The Treatment of Tick
Poisoning
Charissa Smith BVSc DipAc Dip
Herb Med
Acacia Animal Care
charissa@acaciaanimalcare.com
0418759237
The Natural Host
The Bandicoot can carry large
numbers of ticks without illness
Housing development brings
bandicoots into closer contact
with Pets
Tick burdens in bandicoots may
increase if the bandicoots are
unwell.
Reducing Ticks in the
Garden
Alter the habitat
Pyrethrin products garden spray
Short lived,insects and arachnids will be destroyed
[some of which may be predators of tick stages].
An alternative spray is a mixture of chilli (cayenne powder)
garlic and vinegar. Brew for a few days, spray the garden .
It is illegal to trap or kill bandicoots,
GET Some Hens *** This is the best.
Wildlife also may be poisoned
by poison sprays
Observed Effects of Tick
Poisoning
• Fear: light and noise sensitivity
• High body heat early, low as the
animal gets sicker.
• Rise in Blood Pressure
• Pulmonary Edema or fluid
• Paralysis: Laryngeal and Posterior
• Nausea and Vomiting,
Cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy
• Ilkew 1988 AVJ Effects can last 3
months
• Tachycardia, Stage 4 Bradycardia,
• Sinus arrest
• Imbalance Autonomic Nervous
System
• Raise arterial blood pressure
• Raised peripheral vascular resistance
Post Tick Poisoning
Complications
• Never the same since
• Partial paralysis: Neuromuscular
abnormalities
• Immune alterations: Protozoa?
• Cataracts
• Cardiomyopathy
• Emotional disorders
• Pulmonary impairment
Choose the 3 or 4 which best fit the
symptoms, nil by mouth
• Fatty Acids: If the pet has
inflamed or dry skin and/or
neoplasia and no history of
pancreatitis,
• apply fatty acids trans dermally
as an acute measure: EPA/DHA
complex 1 cap per 20 kg or 1 ml
Applying Acute Remedies
1. Trans Dermal Application
Hairless areas or shaved areas
Oily vectors
Glycetracts
Alcohol Extracts
2. Intravenous Vitamin C,B12
and Folate and Carnitine
Acute Remedies
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Coenzyme Q 10: Ubiquinone
L and Acetyl L Carnitine
Vitamin E
Vitamin C
Coleus forskohlii
Craetageus
Dose Rates and Physiology:
Coenzyme q 10: ATP potentiator
50 mg /5 kg acute
50 mg per 30 kg chronic
Carnitine 1 ml per 10 kg I/v
1/4 teaspon Mushashi powder per
10 kg acute
Micellised Vitamin E: reduces
capillary fragility, antioxidant
10 drops per 5 kg acute
Dose Rates and Physiology
• Vitamin C 1 ml 15g/50 ml per kg in 15
mls saline, slowly. Sub cut effective
but very painful. Per rectally also
effective., in increments. Antioxidant
and endotoxin protector.
• Coleus 1 ml 1:2 extract per 20 kg
• Improves heart circulation, reduces
peripheral blood constriction ,
reduces nausea.
Dose Rates and Physiology
• Craetageus
• 1 ml 1:2 extract per 10 kg acute, 1/4
ml chronic
• Reduces blood pressure, dilates
capillaries in heart muscle , improves
heart contractility and inhibits
angiotensin conversion.
Post Tick Poisoning Remedies
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Folic Acid
Dr Vera's Eye Rite:
Continue the Acute remedies.
Fatty Acids
Keep the pet still and quiet
Dose Rates and Physiology
• Revenol: Grapeseed and Gingko
biloba:ginger
• antioxidant, cerebral function improvement,
capillary fragility reduced.1 tab /20 kg
• Dr Vera's Eye rite: Bilberry, Vitamin E and
Lipoic acid 1 capsule per 20 kg
• improves retinal function, reduces capillary
fragility, improves peripheral circulation
Acupuncture for
Acute Conditions
• G.V. 20: Between the ears, dorsal
• Calms the shen , links to the bladder
meridian, raises the consciousness
• Bl 40: Behind knee centre transverse crease
• Drains heat, pain chest, CNS problems,
Lower Back
• Ht 7: Prox accessory carpal bone
• Sedates the shen.
Acupuncture: Acute application
• To effect
• Sedation with needles receptive subject,
leave the needles in til the temperature starts
dropping and the pet relaxes
• Laser in a similar manner. It may be
repeated every 5 minutes until effect.
• Repetition may be needed.
Acupuncture for Chronic
Condition
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Kidney 3: caudal to medial tibial malleolus
affects the whole body fluid metabolism
Cv17: midway first and last vertebrae
opens the chest, move fluids, Mu PE, Qipt
Bl 67 lateral nail 5th digit hind leg
control point of transverse meridians and
divergents: clears the mind, ting point.
