I enjoyed hearing you and Karen peak at this last AHVMA conference- always a wealth of information to bring home. I am seeing a 2 year old intact female chocolate lab that has had a year long history of interdigital inflammation and peeling of her pads- they literally look like she's been running on concrete, but it will look fine in the morning and then be peeled by lunchtime. She has had some fine dry scale through her coat, her tongue is dusky pink, pulse feels deep to me. We have her a grain free diet now and noticed that she did a complete turn around after an injection of dexamethasone during a particular crisis. She has had some liver detox issues due to a neighbor that leaves cigar butts in their yard. I put her on Yi Guan Jian granular concentrate at a dose of 3/4 teaspoon BID (she weighs 62#) thinking that she looked like a Liver Yin deficiency, but he has relapsed as we have tried to wean her off of the prednisone.
Any other thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated!