Integrated Veterinary Specialist

Five Element Equine Profile

FIRE

1. Feels most confident with other horses

2. Vocal; talks to owner and other horses

3. Easily bored; short attention span

4. Playful

5. Sensitive to cues and mood of rider

6. Dramatic response (often rearing) to stimuli

7. Easily excitable

8. Spooky

9. Loves stimulation

10. Likes to play with lead ropes, flap lips, loll tongue

11. Stall vices...weaving, neuroses, self mutilation

12. Irritable during heat cycles; forelimb lameness

13. Anhydrosis, lower back pain, ovarian dysfunction(water not nourishing

heart)

14. Laryngitis, sinusitis (fire drying out metal)

15. Hives

16. Sound: ringing whiney...likes to greet owner and horses

17. Prefers the herd, often passionately

18. Loves attention, admiration, stimulation, contact

Total :

EARTH

1. Amiable, kind, grounded

2. Tolerant

3. Loves food, often sweet

4. Agreeable with herd mates

5. Pushy

6. Resists by going slower

7. Easy Keeper

8. Stocks up

9. Loose manure

10. Worries

11. Stubborn

12. Cribber

13. Stifle, medial hind leg problems

14. Hematomas. bleeding problems

15. Chronic muscle soreness

16. Sound: Chewing, low nicker

17. Sensitive to damp conditions

METAL

1. No nonsense

2. Likes routine, responds poorly to change

3. Likes order and control, eg. controlling cattle

4. Lean, spare physique

5. Stoic, unemotional, restrained

6. Resists training by becoming stiff and remote

7. Neutral to negative about grooming

8. Reliable and business like

9. Sensitive to dryness

10. Chronic nasal discharge

11. Chronic dry cough

12. Dry skin and lackluster coat

13. Rigid, inverted neck

14. Muscle atrophy and restricted ROM

15. Constipation

14. Impaction Colic

15. Sound: silent

16. Tough and generally holds up well to hard work

WATER

1. Suspicious

2. Independent

3. Emotionally distant

4. Fearful

5. Resist by freezing or violently spooking

6. Difficult to teach to respond rather that to react

7. Form trusting bonds with one or few people

8. Change dramatically and quickly

9. Huge hip and pelvis

10. Benign dictators of herd

11. Excellent broodmare if well managed

12. Fertility issues

 13. Exuberant bony tissue

14Arthritis, often worsens with cold

15. Bladder probloms

16. Sound: suspicious snort

WOOD

1. Pins ears

2. Moody

3. Impatient, angry

4. Competes with other horses and trainer

5. Likes to work

6. Resists by bucking, rearing, striking, biting

7. Loves speed rather than finesse

8. Likes to win

9. Dominant with people and horses

10. Bold

11. Muscle spasms and tendon issues

12. Eye problems

13. Hives

14. Hock and Hip pain, especially along the Gallbladder channel

15. Tying up

16. Dry hooves

17. Worsen with wind

18. Sound: pawing