Herbal Pet Care - How To Use Natural Medicines For Your Furry Friend!

hey dr patrick jones here from the homegrown herbalist school of botanical medicine and we're excited to have you tonight we're doing a live webinar here and uh looks like we've got lots of

folks signing in uh on the chat there that's fantastic i hope you enjoy the presentation any questions you have put them up there and uh we'll get to them at the end i'm

not going to cover everything you know so if you want to know something that i didn't cover poke it up there and we'll talk about it afterwards all right so uh like i said i'm dr patrick jones and we

are going to be talking about tonight um when you're sick as a dog and you are a dog uh herbal medicine for pets um and uh

as soon as we show the dog picture and say the word pets everybody's gonna ask what about my chicken don't worry we'll cover them too all right we'll be i could talk all weekend

just about gastrointestinal stuff in dogs or wounds in dogs or whatever and we don't want to have a 30 hour video if we start talking about chickens it'll be a week okay and so we will do

different videos on more specific topics of course um and we'll do something on goats and something on chickens and something on everybody uh chihuahuas all those things that

aren't really dogs and uh but tonight we're gonna talk about dogs um and cover a number of things we're uh

in our new studio tonight in our new building uh we just moved a week ago so everything's been chaos in bedlam here for for a week or so but we're happy to be

here uh evan is uh my i.t genius guy he's doing all the everything that makes any of this possible we're really grateful for him um so like i said i'm patrick jones i am

a veterinarian i've been in practice for about 30 years um i'm also a traditional naturopath went to naturopath school and a clinical herbalist obviously and founded the homegrown herbalist

school of botanical medicine so if you'd really like to learn some stuff about herbs and critters or herbs and little ladies herbs and anything i would really recommend you have a look at that

our perspective is very different because i'm a veterinarian i can treat anything i want with herbs right and so i've had a lot of opportunities to use herbs in ways that most herbalists don't and that

is reflected in the curriculum of the school and we are right now most of the curriculum in the school is mostly focused on human stuff

but uh i always have mentioned the animal things you know we're talking about digestive stuff we talk about horses with colic and dogs with parvo

but i am just now starting some very specific animal modules uh that go deeper into some of the more bizarre things about herbal medicine and animals and so if you're in the school look forward to that if you're not in school

sign up and then you can look forward to that right so uh just before we start anything about herbs i just want to mention

and remind you that herbs and drugs can interact so if your dog's on medicine don't put them on herbs unless you know what you're doing and talk to somebody okay uh also a lot of herbs aren't safe for

pregnancy or lactation and it doesn't matter if you got a baby in your belly or puppies right uh you got to be careful with that so look into that carefully before you use any formulas on on your dogs just

like you would for a human all right so um veterinary medicine with herbs herbal veterinary medicine is

as old or older than human medicine with herbs i mean the oldest documents we have on herbal medicine you know old chinese you know transcripts and old ayurvedic

stuff from india is about animals you know it's almost like human herbal medicine was an afterthought you know and modern uh

herbal medicine for animals is mostly derived now from human herbal medicines but a lot of things have been around forever you know uh for animals and so you know we know that i mean we know

that humans and animals have been hanging around for a long time you know there's a painting from some cave wall which shows two important things first of all that dogs and humans have been hanging around together for a really

long time and also documents interestingly the first uh evidence of the miniskirt so this is really very cool you know this guy's wearing a mini skirt and he's got her

dog so those two things have both been with us for a long time and that's that's good to know here's an old uh oriental uh illustration you know and when people

had horses thousand years ago four thousand years ago they were treating them with herbs you know and in fact here's another image

which is another important historical document it was shortly after this painting was done that human herbal medicine was painted i mean it was invented because as you can see

uh this fellow is giving his horse an herbal enema and all four of the horse's feet are off the ground and he's about to kick the berjeebers out of this guy and there is evidence that that may have been why

they invented human herbal medicine to save him from the horse so hard to say but they've been doing it for a long time here's another old guy with his dog out hunting or going to war or something who knows looks like an

assyrian or something fun and here's another image that's uh old about and this one's sort of controversial there's a lot of debate about this particular image some people say that this is clearly an image of

humans giving herbal medicines to dogs uh others on the other side of that debate say no this guy's looking for the duck that this dog was supposed to retrieve and uh anyway there's some some

argument about that but the fact is uh humans and animals have been along around together for a long time and humans have been giving those animals

herbal medicines for a very long time so how do you do it how do you get herbs into a dog well dogs aren't too bad most dogs will eat herbs and in my veterinary practice it was very very rare

for a dog to leave the building without a little bag of green powder right that's usually how i medicated dogs with herbs just with the powdered herbs um and most dogs will go for that uh you

mix it with a little wet food and piece of cake you know uh occasionally rarely you'll get a little yorkie or pomeranian or something and they look at that say i don't think that's food and so you know you squirt a

tincture in their mouth here sport you think that's food right but most of them will do it most of them you put the powder with a little wet food and presto you know you have a medicated dog pretty

easy um cats are a little different cats can be harder to get herbs into and just one point in case you don't know and that is that cats are sharp everywhere okay so having them do it

voluntarily is much better than doing it to them um but you get a little different result sometimes with a cat you add the powder to the wet food and you get a different

response than you do with the dog but some cats will go for it some cats are really good sports i have a lot of cats in my practice you know anytime i joke around about

cats being hard to give herbs to half of my staff at the vet clinic would say my cat takes herbs every day what are you talking about and so it depends on two things it depends on what herb it is you know and it depends on what cat

it is the thing with cats that's interesting is that their noses are hardwired into their brains to identify food and if they don't smell it

they don't think it's food i mean literally it's not an attitude thing it's a hardwired biology thing if a cat can't smell the food it can't identify it as food

even if it's looking right at it and so i mean they actually did a study on cats that were having chronic sinus infections and in humans there's a

surgical procedure where they i don't know what they do shoot some kind of roto-rooter thing into your nose and and grind out your sinuses to open them up so they can drain in cases of

really severe chronic sinus infections um and they decided to do that on cats some researchers said let's try this on the poor kitties they get horrible sinus infections let's see if we can help them

the way that we help their people right and they drilled out their sinuses and every single cat in that study died of starvation every single one why because they couldn't smell food anymore

it affected their sense of smell and they could be starving to death and look at a bowl of cat food and not recognized as food because their nose wasn't getting it and their brain can't do it if their nose

doesn't do it so cats are you know it's not their fault it's a it's a a wiring problem with cats um and so sometimes you do have to give cats

uh a tincture you know or you can mix up the powder in a little water and squirt it into them tinctures and cats work very well it's it's important to get the tincture all the way in the

back of their mouth because if it is in the front sometimes they'll just froth and foam for a long time and they make this noise and glare at you while they're doing it you know and

it doesn't hurt the cat but they take it personally so be careful with that get it far back and you win and of course you know if you are going to give tinctures or things to cats

unvoluntarily it's good to dress appropriately you know there's the modern look here or if you're you know more into classical fashion of course you can do it the old way

um but uh it's like i said cats are sharp everywhere so you get to do that once for free and then after that it's uh dragging them out from under the bed in

a wrestling match so ideally if you can put the little few drops of tincture or the powder into some really strong smelling fishy cat food

sometimes you get away with it and like i said some herbs you know if you're giving him burdock or marshmallow he'll eat that right but if you're giving him morgan grape you better have some pretty stout smelling cat food all right

um all right so dosing for pet and i'm not going to go through all this you can look at it and also [Music]

on the website it's every product page has a info and dosing tab click on that it'll show you the dosing and by the way speaking of websites uh we have a brand new website um

the original website is homegrounderbliss.net and it's still there and that's you know formulas for absolutely everything and they're human formulas but i created those formulas so they'd work in dogs and cats too

uh and goats and chickens and aardvarks and they'll work in anybody um but we just a week or two ago launched a new website herbpet.com

and so herbpet.com has pet specific formulas that are a little bit fine-tuned to make them even better for the critters and to address things that you know dogs

have going on that humans sometimes so have a look at that swing by your pet.com and have a look buy some herbs that make us both feel happy inside and your dog

or your cat also like i said we'll be covering other topics uh and if you subscribe to the video to the channel rather you'll get a heads up when i'm doing something about

chickens or goats or whatever okay so click that subscribe button that'll be good too all right oops uh just a general note on dosing for

pets or humans and that is if it's a chronic maintenance kind of thing twice a day is usually what you do you know but if it's an acute emergency

thing or if you're fighting off a bug or whatever you're going to want to do it more than twice a day right you're going to do it three or four times a day maybe more depending on what you're dealing with and we'll talk about that specifically uh with some of these things

uh today getting herbs into other critters you know cows goats pigs chickens sheep that's easy all right all those guys think weeds are candy and so you know

the only challenge there is outrunning them when they're chasing you around the pen for seconds right so i've never had any trouble getting herbs into herbivores you know they're they're easy

um and like i said we'll talk more about those kind of critters in another video so let's just talk about a few of these issues um we're going to talk about nutrition issues we're going to talk about worms

we're going to talk about if infections immune support things inflammation and arthritis we'll talk about digestive issues urinary issues we'll talk about ring worm

snake bite wounds this is just a few things right i mean like i said we could we could do this all weekend and not begin to scratch the surface you can do a ton of things with herbs and animals

uh but we need all you guys to get some sleep tonight so we're only gonna go for a little while on a few topics all right so let's get started so

let's talk about nutritives and prebiotics right nutrition things that we can do with herbs um and most people think about dogs and cats as predators i mean they are they're predators right tell your yorkie that

he'll get really excited uh and and when we think predator we think meat eater right well what does a meat eater eat well he eats

herbivores right and he does he doesn't just eat the meat he eats the whole thing and in fact when a pack of wolves or a lion or any of the predators

take down a herbivore the first thing they eat is the salad bar you know they go right for the gastrointestinal tract and that's the thing they eat first and what are they eating there well they're eating

pounds and pounds of plant material from the gi tract of that animal in a deer you know there's 20 or 30 pounds 20 or

