DUOBUTE *Organic herbal blend for horses - comfort-restoring, inflammation-calming, gut and joint-soothing

Pain is more than a symptom - it’s the body’s signal that something needs support.

While acute pain demands short-term attention, chronic ongoing discomfort lingers, often becoming part of a horse’s daily reality. Over time, this persistent inflammation can elevate the stress hormones, impacting both mood and immunity.

DuoBute takes a gentle, long-term approach to comfort management. Its organic botanicals provide natural anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds that help moderate the inflammatory cascade.

Ideal for maintaining comfort in horses with ongoing challenges, DuoBute helps maintain ease, mobility, low-grade inflammation, and quality of life each day.

For the latest insights on discomfort/inflammation, see our A-Z Equine Condition/Pain page.

DuoBute is your everyday comfort-maintenance blend - the safe, long-term support for horses living with chronic discomfort, low-grade inflammation, or mobility challenges.

It’s designed for ongoing use, helping the body maintain natural inflammatory balance, keep joints moving more freely, and sustain comfort day after day.

Which blend - DuoBute or TriBute?

Each blend plays a different role in comfort management:

→ DuoBute

Daily comfort | Chronic inflammation | Mobility maintenance
Best for long-term support, joint ease, stiffness, aging comfort, and horses needing stable, everyday anti-inflammatory nutritional support.

→ TriBute

Fast-acting | Acute support | Short-term flare-ups
For sudden pain, laminitic episodes, acute inflammation, or when your horse needs broad-spectrum, high-intensity support.

Quick guide - when to choose which?

Each herb in DuoBute works in harmony to support comfort and mobility. With Meadowsweet and Willow Bark, this natural blend helps maintain the body’s inflammatory balance, ease stiffness, and sustain everyday freedom of movement.

DuoBute is a nutritional, functional food supplement and not veterinary medicine. For more on this, see Dr Kellon's article - Nutrition is not 'Alternative' Therapy .

Composition Glossary

1. Filipendula ulmaria – Naturally high in plant salicylates, Meadowsweet helps maintain comfort and ease of movement while supporting digestive balance.
2. Salix alba – A traditional herb that supports the body’s natural anti-inflammatory processes and helps sustain joint flexibility and everyday mobility.

Feed Guide

🌿Organic Dried Herb Blend

Human grade, produced to ecological standards and free from agro-chemicals. See our Quality page for Organic Certification Documents.

• Feed 5g/100kg bodyweight per day, i.e. 25g for a 500kg horse.
• 1 x level 75ml scoop = 12-grams.

💧Organic Tincture Blend

Energetic Architecture explains how the herbs in this formula are structured to support the body in a balanced way.

Referring to how each herb has been chosen, weighted, and combined to support the body’s natural processes, some herbs lead, others may buffer or stabilise; together they create a smooth, functional flow.

Think of it as the blueprint behind the blend: not just what’s included, but how and why it works as a whole.

Functional categories

• Natural salicylate-based comfort support - Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) / Willow Bark (Salix alba)
• Digestive and mucosal protection - Meadowsweet (dual role)

DuoBute is formulated as a daily comfort-maintenance blend for horses living with ongoing stiffness, joint wear, or low-grade inflammation.

• Helps maintain natural inflammatory balance rather than suppressing it
• Supports steady comfort and freedom of movement
• Protects the digestive tract during long-term use
• Offers a natural alternative for horses needing consistent support
• Encourages mobility and ease without sedation or dullness

Why it works

Put simply, something that respects physiology works better/lasts longer.

Synthetic NSAIDs (like bute) work by blocking inflammatory pathways abruptly. That can be effective short-term - but long-term, it can:

• irritate the gut
• stress the liver and kidneys
• disrupt recovery signals
• and create rebound discomfort when withdrawn

DuoBute works differently.

• Willow supplies salicylate compounds that gently modulate prostaglandin activity - easing discomfort without shutting the system down.
• Meadowsweet provides both complementary salicylates and natural mucosal protectants that actively support the stomach and gut lining.

This pairing means:

• comfort while supporting the digestive system’s natural balance
• steady support instead of peaks and troughs
• suitability for daily, long-term use

Hence why so many horses transition smoothly off pharmaceutical bute and stay comfortable.

Advisories

• Feed as a minimum 1-month course, and safe to feed daily as part of an ongoing maintenance routine.
• Pairs well alongside JointReflexa or JSTTonic (arthritic changes) for comprehensive joint and tissue support, and MetaTonic as a preventative low-grade hoof anti-inflammatory.

Contraindications

• Contains natural salicylic acid - a controlled substance under competition rules; always check current regulations.
• Avoid use during pregnancy or nursing.