It’s interesting to note that when we enter the realm of energetic holistic medicine, we leave the field of biology and enter the field of physics. Every day, new research in physics challenges old beliefs about how the body works and heals. Even though the Chinese recognized energy pathways (called acupuncture meridians) more than 6,000 years ago, it has taken the advent of new scientific methodologies to recognize how changes in energy fields affect and determine health.

The autonomic nervous system plays an integral role in recognizing what the body’s computer has deemed enemies. It then calls the immune system into action to defend the body against the enemy.

Allergy-elimination corrects the autonomic nervous system’s perception of the allergic substance so it is no longer perceived as a threat. It all happens within the realm of physics on an energetic level, and it translates into physical healing. Each treatment teaches your pet’s body that an allergen is a friend rather than an enemy.

The technique I have designed and use is called Allergy Elimination 4 Pets.

The typical scenario of the owner of an allergic pet is a path of avoidance—and it’s a lifelong job. It simply doesn’t have to be that way. If you’ve been dealing with your pet’s allergies for years, it may be hard for you to believe that there exists an allergy-elimination technique that transforms an allergic pet into a nonallergic pet. It may seem too good to be true that you can turn your pet’s chronic problems around, but it happens all the time.

After first identifying a pet’s allergy triggers through muscle response testing (applied kinesiology), I work with the pet owner to correct the blockages or imbalances. I do this by correcting the immune system’s misperception of the allergen, which, in effect, enables the body to heal itself by restoring the unrestricted flow of energy. Think of it as corrective reprogramming.

It all happens within the realm of physics on an energetic level and translates into physical healing. A specific program is created for each pet. The energetic resonance of each allergen combination that your pet needs is placed in a vial. The vial containing the allergen is placed directly on the animal, and specific acupuncture points on the body are lightly stimulated. This

readjusts the autonomic nervous system’s perception of the substance, and the allergic reaction to the substance is eliminated. It may be amazing to learn that something so simple can work so well, but the proof is in the rewarding results.

The first step is identifying the substances to which the patient is allergic. In the first comprehensive assessment on approximately 2000 items.

designed for this purpose are checked using muscle response testing. So what exactly is muscle response testing?

Professional medical doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and veterinarians use muscle response testing, or applied kinesiology, to determine exactly what a person or pet is allergic to. The inventor of applied kinesiology is George Goodheart, Jr., DC, a Detroit chiropractor. After his first seminar in 1974, many other practitioners began using the technique with great success to determine the causes of problems that had previously seemed to defy diagnosis.

In the decades since then, this method of testing for the causes of various conditions has blossomed into a major diagnostic art, with many more medical professionals, including veterinarians, adopting it in their practices. (The book Your Body Doesn’tLie by John Diamond, MD, is an excellent source of information on the subject.) Allergy-elimination treatments do not only relieve the symptoms but also correct the inappropriate response.

I’ve been practicing different varieties of allergy elimination techniques for so many years, and, with my extensive clinical experience, I pretty well know what vials need to be used with most dogs or cats with allergies. That’s good news for you and your pet because my protocol has been tested over time with many, many patients.

After I’ve identified the allergens through muscle response testing, I decide in which order to treat the allergens and create a program for the patient. I then mail the vials to the pet owner along with clear instructions on how to gently massage easy-to-find acupuncture points (cats particularly appreciate this!) and carry out the treatment in the comfort of his or her home.

Truman’s Story, Told by His Owner

Truman is a Bouvier des Flandres. He was six years old when we began Dr. Khalsa’s Allergy Elimination 4 Pets technique.
We brought Truman home as a puppy in October 2008, and in November 2008 he began frantically biting at his rear legs and licking and chewing on his feet. Many times, his feet would be raw from chewing. He

had constant ear infections and suffered from terrible gas, accompanied by soft and runny stools. After countless visits to a slew of different veterinarians, the episodes of chewing and gas continued.

We tried different foods, including grain- free and limited-ingredient diets, with no improvement. Before I went to Dr. Khalsa, another veterinarian treated him and changed his diet to all-beef raw. I gave the raw diet for more than two months, but the stool problems, gas, and itching remained.

Many years ago, when Dr. Khalsa had her practice in Yardley, Pennsylvania, she was my veterinarian for many of my cats and dogs. I would drive an hour and a half each way because the drive was worth it to have her treat my pet kids. In April of 2014, I reached out to Dr. Khalsa again and scheduled a phone consult with her to discuss Truman’s itching, chewing, and gas. We discussed her Allergy Elimination 4 Pets technique, and I decided to go with it. The great part was that I could do it all at home.