30 gallons rather volume of plant material they have four stomachs you know so when a lion kills a wildebeest or a

zebra a wolf kills a deer a coyote kills a calf you know they're getting a lot of plant material in their diet and they have to have that you know that it's a part of their diet

sadly the pet food industry doesn't see that and the only plant they think you need in your dog food is corn right and so you take some processed meat and you take some corn

and you poke a vitamin in it and what do you got corn dogs right no dog food right dog food it's like corn dogs but it's dog food uh and what does corn do for dogs well

it's basically broken down into simple sugars which escalate insulin which increases inflammation and increases fat

and increases uh joint pain and immune issues and all kinds of other problems disrupts normal gut flora right because we're not supposed to eat that much sugar and your body or your dog's

body can't tell at all the difference between cornmeal and cotton candy it's all broken down into glucose okay

and so those simple sugars are not something that a dog or a cat or a predator or a human would ever see in the wild

they would never see that they're not designed to eat hardly any of that kind of thing you know i mean a bear might find a honey honeycomb and good for him but it's not a major part of his diet you know what i

mean so what your pets really need are plants real plants not corn and herbs are a phenomenal source for that

plant material they're really really good sources of a number of vitamins they're really complex they're really good sources of a lot of weird micro minerals that you just need a

little bit of it but if you don't get it you're in trouble you know boron and manganese and magnesium and all these weird little guys you know

that aren't famous like iron and calcium but they're critical in microdoses and you know the same thing's true with humans we're not getting a lot of that stuff anymore either because we're

eating food that's produced on fields that have been farmed for 50 years and and never had any minerals put back on them you know the only thing they ever put on them is

you know potassium and and uh ammonia and i'm gonna have a metal block anyway phosphorus right i guess two of those are minerals but they're not putting any

boron or manganese or you know any of the other little weird things that exist in nature you know they're just making plants grow big and pretty but they don't have the density of

nutrition that a burdock weed has or a comfrey plant or somebody else that's grown in the wild with a 12 foot root and really pulling up a lot of goodies you know what i mean

so the vitamins and the minerals are really important and really uh important to get into your diet and your dog's diet and the other

is the prebiotics so what the heck's a prebiotic well you know what a probiotic is right that's bacteria that you know you buy little capsules of good guy

bacteria for your gut right because your gut is chock full of beneficial microorganisms in fact they outnumber our cells 10 to 1.

so for every cell your body has there's 10 little happy bacteria and amoebas and other good guys in your guts protozoans i mean this usually aren't good guys

anyway single-celled critters in your gut that are doing important things they're modulating your immune system they're producing serotonin which is the chemical that makes your

brain think it's happy uh they're in facilitating digestion and nutrient absorption they're doing all kinds of critical stuff and so you know you can buy

probiotics uh which are those bugs and you can give them to your dog or you can take them and that's great but what's a prebiotic a prebiotic is the food that those guys

need to eat right it's an insoluble fiber blend and one of those insoluble fibers for example is a is a fiber called inulin which is super common

in herbs like burdock and ella campaign and dandelion and any of the other guys that have deep long tap roots okay and so

taking a probiotic is great but taking a prebiotic so that those guys have something to eat when they get there is a really good idea right otherwise you invite them to the party and there's no lunch yeah so that's no fun

so this formula here this nutritive and prebiotic formula this is a formula that's on our herbpet.com all right and we also have a human version on

homegrownerblues.net and so this is basically some high density vitamin mineral herbs and some high density prebiotic content in them

uh there's just a great thing to add to your dog or cat's diet throw it in with this food and they'll eat it and it's and it'll give them a lot of the things that they would be getting if they were getting a

real mouse or a real chicken or a real wildebeest right all right don't let your dogs eat wildebeests they're messy okay so speaking of guts let's talk about

worms all right um unlike humans all dogs live in a third world country where their neighbors poop on the lawn right and they explore everything with their mouth and so their risk of

contagion from parasites and diseases is much higher than our risk living in our fancy clean houses with flesh toilets and soap and water

and so worms are still pretty common even in you know dogs that live in fancy places um and there's basically two kinds of worms that we see commonly in dogs there's round worms and tapeworms all

right and round worms are easy to catch and easy to transmit it's a fecal oral transmission okay which means the dog has to eat poop right or he has to eat something that

touched poop so he's out in the yard monkeying around eating grass and you know licking everything and exploring everything with his mouth and gets worms eggs in his mouth and then he gets round worms okay it's a pretty simple cycle

um tape worms are more complicated uh tapeworms are segmented worms they're flat right so round worms look like spaghetti tapeworms are flat and segmented and

usually when you see a tapeworm on your dog or your cat it's actually just one little segment stuck to his caboose that's sort of crawling around that one little segment you very rarely see the whole worm but the segments break off and have eggs

in them and so uh the life cycle of a taper is more complicated to get a tapeworm uh you have to eat the intermediate host and for dog tapeworms there's only two

intermediate hosts either fleas or mice and cat tape worms too okay and so in order to get uh tape worms you have to eat fleas or mice unless you're wanting human tapeworms

and then you have to eat a cow that's not properly cooked that's how we get our tape room our intermediate host is a cow which is nicer than eating fleas that was nice of god to think about that for us but anyway

[Laughter] herbs are good for both or yeah you can get herbs that will kill tapeworms or roundworms this is the formula that i use and it's

pretty effective is it as effective as chemical pharmaceutical warmers probably not but it'll get rid of most of them and bring them to a natural level you know

um some of the herbal warmers are pharmaceutical wormers are very safe and some aren't uh but this one's safe let's uh

let's talk a little bit about um heartworms heartworms are transmitted by mosquitoes all right they don't live in your guts you don't get them by eating something

dumb you get a heartworm by having it injected into your skim by a mosquito all right that's how it's transmitted or a biting fly horse flies and guys like that can do it

too but it's mostly mosquitoes um they live in the circulatory system they tend to accumulate in the heart in the chambers of the heart in the blood um

and in high levels they can be extraordinarily dangerous to dogs cats almost never get them they can get them but it's really rare it's not a cat parasite it's a dog parasite and

parasites are pretty host specific you know a worm that a dog gets usually doesn't know what to do if it gets in a human you know if a human eats a worm egg that

goes to a dog the egg won't mature he won't know what to do there's very specific ph and chemical triggers that tell that little guy what to do and where to go and what to be and

if you're the wrong species it doesn't work okay and so um cats can get injected with heartworms and sometimes they'll get a worm or two or three and you know have heart worms

but it's rare that they get them at all and it's very rare that they get enough to to be as dangerous to dogs dogs can get a lot of them it's really common in the south

but it's getting more common in other places because why because we're a more mobile society and dogs from alabama are moving to maine i'll tell you a funny story not finding a sad story

when hurricane katrina happened years ago there were thousands and thousands of dogs that were homeless and owners you know nobody knew who their mom was they just

had a hurricane for crying out loud right so they gathered up some wonderful organization gathered up all these stray dogs and was taking care of them and the company

that makes the heartworm test and i remember there's a couple of companies i don't know which one it was but one of those companies said hey why don't you test all those dogs for heartworm and they sent a whole semi-loaded

heartworm test down there and they tested all the dogs and sent the data back to the company and the company said you know and it basically said you know

we tested a million dogs and 30 of them had heartworm or whatever it was and the company said well this is great but where's the individual dog data and they said oh we didn't keep any of that

and the company said but you identified them right they said uh no we didn't we just wanted the data from the whole group and in the meantime they had shipped

dogs all over the continental united states to save them and give them homes but a lot of those dogs had heartworms and that year i had in my practice

you know half a dozen heartworm cases in idaho and i never have heartworm cases in idaho you know but i had a half a dozen that year from dogs that you know had come up from the south and and from

dogs that hadn't come up from the south who probably got bitten by a dog who had come up you see what i'm saying and so that the incidence of heartworm is expanding a little bit the bad news is there is not an herb that'll solve

that problem for you okay there are herbs that will kill heartworms um but you have to prevent heartworms okay and there's herbs that would

prevent them but the dosage and frequency you would have to use to prevent them with an herb like black walnut or something is not safe for a dog

to give him as much as you need to give for as long as you need to give it is a bad idea okay and so really the safest way if you're in a heartwarming endemic area

just put them on the harbor meds okay that's that's going to be the safe thing to do um i wish i had a magic wand and a wonderful weed that could solve that problem but i don't okay and you'll read on the internet

that this will kill them and that'll kill them and it will sure you bet but it's not safe at the dosing and frequency that you'd have to do to make it be a real solution so

no good news there i'm afraid all right let's talk about bacterial and viral infections this is another area where herbs really shine um [Music] and uh

you know this can be anything this can be a respiratory virus there's a brand new canine influenza that's only been around for a few years i'm guessing what maybe three or four

years i am i have no concept of the passage of time it hasn't been very many years anyway it came from japan

um and it was a horse flu it was a horse influenza originally uh and like all good influences it mutated so it could get into dogs or somebody else right that's where we get

bird flu and swine flu right they mutate and jump species anyway this horse flu jumped into dogs and then it has to mutate again so it can jump from one dog to another dog and

all the influenzas have to do that they have to mutate to go to another species and then they have to mutate again to be transmissible between that members of that species okay

so the dogs at the racetrack got the flu and then it mutated again and they started coughing on their neighbors and it had been a little bit of a problem in japan and other parts of asia

but we didn't have any of it here and then uh a nice lady came to chicago to a big dog show with her little dog from japan and that little dog had the flu

and the next thing we knew in the united states because it was a dog show right so she was exposing all kinds of all kinds of dogs from all kinds of places

and they all went home to all kinds of places because it was a big national show and next thing we knew we had influenza in every state in the union canine influenza so the good news is there's good herbs for

respiratory viruses um influenzas and coronas we've been fighting a corona global pandemic in dogs for as long as i've been in practice uh and

vaccines for some of the kronos are completely ineffective and for some are marginally effective and for some are pretty good depends which corona it is every species has its own corona cats have one dogs

