Herbal Treatments for Cancer in Dogs - General FAQ - Avnayt & Waltham's Herbal Treatments

What has the diet of a dog got to do with cancer? What diet do you advise for a dog with cancer?
How do I know if my dog is getting the right sort of food?
What causes cancer in dogs?
What causes low immunity in dogs?
What should I do if my dog has been diagnosed with cancer? What are the first steps?
Do you need a cancer diagnosis from a Vet before herbal treatment for cancer can be given to a dog?
What does a basic herbal treatment for cancer in a dog consist of?
What are the signs that the cancer is healing or that my dog’s immunity is getting better?
How effective is herbal treatment for cancer in dogs? What is your success rate in treating cancer?
Do you actually have a natural therapy to help the dog cope with their chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy treatment?
What is your basic approach to treating cancer in dogs?
What if the vet advises surgery for my dog?
Do you need a biopsy done of the cancer?
How long after my dog starts taking the herbal treatment for cancer should I review the situation?
How important is exercise for a dog with cancer?
What if I don’t want to give my dog herbal extracts in alcohol?
Do you have a herbal treatment for pain relief for my dog?
What can be expected at the start of herbal treatment for cancer in a dog?
Is there a link between vaccines and rising cancer diagnoses in dogs?

What has the diet of a dog got to do with cancer? What diet do you advise for a dog with cancer?

Dogs in the wild, not so long ago, had digestive systems that ate once every few days and gulped down their food before someone else could get at it. Their guts would then take a day or two or more to process the food. Today’s dogs are fed sometimes more than twice a day, and their digestive systems required to process that almost immediately instead of through the thorough long process they naturally took before. As a result of this, they have begun to assimilate lesser and lesser of the nutrition, develop strained muscles in and around the digestive system, and this has then gotten passed down through genetics so we have pups born with digestive systems that are not quite up to the task.
To add insult to injury the food they get so regularly isn’t really food as far as their natural bodies understand, but processed snacks at best, or tasty half-poisoned pulp at worst.
The two major mistakes we make therefore is feeding dogs too frequently and not giving them bones, which are their primary natural diet.
Our simple recommendation to dog owners who want their dogs healthy naturally, is to give them nothing but raw meat and bones a maximum of once a day.
Dog food companies insist dogs need vegetable and fruit and all that is partially true. In nature, dogs would eat the stomach carcass of an animal that had partially digested plant matter and in that way fill up their own stomachs quicker and get some plant nutrition as well. Fresh plant matter however is naturally eaten by a dog only rarely, as medicine, and their digestive systems do have some trouble processing and eliminating fresh or even semi-processed vegetables and fruit.

How do I know if my dog is getting the right sort of food?

You check their stools. A natural dog who is on a diet primarily of bones will pass out hard white stools. Anything else and you’re still on your way to rehabilitating your dog’s gut and getting them to a point where you know they can keep off cancer.
The hard white stools passed out by a dog on a natural diet, massages their digestive system from the inside, especially around the anus where toxins tend to build-up and helps in eliminating them as well. This not happening regularly is one of the reasons cancers of the lower intestine, rectum and anal gland in dogs develop.

What causes cancer in dogs?

The canine body has a robust immune system. Only a small portion of the dog’s immunity, about 5%, is aimed at fighting off infections and poisons, the other 95% is designed to keep a check on every new cell being produced, to see that it is a properly made, true-to-original-design product. When the big part of the immune system’s energy is being focussed away from this basic job, the housekeeping system fails and cancer – which is essentially cells that are NOT true to design – develops. This is explained further below.

What causes low immunity in dogs?

In the modern lifestyle dogs are forced to tolerate, there are way too many chemicals that have to be eliminated that the dog’s body isn’t getting enough in eliminating regularly, so they get stored under the skin and tucked away in places festering into cancer. Exercise which stimulates the dog’s body, soul and immunity is restricted more often not, as are healthy relationships with other dogs, animals and humans. We’ve all gotten too politically correct and our dogs have been affected by it as well.
Just as humans have fallen into patterns of self-suppressing emotions and instincts, so our dogs pick up those patterns by hanging out with us, until they’re doing the same to themselves. They are pack animals after all and more likely to pick up our habits than we know.

Some people and their dogs start looking like each other too!

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What should I do if my dog has been diagnosed with cancer? What are the first steps?

We recommend:
1) An immediate re-working of the dog’s diet to include raw meat and bones,
2) Getting them off all processed food, and
3) Putting them on one of our herbal treatment programs for canine cancer.

We hope that every dog diagnosed with cancer gets a chance to take herbal treatments before getting into the rigorous chemotherapy and radiotherapy protocols. If a Vet says they, after chemo and radiotherapy, can predict a life-time of just a few months more, we believe herbal treatments could do a lot better than that. We ask people to postpone the chemotherapy for a few weeks if possible. Very often we find herbal treatment makes a big difference in about 2 months, the dog getting a whole more energetic than usual, and the Vet is likely to find the cancer reducing or gone.

Many of our dogs on herbal treatments have lived on for years after being diagnosed with cancer.

Also very often the Vet will say that dogs shouldn’t be on antioxidants as those limit the ability of chemo to kill cancer cells. That is somewhat true. Chemotherapy is chemical poison that kills off both cancer cells AND healthy cells, the hope is that it kills off the cancer cells before ALL the healthy cells die too (something that unfortunately happens too often). Herbal antioxidants limit this poison’s effect on the body and increase the dog’s ability to resist all poisons including the chemo poisons, so yes, in a way it does interfere with chemotherapy. This is also exactly why we recommend your dog be taking herbal treatments alongside chemo and radiotherapy as they can reduce the impact of these often overly-harsh treatments and raise the chances of recovery from the side-effects and after-effects.