After the Allergy Elimination treatment, I slowly started introducing different foods into Truman’s diet. Finally, more than six years after we brought Truman into our life, he is itch-free, he no longer chews his feet, and he has no more horrible episodes of gas. He eats a raw diet with protein sources other than strictly beef. I add vegetables and garlic to his diet, and I give him Deserving Pets Canine Everyday Essentials supplements.

Many veterinarians prescribe drugs that mask the symptoms rather than cure the ailment. After years of Truman’s suffering, going to numerous veterinarians, and having him tested, all it took was a phone consultation with Dr. Khalsa to find the treatment that finally gave Truman the relief I had sought for years. Dr. Khalsa offered a drug-free approach to freeing Truman of his allergies.

Goose’s Story, Told by His Owner

Goose, our gray cat with green eyes, started plucking tufts of hair from his back around the age of one. At first, it was occasional and hardly even noticeable. As the problem escalated, I would come home from work to find piles of hair in all of his usual hangouts.

the food was working? Some hair would start to grow back, and then, suddenly, the telltale piles would appear again, often accompanied by bouts of diarrhea and almost daily vomiting.

Goose was scrawny, usually weighing around 7 pounds, and the 2 × 4-inch bald patch on his back was beyond unsightly. This ebb-and-flow cycle continued for more than two years.

We concluded that Goose’s allergies were partly food-related and partly seasonal. We would control what we could with diet and then medicate through the bad stretches. I knew he didn’t feel well, but I was helpless and certain that we had exhausted our options.

Then I found Dr. Khalsa and had a consult. She did Allergy Elimination 4 Pets with Goose. My husband, who wasn’t into holistic practices, had a field day with my journey into the world of holistic veterinary medicine. He delighted in telling friends and family that I had invented new and unusual ways to spend money on our cat.

As we did the treatments (totally noninvasive, by the way), my husband adopted the same look each night: part resignation and part disgust. Our friends were in stitches over the stories of these holistic treatments, and I played along, figuring that, at the very least, I had bought a great way to entertain others.

But then…

Before we knew it, months had passed without Goose plucking one hair. I thought maybe it was just an unusually long good stretch, and surely it was only a matter of time before I would happen upon a nest of plucked hair and feel the wave of dread wash over me (I can be pretty dramatic). But there was no denying it: this was out of the ordinary. Not only had Goose’s hair grown in, but he was filling out, had stopped vomiting, and was playing like a kitten.

I was so afraid of a relapse that I said nothing, figuratively holding my breath with hope. When Goose had his regular check-up, he had gained more than a pound. Really? My mother, who affectionately referred to Goose as “Rat” because of his pathetic appearance, remarked, “That’s not

Goose’s gray coat is now healthy, full, and shiny.

To watch him do it was painful. He would attack his back and rip the hair in frenetic bursts. My cat was self-mutilating.

I made an appointment with my regular veterinarian. She did blood tests, fungus tests, bacteria tests, parasite tests, even IQ tests (just kidding)—all were inconclusive. My vet’s best guess was food allergies.

We started trying different prescription limited-ingredient diets. We had three cats at the time, and there was always
one of them who didn’t like the food. Separate feedings were nightmarish.

Weeks would pass, and it would seem as if the plucking was subsiding. Maybe the same cat.” I welled up when a friend, fishing for the latest comedic update, inquired, “How’s kitty’s treatment going?” and my husband answered, “I think it worked.”

Maddie’s Story, Told by Her Owner

At our first appointment with Dr. Khalsa, we read some testimonials and prayed that someday we could also write one. I had been brainwashed to believe that traditional medicine was the best and only way to treat our four-year-old English Bulldog, Maddie. The nightmare had started in July 2000, when 44-pound Maddie developed an extreme case of diarrhea. Every time we stopped the medication that our veterinarian gave us, her stools became liquid. Her weight plummeted
to 35 pounds in three weeks. Blood tests showed elevated pancreatic and liver enzymes with the albumen and total protein in her blood dropping. Our regular vet recommended that we see a gastrointestinal specialist, so we made an appointment immediately.

Maddie was diagnosed with an extreme case of IBD and a small liver, which could complicate things due to the medication that the vet prescribed: prednisolone, azathioprine, furosemide, metronidazole, and metoclopamide. The specialist told us that this approach was around 70 percent successful and that it would take a month to see results. Two weeks after beginning the medications, she was down to 32 pounds. The fluid in her abdomen worsened, and she was now vomiting.