have one pigs have one cattle have everybody has one humans have several you may have heard of one lately but anyway they're herbs that are very good for that um

and it could also be an infection that could be a bacterial infection could be a wound that's infected could be you know a bite wound or a sore throat strep throat uh is one of the very few diseases

that's transmissible from humans to animals and vice versa so if you have strep throat in the family don't kiss the dog or he'll get it and then he'll kiss you back in a week and you'll get it again okay

anyway most infections are not transmissible like that between humans and dogs um rabies is also don't kiss your dog if he's rabid

but uh ringworm is and not very many things pretty rare anyway strep is one of them um but there's so when you're fighting an infectious disease as an herbalist

what i do is i attack it on two flanks right one is with herbs that kill the bugs and one is with herbs that stimulate the immune system so she can kill the bugs

right so we're attacking from two two different angles um this formula here is uh immunity and infection support um and so it's got herbs like astralis

which are immune stimulants echinaceas immune stimulant olives immune stimulant but those plants also have direct antiviral and direct antibacterial properties and of course you got siberian ginseng

which is a tonic for everything including the immune system uh calendula which is antiviral antibacterial so it's a good formula it's a good general formula if you're fighting a very specific thing

there are more specific formulas on homegrounderbots.net uh you know really powerful antiviral respiratory formulas um

that's another topic in fact look around on my youtube channel there's a thing on respiratory stuff for humans have a look at that all right um

so inflammation and arthritis this is another thing that i do a ton of in my practice um dogs get arthritis right and it's really common in older dogs

and i've used this formula for years and years and years on dogs uh with arthritis i don't see it much in cats but dogs get a lot cats occasionally do

and i would say in my practice i could probably count on one hand the number of dogs that were on medicine for arthritis most of them were just doing the herbs and doing fine if they did the herbs and it wasn't

quite enough we'd put them on the meds but like i say precious view of i don't know how many dogs were in my vet practice you know a lot

of thousands of dogs probably um but anyway only a handful were on meds most of them were just taking the herbs so some herbs have a direct anti-inflammatory effect like willow willow has

basically has aspirin in it okay that's where aspirin came from not from willow but from spirea which is another plant the word aspirin is a aspirea out of spirea that's where

it came from uh as many of our pharmaceuticals came from plants uh willow very similar turmeric's anti-inflammatory other herbs relax

muscles uh black cohosh cram bark other herbs calm the nerves directly like yucca or devil's claw things like

that other herbs decrease inflammation not by doing anything direct but by stimulating the liver and kidneys to get junk out of your blood so it doesn't precipitate

into your joints and cause inflammation right so you can take burdock or dandelion look root and it'll make your knees feel better because it's cleaning your blood okay so this formula this canine joint

support formula this is not one i would give to cats because i don't give aspirin based herbs to cats it's bad for them don't give as many cats um but i rarely see it in cats

so i don't you know we don't i don't have a cat formula i i certainly you could certainly make one i could make you one um but uh any of these herbs would be fine for the cat except the willow right so just take that one out if you're giving

it to a cat um but otherwise uh this is a great formula for arthritis and inflammation okay digestive issues so there's another

common problem with dogs dogs eat a lot of dumb things and they get gut trouble okay um so you know i mean i don't know how many cases of diarrhea and eneritis and constipation

and everything you can imagine with gut things parvo virus in dogs um and the good news is that herbs are fantastic at resolving gut issues

they're really really good if you give the body what it needs nine times out of ten it can fix itself okay and that's really true with with digestive system things

so let's just look at this formula this digestive support formula and we'll talk about who's in here okay marshmallow is like the most soothing stuff in the world if you have a mucous membrane that's grumpy about anything

marshmallows here your go-to gal okay and she'll make everybody feel better ginger um is good for stomach aches and stomach cramping and trouble like that

chamomile is very soothing on a chemical level it soothes the nerves in the gut okay so if you have diarrhea what is that well that's spasms right that's hyperactive gut

muscles hyperactive peristalsis right things are moving too fast so they're not hanging around in the colon and getting the water reabsorbed like they're supposed to okay that's why you get running running stools

and so chamomile calms the nerves down and tells everybody to have a nap and quit being sicilian hyper and then things hang around longer and the water gets absorbed and you have a firm stool like you're supposed to

um dandelion leaf is a liver tonic so it improves digestion through bile channels right

fennel is good for is what they call a carminative herb carbonative comes from an old word that means combing right because we card wool

right we comb it carbonative comes from that same latin root so it's good for gas pains colic indigestion babies with belly aches psyllium is a fiber feeds the good guy

bacteria and bulks the stool and sage is in the mint family and all the mints are good for your guts sage is especially good because in

addition to being calming it's got some antibacterial effects against bad guy bugs it doesn't bother the good guys and it's a good astringent for diarrhea

cases so this formula regard and i've used these kinds of things on dogs for ages you know and it fixes about anything if you have a dog that has

food sensitivities this formula can help them and so and that's a long-term maintenance thing we're not going to cure that usually but this is a really really great formula

it's one of my first grabs for anything to do with the guts all right let's talk about urinary tract troubles so you know kidney and blabber problems are another area where herbs are really

great bladder infections kidney stones fuss and cats fus stands for feline urologics syndrome uh which basically means they got

crystals plugging up their tallywhacker okay boycats get it and so they can't pee that's bad for him if the cat is not peeing or the dog if urine's not moving get them to the vet

because their bladder will blow up right or that hyper pressure will damage their kidneys if they're not moving stuff at all get them to the vet but

if they are moving stuff at all i can usually dissolve that stuff with herbs okay i've i've treated a lot of dogs a lot of cats with herbal interventions you know

dissolving stuff there's a lot of herbs are good at dissolving things in the urinary tract uh parsley root and gravel root are rock stars for that and then the other thing

we do is we increase urine flow with things like dandelion leaf or corn silk guys like that um we can add astringent herbs like uva ursi

that you know acidify the urine and kill the bugs that way we can add marshmallow which again is just soothing and also it

has some very particular activity in the bladder to treat bladder infections probably because it you know strengthens the mucosa of the

bladder so it's not as easy for the bugs to get there the bladder can fight it like it's supposed to because marshmallow's there and she loves him and so it must be okay and so it just is able to fight better it also provides some coating that makes adherence to the

bacteria harder but it's marshmallow's a rock star for for bladder stuff all right now there's another thing that's a

little weird in dogs that people don't get and that is urinary incontinence and people get urinary incontinence i get that but they don't get it for the same reasons the dogs get it okay the reason dogs get urinary incontinence

uh it's it's a typically it's always a female dog and it happens when she's sleeping okay so you can have the most house broken

dog in the world really a good girl and when she lays down and goes to sleep the urine leaks out and she gets up and she's terribly embarrassed because she's a good girl she doesn't do things like that it's very stressful for the dogs and of course it's stressful for the

moms and the dads that have to clean up the urine pill spill but what is happening there well what's happening is um the

there's two sphincters in the bladder okay there's the internal sphincter and there's the external speaker i think there's a little fish that closes the thing up so it doesn't leak okay it's just a little circle of muscle right

and the internal sphincter is involuntary you don't have any control over that one uh and it's an estrogen-dependent muscle so if there's not enough estrogen in the

system that sphincter can't work the external sphincter is voluntary and could care less how much estrogen's in the system right it's a different deal and so when the dog's awake she keeps

her voluntary sphincter closed her external sphincter but when she lies down and goes to sleep and the voluntary one relaxes a little the involuntary one the estrogen dependent one has been open all day and

out comes the ear okay so you see it when they're asleep or when they're really relaxed laying down um it only happens really

in older spade dogs and most dogs that you spay don't have that issue at all it you know in my practice with my bazillion dogs that are in my practice

i might have i mean three or four incontinent dogs you know and and i spay two or three dogs a day for all day every day you know so it's not

like there aren't a population of spayed females out there that are having trouble but once in a while because most of them when when you do a spay on a dog you're doing an ovarial hysterectomy removing

the hip the uterus and the ovaries and so estrogen levels are going to crash and why don't they go and go into menopause and have all those troubles well because dogs make more estrogen in

other parts of their body than humans do okay and for most dogs for 99.9 percent of dogs that's enough and they're fine and they're and everything's great and they don't care that they're spayed

but for a very small percentage of dogs as they get older and now there's even less estrogen in the other parts of their body they start having not enough to keep that sphincter closed so what do you do well if you're

a you know a modern veterinarian you give them estrogen pills or you give them propranolol which is another pharmaceutical that can solve the problem but

the problem with estrogen pills they can they can increase cancer rates uterine and you know mammary cancer rates spade dogs don't get uterine cancer

but they can get mammary cancer and high estrogen will do that to them sometimes it you know and it's not common for you know the estrogen pill to cause the cancer but it's more common for dogs with mammary cancer if they

have estrogen pills on board and so there's some herbal things we can do and they also contain estrogens but they're phytoestrogens and they're not as intense and they don't seem to cause the

problem herbs like black cohosh red clover dong kwai all of those have phytoestrogens plant estrogen zoom okay

herbs like red raspberry leaf tone and strengthen all of the musculature in that part of the body and so there's there's herbs that we can

use and and they're pretty effective um sometimes that's all you need in my experience sometimes you still supplement with a little estrogen but you don't do it nearly as often

maybe you're doing it once a week you know giving them a pill and then doing the herbs every day so it just depends on the case but and but in a lot of cases that are formulas enough for an old dog with incontinence

all right ringworm right so ringworm is actually not a worm you knew that right ringworm is a fungus i don't know why they call it ringworm and they call it ringworm because it makes a little circular lesion but i

don't know where they got the worm thing anyway it's a fungus and there are modern topical pharmaceuticals you can use on ringworm which are very effective and there's internal medicines you can

use for severe cases of ringworm which are very effective usually but they're also not safe okay internal anti-fungal systemic antifungals taken internally

are often really hard on the liver or really hard on the kidneys or really hard on the gut bacteria and kind of a mess so whenever possible i avoid those

um and i have treated a lot of cases over the years topically with herbs spring worm cases and had good luck with it um the only tricky thing about that is getting the tincture to

