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I looked for ways to reduce the use of chemicals Chraniosacral technique is a system of very light
in the management of disease. I took the touch that invites the body to change and heal
Essentials of Veterinary Western Herbal itself. I listen to the body with my hands and my
Medicine with the CIVT last year, as I saw herbs intention to look for tensions in the body in any
as a way to support my patients in the long term structure like for example the membrane system
in a more natural way. that surrounds the central nervous system (dura
mater). It’s a very relaxing technique.
I then researched how I could use more
wholesome food as a healing tool since I had Emotional Release technique it’s based on the
done that for myself. Food is a very tricky fact that the tissues store our emotions when
subject and it’s very easy to get overwhelmed we are unable to deal with them. Emotions are
with the huge choice available nowadays. I an aspect of disease that gets overlooked in
started looking at what type of food my patient’s general practice but I feel it’s the very root of
gut would recognize as food more naturally many diseases.
and I also acknowledged how each case
requires a different solution, one food doesn’t Herbal therapy is the use of medicinal herbs
fit all. Raw feeding, cooked food and low heat to help balance and manage many conditions.
processed food have been my main suggestions They can be safely given with your pets existing
to my clients since. I will work with vets medication (with the odd exception) and in many
recommendations in many cases also when the cases will enhance the said medication’s effect.
pet is on a prescription diet. We evolved with plants, so did our pets. Our
bodies recognise those compounds and can
But there was still something missing. I then draw all their power more naturally. I also like
discovered Craniosacral and Emotional release the fact that they work on stress, anxiety and
therapies. I got my certificate on both therapies emotional issues much better than many of the
last year with the IAVC. To me they are a crucial drugs available in veterinary medicine.
piece of the puzzle.
Epigenetics is a new science that looks at
Now I have many answers to that question, (and how the choices we make in diet and lifestyle
I am still looking for more). I understand disease determine which bits of the DNA are expressed,
differently. I understand that disease it’s created the ones that will lead to disease or the ones
by a number of factors and that to improve that will lead to health. This is also the case for
disease you have to work to correct as many our pets.
of those factors as possible. I now address
the physical, the molecular/cellular and the “I use all my professional
emotional aspects of disease. I do so by looking and personal experience to
at the patient’s whole life’s history, lifestyle and
behaviour in a more holistic approach and using Support my Patients to Heal
a combination of the therapies listed in this From Within”
article.
Each patient will do so to the degree that they
Veterinary Chiropractic is the use of adjustments are able depending on their condition, age and
to treat vertebral subluxations complexes stage they are at.
that occur naturally on a daily basis and that
overtime could lead to disease. A vertebral
subluxation is a dysfunctional area in the spine
that adversely affects health and wellbeing, due Anna Mas,BVSc, MRCVS,
to its influence in the nervous system. These
changes are more pronounced and have a ANNIMAS,
deeper effect in the presence of injury or chronic Natural Healing Vet
disease. This is a very gentle therapy that annimas.co.uk
animals enjoy and are really happy to have.
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