose only,
pituitary gland, which is responsible for the productionas your coffee might taste funny if you use the
and regulation of hormones. Symptoms include a long,grinder for both.
shaggy coat that does not shed, excessive drinkingRight around the time I was ready to tell the world
and urination, laminitis, a tendency for recurringabout this “cure,” another product came on the
infections in the hoof (foot abscesses), and a loss ofmarket called Hormonize. It is a liquid and costs around
muscle mass, especially along the topline and rump.$45 per liter and lasts two weeks for your average
At Eye of the Storm Equine Rescue, we’vesize horse. That’s $90 per month to treat the
discovered what appears to be a cure for Cushingshorse. The developers of this product found it to be
disease in horses. We’re not licensed nor areeffective not only on mares in heat, but it also did
we doctors, but we know what has worked for oursome impressive things for Cushings horses, too. It is
horses and for lots of others, so we wanted to sharesold for this purpose as well. It is an all natural herbal
our experiences in case it helps cure your own horseremedy. A bit pricey, though.
of equine Cushings disease.I checked out the ingredients. It is a tincture of
While looking through a nutritional healing book atchasteberry! I think they call it vitex or monks pepper
Debra’s Natural Gourmet in West Concord,on the back. I’m not sure. It greatly saddens me
Mass., I came across a sentence that saidthat the treatment for such a devastating disease sells
“Chasteberry feeds the pituitary gland.”for so much.
Chasteberry in recent times has been used mainly forHorses don’t need herbal tinctures. They can
“women’s complaints.” I know it worksand do digest some pretty coarse stuff (have you
because it beats the crap out of PMS, you feel betterever tried to eat dry timothy hay?). They can not only
in 20 minutes. “Hmm,” I say, “I like chasteberry,digest the herb, but utilize it in that form beautifully.
let’s see what it can do for our two CushingsBess, unfortunately, died at age 28 when she decided
horses.”her mission was accomplished, so we never got a
Bess, our 26 year old Shetland had obviousthird blood test from her. We have two other Cushings
symptoms: long hair that didn’t shed and shehorses, and all of our older mares are on chasteberry
was a sway back. Not as bad as some, but stillas well. Junebug, who is 8 years old, was tested last
obvious. I couldn’t wait for the vet to take someyear and we’ll test her again soon to see
blood to find out her “numbers.” The results werewhere her numbers are. Snowdrop was never tested,
positive for Cushings. I put her on one teaspoon twicebut all her symptoms have disappeared and she is
a day, three weeks on and one week off. Though shedoing well at 24 years old.
began to shed her coat of “buffalo” hair almostIf any of you out there would like to try chasteberry,
immediately, she never was a very slick pony. But Ihere’s what to do. Go to your local health food
was determined to keep her on the chasteberry onestore and special order one pound bulk bag whole
year before testing her blood again. If I saw resultschastetree berry from the Frontier herb company
then, I would tell the world.(please mention Eye of the Storm Equine Rescue
One year later, after Bess’ test results camewhen you do). You might want to order more than
back, the vet said, “I don’t know whatone bag so that when you’re down to one you
you’re doing, but keep on doing it.”can reorder. One bag will cost you less than $20 and
Bess’ numbers were down 33 points! Iwill last a couple of months per horse.
don’t know exactly what these numbersRun the berries through your coffee grinder and feed
represent, but evidently this never happens in real life!one teaspoon twice a day with feed. We give the
After one year of feeding her pituitary gland, had Isame amount to horses and ponies. It works on both
managed to reverse her Cushings disease? I wasmares and geldings. Give it to them three weeks on
very excited as this ailment affects the lives of millionsand one week off all year round. It will even keep the
of old (and not so old) horses in so many negativemares from being quite so crabby in the spring.
ways. This disease is more common now than it hasWe also give them all vitamin E in the evening, vitamin
ever been in the past. No one really knows why,C in the morning, and MSM. No sugars or
though I have my theories. That is another tale forcarbohydrates (not even a carrot). There are feeds
another day.out there that are low in both, such as Blue Seal Racer
I was getting whole chasteberry in one pound bulkand some of the senior feeds (do some research). All
bags from Natural Gourmet and running it through ain all, chasteberry is the answer. Even our two 30-year
coffee grinder. The seeds are very hard and I figuredold mares don’t have Cushings, only Bess,
it would come out the other end the same way theyJunebug, and Snowdrop, who came to us with the
went in, unless we knocked the shells off them. Youdisease and it appears to be reversed. I never had
run the grinder until most of the pinging of hard berrieshorses of my own get Cushings. I have every horse in
can’t be heard anymore. You cannot grind themtown that has Cushings on chasteberry and
up completely, but that’s okay. Horses arethey’re all doing great! This is a cheap, easy,
made to digest roughage. They handle the chunks justhealthy remedy for Cushings disease.