stay on for a minute because if the dog or the cat licks it off it ain't gonna help right and so i mean it might help a little internally but it's not gonna solve the problem typically and so

you know if if if the ringworm is on top of his head you're okay if it's on his foot or his belly or anywhere else on his body he can reach it with his licker and you

better put an elizabethan color on him or something or the stuff won't stay online enough to his job and so these are the herbs i use i use uh black walnut garlic and calendula and bergamot and people say garlic i thought

garlic was bad for dogs it is internally this isn't an internal product and even internally you have to give a lot of garlic okay anything any formula

on homegrownerbliss.net or herb that has garlic in it you can give internally a dog and they'll be perfectly safe okay you have to give a lot of garlic to a dog onions are the same way they're toxic to dogs too but they have to eat a lot of

them and what they do is they suppress blood production the bone marrow so you get anemias anyway this formula and the bergamot just another note the bergamot in this

formula is not the essential oil bergamot okay um that's a completely different plant this is monarch fish chilosa which is the mint family

the bergamot they make the essential oil out of it is a little citrus fruit from southeast asia somewhere i don't even know it's a little green orange from thailand or something or indonesia

anyway they have the same name i don't know the latin name that's why you use latin names when you do a google search guys um anyway you put this tincture on topically you know

and you do it several times a day the more the merrier and it'll kill the ringworm in my experience let's talk a little bit about essential oils um

i am not a fan at all of essential oil use in pets unless you're extraordinarily aware of what you're doing

okay and even then i'm usually not a fan all right essential oils some essential oils are very toxic to cats and small dogs okay the bigger dogs

have less trouble the other problem we're seeing in the veterinary profession is we're seeing dogs dying of liver failure because their mom has a diffuser in the house with essential oils in it

right and so it's a problem because dogs livers are different than humans livers and they metabolize things differently and they turn them into different stuff if you

give grapes to a dog you can ruin his kidneys and kill him what how is that possible it's because he turns them into something we don't turn them into

okay and it's a toxin and it kills their kidneys and so you know there aren't very many herbs that are dangerous like that grapes is one uh

you know garlic in high doses onions and high doses hops and high doses can be a problem anyway there's a very very few but a lot of the essential oils can be a problem and especially if

they're inhaled because really in my opinion god didn't make any essential oils so we would inhale them right in high concentrations that's not the plan maybe it's better to use things

the way that nature sort of had them designed to be used you know and so essential oils topically is good inside your lungs i don't know if that's as

good inside of dog lungs don't do it okay so um anyway this is the fungal topical formula for ringworm um and i would you know it says three to

four times daily if you do it more it'll work better okay more is better frequency wise okay let's talk about venomous bites and stings so i have a veterinary practice

and i have a naturopath practice okay and so if you were a dog you went to that building if you were sick as a dog you went to this building and i saw i live in idaho rural idaho and deserty idaho and so we see rattlesnake bites

once in a while in dogs i never see them in the people and why is that well it's because when people hear that noise they don't stick their head under the bush and say why are you making that noise would you like to be friends right

it's always right on the dog's nose because he was sticking his nose where it didn't belong um and they are potentially deadly you know rattlesnake bites but also

spider bites you know hobo spiders brown ray clues spiders black widows black widows almost never bite okay but hobos and brown recluses will bite you especially the hobos

hobos look just like a lot of the wolf spiders you can't hardly tell them apart without a microscope i was an entomologist before i was a veterinarian and it's hard i mean there's little tiny tidbits of difference under a scope to

tell a hobo from a wolf but you can always tell a hobo from a wolf because when you walk into the room the wolf runs away and the hobo chases you okay that's how you tell a hobo they're very aggressive

anyway we see bite wounds from snakes and spiders and i see a lot of spider bites in the humans uh just not as many rattlesnakes but the venom is the same it's a very necrotizing

tissue dissolving venom because spiders don't eat things they drink things right so they inject a venom with a high concentration of an enzyme called hyaluronidase hyaluronidase

that dissolves the glue that holds your cells together which is hyaluronic acid right so it liquefies the tissue and then it drinks you through a straw that's how spiders eat okay and rattlesnakes do the same thing they're liquefying the mouse

so he dissolves faster so they don't have a big lump in their belly when they're squirreling around in the desert right it speeds up the digestion so um

what do we do well we use snake oil right uh anytime a doctor calls herbs snake oil say thank you doctor you're absolutely right they were fabulous for snake bites

snake oil was actually made from echinacea root an echinacea root is a rock star for venomous bites uh and why is that well because echinacea root inhibits that enzyme it

shuts it down and anywhere i start a dog or a human from a spider or a dog from rattlesnake anywhere i start

the herbs on that wound is where the tissue destruction stops in its tracks every time i've never seen it progress after i start the herbs because echinacea does two things it shuts down

the enzyme and echinacea stimulates your body to make more hyaluronic acid right and so you know if your house is made of bricks those are the cells

and the mortar holding the bricks together is the hyaluronic acid right and you throw the snake venom on it and it dissolves all the hyaluronic gas and the bricks start falling off echinacea stops that process and slaps

more mortar on okay so it's a rock star for for venomous bites and that's what they used to make snake oil out of anyway another herb in this formula is plantain that's great at pulling poison out of the body

marshmallow and marshmallow we've talked a lot about marshmallow if i only had five herbs marshmallow would be one of those five herbs but one of the things that's really

remarkable about marshmallow is it stops tissue from dying it it if you have a wound like i get wounds in a vector like all the time where the line is starting to form and they're going to have gangrene

and everything's going to die and fall off on the other side of that line if i get marshmallow on that topically and in that animal internally in 12 hours that line's gone every single time for 30 years

well probably 30 years i probably haven't been doing that for 30 it's probably 15 or 20 years anyway it's every time it stops it's it's like marshmallow can talk tissue out of dying if it isn't

dead yet and so for these venomous bites it's it's amazing and then the other herb in that form is dandelion root which is a liver and kidney tonic so we're going to eliminate toxins right that's what the liver and kidneys do they get poison out of your body and so

this formula like i said i actually created this formula my daughter was a student she's up in college she got bit on a hand by a brown by a hobo spider

and she starts getting this big circle on the palm of her hand and goes to the doctor and he says i'm sorry sweetheart that's a hobo bite you're gonna slough half of your palm and there's nothing i can do for you but he put her on an antibiotic even though there was no

infection because you got to do something right anyway that wasn't the answer she was looking for so she came running home to daddy the herbalist and i actually created this formula for her

that day i just took the powdered herbs mixed them with water and made a poultice and then poked it in her every three hours or so internally changed the

poultice several times during the day and within 12 hours that circle that was starting to form was gone within 24 hours the pink was gone and she never lost any tissue or had any more trouble with that bite okay so that's when i

started really getting serious and and a week later i had a little dog come in that had been bitten on the nose by a rattlesnake a little puppy was probably three months old and his head was the size of a volleyball

right and they had found he lived out in the desert and they found his brother dead under the bush next to the rattlesnake and him laying next to his brother with his head all swelled up

and anyway brought him in and i couldn't put it on him topically because he's a puppy and that he put herbs on a puppy's nose topically you know some things can't be done

and hope to leave them there uh but i gave him the formula internally and in 12 hours his head was normal sized and in 24 hours he went home no tissue loss at all

okay so this is a tremendous formula and since then like i say i've had lots and lots of cases of snake bite and lots and lots of cases of of spider bites

and it just works really great sometimes the weeds are better guys as a as a modern veterinary surgeon i got nothing for rattlesnake bites except anti-bannon

which i don't have you know i mean i guess if i drove to boise i could buy some you know at an emergency clinic for 300 bucks a bag but the weeds work beautifully

all right let's talk about some wounds okay so another thing i do a lot of as a veterinarian is wound cases and i just want to warn you it's light in there that warned you but

it disappeared there's going to be some graphic images and i'm sorry cover your eyes if you're a sensitive individual you should cover your eyes to watch the rest of this okay um

anyway this is juno juno got run over in her driveway she's a little old lady and she can't see very good and she can't hear very good and she ended very fast and her dad was driving home and she saw him driving up the driveway and

she ran out to tell him she loves him and he ran her over because he didn't see her she wasn't fast enough to get out of the way uh three days and i broke her hip in like several places

three days later all of this skin died and fell off right excuse me all the skin died and sloughed off

and what do you do with that you know and so what we did with that is we used herbs all this dog got was herbs and this is her

later okay the wound is completely healed she has a little scar there but that is a manageable comb over for an alaskan eskimo all right oops pushing the wrong button

all right here's reggie and reggie was a cat i don't know if you could tell that right away but i can assure you he was because i am a trained professional reggie uh had some trouble with his

staff uh sometimes they wouldn't let him in when he called at the door and so he got in the habit of crawling under the hood of the car on cold winter days because the engine

of the car was warm sometimes and uh one day one of his staff members went to buy some catnip or something important and started the car while he was in there

and his foot got tangled up in the fan belt and tore all the skin off that's called a de-gloving injury right we've taken the glove off and there's no more skin there uh it's really important in the winter to tap your horn before you start the

car if you live around cats because they like to get up there work for them this is a cat who would do nothing internally juno got herbs internally okay uh because she's a dog

reggie wouldn't have anything to do it i gave him the food with the herbs and he looked at me like i'm sorry didn't my staff tell you that i only eat cat food right and so he wasn't going for it and so this was actually an experimental case

and i only used the uh herbs topically on him that's all he did and here's his foot i think this is three weeks if i remember right go to the blog you can find go to

homegrownerbus.net to the blog there's a lot of wound cases human and cat and dog uh similar situations i've done a lot of these over the years anyway he healed right up with the herbs

uh here's another little dog this is a dog that had a little los opso and and she had a shih tzu one of those little fuzzy guys i can't remember anyway her name was morgan really a cute sweet little

dog and she broke her leg and another vet put a cast on it i hate casts on dogs because they get wet they run out to piddle in the morning and the dude gets on the cast the cat swells up and get a pressure star

