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I'll expand a bit on my previous post.

Do I think the amount of ethanol in RR as administered is sufficient to 
induce a change in behavior in  a horse?
No.
At the price of the stuff, it would be prohibitively expensive to get an 
equid drunk. Better to go with a fifth of Absolut.

I was merely bemused by the fervor with which folks were seeking to find 
whether minute quantities of this or that were prohibited, and were 
overlooking something that to me  was pretty obvious.  Sort of like 
worrying whether the peach  in peach brandy would be a problem.

Do I think that the RR I ingested before my crash and burn was the cause? Nope.
But neither do I ascribe the many reported miraculous effects to the stuff, 
either.

I  don't necessarily buy the "post hoc, ergo propter hoc" proof.
(Lest I be accused of pooh-poohing any but mainstream medicine, I will 
confess to being a graduate of the IVAS veterinary acupuncture course, a 
member of the Veterinary Botanical Medicine Association with a number of 
hours of herbal medicine CE, and I recently completed the first Tufts 
equine/canine chiropractic course)

Most, if not all, of the  RR cases I have *seen* could be adequately 
explained by the "secondary placebo effect".
That is, the person using the stuff believes it will calm the 
horse/dog/child, therefore they relax, and therefore the subject relaxes.

I guess I'm simply too primitive to grasp the esoteric concepts 
of  vibrational medicine yet.

                      --CMNewell, DVM
(pass the peppermint schnapps, please)


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