If a dog has had a lot of chemotherapy and is too weak to be given any more, we still believe herbal treatments can help with quality AND quantity of life. We have had many dogs recover after even chemotherapy to make many more precious memories with their loved ones.

Do you need a cancer diagnosis from a Vet before herbal treatment for cancer can be given to a dog?

No, we do not. These herbal treatments do no harm to dogs who do not have cancer. What IS important is that you start them off on herbal treatments and a proper diet immediately. These will only dramatically boost their immune system and help their system recover from whatever is bothering them whether it is cancer or not. Herbal treatments are safe enough to take just in case it might be cancer, certainly cheaper than an $800 exploratory surgery to prove that it is cancer or to put a name on the cancer.

What does a basic herbal treatment program for cancer in a dog involve?

Every cancer herbal treatment made by Caraf Avnayt comes in two parts – that is, two bottles literally.
The first is a super-antioxidant blend with power herbs to boost immunity and basic vital energy.
The other part of the herbal treatment is to deal with the area of the cancer involved, so if it’s a liver cancer, then that’s to deal with any damage in the liver area and the liver functions and to try and help that recover. Its not actually trying to cure the liver cancer itself, it’s the immune system being boosted which can allow the dog’s body to get back on top of the work of controlling that cancer.
Caraf further modifies the herbal treatment to suit the dog’s unique situation including any emotional conditions they might be facing.

What are the signs that the cancer is healing or that my dog’s immunity is getting better?

We ask that people report back to us in 4-5 weeks after starting their dog on herbal treatments for cancer, and the usual report is that the dog is much more energetic and running around and eating all sorts of things again. If the dog has previously stopped eating, the dog is feeling better basically and showing signs of feeling more healthy, and its running around and if had stopped chasing rabbits outside and now its back to chasing rabbits, and so on. Most people are aware and can feel that their dog is healthier.
If there was a cancer diagnosed, and the person is worried and wants an actual report on the status of the cancer, we suggest that they go back to their vets after 3 or 4 months and have them reassess the dog’s cancer.

How effective is herbal treatment for cancer in dogs? What is your success rate in treating cancer?

So far, we have never has had anyone saying the cancer became worse after taking herbal treatments. There are some dogs who were just too weak to rally and even then their humans email saying they had unexpected good times towards the end and they know the herbs made a significant change in their dog’s body to make that possible.

Do you actually have a natural therapy to help the dog cope with their chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy treatment?

Yes, we have herbal treatments to support your dog through chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Herbs can keep your dog recovering very quick from each bout of chemotherapy. It does backfire sometimes though, with vets saying, “Now your dog is doing so well, I’m going to recommend more chemotherapy.”

What is your basic approach to treating cancer in dogs?

Our approach is to tap into the dog’s own immunity to stimulate it to restrict the cancer, and then judge the progress by looking for reduction in symptoms.

What if the vet advises surgery for my dog?

If the cancer is particularly aggressive, surgery to remove the especially troubled area will have to be done. But we definitely do not recommend surgery to determine what sort of cancer it is as it doesn’t really matter what it is called – the herbs will work.
Should there be no option but to go through with surgery, herbal treatments will support the dog through the process, help in recovery from the shock, support the dog’s immunity in managing any remaining cancer, prevent remission and help in returning back to function.

Do you need a biopsy done of the cancer?

No we don’t. There’s no need to put the dog and your wallet through the invasion required to give the cancer a definite name. All cancer is a failure of the immune system and herbs can help your dog self-heal.

How long after my dog starts taking the herbal treatment for cancer should I review the situation?

6-8 weeks on herbal treatments is the usual time it takes to see a difference. At 12 weeks, which is how long the first course of herbal treatment tends to last, it is usually obvious how the dog is progressing. At 4 months, if you’re still worried about how bad the cancer is, we recommend going back to the Vet for a check.

How important is exercise for a dog with cancer?

Very important. Exercise is necessary stimulation for your dog. A dog needs to want to live and activities that make them happy are a big part of their recovery from cancer. Exercise is good, but exercise with you, their loved human is even better.

What if I don’t want to give my dog herbal extracts in alcohol?

There’s an easy way around that. You drop the drops into a tiny amount – about 10ml -of boiling hot water in a cup. The alcohol evaporates in a few seconds leaving just the herbal properties behind. You then add that to water, or gravy or something your dog likes and you’re done.

Do you have a herbal treatment for pain relief for my dog?

We do not have any magical painkillers especially for situations involving amputations and the like. There is a lot herbs can do to resolve the causes of the pain, relieve pain from inflammation, nervous pain and can pretty much eliminate the need for painkillers, but the transition from chemical pain-killers to natural relief has to be done slowly over a few weeks. Caraf

What can be expected at the start of herbal treatment for cancer in a dog?

There is usually an adjustment period of about 10 days when the dog might have some ups and downs. They might not want to interact much, throw up, go off their food etc. That’s just the herbs changing the way things are done in the dog’s body. After 2-3 weeks there is usually a sign or two of progress and some times the dog might have a reaction because the body is throwing out toxins that were stuck inside or just under the skin waiting to be thrown out. Most of the time we’ve had just good reports after that.