i never i never ever put casts on dogs um if they have a fractured bone uh i'll i'm i'm probably gonna do surgery and put a plate on the bone

uh if not i might do a splint that i can take off and change bandaging if it gets wet but i don't do casts on dogs okay anyway some other nice fellow put a cast on this one and it started to stink and

the owner says oh dear something's wrong she brought her to me and i looked at and i said yep she's got a cast and she got a pressure wound and i cut the cast off and took her to surgery and put a plate on the bone so it wouldn't

would be done but then what do you do with his wound i mean these are her you know ligaments and nerves these little white structures here i mean that's a deep deep wound

and all we did was herbs on her this is seven days later okay it's insane how fast this helps uh all right so

how the heck do you do that how do you heal wounds like that right that's kind of startling isn't it these guys are very startled and uh this is how you do it this is the

formula okay it's the poultice formula and for many many years i did the poultice formula as a poultice i was mr poultice man i was out preaching the pulses all over the country and

all over the western states anyway uh i was a real uh evangelical about poultices and loved them and used them

all the time in my vet practice and then i had several cases that were impossible to post poultice and i started making a tea out of the

same formula and spraying it on and then i got thinking why am i making a tea why don't i use a tincture but an alcohol tincture is too you know you don't want to spray that on a wound i mean even i had that figured

out before it did it and so i diluted it with some water so i put a teaspoon of the tincture into two to four ounces of water and put it in a little spray bottle and

i spray it on right most tinctures if you're using them topically like that fungal ringworm thing you just use the tincture straight right there's a lot of herbs we can use topically for a lot of things we can have a whole nother

conversation about that someday for pain and for all kinds of cool things but anyway for this formula this is the only one where i mix the tincture with a little water just so it doesn't sting because the alcohol sting and it works

great and the nice thing about it is it's way less work it's way less mess the tincture has a shelf life of years and years and years and so it's there when you need it you

know if you buy powdered poultice it's good for a year or two you know powdered herbs are good for a year or two but tinctures last for a long time and so if you have a bottle of this poultice tincture on your cupboard shelf it'll be

there five years from now and all of a sudden you need it real bad and you just mix it with a little water and spray it on now when you mix it with water now the shelf life's two or three days right keep it in the fridge but until

you mix it it's it's lasts forever and you put you know you mix up your little bottle you mix up a fresh bottle every two or three days right you make a little bottle of it

um but it's truly amazing the wound healing properties of this formula are astounding and it's not because i'm a genius or magic anything these are just rock star herbs okay these are herbs people are using

for forever okay and and this is a formula i developed and it's got a lot of great guys and it comfrey accelerates healing it's it causes cells

to divide way faster so it decreases wound healing times calendula is an antibiotic and an anti-inflammatory and it also accelerates healing plantain pulls

poisons out and it accelerates healing uh marshmallow remember talks tissue out of dying and is also very soothing lobelia is an anti-spasmodic why do i have an anti-spasmodic in a wound

formula why do i want a muscle reaction in a wound formula well that's a good question it's because it's an antispasmodic and it's relaxing the musculature

the micromusculature around the microvasculature of the wound area so that good stuff can get in and the bad stuff can get out okay so it's improving blood flow

uh yarrow is another good antibiotic an anti-inflammatory and it stops bleeding if he had a bleeding wound and cayenne and cayenne they're just a pinch of cayenne in here but

cayenne does three things one it stops bleeding two it's got some antibacterial properties and three it has some pain killing properties that involve substance p it actually when you put it on

the first second it's quite zingy and then all of a sudden it's less painful and so that's a great formula i've used it

i don't even know countless times and it always works i mean i've never used this on a wound and not been like holy cow i can't believe what this is doing i still can't

do the poker face i still look surprised and amazed every time it's a great formula go to herbpet.com and buy a bottle of that and stick it in your medicine cabinet for when your

dog does something bad or your husband does something bad and wax his finger open or something or your brother-in-law wax his leg open with a chainsaw during the apocalypse the wounds we've healers down go to go

to homegrowners.net which is the other website and look at the blog and look at some of those wound cases all right oh we did that

okay okay so that's it um so just a reminder if you want more depth and more information and a real really fun and deep and applicable real world herbal

education swing by to homegrowners.net and have a look at that homegrown urban school botanical medicine it's vastly cheaper than it should be it's you'll have lifetime access to everything

and you'll get trained by a guy that actually does this stuff all day which is good um also if you haven't read the books there's some good herbal education there those are available on homegrowner rules.net

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other videos so that's fun too so thanks for listening i appreciate let's look at some questions shall we um so here's the two websites that i've been yacking about all night

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so show us you do all right also uh let's get to some questions so i'm gonna see if i can make this work look i can make it work okay so

um stephanie says i have two golden doodles and was wondering what to do about the black buildup in the ears we cleaned the ears out doc you mentioned this is allergies what can we do to alleviate

okay it might be allergies sometimes it's just dirt in their ears and you clean it out but if they're inflamed and [ __ ] and stinky and bad it's an ear infection

okay and almost without exception once in a while if you have a dog that swims in the canal or something or you give him a bath you don't put cotton balls in his ear he'll get an ear infection from the water right the water gets all warm and

happy and it's a great place to be a yeast and the next thing you know go to your infection and you you treat that and clean it out you know make some calendula tea and clean that out or some garlic and calendula or something like that clean it out and kill those bugs but

almost always if a dog has ear infections it's because he has allergies okay the histamine releasing cells which are the symptom

generating cells in an allergy case right in humans they're mostly in our sinuses and respiratory tract in our eyes and so when we have an allergy we sneeze and wheeze and ball right

in dogs they're mostly concentrated in the skin and they're heavily concentrated in the ears and in the feet for some reason i don't know why so when a dog has allergies even if it's something he's inhaling

he gets itchy skin and he gets ear infections and he chews his feet because they itch like crazy right and so what do you do about that well we didn't cover that tonight because it's a huge topic all right

um [Music] but there's basically two things you can do you can we need to do a video about i think didn't i do a video about this on

immunity and anyway i don't know we cover in a lot of depth and detail in the school um but

go to the immunology the immune system modules and and the autoimmune modules and look there that's where all the allergy stuff is anyway um basically short answer is

try an elimination diet some dogs are allergic to corn or beef or chicken those are the three foods they're usually allergic to which are the three foods their dog food's usually made of so go to one of the big pet stores

and buy something weird like lamb and rice or duck and pea or aardvark and sweet potato some protein and plant he's never seen before

and feed him only that no table scraps no cheetos no nothing else or you don't know anything right feed him only that novel food and see if his allergies go away if they do it's a food allergy and

you win just don't feed them other stuff right just feed them the stuff he's not allergic to if it doesn't solve the problem it's not a food allergy and oftentimes it's not off and when we do allergy testing on

dogs it seems like they're always allergic to 30 different things you know they're allergic to bee pollen and dust mites and pine trees and sagebrush and

you know dog hair you know all kinds of things and so um now you got an allergy and so what do you do well um

in most of those cases you can't eliminate him from exposure and so you got to manage it and there's two things you can do to help manage it one is with antihistamine herbs

like brigham tea like nettles like eyebrite those have direct antihistamine effects and the other thing you can do is you can stimulate and support the liver why does that help well it's that helps

because the liver is the organ that removes histamines from the body okay so the happier your liver is the fewer allergy symptoms you have um we have a formula on

homegrownerless.net called histamine okay and we have a formula called liver support and liver builder those are the three i would look at for an allergy case now the problem is that with dogs

very much less so with humans but with dogs um most things i do with herbs with dogs it's like slam dunk you give the herbs

they do their thing works every time okay the exception to that is allergies and the reason is i think that sometimes dogs have a lot of plant allergies and you're giving them plants

to try and solve their plant allergy right and that that doesn't work sometimes and so with allergy dogs i give them the allergies and

you know maybe a third of them come back and think i'm really smart and two-thirds come back and say that didn't do anything right those dogs have plant allergies and it doesn't make it

any worse but it doesn't help to use the plants okay in my experience all right so um all right

so et phone home says oh my goodness i'm so blessed to catch you live i love your channel i'm glad you found us that's good um stephanie says i'm a new student in the online classes really enjoying the

information stephanie i'm really glad i'm glad you're liking that and having a good time i like having students it's so fun to interact with these folks all right um

judy says i hope you'll do some stuff for goats and poultry we absolutely will judy i've had goats and poultry on and off forever [Laughter]

all right and he says yay waiting for this class uh linda says love your videos for humans too good um all right other nice things people about

being students christy just got into the school that's fun uh angela says hi paul says hi jamie says hi from arkansas

um linda says she's excited to hear it and there's other people that are excited skin allergies to dogs we just talked about that itchy feet skin allergies and dogs same thing okay if

they're chewing their feet they've got allergies uh unless they have a fox tail right they have a little hole they have a fox juggle get that pulled out um it seems like all i do in idaho i don't know where you live but in idaho the

only thing i do with dogs from june until about september as pull fox shows out all right very half acre homestead says he's happy

to be here we're happy to have you all right and susan oh here's maniac says my cat prefers ketchup over bovine colostrum well there you go

do what you got to do put some ketchup try some ketchup on your herbs okay here's some more folks watching all right

christy says i have a dog with inflamed inverted nipples suggestions to help how do you keep her from licking any sav off well the only way to lick sav off

to keep from licking stab off is to mechanically creep her from doing it with an elizabethan collar or some kind of collar you can get them at big pet stores or your vet'll have one

but yeah you know some marshmallow on that some calendula on that uh would be soothing and kill the bugs if it's a real inverted nipple that's chronically

infected and always a miserable mess then that's a miserable mess that's long-term maintenance and maybe it's better to get that thing taken off you know but

you know the the herbs like calibula or yarrow topically either of those um would be soothing you can put some uh

marshmallow with that and make a lotion uh in the school we talk about how to make lotions how to make salves how to make fermentations and tinctures anything you can imagine how the heck do i make that

we cover it really in depth in the school uh if you need help on the mechanics of making the stuff and it's in my book to the homegrowner list if you don't have that one or don't know

