Hi, I have a horse with a slow healing wing fracture in his foot.
He’s in a bar shoe with 4 clips to cast the foot. Fracture continues to close but it’s taking a while. We re X-ray every 60 days.
He’s on a calcium supplement that is a marine alga based which is supposed to be more bio available as well as a bone mineralization supplement and a ration balancer.
I was thinking maybe a supplement that increases blood flow to the foot.
Anyone know a good one that actually works?
Just trying to help my young horse heal.
Just from my own personal fracture experience, red light therapy and PEMF did wonders for my son’s fracture. Not a horse but still.
I’m not sure a supplement is going to help bones heal unless something is drastically missing from the horses diet.
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Jiaogulan. It’s a vasodilator. I’ve seen it theorized that it will help blood circulation in the hoof.
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Yes, Jiaogulan is often recommended for laminitis to
Increase blood flow. I’ve used it but have no idea if it helped.
Can you share the 2 supplements you’re using to help the bones heal?
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We did 8 weeks of 5 days a week of PEMF. I didn’t see a difference until a month after we stopped. Not sure what that means.
Bone wise and Duraplex. They approach it in different ways with different ingredients and I couldn’t decide which so I went with both. 
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Some veterinarians use Ace as a vasodilator for laminitis…. Same for isoxaprine.
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I was thinking of trying platinum performance hema flow but it’s pricey. I’ll pay it if it works.
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That’s a thought. I thought isox went out of favor but ace is still thought to increase blood flow.
I’m not a medical person by any stretch, but followed this studies guideline 5 days a week at the settings listed. https://applications.emro.who.int/imemrf/egypt_rheum_regabil_1999_26_4_845.pdf
It probably helped son is young and healthy.
What about Equinity? Big Dee’s carries it.
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If blood flow is your goal, I agree with others who suggested jiaogulan.
Do you know where to buy it?
I’ll look at it.
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Mad Barn has Jiaogulan.
I use their Amino Trace + and
Saw a difference quickly in her overall condition plus hooves
Are healthier and growing.
Mad Barn has a free consult w/
A Vet or Nutritionist if you have any questions.
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I have used Mad Barn’s Jiogulan (J Herb as its also called) for my laminitic pony. It is suggested not to give an NSAID along with Jiogulan at the same time though. So once my pony was weaned off of flunixin (once he was out of the acute phase), I added 1 scoop into his breakfast and 1 scoop into his PM feed. I’ve been feeding it for a couple of months now and he is doing better, but I also changed things in his diet like soaking hay, adding slow nets to slow down hay consumption (as he was out of work at the time and overweight with a cresty neck - perfect recipe for laminitis), so I can’t say it was just the herb that did it. But many people say it works really well for blood flow, and its pretty cheap, so I keep on giving it!
I have read that it can increase abscesses when you first start adding it due to the increase of blood flow to the hooves, so just keep you eye out for that. I believe my guy is blowing a big abscess right now, but its also been super muddy so that could be the culprit as well (he is being poulticed with a hoof boot with hopes it will blow).
He’s a picky eater but he eats it right up (smells like tea!)
I’m in Ontario and work at a Vet Compounding Pharmacy and Isoxuprine used to be very popular to increase blood flow to hooves, but it has become almost impossible to source, so we have stopped making it years ago (is commercially available though). Pentoxifylline is also prescribed off label to help increase blood flow as well and is prescribed often from our pharmacy.
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I wonder if the abscesses are less common in a healthy hood capsule?
Was going to suggest this. It can be rough on the stomach, though.
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@QM2 - that could be very possible. I do know my farrier said its quite common for recovering laminitic horses to get abscesses often (this was not related to jiogulan as I didn’t speak to him about supplements at all). So you are probably right!
