July 2, 2014
| Posted in Therapeutic Shoeing
Source: Dr. Eleanor Kellon, Staff Veterinary Specialist for Uckele Health Nutrition
Poultices have been in use as long as horses have been domesticated. In fact, they used to be a very common human remedy as well. With the long history of their use, you might expect good research would be available to support their use, but this isn't the case. The medical literature is actually pretty scarce, but it does support the ability of clays in poultices to draw out harmful minerals as well as proteins that would accumulate in areas of inflammation.
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