Tender Heart Healing

02/09/2025

💯% This! ❤🐴

Feeding is a potential mine field!
Keep it simple!
If your horse has a compramised immune system then seek professional advice!
The further you move away from the equines natural diet the more problems you will encounter!
If you're horse is overweight, the secret to slimming is not in a bag of feed!
If your horse is laminitic, the solution can't be found in a bag of feed!
Don't believe marketing!
Look at how nature has designed the equids digestive system and why!
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02/09/2025

ᴡʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ʙᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜᴀɴ ᴀ ᴅᴏɢ? 🤔

ʏᴇᴘ more than one Dog 💗🐾

01/09/2025

🍁🧡🍁💛

𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 🍁🍂

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐦𝐧 ~ 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞.
𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠.
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 🌞

31/08/2025

"What is Healing?" ... A question I am asked regularly ✨️💛✨️

An amazing short explanation by Valerie Chiltonsmith and Jennifer Jones from The Healing Trust.

Spiritual Healing is a completely natural process.
It is thought to establish a flow of beneficial energy between the healer and the recipient that addresses the ‘dis-ease’ manifesting at its deepest level, thus seeking to awaken the body’s natural resources to work in the most effective way to restore balance, harmony and well being. Spiritual Healing is termed Holistic – meaning ‘whole’ – which means that instead of addressing symptoms in isolation Spiritual Healing looks to encompass physical, mental and emotional ‘dis-ease’. It views all illnesses as being interlinked and the result of underlying issues of the whole person – the body, mind and soul.

Two Healing Trust Tutors discuss the question 'What is Healing?' (16mins)

31/08/2025

🌿 Hawthorn for Horses 🌿

🍂🌿 Hawthorn for Horses 🌿🍂

✨ Why Hawthorn?
Hawthorn is known as the guardian of the heart. Its deep red berries and green leaves carry the strength and vitality of the hedgerow, supporting both heart and circulation. For horses, hawthorn:

Improves heart rhythm & muscle tone ❤️

Supports circulation & stamina ❤️

Strengthens capillaries (rich in rutin) — helpful for horses prone to nosebleeds ❤️

Provides antioxidant protection❤️

Brings a gentle calming effect❤️

Is especially valuable for older horses or those with heart murmurs❤️

✨ When to Harvest

Leaves & flowers: late spring (May–June)

Berries: late September–October, when rich red and slightly soft

✨ How to Prepare

Harvest carefully (watch the thorns!)

Dry leaves, flowers, or berries on trays in a warm airy space, or use a dehydrator

Or make a heart-supporting tincture: lightly crush fresh berries, fill a jar halfway, cover with raw organic apple cider vinegar, and steep 4–6 weeks. Strain and bottle

✨ How to Use for Horses

Dried berries: 20–40 g daily — best ground or crushed before adding to feed

Tea (infusion/decoction):

Steep leaves & flowers in hot water 10–15 mins

Simmer berries 15–20 mins

Cool and pour over feed

ACV tincture: 10–30 ml daily, split between feeds

Hawthorn is the hedgerow’s way of reminding us to care for the heart and the circulation — for ourselves and our horses. 🐴💚

Would you use hawthorn tea for your horse?

31/08/2025

"𝙇𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙛𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣!" 💨

31/08/2025

🌿 Barley Grass Powder 🌿 a must to offer all year round 🐴

Barley grass powder is produced from the growing shoots of young barley grass it is a highly nutritious self-selection powder.

It is very high in minerals including calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium, and in trace minerals including zinc and selenium.

It also contains all the B vitamins, and at least 20 amino acids. Barley grass is selected by animals for:-

◾Recovery from illness/run down
◾Rich in nutrients (magnesium)
◾Enzyme Health
◾Anaemia
◾Boosts Immune System
◾Pigmentation issues
◾Cushings related laminitis
◾Anxiety, hyperactivity ~ rich in B Vitamins

I recommend when placing the powder in a bucket/scoop to add water and make into a paste or a soup ~ your horse will be good at showing you which they prefer 🐎

30/08/2025

Always Room for One More ♥️🐾

I Love Red and Howling 🥰

30/08/2025

Zoo-pharma-cognosy is a subject that I am extremely passionate about 🌿

I am a firm believer of the saying 'prevention is better than cure' let's all think more natural for our horses ~ the health benefits are endless 👌

Take a look at this short video from Whitethorn Equine Health Whitethorn Herbals showing the horses self medicating 🌱🌿

30/08/2025

🌱 Myrrh 🌱

I have many horse self selecting this Magical Oil 🪄✨️

Go to Whitethorn Herbals to purchase self-selection Oils and Herbs 💚

NEW ESSENTIAL OIL IN STOCK at WhitethonHerbals.com ! ❤️
Myrrh essential oil (Commiphora myrrha )
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Animals may select Myrrh essential oil for the following presenting symptoms and conditions:
📍Anxiety
📍Bacterial infections (see study below)
📍Cancer (see study below)
📍Diabetes (see study below)
📍Fungal infections
📍Grief and Loss
📍Pain
📍Restlessness

Our Myrrh is Certified Organic by the European standard ECOCET FR-BIO-01

Your animals deserve the best nature has to offer! 🐶🦊🐷🐴
Available now at: https://www.whitethornherbals.com/store/p229/myrrhessentialoil.html

Khalil, N., Fikry, S. & Salama, O. Bactericidal activity of Myrrh extracts and two dosage forms against standard bacterial strains and multidrug-resistant clinical isolates with GC/MS profiling. AMB Expr 10, 21 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13568-020-0958-3
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Study demonstrating Myrrh's abilty to cancer growth
Wang, Xl., Kong, F., Shen, T. et al. Sesquiterpenoids from myrrh inhibit androgen receptor expression and function in human prostate cancer cells. Acta Pharmacol Sin 32, 338–344 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/aps.2010.219

This study concluded that Myrrh extracts have hypoglycemic activity and antioxidant activity through decreasing total antioxidant activity:
​Afrah Salama, Wafaa Ibrahim, Tarek El-Nimr, Mahmoud A. Abd El-Rahman and Ehab Tousson, 2014. Effect of Myrrh Extract (Mirazid®) on Experimentally Diabetic Rats. Pharmacologia, 5: 135-142.