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Capstar
Description and User's
Comments
Statement on website: Capstar is a mixture of
dietary supplements that may be found in health food stores and is
not a drug or herb.
It is a combination of different herbs in
homeopathic form, below an example of their website, the links
behind lead to websites which give information about the potential
of the certain medical plant.
Below an example of a combination treatment plan
for HS. These plans are being established relating to the symptoms
of individual horses.
Capstar is advising NOT to vaccinate the horse
as they believe HS Syndrome is mostly a result of over-vaccinations. There
is no evidence applying to all horses for this believe!!
As told to me by horse owners, which have tried
the various plans and ingredient packages, Capstar offers great
support for a very long. Some owners were offered products free of
charge to continue the treatment because their horses symptoms did
not disappear within a year.
The company is telling the following, as one
owner reported : "I spoke to V. at CAPSTAR and she said the
trigeminal nerve which runs down his face is stimulated by sunlight,
and his nostril hypersensitive to pollen which causes him to shake
his head in pain"
This is completely wrong!!! Why companies
spread something like that, I can only assume, but it sure doesn't
help the customer's horses and is very misleading!
Point 1.
The trigeminal nerve has 3 branches, of which one of them takes care
of most all functions (like closing and opening of the eye lid) in
the upper part of the skull, and it is ending in the nostril. It is
called the infraorbital branch. Have a look here: www.headshaker.eu/tn.html
. BUT the branches are connected with each other at the
root, the reason why ALL horses have a painful upper nostril area.
Point 2.
There are three types of HS, photic, seasonal and idiopathic. All
these types are explained, please go to the Research
section. Not every horse is photic, it can be seasonal as well with
more sensitivity to light, but still not photic.
Point 3.
And because he might be photic or seasonal, doesn't mean in general
his nostrils are sensitive to pollen automatically. Any HS type can
be allergic, not only a photic.
Point 4.
Pollen doesn't cause pain, the pollen acts for example as mucous
membrane irritant, cause the membrane to become "wound"
and inflamed. It can be anywhere in the nasal passages, in the eye
tissues, in the throat tissues aso. It is a hypersensitivity of the
immune system, not the trigeminal nerve and its branches.
Point 5.
It is still unknown if allergies are a true cause for HS among other
causes, more likely it is that the immune system was long before
suppressed - instable - weak, long before the horse showed any
symptoms of any kind. Then at some point, for example: when the
nerve is under-nourished for a long time, with that being damaged,
the symptoms come to "daylight", including the allergies
with HS at the same time. Or the allergies first, HS follows. Or HS
first due to other causes then allergies on top of it.
It is a very difficult disorder/neuralgia. Everyone wants to find a
cure, everyone offers something. Some things help to dampen the
symptoms, to lessen the pain, some others have success in some
horses, some other products are plain useless, like devises patched
on the horse's coat or magnet clips attached to horse's manes. And
no horse is the same!! Makes it even more difficult as it is for
human with the same neuralgia.
The reason why Capstar and so many other remedies only working a
little or in few horses only is the following: many companies
selling symptom relieving remedies only, meaning with a certain
homeopathic remedy a certain trigger will be suppressed. Capstar
works in direction allergies, so do most of the other allergy
products.
On and off one remedy 'hits' the right trigger and the HS disappears
for a while, but often comes back even stronger.
From the UK and Germany I know for sure, that a lot of horses
suffering allergies and HS (Trigeminal Neuralgia) and that hundreds
of horses where treated with allergy remedies. I don't know of any
horse which was cured by it. Maybe there is one, but so far,
the horse's owner has not come forward and the companies cannot name
any references for cured horses. I have asked over and over, NEVER
received ANY references, otherwise they would be listed here!
So if YOU have used Capstar and your horse is
healed, please drop me a line, I certainly would love to include it
here.
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