[jeffrey]

The good news is that my questions have still been answered promptly even after the order:

Now that I have ordered the items and they should arrive here in a
week to 10 days, what should I expect when I start giving them
Genki? Is he going to get worse before he gets better? Is there any
way to tell if the herbs are actually working or not? Thank you for
your time

You would want to watch for diarrhea, if that happens, back off the black
walnut a bit. Some dogs show no symptoms, some have good days and bad days. The important thing is to encourage Genki not to run and play
hard, walking on a lead outside to limit activity. Retesting is the only
way to know when the worms and the subsequential protein from the dead ones is cleared from the system.

I guess my main concern is that in reading about the vet
treatment of the heartworms, there seems to be a major concern for the
dog's health as the worms die and get stuck in the lungs and decay. I
assume with the herbal method that this also occurs and what
precautions or signs should I be on the lookout for if this is going
badly. Thank you again fro your time.

With the
herbal approach the worms have a slow die off, so there is much less risk
of thrombosis or anything like that, but of course there is a slight risk
of that which is why I want you to limit activity of your dog and don't
encourage running and hard play. My dog had good days and bad days..on his bad days, he slept alot and sometimes tossed his herbs back up because he didnt' feel well. He was pretty sick when we started, was coughing all the time....but after a couple of months he had mostly good days and after 6 months, you could not tell that he had a severe case of heartworms.

I'm still waitnig to hear from my parents if the herbs have arrived to them, and they should forward them right away from there.