okay um okay paul says what do you recommend for cleaning hobby ears javier how many is there cute little

shitsui looking cute little guys um how do you clean the ears out what would i use to clean the ears out well you can make a tea and again you can just buy the tincture

and mix it with a little water okay i wouldn't put the tincture in straight um or you can mix it with a little vinegar uh calendula is really good for cleaning out ears it's antibacterial it's anti-inflammatory it's anti-fungal what

else you got right so you just clean that with a cotton ball if it's just an ear infection but if it's chronic again it's probably allergies you need to address that

okay kathy says i'd love to hear about tick prevention um and i don't have anything on tick prevention with herbs i don't have diddly on it uh unfortunately and ticks can be a

serious problem they can you know rocky mountain spotted fever lime seeds a lot of stuff if you're in a high tick area um you probably need to use not an over-the-counter flea and tick product because some of

those are really dangerous um but go to your vet and get something they'll have something don't use a flea collar they almost never work and they're yucky but some of the

spot-ons that you can get from your vet are safe enough that i feel comfortable with them some of the ones you can get at the hardware store are not safe and i've seen a lot of dogs in big trouble that have been treated with some of those and i'm not going to name any

names but don't do that for fleas we didn't talk about fleas either and there's not an herb you can give i mean

there's not an herb you can give to really prevent fleas there's things you can do but i'll tell you the very best thing for fleas is dawn dishwashing liquid

really bathe your dog or your cat with dawn dishwashing liquid shampoo him with dawn soap like it's shampoo and leave it on for a minute and it'll kill the fleas it's fabulous for that

and then put a you know the only good thing to do with a flea collar is to put in your vacuum bag so that it kills the eggs and the fleas that you suck out of your carpet

that's a good use for a flea collar don't put it on your dog though but anyway those kinds of things but the dawn soap is my favorite way to get rid of fleas

but there's not an herb you can give or put on them that's effective enough to be worth the bother okay all right uh desiree tessano says i'm

curious about your opinion on raw food diets especially for cats i think raw food diets are vastly better than commercial dried

diets or canned diets if you can afford them and want to do it or make it yourself there's a couple of brands that are good there's one called primal there's one called nature's variety there's several others

it's a little more expensive but i'll tell you i've seen cases of dogs with severe digestive trouble you know food sensitivities and stuff or dogs with allergies

that if you switch them to a raw food diet they just go away right uh even to the raw food diet though i would add the nutritive herbs to bring up the

plant phytonutrient levels but yeah raw food diets are a really good idea you know it's sort of amazing but when we go back to doing the

things the way god designed us to do things everything works better right so dogs were designed to eat raw food they weren't designed to eat cooked corn dogs in kibble form

okay so it's it's a good idea to give them what they're supposed to eat okay um linda says her comfrey is up that's fun and lynn talks about allergies and itchy

feet we did that one paul says graceful puzzles of bush is abundant in our yard and i read it's related to stinging nettle may i use it as a nettle

paul i have no idea i've never heard of graceful puzzle bush that's fun uh i don't know i don't know anything about that that's uh that's one we'd have to look

up um but i know that you can use metals as metals that's what i use as nettles as metals okay uh maniacs says i read that people can get

heartworm people can get heartworm sort of surpassingly rarely it's it's like we talked about with the cats and and it's

even harder for a heartworm to figure out what's going on in a human than it is in a cat okay so it's not like the dog the mosquitos full of heartworms are only biting dogs they're biting everybody but like i said parasites tend to be

extremely host specific and if you put them in the wrong host they don't know what to do most of the time okay there's a few exceptions to that but not very many and there have been a few

cases of humans getting heartworm uh there have been a few cases of humans being born with two heads and four arms okay and that happens too also very rare

so it can happen but like i said it's very very rare um and uh not something you need to worry about if you don't want heartworms

rub some lemon balm on your skin and the mosquitoes won't know you're a mammal because you smell like a mint or a lemon balm bush any of the real aromatic mints are great for um bug repellent so there's a good

way uh the other way to not get heartworm is to be a human almost all the time so that's and i am i'm a human almost all the time okay so um

uh okay notice says how do you treat recurring urinary tract infections well that urinary tract formula is very effective um

and that's that's what i would do i would also make sure that the dog doesn't have a stone you know go get an x-ray and make sure he doesn't have kidney stones or something

but if there's no stone uh you can use that urinary formula and if there's a stone you can use that urinary formula but at least you'll know what's going on um

anyway can moringa be used for my dog 44 pounds you know that's a good question i don't know the answer to that question um if you will ask it in the comments below

the video i'll look it up i i don't use meringue and haven't i don't have a lot of exposure to it so i have to check but that's a good question moringa is sort of the fashionable new exciting herb this week so

uh but yeah i haven't used it i'll have to check my 12 year old large dog has diabetes and is on insulin would the joint support be okay to use yeah it'll

be okay to use yep um what would you suggest to help or to help prevent leptospirosis

well um there's a really good vaccine for leptospirosis the dhlpp vaccine has lepto in it the only way to get leptospirosis is to

it's transmitted in the urine of the animal that has it okay so unless your animal lives on a farm or is hanging around where there's wildlife

you probably won't get lepto anyway okay um [Music] but you know i would i would just do the vaccine and that's going to be astonishing to a lot of people to say

what i thought he was an herbalist why does he like vaccines well it's like i said dogs live in a third world country okay they don't live where you live i mean it looks like they live where you live but it's a very different world for them

uh and so their risk of exposure to things like parvovirus to things like lepto and peri influenza and distemper and all those things is way higher

you know than your exposure risk is to measles or mumps so for you to say i'm not going to give my kid a measles shot or mumpshot you know at some point everything is a risk right there's a

risk benefit analysis and with humans in first world countries we're about to the point where we can start to say gee the risk of the vaccine is worse than the risk of catching measles

right i mean all the other kids in this kindergarten class have been vaccinated how they're actually going to get measles anyway you know and so you have to make those decisions and i'm not saying

yay or nay on you know human vaccines that's a personal decisions but on dog vaccines i'm going to say yay all right because you have to understand that their risk of getting a

disease that might kill them is way higher because of their lifestyle and their the realities of the world they live in so if you don't want lepto get your dog a shot and and i would recommend

that that you get you know the puppy shots when he's a little guy and you know i think we do over vaccinate our dogs i don't think they need it every year

probably but i i'm i am a proponent of vaccinating dogs now do i have clients that never vaccinate and don't have problems because i use a lot of herbs yeah i do but you better be doing that all the

time and you better be making some lifestyle choices with that dog that he doesn't go anywhere and then it's okay you know and i have dogs that you know

don't do uh vaccines on the dog i mean owners but they but they are giving immune support formulas and

they're doing things as needed and their dogs don't get sick but they don't ever leave the backyard and they don't you know what i mean and so it's it's a risk benefit analysis and you got to

do that for lepto get the shot all right um i've had several dogs that love to eat chinese elm tree leaves should i worry about that no chinese elm tree leaves are good

medicine and they're good for you if you ever have a their elm elm is slippery um is an elm and they're all the same it doesn't matter it's chinese elmer's slippery oh

that won't hurt him a bit thanks for this program doc i'm always blown away by your knowledge and even better the way you have of making things simple and easy to understand i'm glad kelly i'm glad all

right linda says allergies go into the chest cough and rattle my little chihuahua looks like pain in his abs from half cough honey worked great for a week then he

avoided it could it be pancreatitis uh well so pancreatitis won't have any respiratory symptoms

the cough doesn't have anything to do with pancreatitis pancreatitis symptoms uh are typically vomiting diarrhea and severe pain in the cranial abdomen

that's pancreatitis symptoms it's very rare for a dog to have allergies result in a cough if a dog has a serious cough i'd get it diagnosed

sometimes it's heart disease you know sometimes it's i mean it can be a lot of other things it's almost never allergies so it might be good to get that little guy in and you know what i'm a proponent of that

all the time you know people email me here call me or ask me questions and say you know my dog i think he's got this what should i do and i said you should take him to the vet and find if

he's got that and then once he's got that now we know something and we can we'll go on from there right humans too if you can't figure out what's going on go to the doctor and get a diagnosis

right they're great at diagnosing stuff all right um tbb farm says dog with recessed vulva has perivolvular dermatitis

haven't found anything that works um again uh if it's a mechanical thing that's gonna be chronically inverted and and

wonky you're gonna have chronic fluid buildup in there you know and chronic inflammation and infection you can manage that but you can't probably cure it because

you'll catch it again next week because of those anatomical structure problems it's probably a herb it's a vulva right right now to him anyway she'll get it again next week

uh you could use that immunity infection formula it you know if you had a tincture of that you could spray that on uh i'd probably put a little water in it if you're going on the vulvas that might be a little tender

um we have a formula on homegrown it's called bug buster that you could make it you know the put a little water in that to dilute it just a little if it's going on a vulva and spray that or you know and that will kill the bugs but

again it's not gonna cure the problem you know it's not gonna i mean you'll cure it today but in three days he still has she still has an inverted vulva and you're still gonna have trouble you might be able to get a

surgical solution for that you know sometimes sometimes you need a good mechanic you can solve a problem like that okay uh my dog

where are we my dog's highly allergic to bee stings is there something i could give her as a preventative to alleviate the severe reaction um well there's not something you could

give her as i mean as a preventative i mean that histamine formula that we have on homegrown net is good you know i mean if you knew she was

going to get stung in 10 minutes and gave it to her that would be great it would help as a preventative but i don't know that i'd give it to her all day every day you know what i mean long term uh probably better as a response than a

prophylactic all right rose says thanks you're welcome thanks for coming um [Music] bert we live in connecticut and ticks are a big issue do you have any formulas

and what are your thoughts on herbal topical tiki formulas with essential oils in them like i said i don't like essential oils

typically on dogs especially small dogs they can be a problem um i don't have any herb for my little little sullivantic problem i have some herb problems that'll solve a lyme

