Does Aromatherapy work for horses?

[Melissa]

I am putting together some information for an article on alternative treatments for horses and wondered if anyone has any experience of aromatherapy being used to successfully treat horse ailments? My mum is an aromatherapist but I have only tested her suggested medication for treatment of a capped hock and tendon injury - both of which worked really well - so much so that my vet was amazed. He said that he had never seen a capped hock reduce so that it was almost invisible. I would be interested in other horse-owners experiences.
Thanks for taking the time to read my question.
Melissa

 

[udaya k]

If medicines tried and experimented on rats,guinea pigs, frogs and lower animals can work on human beings or claims to work on human beings, there is no reason why what works on human beings do not work on horses and lower animals. The question is whether the Aromatherapy works on human beings. Yes it works and it should work in all stretches of thoughts and philosophy. One who say no should remember that the medicines we are taking now are satisfying only one aspect of the five senses that is the palate. All medicines taken in orally are satisfying the sense of taste only. Human thoughts,mind, memory, emotions are not separate from body and what thoughts prevail is what body is made up of. If you think you want eat chicken then only you eat chicken, if you thing you want to drink water then only you drink water. That is why it was said I think therefore, I am. A human being is a net result of his upper column not the body we treat. The treatment therefore going by taste in certainly inadequate and incomplete. That is where other kinds of treatments come into play. Don't you get unconscious when morphine or chlorophome is smelled? Why, one has not eaten it, It was not taken as a medicine orally. Still you became unconscious. If chlorophome can do that why not other smell cannot bring in different kinds of expressions, different kinds of feelings, different kinds of emotions into a man by smelling? Again Amylium Nitrosum if smelled can bring an unconscious man into consciousness. What have to say about that.
Many smells like smells of Rose, Jasmine, lavender, etc. makes us extremely happy. Similarly those mental aspects as well as physical functions connected with those mental faculties could be cured by different types of smells. And that is aromatherapy.

We do not stop at that. Take the sense of hearing. Music therapy can certainly cure many kinds of mood conditions and body ailments related to such mood conditions. Someone will say no there is no body ailments connected with moods. Do they forget that when sad mood comes, someone cries.and tears roll down their cheeks physically. When laughing mood comes, the blood vessels are dilated,. when fear comes the blood vessels are constricted. Cutting the long story short, each sound in the 53 alphabets of Sanskrit and for that matter many of such Indian languages are each considered to originate from the petals of chakras. The chakras being the energy centres which keep us alive and healthy. From certain parts of the energy centres these sounds are eminating. That is what finally comes out as Saraswati the incarnation of Nadabrahma which is the conglomeration of all the sounds that exist in this world and other worlds. These energy centres and their vital parts are rejuvenated and touched by the particular sorts of sounds when heard. Why do we get startled when we hear a shriek because the adrinalin or the Nabhi Chakra (Manipura Chakra) is which is excited when someone shrieks. When the chakra deforms on that sound pollution it causes fear. And such a constant stress of fear afflicted on that Chakra can be cause for many ailments which conventional system define as stress related.

The eyes the prominent among the curers of human ailment is attracted towards lust, causing many ailments, is attracted towards beauty causing many ailments as well as pleasant experiences which makes a man healthy and happy. It sees many sorrows, angers etc which can be depressive, suicidal etc. which can cause many other ailments. Similarly, the greatest of its capacity is to differentiate between the seven colours. Here I must say that doctrine of signature is a major major major method of recognizing which is beneficial to human body and which is not. Yellow-for liver, violet mostly as poison, green as nourishing, red as blood, pink for heart, black for lungs, gold for suicidal and depression, silver for fear, orange for eyes and many other organs are some of the colours which you can look at flowers and fruits and understand easily what the particular colour can benefit your body. Similarly the colours of the Aura through which the spiritual emancipation of a sadhaka can be easily understood.

Paucity of space and time. I close this here. Please do not say aromatherapy cannot work. Everything in this world can work. Provided one knows how to make it work. With best wishes and blessing for your article on alternative treatments for horses. I remain.

 

[Dave]

Aromatherapy works on the placebo effect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo

which also is associated with the fact that 'people tend to get better', i.e. if you're ill, you tend to have more of a chance of getting better (than the opposite, which would be dying). Basically, you can do anything and people will feel better eventually (though the two maybe not connected).

Placebo tends to work on a psychological level (i.e. it can't work on known diseases like diabetes or cancer etc). As we're human and quite intelligent, it's easy for us to think something is working/has worked, when it actually does nothing.

Horses aren't very bright; they don't realise they're being treated so therefore the placebo effect does not work in animals.