Colic can occur from ingesting too much grain or any food that they normally don’t eat much. Horses need to get used to any new food slowly, as they need to breed up the right amount of gut bacteria to digest the new food. Each different food needs the optimum amount of the correct bacteria.
So antibiotics can also create colic.
Since most colic in horses occur at the weekends, I consider this the key to one type of colic. The weekends are when most people ride or work their horses. We put these highly strung and sensitive creatures under enormous strain, without any conscious awareness of what we are doing.
Horses, being obliging, do their best to perform for us. Even their best efforts can be poorly received by some.
As horses are prey animals, their basic instincts are to be alert for every possible danger. By asking them to perform in unnatural surrounding, we are creating a lot of tension. You’ll often find that the top performing horses are irritable, even angry horses.
Little wonder.
This tension can create all sorts of problems, from anger down to muscular tension. This can lead to spasms, a tense back or colic.
The whole picture of this tense, over stimulated horse perfectly matches the symptoms of the homeopathic medicine Nux vomica.
This is one of the most common homeopathic medicines for stomach pain. And it could be considered the most perfect natural treatment of colic in horses.
For any homeopathic medicine to work, you need to have a good match of symptoms.
So let’s recap the symptoms of Nux vomica, some of which your horse will need to have for this medicine to be a good match:
- colic which is relieved by trying to arch the back (the opposite of pressure, as pressure aggravates the pain), so rolling often helps to relieve the pain
- pain is relieved by warmth, worse for cold
- irritable with the colic
- very sensitive to external stimuli such as noise, light, smells
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