Herbals & Natural Remedies

Biography

Biography: Martina Načeradská

Abstract

Behaviour-related issues belong to the most challenging cases in my practice. Sedatives or psychopharmaca are usually recommended as a treatment of choice according to the “western medicine” literature. Sometimes it is really difficult to actually administer the medicine, as many of the animal patients tend to be full of fear and aggressive, especially cats. In contrast to this way of treatment stands the use of herbs, especially those picked by the animal itself. Cats love to chew on catnip or valerian root, which makes their basic clinical examination much easier. If the animal is relaxed, the owner is relaxed too and the compliance works better. Oncological patients are sometimes hard to manage; some animals suffer from inappetence, refuse to eat, refuse to accept the feeding tube due to different reasons – in such cases I use herbs such as carrot seed essential oil as appetite stimulant. Some animals may suffer from resistant bacterial infection such as Escherichia coli, often in combination with other comorbidities such as renal failure where very few or no antibiotics can be used. In my practice had good results with prescribing inhalation of e.g. almond or garlic essential oils to combat such infections. Case report will be presented on how particular herbs or their products used helped the patients in my practice.