Checking Labels + Product Reviews | Shorts

Hi, this is Rita Hogan and welcome to the Dogs are Individuals podcast. I'm a clinical canine herbalist and I've been practicing for over 20 years. This podcast is all about your dog through an herbal lens. So let's get to it and dive right in.

Hello everyone. Welcome to another short. Before we get started, I do want to thank my lovely Sponsor, Earth Buddy, earthbuddypet.com they make a wonderful 20% off coupon for us. Herbal Buddy 20. All lowercase, all one word with a 2 0. Herbal Buddy 20. Check them out. So I went to their website today just to see if they had anything new and I noticed that they have this lovely pet like questionnaire that you fill out. It's a product quiz. How fun is that? I love product quiz. I wish I could do that for my website. I will someday when I have more time. But definitely a goal to have on my to do list. But lovely little product quiz that can help you pick out products for your dogs based on things that are in the quiz, symptoms and things like that about your dog, your specific dog. So check that out. Earthbuddypet.com Coupon is herbal buddy20 and they just came out with some new calming chews. So check those out. And they have of course organic full spectrum CBD oil for pets as well, and functional mushrooms. So check, check, check them out. Okay, so what are we talking about today? Today is more of just kind of a run on sentence. And I was talking to a client today with a dog that has a lot of skin issues and problems and we, you know, I gave her a protocol and she is just a lovely human doing the best job she can as a mom. But this is a reminder to all of you to check your labels. It's kind of a theme of today's short. Check, check, check, check, check, check your labels because this is a dog with kind of like lupus, like sores on their skin and lots of inflammation and loves this little beef jerky treat that she eats all the time. And guess what the second ingredient is after beef? Cane sugar. I'm going to say it. Cane sugar. Cane sugar. Omg. I was at Super Zoo this past year and I don't know if I've ever mentioned this to you, but I was at Super Zoo this past year and I was looking at different types of treats for dogs, looking at all the boosts that I could find that I. That I knew that I might be interested in the products to carry in my lovely little canine herbalist store. And I was appalled by all of the brown sugar, cane sugar, honey, and all of this stuff that is in dog treats. And don't think that. I'm not saying it couldn't be possible, but the probability of it is pretty low that the honey that is in these treats is raw. Because raw honey is really hard to work with. And, you know, yeah, highly doubtful that it hasn't been heated. And heated honey is not raw honey. Besides honey, I saw so much just plain old brown sugar and cane sugar and sugar in our dog streets. And these are some companies that, you know, I like a lot of their products, but gotta stop, gotta stop. Dogs don't need sugar. It's terrible for their organs. It's terrible for their coat, it's terrible for their skin. It's terrible for the lymphatic system. It's terrible for anxiety. So we have to take the sugar out. So read your labels and just, just read your labels. Read your labels. Check, check, check, check the labels. So that's the first thing I wanted to talk to. Talk to you about. The second thing I wanted to talk to you about comes from Claudia, a lovely listener. Claudia, thank you for writing into the podcast. She wants to know what are my thoughts about Halcyon and Sesurex for dogs. These are two, like supplements for dogs. I will deal with them right now. Gold Standard Herbs makes Halcyon H A L S C I O N. Dr. Judy Morgan carries them on her website, drjudymorgan.com Halcyon is a traditional Chinese medicine formulation. It is for cognitive dysfunction. And it definitely is a good, like, older dog supplement. And you kind of see symptoms like, well, definitely, definitely anxiety. Okay, Definitely anxiety. And then, you know, there are dogs that don't sleep through the night, dogs that are pacing and panting and things like that. Different type of, like neurodegenerative symptoms. And I think agitation could be another one. And dogs that kind of stare at walls. These are definitely senior dog kind of symptomatic, like senior dogs who are symptomatic of that, I would say adrenal depletion and sympathetic kind of like excess when the parasympathetic isn't working as well as it should. Panic and fright, those types of things. So. And it can even include things like vestibular disease when dogs like tip over. And this is a good remedy for that. But there are some things to know about it. Now, I am definitely not a traditional Chinese medicine herbalist. I do use things like Rehmania and Scolateria baclodensis, which is in this remedy. But