In late August, Maddie went into convulsions, and we drove her to a renowned veterinary hospital in our area. After three days there, she was rediagnosed with the same problems plus lymphangiectasia, a condition in which the GI tract loses its ability to absorb nutrients. Four weeks of treatment in intensive care and $14,000 later, the vets recommended that we put Maddie to sleep. She now weighed 25 pounds and was just skin and bone. We took her home and kept her alive with calcium injections and special intravenous feedings that would increase the protein in her blood.

In mid-October, Maddie had her first appointment with Dr. Khalsa and began Allergy Elimination 4 Pets treatments. After the first treatment, Maddie’s condition remained stable, and on some days she had semiformed stools and some energy. Her leaky gut also began to stabilize. After just two treatments, we were able to stop the calcium injections and special IV feedings. Her blood-test results started moving toward normal. By January 2001, Maddie no longer needed any medications. She weighed 36 pounds and was jumping on the sofa and playing like she used to.

(Dr. Khalsa’s note: Maddie went on to live a normal, long life, and she died at a ripe old age for an English Bulldog.)

The Path to Relief

Owners of allergic pets: I’ve created this blog just for you—to fully educate you about allergies and sensitivities. We’ll talk about how to prevent them, how to treat them, and why they’re so awfully common in today’s world. . I hope, someday you can have a success story like Truman’s, Goose’s, or Maddie’s.

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symptoms of IBD. The thing is, just like in the case of actual wars being fought between countries, these clashes and brawls in your dog’s gut can be avoided.

Many years ago I heard a lecture by a veterinarian highly re- nowned for his research in the field of Irritable Bowel Disease. Experience had taught me that questions asked privately were often times more candidly answered. That’s why I discreetly asked, “Why do you think we’re seeing an epidemic rise in IBD?” He replied, “We’re vaccinating them with the same stuff we’re feeding them.” That was almost 20 years ago

Why would the stuff in vaccinations cause IBD? You may already be familiar with the fact that vaccines contain chicken embryo and bovine serum. During vaccination, these food proteins are in- troduced into the body along with the other vaccine components. A dog’s immune system identifies all of these vaccine components as enemies, and, far as the immune system is concerned, when any enemy shows its ugly face, it’s time for battle. IBD in our dogs comes about when the battlefield is in the gut.

SIGNS OF WAR: THE SOLDIERS SET UP BASE CAMP

When a dog has IBD, the soldiers (inflammatory cells) infiltrate the intestinal walls and set up base camp. In the trenches are the regiments made up of different types of white blood cells such as lymphocytes, plasmacytes, eosinophils, and sometimes neutro- phils. After many battles, the intestinal walls become thickened and nutrients are not absorbed as well. This collateral damage within the walls of the intestine commonly results in symptoms such as diarrhea, mucous or blood in the stool, vomiting and weight loss.

THREE-LETTER AGENCIES: IgA AND IgM

In governments, three-letter agencies like the CIA and FBI pro- vide intelligence services identifying enemies. The immune sys- tem uses immunoglobulins, also known as antibodies, to identify enemies: three-letter agencies protecting your dog’s body.

Special immunogloblins live in your dog’s digestive tract. The immunoglobulins IgA and IgM serve as the gut’s intelligence service by identifying enemies. They initiate the battle in the gut by calling in the regiments: the eosinophils and plasmacytes. This starts the battle of food intolerance or food sensitivity, battles that can easily escalate to the War of IBD.

It’s important to know that food intolerances and sensitivities cause a delayed response in the intestine. In other words, your dog can eat the offending food on Monday and the reaction can occur much later in the week.

Most dogs are fed the same thing day after day, and this repetition tends to actually create food intolerances and sensitivities. It’s pretty typical for a dog parent to sigh in relief, if not jump for joy, when a food that agrees with a dog with IBD is finally found. Unfortunately they then feed that food day after day, greatly increasing the chance of later developing a reaction to that same food!

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A dog stands on a newly mown lawn and you feel very safe that there is nary a worm larvae lurking.  

 But… that’s not how it works.  

Some dog that you never met went potty on that lawn and the owner did not clean it up, or the owner cleaned up most but not all of it or the pup has diarrhea and so it could not be cleaned up.

