Warming Or Cooling Food Formulas | 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.

Hey everyone, it's Rita. Here we are doing another short for you, little small bite sized lessons, humors, musings. Today we are talking about breaking down a formula. I'm gonna go through a formula and help you understand how to read it, how to interpret it according to your individual dog. So we're gonna do that but first we're going to talk about which is going to be the subject of our short Today, Green Juju ra, which is our sponsor, one of our new sponsors, ilovegreen juju.com Green Juju carries freeze dried food, organic, ethically sourced freeze dried dog food and then it also carries raw dog food and a bunch of different supplement products that are made out of foods and herbs. And I just love them. Billy and Kelly are just, I mean they're so awesome and that all the things that they're trying to do and bring knowledge to how food is raised, animals for meat, how they're raised, how we need to care about how they're raised, the power of food, the power of food is just so important. You can out supplement a bad diet. I was spending the day with Amy Renz on Monday and goodness gracious, Pet Food, who is another new sponsor of our podcasts. So excited about that. We were talking about food in general and you know, herbs and supplements can make a poor diet better. They can help your dog for sure. But starting with a good foundation is so important. So check out greenjuju.com they have a good programs there. They have this great raw goat milk video that I just love. It's super fun to watch it. You can find a store with Green Juju closest to you. I carry the freeze dried products and the treats. I can't ship raw food so I can't do that. But I do carry other things in the Green Juju line and they're all around the country, so check them out. Okay, so we are gonna talk today about balancing a formula. I've had some questions into the podcast. I have three questions that are basically, basically the same. You know, how do I know how sensitive my dog is when I come across the ingredient that isn't energetically appropriate? If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out my energetics course or my level one herbal course. That herbal Herbal course. The price is going up on July 15th, so check out my herbal course, my level one canine herbalism course. It's a foundational course for my school that I'm building and online school. And I am going to have some retreats though. Those are going to be fun. But if you are interested in that course, I would definitely purchase it. There's payment plans and if you need a larger payment plan, let me know. So how do we break down a formula? How do we know, you know, what's good and what's not? What's in it? My book's coming out and I have a huge list of herbs and food according to energetics. But let's look at green juju's freeze dried just greens blend with nettles. Now this is a really great blend for like dogs that have been exposed to mold or gentle detoxification. I really love this blend. Some of my dogs eat it, not all of them, but some of them do. Let's look at it. So it has organic zucchini, which is warming organic celery, cooling organic kale, warming organic dandelion greens, cooling coconut flour, pretty neutral to cooling organic parsley, warming coconut oil, neutral organic nettles, neutral to cooling, neutral to warming. It's there in between organic ginger and organic turmeric. Okay, so zucchini's warm, kale's warm, parsley swarm, ginger's warm, and turmeric swarm. So that's five, five things that are warming. Organic celery is cool, dandelion is cool. I'm going to put coconut flour and oil into the cool pile. And then we have nettles that are somewhat neutral to warming, to cool. They're like, again, they're in the middle. So I would say this is a fairly balanced blend. Now where does the rub come in? Like, how do I know if my dog can tolerate this? So one thing, it's not something that you have to feed every single day, right? You could feed this like three to four times a week in your dog's food. You can do once or twice a day. Now where you're gonna have a problem is if your dog is energetically hot or cold. Okay. So if your dog was cold, I would definitely be fine with this. This blend because it does have a net. I would say if you had to like do it, it would be like 40% to 50%. 50% being warm. So I mean 60%. 60. 40. Sorry, 60. 40. 60% being warm, 40% being cool. I would look at how sensitive your dog is. So if your dog was hot, panting all the time, you know, hot and cold are disease states. So you're gonna. Your dog's gonna have some issues. So if your dog is super hot, then this might not be for them, okay? Because that ginger and turmeric. Ginger's hot. And that ginger and turmeric are going to agitate them, most likely. Now, dogs are individuals, so you could see if they seemed any less comfortable on it, if you're giving it on a consistent basis. Because remember, energetics is all about consistency, okay? It's not that one off thing. It's consistency. You know, if you gave this once a week, I don't think you'd have a problem. But if you're giving it a few times a week, daily, you might have a problem with a hot dog. But a warm dog could most likely deal with this. You know, observation is your friend with your dog as an individual. Just see how they do, you know, don't add anything else in for a couple of weeks. Just see how they do on it. And again, things aren't meant to be given nonstop for months and months and months. This is a really nice greens blend to be, you know, find some other blends to use in your dog's food. And rotate, rotate, rotate. What I love about this blend is that it, you know, it's organic. I love that Kelly uses organic vegetables. She's a huge proponent of organic vegetables. So let's look at her other blends. There's Bailey's blend. Organic cucumber cold green cabbage warm organic broccoli. Cool organic turkey bone broth. I'd say neutral organic cilantro cooling chard, cooling coconut oil neutral to cooling. Organic blueberries. Cooling turmeric warm and lemon warm. So we have cucumber broccoli. We're gonna add turkey in there. We're gonna add cilantro. We're gonna add chard, coconut oil and blueberry. Okay, that's seven cooling to neutral things. And then we have green cabbage. We're going to add the neutral turkey, turmeric and lemon. So we've got seven to four. Okay? So if we had to just make a percentage, let's just go 70, 30 for shits and giggles. So, yeah, so this is a net cooling blend. Okay? Net cooling blend. If your dog is cold, they may not be able to tolerate that, but I mean real cold and in a diseased state. So the rest, any dog that's, you know, nice, cool, or even moving towards cold could have it. Like moving towards cold would. Could have it. You know, once or twice a week, and I would add some ginger to it. Now, here's that other conversation. How do we warm it up? Add some ginger to it. Fresh ginger will warm this up and make it less cooling. Okay. But a dog that's cool, warm, hot most likely can tolerate this. Now, the turmeric may bother the turmeric, and lemon may bother a hot dog. Okay. That's very sensitive to individual ingredients. So what I would do is I would ear test, and if you don't know what I'm talking about, check out my podcast on ear testing. But I would test for your dog being extremely sensitive to it, and then I would do that for anything I give my dog. So test it. And then, Rita, how do we make this even cooler? I'm glad you asked. So you could add some refrigerants to it. You could add some ground watermelon seeds. You could. And that adds some really great fiber. And you could add some organic celery. Okay, that's nice. Dandelion root, some cleavers, some chickweed. There's lots of ways to cool that down. So we definitely need to cool it down. Where we get into the problems is when we. We have dogs that are super sensitive, super sensitive, okay. To individual ingredients, where, you know, no matter what I do, my dog just can't deal with that. Well, there's probably something in there that your dog is sensitive to, and that is just irritating. Okay. And usually that's a energetically inappropriate item. So I hope this helps because you can warm and cool things. And if you don't have my energetics list, it can be found in the energetics course, the Herbal Course, and also for download in my shop@k nineherbalist.com under downloads, there is a list of many, many, like over a hundred items listed according to their energetics. And you can Download that@canineherbalist.com under Shop. Thanks for listening to this episode of Dogs are Individuals.

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