from Looking at it, it's a very warming remedy. So you need to know that very, very warming remedy. You got angelica and cinnamon and ginger, lots of things that are bringing up the internal core temperature of the dog. And this is a very stimulating remedy. It's going to increase circulation to the brain. So what do I feel about Halcyon? I think it's a good supplement. I think you should need to give it a try. I would try it for three to six weeks to see if there's any improvement. Maybe eight weeks. If you don't see improvement with the recommended dosage then it may not be for your dog. If you see excessive panting or more agitation or if you know, if you don't know your dog's energetics and your dog is more of a warmer dog. This supplement may not work and may not be your furrier dog, but it is a good supplement. I definitely would give it a thumbs up from my standard. It's a good formula. So just wanted to let you know that Claudia. And then there's Cesarex. I really like the name Cesarex. I'm not sure why. I think it's because I am a kind of like Marvel fan and it reminds me of the tesseracts. So that's like this little cube that can destroy the world. I love sci fi so just, you'll have to excuse me for that. But Cesarex Gold standard herbs has a lot of rex in the last of their, what they've named their, their combination. So this is Sesurex and Cesarex is for, definitely for immune, the immune system and it helps like balance the immune system, support the immune system, has immune modulating herbs which helps give the immune system flexibility like mushrooms and helps bring about less inflammation in the body and we can always love that, right? Improving inflammation is everyone's goal. So it's you know, for hair loss and hot spots and different types of like ear infections and redness and inflammation. Definitely dogs that have a strong odor and different types of skin conditions. And this one, Sesurex is basically, obviously and basically has an effect on the liver. Whenever you see types of skin conditions like this supplement works for, you're going to have a liver component there. You're also going to have a gut component. And so this is a supplement to kind of blanket those types of symptoms. And it also, you know, when you look at the explanation for it on their website they talk about, you know, that it can be good for itching and it can be good for, you know, dealing with overall symptoms from allergies. Now this remedy also is a little bit on the warming side. Not as warming as the halcyon, but still has quite a few warming ingredients. And it shares some of the ingredients with the halcyon, like the Rehmannia glutinosa and the angelica and the Scolateria baclodensis and the ginger. So there are some differences in this formula. So again, I would probably recommend this for a more warm like, cool dog with skin conditions and immune problems and inflammation. So, and you're going to put these are powders, so you're going to put it rightly in your dog's food. But I would say, you know, give this a try too. But I would try one first and then the other. Okay. And to remind you, like, after you give a dog an herb like this and you see improvement, you really want to find the minimum dose for the maximum benefit. And after they've been on it for a while, you want to scale back and see how your dog is off the supplement and then you can always add it back in. But we always want the minimum dose for the maximum benefit, especially after we're giving herbs for a long period of time. I do want to thank Claudia. Thank you, Claudia, for writing in. I love it. When you guys write into the podcast, you can go to the website and click Contact us under Podcast Contact and send me an email and I will answer it here on the show. I do have a few that are a little backed up, but I will get to them, no problem. All right. So it's kind of crazy how quick these little shorts can go by while I'm sitting here jabbering about. We are definitely heading into the holiday season and I think this podcast will come out in the second week of December. I hope all of you have a good holiday. I have released my phytoembryonic therapy course. We are going to talk about that in another short of the podcast, but I have released it. It is up@canineherbalism.com. check it out. It's one of my signature courses. Definitely a, you know, kind of a larger course that has a lot of information, but it's an entire sustainable kind of system of herbal medicine that you can use as a professional, as a layperson, just, you know, your dog lover, owner, guardian and vet tech. I'm trying to get it race certified for continuing education, but that might take a while. But it is a wonderful, wonderful course, so check that out. Thanks for listening to this episode of Dogs Are Individuals.

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