Ok, google says alcohol is a vasodilator but the effects are temporary and can be followed
By vasoconstriction.
If so, shouldn’t Jiaogulan work in this case?
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You might look into acupuncture–it has had some limited success in treatment of anhidrosis.
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Thanks! Someone else recently recommended acupuncture to me as well. I’m trying platinum performance’s supplement right now, mostly because I have had really good luck with them refunding me if their products don’t work!
Platinum said they would expect 2 weeks for it to work (and also told me to raise the dose due to her size). Does anyone else have feedback on timelines for these products to work, if they work at all?
My trainer is going to help me clip her next week - I am not a great hand at it and have never had to learn. Hopefully some combination of things helps!
My horse responded well to Platinum Refresh when he stopped responding to OneAC, and I recall seeing benefits within 2 weeks of starting in June or July.
I now make sure I start it 2-3 weeks before the nasty swamp weather starts so that it is on board when he needs to sweat. It’s been several years, and so far so good.
You may find your horse to develop some tolerance to it later in the real awful dog days of summer. If that happens, I found the Platinum folks very helpful in recommending an adjusted dose. That did work for my horse, and after discontinuing the supplement in October or so, we went back to the original dose at the start of the next summer.
All of the horses I’ve known that had anhidrosis received one can of beer in the morning. It helped almost instantly and the horses began sweating normally again. As mentioned, the horses received it in their feed in the morning. Some horses really like beer because it’s made of hops.
I tried giving my current horse beer, and she turned her nose to it, but she’s actually a really, really picky eater for a Fjord. She’ll “eat” Guinness Extra Stout and only certain IPAs in alfalfa. Ask me how I know.
ETA: I wrote “made of the hops” like my grandma. 
ETA: A gelding I exercised got a Coors (I think? I remember it was cheap beer) every morning because he had anhidrosis. It helped him and he really liked the beer.
I’m going to try Platinum Refresh on Feronia. She’s a pretty serious non-sweater, although this summer she’s getting just a little sweat behind her elbows, and at her poll. I’ve had some success with Equiwinner patches, so I’ll probably start with that. She’s been on One AC, which eventually stopped working, Let M Sweat, ditto, and last summer some supplement recommended here, that absolutely did not work. She’s at a no alcohol barn, but the BO may be willing to try vodka or beer if I can’t get anything else to work.
Of course, she won’t yet have anything on board next week, when it will be humid and in the upper 90s. Her shed has a fan so that helps, but I may go out and bring her up to the barn to be hosed off and stuck in front of a strong fan for a while.
We had a long, cold, wet spring so I just wasn’t thinking about sweat.
I’m dealing with anhidrosis in this awful heat wave and have had my guy on One AC for a little less than a week with no real difference. In desperation, I ordered the EquiWinner patches just to see. Put the first on on him yesterday around lunchtime. Last night there was no sweat, so I hosed. This morning, as usual, he was fine. At lunch today, he was standing in the back of the pasture near the tree line for shade, watching his buddy graze in the sun. He was huffing and puffing pretty hard BUT, there was a light coating of sweat on his face, neck, and chest!
He had a good, long, cold shower, put into his stall with fan and hay, and once dry enough, I put on the new patch. There are ten in all, to be replaced (in a new spot) ever 24 hours or so. I’m crossing my fingers that this gets him really sweating again.
