Airy fairy medicine

Yes, when I think about it, I practice weird medical techniques. I should say medicinal techniques as the medical community might take offense.

Serjay sent me only two goose eggs and I had low hopes of them hatching. Considering that over 50% of the duck eggs died at hatch, I didn't think that two goose eggs would yield many live geese. But both pipped. One hatched on its own and the other...lingered. Slow pokes get stuck. Period. It has nothing to do with humidity and everything to do with speed. And this goose was not quick. I held off intervening as long as I dared, but the peeping grew weaker, then quit. I knew the gosling was alive, it peeped if I tapped the egg, but it wasn't moving, it wasn't doing anything!

I removed some shell and realized he was stuck. Glued in. He had been trying to hatch and was now exhausted. I got him out of the shell and he was limp and floppy and gasping. In my experience that gasping is the last thing they do before they die. DO NOT DIE! But what to do for him? In desperation I gave him a dribble of BACH FLOWER RESCUE REMEDY. I dribbled in a teeny amount and set his unmoving, gasping body in the bator and went to bed. I knew he would be dead and stiff when I checked in the morning.

Instead, bright little eyes met me! HE was up, he was fluffy and he was noisy! I could not believe my eyes.

This past wknd I hatched some chicks in the waterbator and due to severe temp problems (the bator is experimental) I was amazed that any eggs had survived. But these hatched very poorly, I had to help a lot. 3 seemed reasonably okay, one was limp. I thought he might plump up in a few hours. No, remained limp. Not moving. Not peeping. Flat and panting. I left it, hoping time would help. I had given him up for dead but thought well, I have nothing to lose with the flower remedy, so he got a drop of Back Flower Rescue Remedy, and boing, he's bopping around the brooder, eating and pooping.

Then..one of the 'good; ones flopped. I immediately thought of Sweetened and her mysterious deaths and thinking it was mouse poop in the feed. Mice had gotten into my feed and maybe it was contaminated! Maybe this good chick had cocci and was toast. He was down, gasping. Gave him Bach Flower Remedy and ...good as new!

I do treat my animals homeopathically and have suggested this to others in the past. But you have to go to the store, buy the different remedies, mix it up in a bottle and some booze, find a dropper. I do still use this treatment since I now how to make it and have all the goods. But the Bach Flower Rescue Remedy is a prepared product and all you have to do is buy it. No mixing or finding bottles and droppers.

I won't call it the magic bullet, but it has saved 3 lives that I would have given up for dead. I recommend it, give it a try.

That's pretty cool uno. What's in it?

Susan wrote:That's pretty cool uno. What's in it?

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just reading the site myself--- looks really cool so far!

When I worked in Calgary at the vet clinic the vet there used some natural treatments along with Acupuncture on the animals, and I remember he used Rescue Remedy a lot. I was thinking of getting some for our one horse, he gets so worked up sometimes and I remember that this vet would use it in dogs that got anxious at the clinic and it worked great.
Just remembering to pick it up in the city is the tough part...I have one little call duckling that got wet overnight by the bigger ducklings and I don't hold high hopes for its survival, it is back in the incubator but sure do wish I had your miracle remedy here right now to try on the little one.

I don't actually know what's in Rescue Remedy. It is a Bach Flower remedy, and I am not too familiar with those. I know a bit more about homeopathy than I do about the Bach Flowers, but I do keep a bottle on hand for emergencies. I just don't often remember to use it.

If one can remember to pick it up when they are in town (how many times I get home only to remember what it is I forgot to do in town!) it's handy to have on hand.

Sounds interesting. Will put it on my "to pick up" list!

I have some of that! Only ever used it on kids who couldn't calm down after hurting themselves. I really hope my aging memory remembers this when I need to, as is sure to happen someday.

Sounds like great stuff to have around. Think I'll be adding some to my chicken kit too.

Yes I have Bach rescue remedy in my medicine cabinet and always forget to use it. If you have a very injured or seriously stressed animal that would be hard to get to take it under the tongue you can actually place drops on the eye. Its pretty great stuff

I used to be terrified of flying (this is NOT a post hijack)  I used to avoid flying if at all possible.  I would drive 24 hours rather than fly for 3.  Seriously.  It was bad.  I'd cry, vomit, clutch stranger's hands in moments of turbulence, and wake from a dead sleep when the plane changed course.  I once asked the Stew if it was normal that the plane had changed angles only to be told that, yes, of course the plane has to change it's angle if it hopes to land!  I was a FREAK!

I used to drug myself heavily with Ativan.  If one was recommended, I'd take 3.  I would pray for sleep and peace, only to be cursed with wakeful vigilance...but under the influence at least I wasn't climbing the cabin walls.

I graduated, after some years of many flights, to using just the recommended dosage of Ativan.  Then one time I thought "I'm ready".  I tried flying without anything.  I failed to complete the flight in a dignified and mentally healthy manner.  I cried and clutched and yes, utilized the Handy Bag.   

But I'm nothing if not stubborn and determined.  I figured if I survived that flight, albeit COMPLETELY lacking in grace and poise, well I still felt like I'd taken a step forward.  I am averse to taking drugs, so this was my goal.  

