How to Naturally Heal Conjunctivitis in Cats
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This video documents the full restoration of a cat's health. It is not intended to provide medical advice.
Recipes & Summary of Healing Protocol Used.
Saline Solution Eye Wash- 4 ounces or 118 milliliters of boiling filtered water to which 1/8 teaspoon or 6/10 grams of sea salt is added and dissolved in the water. Let cool to room temperature. Use 3-4x per day or as needed to keep discharge out of eyes.
Administer by partly soaking a cotton ball held between your thumb and middle finger then stand behind your cat, with the cat on a table or chair facing away from you, lift his chin up with your other hand so he is looking towards the ceiling, squeeze a few drops of the solution in the corner of one eye near the nose. Then let him shake. If he swallows afterwards, it went in the eye. Now repeat with the other eye. Always do both eyes.
Herbal eye wash - Add 2 drops herbal tincture of Goldenseal or Eyebrite to one Tbls. of water or 15 milliliters. Stir. Use when the plain saline solution is not enough. Administer as described for the saline solution.
Garlic condiment - One T. filtered water or 15 milliliters, 1/4 teaspoon or 1.2 grams crushed raw garlic and 1/8 teaspoon or .6 (6/10) milliliters soy sauce. Combine.
Add 1/16 t. of this mixture to wet food.
High Calcium Detox Chicken (or poultry) broth _
Fill a pot 2/3s full with a roasted chicken (or other similar size roasted bird or bird parts).
Add 1 each fresh celery stalk, carrot, a bunch of parsley, a bay leaf 1/4 fresh tomato or 3 cherry tomatoes or 1 tablespoon of tomato juice.
Cover it all with filtered water.
Boil; then reduce to a simmer. Keep mostly covered; keep adding filtered water as the broth evaporates. Do this for 4 hours. Let cool and pour broth through a strainer into a large container. Squeeze broth out of meat and veggies and add to the container of broth. Discard meat and veggies.
Crumple bones and put them in a small saucepan. Take some of the broth from the container and cover the bones. Add more fresh tomato or 15 milliliters of tomato juice to draw out the calcium from the bones into the broth. Simmer 20 minutes partly covered. When done add this bone broth to the large container of broth.
When cool enough store in small glass or plastic containers and freeze. Defrost and use as needed.
During fasting periods feed as much as the cat wants up to 4 times per day. Serve up to 118 milliliters or 4 oz at each meal. If the cat seems to reject it, leave it for 30 minutes, then remove and offer it again. Keep trying until the cat not just eats it but loves it.
Background:
I sought veterinary advice as to what an orthodox approach might be. I did not want to pursue it as I knew it would only kill much of the friendly digestive flora he needs to digest and utilize nutrients from his food and would cover up the symptoms and drive the infection deeper into his body.
The diagnosis was conjunctivitis caused by a respiratory infection. .
The fasting helped to preserve his energy. It gave his stomach a rest from digesting food which takes up to 80 percent! Instead, the energy is used for healing. So for two days he ate as much home prepared high calcium chicken broth as he wanted 3 or 4 times a day . Then I eased him on to a raw diet alternating with a quality canned food.
The eyewash treatments and cleaning away the discharge were necessary 3-4x per day in the beginning. It was encouraging to see the discharge go from yellow and green to a darker brown color indicating the infection was lessening in severity.
After a plateau was reached, I began adding to his food 1/16 of a teaspoon of "Raw Garlic Condiment" as per THE NATURAL CAT by Anitra Frazier which dramatically sped up the healing process by reducing inflammation and swelling in the eyes.
A great on-line reference I often use for health care using medicinal herbs is HerbalLegacy.com which contains all of the famous Dr. John Christopher's herbal formulas and notes.
Looking back if the garlic had been introduced week 3 rather than month 3, he probably would have healed 3x faster. After the garlic was added it was less than two weeks before his eyes were fully healed. (But I listened to the naysayers initially who said garlic was "bad for cats" for a long time and shouldn't have.)
In hindsight, the first 2 wks doing just the saline solution and the chicken broth - fasting for 2 days - moving on to the quality raw food, dehydrated raw food or high quality canned diet, the first week or two would have been better. Then I would do the herbal eye drops and garlic condiment added to 2 meals per day. You can always give the broth as a healthful snack.
Try garlic for 10 days.. Do again if needed. Similarly, do the herbal eyewash 6 days, resting on the 7th day. Then resume.
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