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Herbal Dosage Instructions For Small Animals

1) During the first two days, use 33% of the prescribed dose twice daily.

If doing well, go to the 2nd step;
If there is nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy, drooling, stop for two days to rule out other factors, contact Dr. Meisenburg to let her know. Go back to the 1st step if under Dr. Meisenburg advisement and/or if the signs also stop.

2) In the next three days use 66% of the prescribed dose twice daily.

If doing well, go to the 3rd step.
If there is nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy, drooling, contact Dr. Meisenburg and rule out other factors and then go back to the 1st step.

3) In the next 2-4 weeks use 100% of the standard dose twice daily:

If healed, go to the 5th step.
If better but not completely healed, go to the 4th step.
If no effect, stop treatment and go to the 6th step.

4) Use a standard dose twice daily as needed up to 6 months or until clinical signs are clear.

5) If patient is still doing great, your pet is probably healed and you can discontinue the chinese medication.

6) Have Dr. Meisenburg re-evaluate the patient, she will prescribe a different medication and start from the first step.

Tricks to help the medicine go down

Remember, when considering what to “sweeten the deal” with to get your pet to take the medicine, we must consider what the food / treat we are using will do for the pattern issue they have. A dog with “Phlem” or “Damp” issues should not be fed dairy or anything fatty so cheese, yogurt and liverwurst is out as an option in that particular case. An overweight pet will need a low-fat treat as the bait. Dr. Meisenburg will be happy to help you with your choices!

Mix with a small amount of something wet, good for them and delectable. Plain yogurt, natural peanut butter, canned mackerel, heavy metal free fish oil, wet food, canned pumpkin...
Wrap capsules in a piece of cheese, liverwurst, moist pet food.
Give them their chinese medicine BEFORE you feed them breakfast or dinner so they are hungry.