Monday, February 8, 2010

Dogs Depression and How to Treat it Naturally

Dogs depression is best dealt with by treating the cause. How do you know what that is? Here are some pointers, but you will also need to do the homework of working out what is relevant for your dog.

Depression most commonly occurs from unresolved emotions. Dogs can be as much affected by this as we are. Examples include shock, fright and grief.

It’s worth remembering that dogs have a weakness in their hearts. So any stress that affects their heart is likely to cause deep problems. A healthy heart can mean an open and loving dog. An unhealthy heart can mean an closed, introverted, depressed dog.

Pets also have a habit of taking on our unresolved emotional burdens..This means that the best we can do for out pets is to keep on top of our own problems.

Let’s look at grief. The loss of a much loved companion or human may take time to work through. Or they may not be able to.

Unresolved emotions create physical health problems.

By treating your dogs depression, and other health issues, with homeopathic medicines, you will be treating the cause. This is how homeopathy works. The unresolved emotion creates a blockage in the immune system. Clear that, and the good health returns with the return of the healthy immune system.

But to use homeopathic medicines effectively, you need to be able to match your dog’s symptoms with those of the curative medicine.

The homeopathic medicine Natrum muriaticum, or Nat mur, is a common medicine which can resolve emotional blockages such as grief. Apart from the grief and the closed heart, you will need some physical symptoms on which to base the choice of Nat mur. Some of its strong physical keynote symptoms are:

  •  oedemas, dropsy or ascites
  •  anaemia
  •  nephritis or inflammation of the kidneys, with difficulties passing urine - it comes slowly and/or there is incontinence
  •  dislike of warmth, especially that of the sun
  •  past history of herpes infections (mouth, genitals), so possibly many antibiotics
  •  weariness, weakness
  •  sore back

With the resolution of the grief, will come the disappearance of the physical health problems.