Things You'll Need
- Meat-based cat food
- Wire slicker brush
- Enzymatic toothpaste
- Damp rag
- Aromatherapy essential oils and herbs
- Bach flower remedies
Instructions
Preventative Care
Feed your cat food that is meat based, not carbohydrate based, to prevent illness, including diabetes, obesity and liver disease. "Make sure the food they are fed has no wheat or corn or soy," advises Dr. Gerald M. Buchoff, a holistic veterinarian from New Jersey and the past president of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association. "These are ingredients that have been proven to lead to autoimmune reactions." Do not leave food out all day; give your cat two meals a day, each lasting 10 to 15 minutes. "It's unnatural for a cat to graze or nosh," Dr. Buchoff explains. "This leads to weight gain and increases in the alkalinity of the body."
Mix at least a cup of water into your cat's food every day. Hydrating your cat can prevent urinary, bladder and kidney diseases. Cats, by nature, depend upon their food source to supply their water, and they don't drink enough to compensate for dry food.
Brush your cat's coat every day with a wire slicker brush. Massaging your cat with a brush releases toxins from the subcutaneous layer under the skin.
Brush your cat's teeth every day with enzymatic toothpaste to prevent tartar buildup. Use a cat toothbrush and toothpaste, both of which can be purchased from a pet store or the veterinarian.
"Thump the thymus" of your cat to stimulate the thymus gland, which regulates and stimulates the immune system, Buchoff advises. Using your finger tips, tap the sternum (chest bone) between the front legs of the cat 10 times, once every day.
Wipe your cat's feet with a damp rag when it comes in to your house from outdoors to remove toxins from outside the cat could later ingest when it grooms itself.
Take your cat for chiropractic adjustments at least every six months starting when your cat is eight weeks old, Buchoff suggests. "I have seen cats live longer because of this," he added.
Homeopathic Remedies
Take your cat for ozone therapy to give him energy and increase his overall health. Ozone therapy is when the veterinarian draws blood from the cat, puts ozone in the blood, and then injects the blood back into the cat. This treatment oxygenates the body and is a potent anticancer treatment. Ozone therapy stimulates the production of white blood cells, which fight infection, and speeds the healing and regeneration process, according to Dr. Margo Roman, DVM, an alternative veterinarian in the Boston area. Ozone therapy kills every type of virus on contact and is a great purifier of the blood, she says.
Take your cat for low level laser therapy and cold laser therapy. Laser therapies shine a laser light on the outside of the animal that permeates the entire animal and treats every cell of it.
Treat a sick or dying cat with Homeopathic Arsenicum Album, which is little beads of medicine that dissolve in the mouth. After administering the Arsenicum Album the cat will pass away if it is ready to. If it's not, it will get better after receiving the medicine, according to Buchoff.
Take your cat for an Ayurvedic and Chinese medicinal diagnostic assessment, which provide alternative ways to assess your cat's overall health. The diagnosis using these methods includes reading the tongue and the pulse of the cat, which gives a much deeper understanding of the imbalances in the animal.
Treat your cat with aromatherapy essential oils and herbs, including Chinese herbs, Western herbs, Polynesian herbs and tropical rain forest herbs. All of these can be used to treat all ailments in cats.
Treat your cat with bach flower remedies to treat emotional imbalances in your cat. The bach flower remedy is energy medicine in a liquid form. There are 38 types of flower medicines, and each addresses a specific emotional imbalance. Bach flower medicines can be given in water, or put directly in the mouth or ears of the cat. Bach flowers can be used to control and minimize stress in a cat by keeping cats from responding to stressful stimuli, Buchoff says. Dr. Jean C. Hofve, holistic veterinarian and feline behavior expert, recommends giving your cat four to eight drops at a time. For serious or acute conditions the remedy can be given as often as needed, even every few minutes. For most behavioral problems, Dr. Hofve recommends three to four times a day for two to four weeks. If you feel your cat has healed by that time, you can begin to wean your cat off bach flower remedy by decreasing the frequency of administration.