Our dog Jesse, an 11 month old Bichon, is one of the dogs that is recovering well from IBD on no conventional meds, home cooked (not raw) and a homeopathic liver de-tox.

To be clear, she was diagnosed via endoscopic biopsy with severe marked lymph and plasma cell IBD in her stomach; the G.I. vet proscribed Hill's z/d and 10 mg/day pred.; we didn't do that. Under these circumstances, Monica Segal (doggie dietician) suggested we get a holistic vet and mentioned in passing that TCM (traditional Chinese Medicine) usually suggests a liver de-tox.

I have to admit, the homeopathic remedy is being administered out of respect for the holistic vet; at the super diluted levels homeopathy uses, I fail to see any scientific justification, but if it works...

My holistic vet, who uses dark field microscopic live blood analysis, is doing an informal study of his Barf clients, and has a some questions about Barf's validity (I won't steal his thunder, but he is giving me a balanced view of the Barf method).

I think it's informative to note that his interpretation of Jesse's pathology (right word?) goes like this:
Since Jesse's symptoms started with yellow bile vomit at 4am (you could set your watch), her body was trying to void itself of the toxins in her liver by pushing the bile into her tummy so she could throw it up. The liver remained toxified. Since yellow bile in the stomach is so harmful, the tummy IBD was caused. We are de-toxing the liver and are seeing allergenic responses (biting feet, licking anus etc.) as the process goes on.

The holistic vet agrees with mainstream vet theory on IBD's mechanism; he removed all protein for the first week and started 10% whitefish (it's the most bland animal protein) to be sure the IBD cells wouldn't respond.