Moribund Acupuncture
• General ting points:
• Bl67 Ki1 HT 9 Gb45 LI1 Lu1
• GV20 Gv14
• Lu 5 Lu 7
Homeopathy
• Low potencies only.sucussed 50 times
diluted 1 in a hundred 6 to 12 times
• Except Lathyrus 200c (chickpea) *****
• The tick itself can be potentised and used
for early symptoms 6c every 5 minutes or
• Prevention:30c weekly or 6c twice daily
• Arg nitricum: opthalmia, progressive
paralysis and vomiting. Slow onset
Monkshood
Hopman, Ellen Evert, A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year,
Rochester VT: Destiny Books, 1995
Aconite napellum 6c. Fear, Panic, photophobia, sudden onset
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Yellow Jessamine
Gelsemium sempervirus 6c. Anxiety with paralysis and excitation,
continually moving,
blindness
Homeopathy
• Arsenicum album 6c Exhaustion , chest of
fluid,vomiting paralysis with weakness of
muscles
• Cactus grandiflorea 6c: chest opression and
heart disorders..antidoted by aconite:
Conium maculatum: Hemlock
Ascending Paralysis
Rise in the body temperature, not urinating
Arnica Montana:
leopard’s bane
Vomitting
Irregular heartbeat
Exhaustion
3c potency
Crataegus oxyacantha 6c
Giddiness, lowered pulse, and reduction BP.
Failing compensation.
Anaemia; oedema;
Cutaneous chilliness.
High arterial tension..
Chronic heart disease, with extreme weakness.
Very feeble and irregular heart action.
General anasarca.
Very nervous, with pain in back of head and neck.
Cold extremities, pallor; irregular pulse and breathing.
Chest pain
Nervous prostration, with heart failure.
White English Hawthorne Berries
Bach Flower Essences
• Acute: Mimulus Known and Aspen: Fear
Unknown
• Olive Weak
• Crab apple: Cleansing remedy
• Agrimony : Anguish
• Oak a need for strength.
Brisbane Flower Essences
Viola: Heart tonic and restorer of well being,
feeling of nurture
Lily of the Valley: cleanser of toxins,
rejuvenator of the body;s fluid balances
Lily of the Valley
Convallaria majalis
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Post Poisoning Care
1. Keep Warm 2. Keep Quiet
3. Don’t give particled food for
3 weeks, or any food until the
animal can swallow
4. Don’t expose to chemical or
Neurological toxicity
Whoever has the spirit flourishes;
whoever loses the spirit perishes"
Ling Shu
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Post Tick Chinese
Herbs
Tian wang bu zin wan: Cathay 173
The Kings Mind-easing tonic pills
Heart and Kidney yin tonic:
restless, palpitations, fatigue, dreaming, dry
stool, red tongue, thready rapid pulse
• 6 tabs per 20 kg dog night and morning
• don’t use if there is loose stools or phlegm
and damp retention
Ingredients 173
Ginseng panax :6-9 gms centrally acting
sedative cardiotonic antifatigue
Figwort: Cleanses inflammation from infection
lowers Bp cardiotonic dilates blood vessels 9-12 gms
Salvia: Improves circulation, inhibits coagulation
dilates coronary arteries9-12 gms
Poria seed: Diuretic and sedative lowers bl sugar9-12 gms
Polygala: Sedative, hypnotic anibacterial
and increases gastric secretion. Bpdown 6-9 gms
Boita seed: Sedative , aperiant, constipation 9-12 gms
Raw rehmania root 10-15 grms Increases blood fluids,
reduces fire and nourishes the yin
Platycodon reduces cholesterol, antifundgal
and antibacterial,hemolytic,lowrs BS 6-9 gms
Angelica: anemia abdominal pain coronary heart
disease arthritis,regulates blood.
Asparagus: 9-12 gms antibcterial, anti mosquito
inhibits bacterial growth. for tidal fever, adds fluids.
Ophogopogon;nourishes stomach,reduces dry cough
, soothes lung reduces fear insomnia 9-12 gms
Schizandra liver metabolismstim, cardiotonic 9-12 gm
Zizyphus; analgesic lowers tempfor insomnia, night fire
Post tick Chinese Herbs
• Dangui four: Blood tonic, Cathay 168
• Tao hong si wu wan : Persica Carthamus
Dangui combination blood stasis formula:
Cathay 171
• Su zi jiang qi wan:Perilla friut combination:
Warms lung, disperses phelgm 169
Healing
Reiki
Jin Shin Do
Muscle Therapy
Postural drainage
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