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This site is the precursor to my literary/scientific text, A Racehorse Herbal. This
book will provide a comprehensive study of old timey training/racing methods and remedies as compared to the modern trends found in the horse industry of both the Standardbred and Thoroughbred. It will allow the
race horseman to utilize and integrate common medicinal plants into his everyday regime of keeping his animals fit and racing. He will be able to identify and process ignored weeds into useful and unique remedies.
This text will review modern herbal research as it applies to equine performance injuries and stress but, at the same time, never dismiss the relevance of many cures successfully proven by centuries of past folk
usage. It will, also, review traditional Veterinary equine therapeutics from the past, delve into the herbal teachings of Samuel Thomson (the Thomsonian Medical movement of the 1800s), Cincinnati's Eclectic
Movement of the late 19th century, John Uri Lloyd's 20th century botanical contributions to that movement, and apply all relevant treatments to the modern race horse. The herbal genius of Dr. John Christopher and
Dr. Richard Schulze which are themselves products of the earlier mentioned movements, will be interwoven into this therapeutic tapestry. This site contains excerpts from my text and should provide the reader with
the flavor of A Racehorse Herbal. Publication date projected to be in 2008. May this web site open the eyes of performance horsemen and horsewomen to new thoughts, new treatments. Enjoy, learn, be inspired
upon this knowledge, but mostly------ win races. |