Regardless of how it happens some poop gets washed into the soil with the rain. Then the eggs in the poo (if the dog has/had worms) hatch into larvae and these larvae crawl up the blade of grass to the top and when the top of that blade sticks up into the softy part of the foot [between the pads] it crawls into the blood stream (worm larvae call it between themselves ‘the subway’) and get out at the stop listed as the ‘intestines’, where they grow into adult worms. Yeah… I agree it’s like a Hitchcock movie but it’s really what happens. 

Routine Fecal Flotation tests at the Veterinarian’s office are 70 % FALSE NEGATIVE

With these tests, some poop is mixed up with a solution and put in the above type container and a cover slip is placed on the device. Worm eggs float up to the top, stick to the cover slip and are then viewed on the microscope.   IDEXX Continuing Education courses say 7 out of 10 people are told that the patient is worm free when they actually have worms. That’s what the phrase  “70% False Negative”  means.

There are a number of reasons for this: (1) The worms – just like chickens- may not be laying that day (2) Whipworms rarely lay eggs and so whipworm infections often go undetected (3) tapeworms segment off into little moving rice like pieces and so eggs are not found with tapeworms. (More about tapeworms later)

The first step many of us take when confronted by diarrhea is to bring a stool sample to your veterinarian to test for worms. That’s smart, because it’s very easy for dogs and cats who go outside to get worms. We are relieved when the sample comes back “negative,” meaning that no worm eggs were found in the pet’s stool. However, a negative fecal test does not mean that your dog or cat does not have worms; it simply means that no worm eggs were found in the sample.

IMPORTANTLY- DIARRHEA DILUTES THE POOP AND SO THE CHANCE OF FINDING EGGS GOES WAY WAY DOWN.

I’ll tell you a true story: At the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, it was not uncommon for us to see dogs and cats with chronic diarrhea. Because the owners were bringing their pets to a renowned teaching facility, they were not averse to doing fecal test after fecal test to check and recheck over and over for worms if their pets had diarrhea. Students were not allowed to say anything so I just stood and watched the below story unfold.

I remember one case of unresolved diarrhea in a young dog where we did at least ten fecal exams, about once a week with each visit. Each one came back negative, meaning that we saw no worm eggs when viewing the sample under a microscope. Weren’t we surprised when the owner came in with a plastic baggie of the roundworms that her dog had thrown up—after all those negative fecal tests- many months later!

Let’s look at it this way: I have chickens. If I go to collect their eggs and find some, I should be able to deduce that there are chickens present who have laid eggs in my henhouse. If one day I find no eggs, I can’t truthfully say that I have no chickens. They could have found an out-of-the-way place to deposit their eggs, or they could be having an off day.

Did You Know?

It’s very common for a pet owner to bring in runny diarrhea for the stool sample when his or her dog or cat has diarrhea. The diarrhea dilutes the stool sample and makes the eggs of intestinal parasites even harder to find.

Types of Worms and Bugs

Some of the common worms whose eggs can be found in a pet’s stool are hookworms, roundworms, threadworms, and whipworms. Infection with the protozoa Giardia and Coccidia can also cause chronic diarrhea.

Tapeworms are transmitted by fleas and do not produce eggs; rather, their segments break off and leave the body when they are ripe. These segments are found on the stool or around the anus but not in the stool.

Dogs can become infected with hookworms just by lying around at the dog park, watching the other dogs play. These parasites are called hookworms because they have hook-like mouthpieces that they use to attach themselves to the intestines. You see, a dog with hookworms relieves himself on the grass, and the eggs are transferred into the soil, where they develop into the larvae, which can survive for months before infecting your dog. These larvae can burrow right into your dog’s skin as he plays or lies down in the grass.

If your dog drinks contaminated water in the park, or if he grooms his paws after spending time outdoors and some larvae have come aboard, he can become infected with hookworms. Cats often get hookworms when they groom their feet. Hookworms can also be ingested by a rat or mouse, and if your cat eats one of those little fellows, she can get hookworms. However, hookworms are much more common in dogs than cats.

Once hookworms have entered your pet’s body, they travel through it like something out of The X-Files, winding up in the intestine. Without any GPS, they know just where to go. Once a pet gets hookworms, he or she can get not only diarrhea but also bloody stool and even anemia. Because the worms take a while to mature and shed eggs, initial fecal tests may show nothing.