disease problem afterwards but i don't have a problem i think if you live in a high tick area and i'm an herbalist okay i'm a naturopath i'm an herbalist i'm as fringy as anybody you know hugging trees sometimes i even wear

tie-dye okay i'm serious and i'm committed and i think if you live in a high tick area you need to get some kind of a pharmaceutical spot on to protect your dog from ticks because the lyme's disease and the rocky

mountain fever and the other stuff is a disaster and and what's the you know do the risk benefit analysis you know what i mean um we need to not have this turf war

where everything that the other guys have must be bad you know and they think everything we have must be bad that's dumb we don't want to do that okay they have some great tools we have some great tools

the trick is to know all the tools and pick the one that's the great tool you know and sometimes the pharmaceutical is the great tool sometimes surgery is the great tool sometimes the herb oftentimes the herb

is a great tool and sometimes it's a way better tool right sometimes it's not and in the case of ticks it's not okay um okay jack says i'm excited i keep the

homegrowner rush book i have the uh home garbage book on its way if you have a book about pet care i don't um but i will soon because everyone here keeps telling me i have to

so we are going to be doing like i said some serious modules in the school on pet stuff and and livestock stuff um but i'll probably end up doing a book here this year too

some of the photos are missing on your blog can you put them back up oh yeah you know somebody emailed me about that a little while ago and i'm meaning to do that i'll get them back up there's a case on miracle max in a wound case that

all the pictures disappeared because it was on a different website that i had 100 years ago thoughts on diatomaceous earth for dogs so diatomaceous earth is basically

powdered fossilized diatoms which were little tiny mineral-rich critters that lived a long time ago and diatomaceous earth

can have some effect internally on parasites it can scrape the mucous off is literally what it does and then and then they have trouble living in an acid an enzyme-rich

environment if their protection is scraped off it also has the same effect on insects you can put it in your carpet and stuff and it'll help with flea problems you can put it in your dog's hair and it'll help with flea

problems a little but it's very high labor intensive and now you've got diatomaceous earth all over your house you know what i mean uh but no it's not harmful to dogs in any way and it's sometimes helpful on some levels

um yep okay nona says any new books in the near future yes i'm working on a couple of books right now i'm working on a book on medicinal trees

i'm working on a book on the mint family and i'm working on soon we'll be working on a book on veterinary stuff animal stuff we use the poultice formula on my

daughter's boxer she was attacked by another dog open wounds drain surgery worked great very few scars amazing that's from diana i'm so glad one thing to be aware of that i forgot to mention i'm glad you brought this up

um it is wise to be very careful using comfrey on a small puncture wound because sometimes it'll seal them up too

fast and then you get an abscess okay if it's a cut or a tear or any kind of other wound if the opening is big enough this stuff can drain out of it don't worry about it use it but if it's a really deep narrow channel like from a

puncture wound uh comfrey's probably not your best bet on that case i would probably use calendula and plantain because they're also have some mild uh

wound healing properties but it's not as fast something's sort of healed from the inside out okay um half acre homestead says i own both of the books use them all the time i'm glad

i'm glad all right can you repeat the treatment for a dog that had the open wound on his leg and hip so

bad it couldn't be done with stitches oh the wounded yeah you used a poultry to prevent ganker you spoke about this a long time ago yeah so that's um

and all these cases are the same i mean there's one on if you go to homegrowners.net go to the blog and do a search for miracle max and they'll pull that up and i'll fix the pictures here tomorrow or what day

is today friday i'll probably fix the pictures monday uh but yeah that was the case there was nothing i could do surgically and i just used the poultice on him i gave him some

internal herbs too um juno same thing the one that had the little uh alaskan eskimo same thing big wounds no way to close it it was too big so we just did the herbs

uh same thing well all the cases we showed you on tonight there was no way surgically to close it there was no there wasn't enough skin there so we used the pulse formula on them and it did great

um so yeah go go to homegrownerblist.net and look at the juno case look at the reggie case and the morgan the little dog with the foot

it tells you how i did all those things okay all right and i'll put some cases like that on herb bet too so you have them okay um

lenses thanks for the doc for the information love your webinars i'm glad okay um okay what to use for cat ear infections

same as for dogs to clean them out um calendula make a calendula tea that'll work if it's a bacteria if it's really an ear infection if it's mites

um then you need to do some different things uh we should have a webinar about that anyway um sometimes just some mineral oil or olive oil will

suffocate the mites um but there's also really good treatments that your vet can do that are very safe because it's all topical and it's not it's it's okay to do it

um some of the products you use for fleas and ticks will get mites too ear mites all right all right i have a healer

that was diagnosed with thyroid cancer for two years are you too far away for treatment uh do you send through the mail we sell everything we sell we send through the mail

um thyroid cancer i mean i'm in idaho and i and i sold my vet practice um and you can probably find somebody local that can do it just as well

because that's a surgical case okay um not an herb case i do use herbs on cancer dogs and it seems to help slow things down improve quality of life

it's very very very rare except with bladder cancers for some reason but for most cancers it's very very very rare that the herbs actually cure the cancer

i've had like i can count them on one hand in my all my years and i've and i've addressed a lot that the cancer went away but there are herbs

that you can use to support the body and help it fight the cancer and do better one is the immune support formula and if you go to homegrown nervous there's one called blood cleanse

uh that i use this to immunity support and blood cleanse um and it seems to help that seems to make them feel better longer and do better longer but it's probably not gonna make the tumor disappear

okay um john says any suggestions for seizures in dogs and cats i have treated some dogs and cats for seizures with herbs and sometimes it's enough

i like passionflower and skull cap for that sometimes it's enough sometimes it's not enough and you go to the meds and that's okay in many in most cases in a lot of cases

with seizures the herbs work for a while and then and then you need to get on the meds too so it just depends on the case but passion flower and skull cap are

worth a try certainly okay um dr jones so excited for the new modules about animals in school yeah that'll be fun tick bites on cats

uh well if it's an infected bite use that immunity infection formula uh internally and you could put on topically too um what's it take to get you to come to a

workshop well i don't know if you've got any donuts or anything what are we what are you offering [Laughter] i do um i do do road trips and workshops it

depends where you are um but if you're anywhere in in the intermountain west uh we we can probably work something out

and of course we do stuff here too you know in at our own facility here in idaho in fact uh shameless plug we are doing some workshops here

sometime in april i don't know when uh but if you go to homegrowners.net and go to the events page it'll tell you when and where and what we're doing

um may 20th which is not in april evan hollard from the other room it's may 20th all right i guess in april i'm going down to a bunch of conferences in utah but

anyway okay um to speak and do stuff anyway annie shoot me an email we'll see what we can do for you any thoughts on pneumonia and pigs i keep giving

antibiotic but it isn't helping much anything i can do with herbs yeah you bet um [Music] that's a whole new topic respiratory stuff but we do have

um if if you go to homegrown herbalist.net there's a kit there called the respiratory preparedness kit look at that kit and look at the formulas in

that kit and you know it'll tell you there's a button on there that says how to use the formulas in this kit it'll tell you what to do um but you know there's a formula called shoe flu there's a formula called

immunity support there's a lot of formulas with pigs you can just feed them the powder you know i wouldn't buy that little tincture kit for pigs i'd certainly buy one for for you

for when you need it but for for pigs i'd buy the powder and dose them you know because they'll eat it but that would probably help also the big thing with pigs and i used to do a

lot of pig work uh i used to live in minnesota as a veterinarian and i did a lot of consulting for pig farmers and the biggest problem is ventilation and overcrowding you know so

if you can get to the source of why they're getting stressed and sick and trouble in the first place a lot of times it's ventilation and overcrowding that's causing pneumonia and we're blaming the bugs i mean the bugs are in there too and we gotta kill them once they're

there but prevention is a good thing okay uh audrey says how to help a teeny dog who's ancient

and has no teeth and still eats but is still skin and bones well um i would do a couple of things i would put her on that i said what's in her

maybe it's him i'd put him on some of that nutritive formula the nutrition prebiotic that'd be good um i might put him on some fish oil to fatten him up a little bit

if he's really thin uh sometimes i'll put him on puppy food for a while because it's more calorically dense and vitamin rich than adult food those are some ideas um

i have a goose with arthritis in her ankle from an injury that didn't get treated she lives badly any herbs for geese so i have to say

i've never treated arthritis in a goose shoot i thought i was doing so good tonight arthritis and goose so first of all you can give geese herbs

just like ducks and chickens which i have done and the arthritis formula it would be very interesting to try that i don't know why it wouldn't work okay

because they process herbs very much like we do and just like your dog does uh try that and see if she's less gimpy um but yeah i don't i can't say i've tried

it but it'll be worth a try certainly and if it doesn't help her give it to your husband he'll walk better okay um okay please talk about using poultice on

humans do you have another product you recommend for human wounds uh almost all of the formulas on herbpet.com i've tweaked and focused a little bit

for pets okay all of the products except the poultice and the venom and sting which are exactly the same because they're amazing for animals okay

i'm not changing them and so yeah the poultice formula there's a there's some cases on homegrown herbalistnet.net that are human cases go look at them

uh use it exactly the same way okay uh so if you buy that formula in either place it's the same thing okay most of the rest of them are a little different

um hopefully diane says hopefully not your cune pigs i don't know what a cune pig is i don't know what that means um

et phone home says would neem oil work for fleas and ticks it does have some activity against fleas and ticks i wouldn't use it on a cat or a very small dog and if you use it on a big dog the

amount of application frequency of application is going to be a big pain in the neck and it's not as effective and a big pain in the neck and everybody smells like neem oil i would just get the spot on from your

vet unless you want the neem oil on that you can do that too um i wouldn't use it on a really tiny dog or a cat

okay what kind of herbs can i use for my dog with kidney issues my dog's kidneys are small and i've been giving

them to miss thomas sarton for it so there are some herbs that are very very good for kidneys that are struggling

my favorite one is probably nettle seed that's the real rock star but romania is good chamomile is good there are some herbs that are sort of

you know really supportive of the kidneys there's basically two kinds of herbs in the world there's the ones that make you pee more and flush your kidneys out by stimulating the kidneys and there's another group that

