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Your reliable steed might be a safe mount during horse riding ventures, but may actually be a nervous wreck in an equestrian sport or before a physically taxing activity. These are some natural remedies for the anxiety you need to use on her to help calm her down.

Homeopathic Chamomile “OK, so chamomile is fairly familiar, what about homeopathic? A homeopathic cure is one that embraces homeopathy, an alternative cure with base elements embedded in administering minute amounts of a substance to alleviate symptoms it may cause in larger treatments. In essence, bigger measures of this substance in a healthy pony would cause it to be nervous—but when your mare is already agitatedly scared, little treatments of this could help her out. While this cure does not always calm the horse down, it does restore her brainwaves to a balance that permits her to think clearly. This cure is readily available at health food stores.

Herbs for adrenal support “This is a relatively new mixture of four herbs that support the adrenal system of a pony and helps her to unwind. This mixing of adrenal support herbs can help a mare calm down before new coaching, her first horse riding session in unfamiliar territory, and can help relax COPD or heaves symptoms inside half an hour to 45 minutes. This herb combination can be fed on a daily basis or for immediate relief of anxiousness and similar symptoms.

Probiotics “Probiotics are the good bacteria that thrive in an animal’s stomach—even humans have good bacteria. In horses, probiotics include bifidus and acidophilus. The favorable effect of probiotics in horses is that they produce B12, and the B vitamins, especially B12, have a natural relaxing effect. Mixing in whole food supplements rich in probiotics before an equestrian event or a long pony riding trek in unfamiliar environs would help get shot of any unpleasant reactions.

Equilite Feed Supplements “Commercial yes, but natural too. Equilite’s Relax and RelaxHer Mix of feed supplements are Valerian-free, natural herb additions that can be fed on a day-to-day basis or during equestrian events, which makes them real convenient in an emergency medical kit.

Blue-green Algae, without the cell walls “Okay, this one is a bit more scientific: blue green algae that has been specifically processed and had their cell walls removed is ideal for your horses because the substances left—the pure core of the algae cells—are easily absorbed by the horses ‘ brains. This implies the anxiety is dealt with from the center of the studs ‘ and mares ‘ nerve systems, and the nutrients diffuse the brain where not a lot of nutriments reach owing to the horse brain-blood barrier. This barrier is a wall that separates circulating blood from cerebral spinal fluid in efforts to keep invading harmful bacteria and the like out of the steed’s brain; unfortunately, it also keeps away the good stuff like vitamins and nutrients. Best of all, specially treated algae is legal for pony shows and competition.

Unless expressly stated , you will have to check with your equestrian sport authority if these substances are legal in shows and competition, and not all horses react the same way to some of them.

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