preventing sloughing in a dog's tail (and therebypreventing amputation)

[Rosemary C. Hyde, Ph.D.]

This seems to be a "true acute" situation rather than an upwelling of
constitutional disease. If you can repertorize it as an acute, and find one
or two concomitants or modalities that would distinguish between the 4-5
remedies that might be indicated, the remedy that comes up might well work.
I wouldn't go into constitutional issues for something like this. For what
it's worth...

Rosemary

[elizabeth oshea]

> Definitely need an acute/trauma remedy, and that

Oops: I should have written 'he's a very stressed dog
in general'. He is always startled, he always barks
aggressively at visitor who don't pay him attention,
he is always clingy outside the house, he always wants
comfort and attention.

I definitely consider his current situation an acute
and not a constitutional because _nothing_ has changed
in his constitutional state. Still clingy, still
easily startled, still has a good appetite.

His constitutional state only changed when the acute
became more serious, and he improved even in the few
minutes after the bandages were off.

elizabeth

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[merrileecoblenz]

You may like to try Arg. Nit. as a constitutional, it works well on
the nervousness and fearful behaviour you describe especially in the
border collie. The females tend to urinate frequently when under
stress more so than the males but they both pace with this desire to
urinate and have the excitement when anticipating events, as well as
the sensitive starting nature expecially to noise. All the skin
symptoms being so acute there is nothing to go on there except for
the blackness, Sec. seems to fit the acute.
merrilee

--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, elizabeth oshea wrote:

[elizabeth oshea]

Thanks, Merrilee. I might try that, but I think he's
going to go to a homoeopathic vet next. The dog had
his tail off today. The tail completely separated. Our
vet said there was no risk in moving him for a second
opinion, but the look of sheer terror on the dog's
face made me decide that that wasn't beneficial for
him. We're keeping on with secale, calendula, and
hypericum after the surgery. Once he's done some
(physical) healing, I'll take him for a constitutional
prescribed by someone further away from the case than
me. He'll definitely need it after all this.

Thanks everyone for the advice.

elizabeth oshea
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