What to Do After a Tick Bite | 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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Hi everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. We are doing another short today. Little tiny bites that you can devour and use. I do want to say thank you to green juju and real mushrooms. They are knocking it out of the park with innovative products. I'm loving every bit of it. On the next episode of the podcast we are going to go over the probiotics that Green juju has come out with that are going to be a game changer in the realm of gut recovery, which we can all get behind. Right? Gut recovery, it's so important. The microbiome is so important. So I'm excited about that. And we can also use real mushrooms, the extract, the powdered extract to feed that gut bacteria. So my, my sponsors are two different companies but they're coming together like chocolate and peanut butter. So kind of excited about that. But let's get to it. What we are talking about today is tick related. Someone wrote into the podcast. Karen. Karen. I'm happy to answer your question here online. Karen is interested in my product. I have a product@canineherbalist.com called Afterbite and it is for dogs who get bit by ticks. She wanted some explanation, she wanted some more information and I'm here to answer that. Karen from oh, New England, New Hampshire, full of ticks over there. Absolute full of ticks. So my product is called Afterbite and it is, I formulated it for dogs that are bit by ticks. It's been designed that to bring down the exposure and complications of tick borne disease including Lyme, Babesia, rocky, mounted spotted fever, Ehrlichia anaplasmosis, things like that. And it's a pretty powerful blend of phytoembryonic stem cells, specific tinctures, homeopathic ledum and flower essences. So I formulated this last year. I'm excited about it. I haven't given official rollout but I wanted to go through the ingredients. Now the directions, you know, you shake it well, you administer one drop per five pounds of body weight twice daily directly in the mouth for three days after a tick bite. And yes, you can put it into the wound if you need to, into the bite after you properly remove that tick. Okay, so the ingredients in afterbite, let's just go through them. We've Got olive bud. Phytoembryonic therapy. Okay. Olea europa. So what is it? Okay, it's a phytoembryonic. It's a stem cell. It's made from the buds of olive trees. Right. And I have an episode on phytoembryonics. You can check that out. But, but it's got growth factors, it's got enzymes, it's got stem cells. And these can go into the body and work at a cellular level. Okay. Interact with mitochondria. It can work with the lymphatic tissue, the liver, the immune system, the microbiome. And how this helps after a tick bite. It helps restore and regenerate cellular damage or from the tick bite. And again, it's for possible pathogen exposure. It acts as an immune modulator. It strengthens the immune system and it's gonna reduce excessive inflammatory responses. And I would highly recommend using a good mushroom blend, whether it be liquid like Myco, dog or real mushrooms powder, turkey tail, reishi, maitake. Those are good mushrooms to use because of their immune modulating effects. They definitely are not gonna harm, they're gonna help. And olive buds support adrenal and nervous system like stability. And that's what we really want. We wanna stabilize the nervous system, we wanna stabilize the adrenal glands, which is part of the endocrine system because they get stressed after your dog has a bite and that's a trauma to the system or it can definitely lead to an infection. And then olive buds, I mean, they provide gentle detoxification support. They don't overwhelm the system. They open up the elimination organs. So we love that. And it's very well tolerated. So the next one is Sweet Chestnut bud, and that's a phytoembryonic therapy. And it has definitely, it's very detoxifying. It's a lymphatic drainage and vascular support remedy. It helps the veins, arteries and lymphatic system. It's going to enhance lymphatic circulation, which the body really needs when it's helping, when it's like clearing pathogens and cellular debris from having tick exposure. It's also an anti inflammatory, so it's gonna bring down inflammation from the tissues after the bite. Sweet Chestnut also supports venous tone and what's called capillary resilience that prevents like tissue congestion and it also affects bruising at the bite site. So that's why you can put the afterbite into the bite area and rub it in. Sweet Chestnut also, it addresses like emotional shock and Energetic blockages after trauma. And a tick bite is trauma to the body and it helps dogs move through that like the physical and emotional, I would say effect of having a tick bite because when you have numerous tick bites and they're being pulled out, I think it can cause different types of energetic blockages. Definitely I've seen that with