Remedy Layering | 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. How are you? How are you this week? Welcome to another episode of our shorts. Our little bite size morsels for you to listen to on a walk or share with your friends. Share the podcast, review the podcast, be the podcast we are talking about layering today. So Kaylin writes into the podcast and is asking me about can we give homeopathy along with herbs and what else can we do at the same time? So, Kaylin and everyone who's listening, one of the things that we want to make sure we're doing is we have the right intention with our remedy. You know, what are we trying to do with the remedy? What are we trying to do with the herb? What are we trying to do with the homeopathy? With homeopathy, you want to make sure that you get a good materia medica and make sure that you are matching the symptoms to your dog, to that remedy and potency. And I think I've done a podcast on homeopathy. I am not sure, but I think I have. So you can review that, but that's really important to know the remedy that you're giving and then you can say, okay, do I need more help? Like let's say for instance, you're trying to calm a dog down that is having a fear based reaction to something. Fear based reaction, okay, this is kind of how I'm going to answer this question, Kaylin. So if a dog is having a fear based reaction and you are going to give homeopathy, one of the things I might suggest is the adored beast go to, which is blend of aconite and arnica. So aconite and arnica are excellent for fear and you want to layer that with say a flower essence. And you could do that, like, let's just say for the sake of being convenient, rescue remedy. Like I carry Rescue Remedy and the go to in my store@kananderbliss.com, but you can get them, you can get them many places. But rescue Remedy is a flower essence, okay? It's not an essential oil, it's a flower essence. And you were trying to calm your dog down. Let's just say for a firework or a vet vet visit or a car ride, you could then layer a topical essential oil that your dog is okay with. Do Self selection, have them smell it, see what their reaction is. I would do this before, you know, put it in your emergency kit. Always test essential oils with your dogs in your emergency kit. Make sure they're not completely averse to them. I know that when I offer some certain essential oils to my dog Gertie, she starts shaking and running and hides in the corner. So we don't wanna put that on her. But you could add an essential oil like Chamomilia materica. You could do that and offer it to them to help calm. And you could also rub a couple of drops on their chest, not on their neck to help calm them. And then you could also give some internal tincture of like say for instance, skull cap or California poppy. You could layer those things if needed. Okay. I would see what the reaction to arnica and aconite is to see if that, you know, brings things down. I've seen dogs come out of complete fear based seizures using that remedy. Then see if a flower essence is needed. Rescue remedy is wonderful. You can spray it in the ear, you can spray it on the body, you can spray it in the mouth, you can give it as drops. It's really nice for calming dogs down quickly. You can give it daily and you can help create like if thunderstorms are coming or if you're doing it with fireworks, you can layer these things with fireworks. Layering works really well. So what that would look like is in the days working up to, let's just say July 4th, you're going to give rescue remedy, which is the flower essence. You're also going to give some skullcap or some California poppy internally and then you might do some. There's a remedy called relax. I sell it under topicals in my store and dogs have had really good results with that essential oil blend. I made it, I think I formulated that in 2007. It now is owned by another company, but I sold that company. But you can still buy it and you can rub it on the chest just again, make sure your dog's not averse. So you're doing the flower essence and the essential oil a couple days leading up to the fireworks. And then on the day of when you're anticipating fireworks, you can keep on going. And then if you hear fireworks and your dog is afraid, then give the go to the aconite and arnica to get. Okay. And you can also give some of that California poppy or skull cap. So how much would I give for fireworks or something that they're afraid of? Skull cap and California poppy. Most Likely the same dosage. Extra small dogs, like a Chihuahua or a Yorkie, I would give two to three drops three times a day. Or you could do every 20 minutes. If it's an acute situation, which sometimes, like fireworks is you could give just a couple drops every 15 to 20 minutes. And then. So for regular sized dog, like, you know, like a pug small dog, I would give three to five drops three times a day. This is a larger dose than I normally recommend because it's more like acute that you're going to use it for. And then medium dogs, it's like a corgi or a spaniel. Five to eight drops three times a day. And then a large dog, eight to like 12 drops. And then for an extra large dog, 12 to 15 drops. That's in the mouth. You can mix it with water. Putting in the food's probably not going to work all that well for the acute situation, but you could see how it went. But that's like, that's what I call layering. For acute situations you can use it. And usually fear is definitely one of those things. It can happen when you have an ear infection that's bothering your dog or you think they're coming up on an ear infection and they're like scratching their face and they're rubbing their head. You could definitely use that layering technique with those types of remedies. CBD is excellent in the ears. You can use that or another different type of drop in the ears. If your dog is prone to ear infections, putting CBD in their ears once or twice a week is a really good preventative for a nasty ear infection. But even, you know, you want to see the signs of your dog that their ear is starting to affect them. And one of those things that you can do is scratching their face. Dogs start to scratch their face when their ears are beginning to bother them. And you can head that off at the pass before that ear starts to close up. But you could also do the aconite and arnica with the cbd. You could do CBD internally and in the ear. Aconite and arnica internally. You could do the rescue remedy to calm them down so they're not afraid because ear infections hurt. So these are some, like, acute issues that you could do and have. Example, I mean, those are. There's examples on how you could layer homeopathy with flower essences with herbs in general. I love nettle for ear infections. I also, you know, fear is in the kidney and I love supporting the kidneys to help dogs not be so fearful to get to the root connection of why they are so fearful. And that is one of the ways that you can layer. You can also use a homeopathic materia medica for homeopathic remedies and try to figure out what homeopathic would be good for your dog's kidney issue and that you're going to see fear subside and fear and different facets of fear might be on the symptom list for that homeopathic. So but whenever dogs are afraid and have like major fright happening, major reactivity, I always look to the kidney for issues. And that's why a lot of dogs that are afraid have ear infections and are also are afraid of thunderstorms and doing new things and vet rides and vet, vet visits and car rides, not vet rides. Sorry, but that's, I mean everything's connected. And so I know I went off on a tangent there, but that's what this podcast is. It's ramblings of herbalists whose life has gone to the dogs. And this is what happens here on the podcast. We ramble. So I mean, Kaylin, I hope I answered your question. You know, can you layer these things? Yes, you can. Not all the time, but you can. The one of the things that you want to avoid with homeopathy is things that have a very potent smell like anything that has menthol. You know, your dogs don't drink coffee, so you don't have to worry about that. But you want to avoid like menthol containing substances like peppermint spearmint when using homeopathy. Okay, so that is that. And I want to thank my sponsor, Green Juju for sponsoring these shorts. And I love the peeps over at Green Juju. They are doing great work. They are coming up with coming out with some new product. Coming up and out with some new products. I can't wait to see what they have. Their newest product I believe is their mushroom probiotic. I have not used it yet, but I hope to get my hands on it soon. 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