Treating Canine Abscess Healed With Essential Oils

My dog Buckaroo Banzai is a 7 year old Standard Poodle or some people may call him a Royal Poodle because he is 75 pounds of Poodle fun.

I found a golf ball sized fluid filled (I assumed) abscess under the skin on his back, between his withers.  I toyed with the idea of taking him to the vet but held back because I had purchased an essential oil book, Animal Desk Reference Book by Melissa Shelton, DVM…..so I did a bit of research and decided I would try out the recommendation from the book and since I am a Young Living Oils distributor and use them for myself and my family…..why would the dog be any different?

I treated it for about 2 weeks with frankincense oil and thieves oil spray, applied morning and evening.  I would gently massage the oil above and around the abscess.  For several days I didn’t see any changes and I thought that if it would get worse, we would go to the vet….I call it my “spidy sense” when I know I need to take urgent action.  

Not long after that, I started to think that it was shrinking or changing and had wished that I can used calipers to measure it before I had started applying the oils.  My sense was that it didn't seem to be as firm or as solid as before. Dang, I wish now that I had applied a little more scientific  discipline to this.

I kept treating and then I started to feel some scabbing on the skin above the abscess.  I rechecked the book and these oils can be put directly on the skin (called neat) without diluting with a carrier oil.  I backed off treating to once per day and the scabbing got thicker and broader.

Our neighbors have pets and got us into Young Living Oils and they were sitting on our deck and I asked for their opinion of Buckaroo’s back.  They both thought that the scabbing was the fluid from the abscess bubbling to the surface.  Which makes perfect sense that the body would either absorb or eliminate the fluid in some way and the scabbing was like dried yellowish pus.

Today, I trimmed away the hair and bathed the area to clean it up and found a little redness but otherwise I was very pleased with what I saw and felt in the area. 

I hope this helps you as well.

Energy Lab Notes from 5/14/2013

Crystal or Stone Meditation

Preparation:  clean the room by smudging (or diffuse essential oil ) with sage, clean your hands (then perhaps apply essential oil like sage or lavender), create your intention or project what atmosphere you want to create (or manifest) where you are going to meditate. 

Choose a crystal/stone and oils that will enhance what you want to create.  A clear quartz is a good choice to increase your frequency and clear chakras. 

Sit down with your feet on the floor and hands on your lab.  Tip: sit on the edge of your seat, straighten your back, pull your shoulders back and allow you head to drop or bow….to align your chakras.

Put your crystal or stone in front of you (we used a table), clear your head and breathe deeply for about 5 minutes.

Next, either hold your crystal in front of you or cup it without touching.  Alternatively, hold your crystal in your left hand which is direct connection to your heart chakra….depending on what you want to manifest or create.

Breathe deeply.  Gather up and send any tension or negative energy to flow out of you and into the crystal on the out breath.  On the in breath, draw in peace and harmony from your stone or whatever the particular attribute of the crystal is that you have selected.

Open your heart to the crystal and ask the crystal for any messages or guidance…then breathe and be still and be open and aware. 

If you have specific questions, you might want to either hold the crystal or while cupped, ask your questions.  This works a lot like pendulum dowsing…so you need to figure out how to interpret the answers (which may be unique for you).  You might get energy pulses up your left arm for yes, right arm for no, and a up and down feeling (like a pulse from your base chakra to your third eye) for I don’t know.

Once you have what you need, gaze at the crystal and take your eyes out of focus.  Keep breathing in peace and harmony.  Again be open to the messages you will receive.

You will know when you are done.  I said a little prayer of gratitude and slowly brought myself back to awake and alert.

Right after you are done is a good time to journal what you felt, what you sensed, your impressions, etc and any messages or images.