energetic work with dogs that are suffering from tick borne disease. It really does help clear. That's why I love flower essences for tick bites as well. Teasel root. Teasel root extract. So that's a tincture that I've put into this formula and it is a, it, it definitely isn't a normal herb that you find in commerce but I love teasel root and it helps, this is the biggest thing that it does. It helps stimulate immune surveillance and it helps flush all the types of tick borne bacteria into the bloodstream so that your dog's immune system can find it. Okay. It helps with hidden infections and especially those that invade the connective tissue like boreala from Lyme's disease. Okay. It helps mobilize pathogens trapped like in the muscle, the fascia and the joints. And that's going to help the immune system find those and destroy them because that's what the immune system is for. And that's why I highly suggest using a mushroom powder or extract along with whatever you're using for ticks for the immune system component. And then Teasel root helps strengthen structural tissues and hey, it really helps aid in the recovery from any type of lingering tick borne infection. So love, love, love T cell root. Love it, love it, love it. And the next ingredient is Usnea Usnia barbata. It's basically nature's doxycycline and it's an herbal extract made and it's high in usnic acid and that's a very good antimicrobial compound. I like to call it antimicrobial intelligence. It's a broad spectrum antimicrobial and it helps prevent infections from the bacteria that's introduced from the bite. It supports the immune system because it helps neutralize the pathogens in the system at the bite and helps before you know, systemic infection starts to spread. And it has a natural antibiotic like action. It's not a direct alternative to doxycycline but I have found it highly effective because it doesn't disrupt the gut flora like doxycycline does. The next ingredient is Astragus astragus root and this is an immune tonic. It's from, from traditional Chinese medicine. It definitely Helps against pathogens. It's a defensive remedy in my opinion. It causes resilience, it strengthens the immune system. You know, all of these bacterium and tick borne pathogens are opportunistic and so we need to deal with that right away. When you get it, when your dog gets a tick bite or you get a tick bite, you can take it as well. And it helps repair tissues because tick bites, they harm tissues, they cause inflammation, they cause pathogens. And we're never gonna win the war on ticks. It's never going to happen. We need to cause resiliency inside the body. We need to have tools in our toolbox to help combat certain types of tick borne remedies or pathogens. And I love the tick, the tick pathogen nosode in my store under homeopathics by professional formulas. You can buy it somewhere else too. And I also love their lime nosode. I use those together once a week during tick season. But back to astralagus root, it can help prevent chronic immune weakness and that's post tick exposure. Okay. And we want to give these types of things before an infection is kind of fully established. That's why it's called afterbite. And then I add homeopathic ledum. And homeopathic ledum is very good for stings, bites, punctures and tick bites. It helps again, it neutralizes the trauma from the bite at the energetic level and it reduces inflammation, it helps prevent infection. And it's definitely a remedy I give for tick bites. So it has ledum 30C in it. And last but not least, we have T cell flower essence to go along with that energetic homeopathic ledum. And tisal flower essence is I make this myself and, and it's definitely an emotional and energetic kind of body remedy. It restores, helps restore life force depleted by parasitic attachment or infection. And it helps your dogs reconnect to their physical body and their vitality. It increases chi, it increases that life force. We don't want our dogs to be, you know, drained and disconnected from themselves from a tick bite because tick bites are very powerful. It can change their personality, it can cause them to go into a downward spiral, it can cause lethargy, lots of sickness. And so we want to support that vitality. Okay. And it's extremely gentle. So I love that about teal flower essence. And if you ever have the opportunity to meet Teasel in the wild, especially when it's in flower, it is so beautiful. It looks like an upside down tick and it's got these spires and it, it's very pointy and sharp, but then it has this beautiful ring of pink flowers that you know you can't get that color outside of nature. You can't recreate it. Bees love it. It's just a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful flower. I love it, love it, love it. And most people think of it as a weed. And a lot of our weeds, so called weeds out there, are the answers to a lot of of our physical malaise that we are searching for answers for.

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