So I looked around for a transition drug to help me get off the Clorazipam and hopefully ease me into the placid lull of the average traveller.  I came across Bach's Flower Rescue Remedy (and you doubted I'd get back on topic!?!  ) and thought "what the hell, it couldn't be worse than using the Handy Bag, right?

I have to say, there's not much in those little vials (exactly 10mls, to be picky), but Holy Sheep Dip does it work!  I use the recommended dose and a little more, and it's allowed me to fly several times in the past 3 years without tears or other bodily fluids escaping unbidden.

I guess I could honestly say that it's saved this Chiq's life!!  Because if you knew me before the floral intervention you'd know that I equally feared and wished for death each and every time I flew in a plane, and now I fly drug-free and happy, even in turbulence!  So there must be something to that Bach's Flower Rescue Remedy.  I believe it could resurrect an ailing chick, as it did this Chiq.

FarmChiq, I think you should write that and send it to the Bach Flower company and they can pay you a billion dollars when they use it in their live testimonials campaign! Good thing you got over this whackiness. Now they use stun guns on people like you..could make a bad day even worse!

Serjay, I have found two kinds of Bach Flower. ONe that is made with distilled water, and one that is with brandy (or some other high proof alcohol). Before you squirt it in an animal's eye, make sure it is the WATER one and not the ALCOHOL one, which would burn like the dickens and add a new problem. It is not a good idea to calm a panicked animal by making its eyeball burn.  

It is not required for the remedy to be swallowed. Getting it in the mouth, on the gums, will suffice. Unlike FarmChiq, who clutches her little bottle to her chest, peering from under her scowling brow at the happy flyers, stupid people, and sips furiously from her little bottle of brandy and flowers.

Oh oops sorry forgot about that   The water one can be used in emergency situations like tangled or severely hurt horse, dog etc. I used it many years ago for a pet cockatiel who I took in and was a chronic feather puller. Instead of the haloperidol I was prescribed (not sure how bird stayed on perch it was so stoned) I gave rescue remedy I learned about via the eye (inhalation issue with birds). It took awhile but feathers grew back and bird wasn't chronically stoned. I was taking a college course on animal health care at the time so when I learned about it gave it a try it sure helped.

Most interesting, so what is the flower, Bach you say, music?  I believe in home remedies of many kinds, and so does oldest Daughter, should probably add some of this to our medicine chest.  I like the idea of concocting it though, wonder what bach flower is.  I could probably find out, if that is a main ingredient, maybe could grow it, smiling.  Nice thoughts there Uno, as usual, thanks for the tip.  Beautiful days, CynthiaM.

CynthiaM, Bach is not the name of the flower. I believe it is the name of the man who came up with these many potions, based on different plants, that are cures for various things.

If you go to that big health store in Vernon, you will see the Bach display is a rack with many different bottles, all with different plant based tinctures (drops? Distillates? not sure the word). There is a guide book to help you know what plants are good for what problems.

The Rescue Remedy is a mix of many different flower/plants that comprise this catch-all emergency elixir. It's your all purpose Bach Flower Remedy.

You should drop in there one day and have a look see, I think you would find it interesting.

People confuse Bach Flower remedies with homeopathy. They are not the same.

Rock Rose - for terror and panic
Impatiens - for irritation and impatience
Clematis - for inattentiveness and to counteract faintness
Star of Bethlehem - for shock
Cherry Plum - for irrational thoughts and lack of self control

Main ingredients are 27% alcohol, HPUS 5x dilution of Helianthemum nummularium, Clematis vitalba,...more.
Rescue Remedy Spray - 20 ml

Ingredients:
To Top HPUS 5x dilution of Helianthemum nummularium, Clematis vitalba, Impatiens glandulifera, Prunus cerasif, Ornithogalum umbellatum.

Additional Ingredients:
To Top 27% alcohol.

Does Not Contain:
To Top artificial additives, or animal ingredients.

might be just the thing for dogs with porcupine quill trauma?
I am impressed with your success with flying with it farmchiq!

Oh wow such great testimonies gang.

I do have to take a trip to my All natural health store would I be able to pick this up there?

SerJay, oh so cooooooool.

I see they name impatiens. And then I read further and read impatiens glandulafera. This massive invasive native to many parts of BC (yes, even here in the Okanagan) are the most incredible flowers and the beneficials love them, same as the cousin, impatiens capensis. The impatiens glandulafera that I am familiar with has pink flowers, the impatiens capensis has orange, the pink has huge, huge, flowers, as is the plant and the orange has teeny tiny flowers, and a lesser height and stockiness to the plant. Gonna bring a couple of pictures here to show what the impatiens glandulafera and capensis look like, just for fun. Nope. I think that might hijack the thread too much, but I am going to make a post about them in another thread, all on its own.

There are so many flowers and such that are true medicine miracles. I would wish that I had studied more about the benefits, many years ago, to know things. But for now, will just listen. I have heard many times of Rescue Remedy.....Uno, maybe gonna take a trip to Vernon one day, only about half an hour's drive, might be worth the while. Have a most wonderful day, CynthiaM.