Puppies and kittens are commonly born with roundworms. Female dogs and cats have encysted roundworm larvae in their body tissues. The hormones of pregnancy activate the larvae, which then migrate through the mother’s tissues and end up right in the uterus, infecting the yet-to- be-born puppies or kittens. The mother’s milk also transfers roundworm larvae to the nursing pups or kittens. In both cases, these parasites make it to the intestines of the youngsters to set up housekeeping. Because worming medications work only on intestinal worms, worming a female dog or cat before she becomes pregnant will have no effect on the larvae already encysted in the tissues.

Female roundworms can produce 200,000 eggs in just one day. The eggs are protected by hard shells, so they can exist in the soil for years. When dogs or cats groom their feet or happen to ingest infected soil or stool, the roundworms get into their systems and make their way to the intestines.

Whipworms are seen more commonly in dogs than cats. This worm sheds comparatively few eggs; therefore, multiple stool samples may not reveal their presence. If a dog has chronic weight loss and passes stool that seems to have a covering of mucus (especially the last portion of the stool that the dog passes), he may be infected with whipworms. Once again, Panacur, containing fenbendazole, is available over the counter and is safe and easy to administer as a powder on the food for three days.

FENBENDAZOLE FOR WORMING DOGS IS A POWDER IN THE FOOD FOR 3-5 DAYS AND THIS IS AVAILABLE AS PANACUR AND SAFEGUARD AND IS OVER THE COUNTER AT  1800 PET MEDS. I RECOMMEND ROUTINE WORMING TWICE A YEAR FOR ALL DOGS.   YOU DO NOT NEED A DOCTOR’S SCRIPT TO GET IT HERE. IT IS A VERY SAFE PRODUCT COMMONLY USED NOWADAYS AS A CANCER CURE.

After reading about these different parasites, you may be ready to run to the heartworm preventives that have extras for treating intestinal worms or the flea and tick products that also promise protection from worms. I do not recommend that you do this. No pet needs so many toxins every month to protect against what a once-yearly worming with Fenbendazole will accomplish. Remember, we’re talking about minimizing toxic exposure.

Now you know how easy it is for your pet to get worms, and you understand that you can worm your pet if he or she experiences a diarrhea or GI problem, particularly if your pet is in situations where he or she is susceptible to picking up worms. I’m contacted often by people with pets who have diarrhea problems. You’d be amazed how many pet owners object when I suggest that we start with a simple worming treatment. “How could my pet get worms?” they ask. It’s easier than you think…and now you know why.

TAPEWORMS:If your dog has had fleas, he most likely got tapeworms as the Fleas carry tapeworm eggs. Fleas and tapeworms go together like a ‘horse and carriage’. They do NOT have to be crawling out of your dog’s tush.  If your dog seems to be losing weight for no reason and he has had fleas within the last 3 years, consider TAPEWORMS.   Tapeworms are common in both dogs and cats. Apparently, fleas think that tapeworm eggs are very tasty. Tapeworms are then transmitted to dogs and cats that ingest fleas. When you think of a cat grooming herself or a dog chewing away at an itch on his skin, you can understand how easy it is to ingest them. Another method of transmission is eating wildlife or rodents that have either tapeworms or fleas. Tapeworms can reach 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) in length within the pet’s intestine. Each worm may have as many as ninety segments, with the head at one end and many tiny brick-like repeating segments following. The segments farthest from the head detach. They come out in the stool and can be seen as little rice-sized pieces attached to the fur around the anal area. If you see what looks like dried rice on your cat’s favorite cushion, you’ve got tapeworms. Because these worms break into segments and do not lay eggs, a fecal exam will not show anything worthwhile. Tapeworms are also not killed by the typical worming medications that are used for the other intestinal worms. Panacur will kill certain tapeworms but is not very effective against the common tapeworm from FLEAS. Drontal Plus contains praziquantel, which effectively kills tapeworms. Tapeworms have a tough cuticle covering that protects them against digestion, and this drug dissolves that cuticle. In my practice, after treating with the recommended dose, owners would report that the tapeworms had returned. Because it was too soon for a new tapeworm to have developed and started to shed, I realized that the initial tapeworms had not been killed. You see, the heads of the tapeworms have thicker cuticles, which would protect them. That’s why, with tapeworms, I usually treat first with a dose of Drontal® Plus and follow it up with the oral tablet or Droncit about two weeks later. I like to feel secure that they’re all dead and gone.   So now you know more about intestinal worms in dogs and cats than you ever wanted to know.  As I treat so many cases of IBD and chronic diarrhea in dogs and cats, I find myself having to explain what I’ve told you above over and over again.  Someday, this information may help you out and save you some time and expense.

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