Homeopathic Nosodes, Vaccines, Cysts, Lyme Disease, + Parvo | Short

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.

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Hello, everyone, this is Rita Hogan. Hello, hello, hello. I hope you're having a great week. Today we are talking about homeopathic nosodes. I'm excited about this conversation. Someone wrote into the podcast. Jonathan, thank you very much for listening to the pod. So first, do want to thank my sponsors, Real Mushrooms.com Real Mushrooms has been so awesome. I heard that for my book tour next year they are going to sponsor me. I am doing a west coast, east coast and middle of the country book tour. I am so looking forward to it. If you want me to stop in your city for a book tour, please just reach out to me on the website canine herbalist.com look for podcast contact and reach out to me and let me know. Do you have a bookstore in mind or a holistic dog store? Are you a holistic dog store owner? Contact me. Let me see what we can work out. Okay, so one thing I do want to say is that chaga mushroom. So chaga mushroom is really great. I use the real mushrooms, chaga mushroom powder, and I mix that with beninite clay, add enough water to make a paste, and then what I do is I put it on interdigital cysts of dogs. I have a bulldog and sometimes she gets an interdiscipital cyst. And it works so well, so, so well. And what I do is I rub it on the interdiscipital cyst and then I wrap the foot for a few hours and I use a sock and I cut both sides and then I tie the sock around my dog's neck and so that it keeps it on the foot and it really can't be beat. I don't think it's just wonderful. So give that a try. You can use real mushrooms, chaga paste or you can use or chaga mushroom or you could use another chaga mushroom. So I like to come up with innovative ways to use different types of things. And this is definitely how I've been taught herbalism, you know, to think outside of the box and try, try more and more, like different ways of combining herbs with other remedies or modalities. And one of those things that I do is I combine homeopathy with herbalism and I use noso. I use a lot of homeopathic remedies. And I'm definitely not a homeopath, and I'm still learning. And I love homeopathy. I aspire to be a lot more, like, more proficient at homeopathy. But so far, so good, good results. So one of the ways that I do get good results, and I was just talking to a client yesterday about Lyme disease, is I use what's called a nosod. And I used nosodes on my puppy Figgy Nubbins for Parvo, and it worked really well. And nosodes have been, you know, used. Wow. You know, I think since the late 1700s, early 1800s. And they're, you know, homeopathic preparation is made from usually plants and. Or some animal tissue, but nosodes are made from mostly pathological tissue, so from diseased tissue, or they can be made from, like, nasal discharge. And it's, I would definitely say, a lengthy process in that it involves a step by. Step by step and many, many dilutions of the substance. So, for instance, Lyme disease is made from Lyme ticks. I mean, sorry, lime noso is made from Lyme ticks. And that original material has to be diluted down, and that's through a homeopathic protocol. And the interesting thing is with a nosode, if you were to test that substance, you're not going to get any of the original substance remaining. It is the vibrational substance aspect of the substance to help the immune system recognize basically what. What you're trying to target. So a lime nosode, which I have had really good results with in working with a nosod and herbs together much more than I have with herbs by themselves. And so I almost always work with balancing out the body in an herbal support protocol for Lyme and use Lyme nosodes. I also use tick pathogen nosodes. I sell both of those in my store under homeopathy. I also use tick pathogen nosodes, like it's a noso made out of bartonella and babesia and different anaplasmosis urlia. And it helps the body recognize those things. And I definitely use them for, I would say in a. In a preventative manner. And I also use them as a way to help balance out the body when the body is experiencing that type of disease as part of a. As part of a herbal support protocol. So basically a homeopathic natural herbal support protocol. And so nosodes work with the body's, like, bioenergetic fields. Okay. Your energy field, it's vibrational in the same way that flower essences work, like, in many of the same ways that Flower essences work. I think people, like, gross out at the fact that nosos are made from the thing that they're trying to avoid, much like a vaccine is, but there isn't the. It's not a vaccine. It doesn't work exactly like a vaccine. So we're not gonna call them a vaccine, but they are a method of helping the body recognize that particular pathogen so that the immune system can work with it and not suppress it, but actively work at neutralizing it. Nosodes are very safe. You know, when I had Vicki Nubbins, I chose not to vaccinate her for parvo. And we went into a vet office, and there was a dog with parvo there. So I called my homeopathic friend, D. Blanco, and she sent me some parvo. She had sent me some parvo nosodes, and she said, you know, just use the parvo nosod. If she's been in contact with another dog with Parvo, I mean, she wasn't in direct contact, but she was in indirect contact. She was in the vet office where a dog in a room had parvo. And I brought her home. I gave her the nose sewed. She was a little tired that day, had a bit of a runny nose, and the next day she was right as rain. So when you give a no, so you can have a day or two of kind of like symptomatic of what that disease is showing up as. Okay? And I. I saw it firsthand that, you know, I wanted to make sure that Vicki Nubbins didn't get Parvo. So I waited. I was a little nervous, to be honest. I was a little nervous. But it did work really well, and she didn't end up getting Parvo. I know the vets in the emergency clinic were a little concerned with her when I told them that she was not vaccinated for parvo yet. And. But I just took her home, and everything was fine. So I think, you know, to just go over, like, the difference between a vaccine and a noso so that you're clear about it. Again, in a vaccine, you're gonna have adjuvants, which are chemicals that are, you know, I would say, at a detriment to the body, things that activate the immune system so that it can work with the vaccine. You're not going to have that in a nosod. And nosodes aren't injected either. They're given orally, and they definitely are not to replace a vaccine, but they can help in an overall, I think, support regimen for things like Parvo and Distemper and Lyme and co infections. And I take a noso for Candida. So I have a mild reaction to Candida that I'm working with right now. And I definitely see a huge improvement when I take the Candida nosod and I just take a few drops once a week. And it really has improved my tolerance and my symptoms of Candida. So again, they work through vibrational energy and it is so much like flower essences, but they're made with, well, flower essences aren't diluted to the point where a nosode is. Remember, there's no actual physical remedy inside that nosode. It's leaving the energetic signature in the alcohol or water or usually it's a blend of alcohol or water or it's the little white pellets. If you've used homeopathy before, okay, it helps the body protect itself and recognize that pathogen because the pathogen has a signature. So it's, you know, it definitely kind of. What am I thinking here? Like, you know, when a Lyme tick bites your dog or yourself and you have that imprint inside you, that signature, it's going to recognize it when it comes in, when your immune system or your dog's immune system is imprinted with that, with that vibration. And I know that's hard to get. Wrap your head around and can you test it scientifically? I can't answer that question. But anecdotally I do know that noso's have helped myself. They've helped my clients, they've helped my homeopathic practitioners that have worked with clients for, you know, decades. There's a lot more that goes in to nosodes, but that is just kind of the gist of it. And there are some great studies on homeopathic immunizations that have worked, worked very well. You can Google, you can ask Father Google to look at some of those studies and you can look to see where you can purchase nosodes. If you're interested in that, I will have some places on the Herbal Dog website when my book comes out, some references there for you. For homeopathy and purchasing nosodes, you may have to get them through a homeopathic practitioner depending on where you live. But that's a little bit about noso. Again, they're liquid or in pellet form and very useful when used correctly. Thanks for listening to this episode of Dogs are Individuals.

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