l-theanine Vs CBD oil/ long term vs single use

[PrincessPonies]

So I have a pony who doesn’t like my horse leaving. To be up front at this point in time finding the pony a new home isn’t an option. Getting another animal also isn’t currently an option.
After a year she’s gotten a lot better and last month we added Via Calm and that also seemed to help. However pass an hour she’ll still get upset. We have to take my horse to the vet and will be gone for about three hours and we would like to leave the pony at home. Our current vet recommended we either try switching to something with l-theanine or CBD oil.
I was wondering if anyone had used l-theanine and can tell me if it really helps. And I was wondering if we decided to go with the CBD oil, we would be going with the company the vet recommend which is of good quality, I was wondering if it would be affective just giving it day of or day before.

thanks in advince

[bugsynskeeter]

The UltraCruz Equine Calming has l-theanine in it. PM me and I’ll be happy to send you a sample. I’ve used it quite a bit (and been on theanine myself) - and have noticed a difference in horses that are nervous or anxious.

[GraceLikeRain]

There is limited research to suggestion that synthetic CBD when used in a specific dose may provide therapeutic benefits for specific medical conditions. Probably the best known study on CBD and anxiety was a 2011 study by Bergamaschi et al.They did find statistically significant results in public speaking anxiety using 600 mg of pure CBD.

Retail price for 600 mg is $35-90. The study used 99.9% pure CBD. Retail “CBD” can have up to .3% THC and other cannabinoids and still be advertised as CBD.

So even if it is effective for horses and you found a source that does third party testing, CO2 extraction, and sells genuine 99.9% pure CBD, a “dose” for a horse would be hundreds of dollars if CBD is dosed by weight. To my knowledge there is no research on weight based dosing for synthetic CBD, much less commercially extracted CBD from plant material.

That being said, there are plenty of drugs (previcox) comes to mind where an effective equine dose is not a scaled up amount of a canine dose. Different species react differently to drugs.

If you do pursue, please keep in mind that CBD oil production’s very unregulated. Even “human-grade” products are coming back positive for high levels of heavy metals, pesticides, illegal levels of THC (the cannabinoid that produces a hallucinogenic effect), etc.

Very interesting and relatively short article that expands on the concept of “medical” marijuana: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2338230

Is bringing the second horse along an option?