The domesticated horse is, nowadays required to participate in sports and games, race against its peers, perform complex movements on command, pull carriages, know the Highway Code and baby-sit small children.
In its natural habitat it will graze and browse for 18 hours a day. wander and rest when necessary and play with other members of its herd. We deprive it of its freedom to roam and the company of its own kind. We feed it on concentrates 3 times a day, deprive it of its natural fibre feed. then fill it full of chemicals when things go wrong. Most owners want to do the best they can for their horse or pony but few realise the importance of minimising stress and redressing the imbalance our unnatural demands make on these wonderfully co-operative, patient animals.

THE SORTING OFFICE
A large proportion of the stresses that modern life puts on the horse have to be dealt with by it's Liver. The horse's liver weighs about 5 kilos and is the largest gland in the body. It is capable of more than a hundred different functions and acts rather like the central sorting office at the Royal Mail - nutrients are sent there to be synthesised and either stored or sent off to where the body needs them. The horse does not have a Gall bladder so the liver also produces about 10 litres of bile a day. Any drop in this bile production will reduce the horse's ability to assimilate fats and thus have a poor feed conversion ratio.
The Liver also has the job of dealing with any toxins. Toxins can come from within (as in the pregnant mare or as a result of stress) also from badly stored grain and haylage and the obvious toxic plants like ragwort. Drugs like phenylbiitazone, steroids and excessive use of 'wormers' also present a challenge to the hard working Liver of the horse as does worm infestation, especially in young horses.
The healthy liver will recover, in time. from all this onslaught in time but sometimes the toxin influx will exceed the Livers ability to cope.
Impaired Liver function will manifest itself in a variety of outward signs, The most dramatic signs are conditions like Jaundice and Laminitis but subtle indication may be just a lack of 'sparkle', lack of coat bloom, poor 'doers', photosensitive dermatitis, oedemas, hives and a variety of little problems that you cannot find a real reason for but which tell you that things are just not "quite right".

The Holistic approach to treating any malfunction of the body works by restoring the optimum physiological balance and efficiency. It does not treat the disease as such, but enables the body to treat itself.
It is believed to assist the Liver function in a holistic manner, even if your horse has no outward signs that things are not quite right, it acts as a wonderful general 'pick me up' - especially useful if the standard 20 day course coincides with your worming programme.