restore and heal and really help the kidneys there's a formula on homegrownerblast.net called kidney builder all right

that's the one that i use for cases like that and i've used it on dogs forever so that would be good um okay

how do you get rid of ear mites and cats naturally um again sometimes some mineral oil or olive oil in there will help probably the you know naturally is going

to be harder calendula might help vinegar might help and there's things you can do but none of them are as effective as as just using the medications and the medications in a cat

topically are really safe you know i just don't worry about them there's a lot of medicines that i hate and and really hate to use and some that i

won't use at all uh ear cleaners and ear meds for mites and cats aren't one of those okay that i'm i would just do that um

my hand stinks my vet says some dogs just stink and he's right about that some dogs do stink [Laughter]

yeah you know i'll tell you and you know it's hard to believe it but it is true that sometimes improving the nutrition of the dog improves the smell of dog okay

and you know if you do that nutritive and prebiotic formula and a little fish oil sometimes that really helps uh gives them something they need and they're not as stinky

other than that the other two solutions are shampoos and i'm holding your nose uh but yeah and some dogs do just stink some dogs stink because their skin has a lot of folds in it and they get some

anaerobic bacteria and things going and yeasts and stuff that stink but some dogs just stink what's a good natural cat food diet i can only really get my cat to eat chicken

any other recommends recommendations for foods or herbs i could try you know i don't have uh you know there are things available at

the big bucks stores raw food diets and you might try that um i don't have a preference most of the

the canned cat foods aren't nearly as bad as the dog foods that you know the cat foods don't have nearly the ingredient problems that the dog foods have um

but the other thing you can do is you know go to one of the big pet stores that has a lot of variety and see what they have for a raw food diet or an all-natural cat food and they probably have things

okay brenda reardon have you observed that non-herbal flea drops cause cancer in dogs and cats i have not almost nothing causes cancer in cats i

can count on these fingers how many cat cases of cancer i've seen in the last 30 years it's it's really hard to give cats cancer

and in fact the only cancers i've ever seen in cats are two things one sometimes you'll see some squamous cell carcinomas in the mouth of a cat super rare

and sometimes you'll see and you don't anymore because they fixed it but years ago uh some of the vaccines the adjuvant for some of the vaccines they gave cats

caused cancer in cats they get a tumor local skin tumor but it's pretty rare uh i haven't heard of anything

i've been a vet for 30 years and we've used a lot of topical flea and tick products and dogs and cats i've never seen a case of cancer in my practice

that i thought related remotely to that so yeah i don't know i don't you know i'm nothing is perfectly safe and everything

needs a cost-benefit analysis but i don't find those products to be particularly alarming to me in my experience okay

um my dog has a black dry spot on the inner ear would you what could that be and how to treat it a black dry spot on the inner ear i don't know have your vet

look at it and tell me what it is and then we can talk about that a black dry spot it might not be anything it might just be a pigment spot it might it could be a lot of things any suggestions for an ear

hematoma without surgery um no that needs to be drained that needs to be drained sometimes if you get them early you don't need to do

surgery sometimes sometimes i can just drain it with a needle and wrap it and you know i'm in a hypodermic needle as a veterinarian

but if it's seriously full it needs to be drained or he'll have a big ugly scar wacky ear the rest of his life okay and have your vet do that

okay um what's a good warm medication for dogs that isn't too toxic okay well so we had the herb formula you talked about that but there's also

a medication called pyrantel uh one of the brands of that is stronged which is a fabulous warmer and really really really safe because mammals can't

even absorb it okay uh i've used that's the warmer i use in the practice uh super safe super safe i wouldn't hesitate on that one at all

okay um what's a good heartwarm medication for dog season two talking oh i'm reading the same question type twice but this is where i'm using all the words a good heartworm medication

that isn't too toxic all the heartwarm medications are basically the same thing uh and again i don't live in a heartwarming endemic area but i do have dogs in the practice

that are on heartworm meds and i haven't ever seen any issues um let me make sure that's true i'm trying to remember if i've ever had

dogs that had that didn't you know they got bellyaches and didn't like it it seems like i may have had one or two of those in 30 years that they didn't like the medicine that made them you know nauseous and not want to eat

um but i'm trying real hard to remember if there was one of those two or one or two of those in 30 years you know what i mean so those medications are

you know they're they're i think quite safe i think they're absolutely vastly safer than having heartworms okay again it's

that risk benefit analysis okay um our lab has diarrhea all of a sudden we don't know what he might have gotten into how long do we wait before calling our vet or is

there something we can do ourselves well so it depends on the dog right if it's a lab puppy and he has a really bad diary and he's vomiting he might have parvo and you

better get him to the vet right if he's a regular lab that's had his shots and as a regular guy he probably ate something dumb and has a little enteritis okay

and certainly in my experience even as a vet i just give those dogs some of that digestive support formula that's what i do and nine times out of ten that straightens them out

if it doesn't sometimes they need some medications if the diary is chronic and long lasting sometimes it's something else you know sometimes it can be a symptom of something more serious so if you can't fix it up then get him

to the vet you know but if he's not vomiting and he's not a puppy uh i if he brought him to me i'd give him the digestive support for me from

herdpit.com that's what i would do uh so all right um thank you kelly says for your times and answers your webinars

are some form of love being part of the school also i'm very glad is anything that can be done to help with cat leukemia okay and cat leukemia is

another cancer that you sometimes see but it's actually almost always caused by a virus okay i think we'll someday be surprised how many other cancers are caused by a virus but that's another topic too

um so the immunity support would be a good idea because those cats tend to be a little bit immune compromised feline leukemia

is a retrovirus like hiv is a retrovirus they're related so it has some immune suppressive problems that immunity support formula if you took one day a week off

and gave it to her that would be okay um or certainly if she ever came down with the beginnings of anything that would be okay um other than supporting the immune system

i don't know anything you know you could i don't know that you could get the i don't know if you could get that i don't have a lot of experience giving blood cleanse to cats because they don't get cancer very much

but the immunity support and the blood cleanse together is what i do for cancer cases to support them um anything long term i'm doing by the way for a human or an animal

i'm gonna take off one day a week or every week or two i'm gonna take a day off from the herbs okay if it's a long-term maintenance thing all right thank you for sharing your knowledge

please let us know what you think is the best option for prevention of ticks and fleas probably a good quality spot on from your veterinarian not from the feed store some of the feed store ones are very

toxic and i've had some dogs in big trouble come in that have been treated with those i've never had any issues with the other ones and they're really the only thing that works great so there are some herbal things that

work kind of you know we talked about diatomaceous earth and neem oil and some of these other things uh dawn soap that's great for fleas but but it won't

prevent ticks and if the tick bites him he's you might get sick from limes or heartwarming or i mean uh rocky mountain spotted peter so i think the spot on products if you're in a high tick area

especially i i think that's the way to go and again i'm an herb nut would rather do something herbal first every time but but i got to give the nod to the pharmaceutical spot-ons for fleas and

ticks unless it's just fleas you don't mind giving them a bath without soap once a week that's okay that works okay emily says this is great info

how do allergies manifesting cats my cat seems to sneeze a lot seasonally okay sneezing in cats is usually not an allergy but sometimes it is uh

probably it's more mechanical sneezing like it's dusty and windy in the summer so i sneeze more um most of the time with cats that are sneezing a lot it's a sinus infection which is a whole different problem

and sometimes a very hard problem to solve it gets but usually cats with allergies have skin trouble just like dogs they're usually itchy and red and you know have

dermatitis that's what they usually do with allergies okay so i think nope it's not let's see

oh okay and then uh misha asks about uh the leukemia two we talked about that can we use essiac tea with our labrador

as a detox or preventative um essiac tea is safe for your labrador um for detoxing and preventative

i mean it would do those things you know it's got liver and kidney tonics in it so yeah i mean from a safety standpoint yeah that would work um i don't usually

do cleanses on dogs and cats uh i don't know why i don't do but usually what i do is i just do the nutritive and prebiotic and i think that's enough you know that's enough

fiber enough stuff to clean them out um but yeah essiac has not got things in it that are dangerous for your dog okay uh are there herbs that can be used to

help with bad breath and teeth cleaning in a yorkie mix um well there are a lot of things that i've done with dogs over the years there's a

there's a formula on herbpad.com called teeth and gum care that will decrease bacterial loads it's very good for gingivitis it's

very good for periodontal issues um if your dog has really bad teeth flip his lip and look but if he has really bad teeth and really bad periodontal disease get him to the vet get him knocked out and get

his teeth cleaned because you'll never get that stuff off and don't let the groomer tell you she can get it off because she can't okay it's it's it's it's beyond a groomer

and i love groomers i'm not beating up on groomers i think groomers can do a lot of great things um but a real deep teeth cleaning on a dog with serious periodontal disease no you gotta go to bed get them cleaned and once they're cleaned

do that teeth and gum care from herbpet.com and if they're not terrible or if it's just a bad breath thing you can do that too you just mix that powder with the

toothpaste and brush his gums and teeth with it if he'll let you do that and it'll decrease bacterial loads is why they get halitosis or bad breath it's because they got

you know bugs growing in their mouth all right um what can be given to help a canine with cognitive disorder

well that's a great question um there are some herbs that can help to some degree with cognitive function and we did a big webinar

on that it was probably first might have been for the students that might have been on youtube i can't even remember who i do on youtube and who's in the school join the school and then you'll know you'll get both of them anyway

um herbs like sage can help with memory the ginsengs can help with memory ginkgo is great because it improves circulation of the brain

ashwagandha can help there's a formula on homegrownerless.net i don't have it on herbpet.com but on homegarderless.net there's a

formula called memory and alertness that can be helpful i've used that on dogs um i've also used that on dogs that have had strokes and had some really amazing results that's a whole nother webinar

too but anyway web memory alertness is that formula it's on homegrowners.net okay john says thanks doc always informative and helpful

i'm glad you enjoyed it john let's see i think we might be out of nope not quite why do you keep asking questions all right [Laughter]

tina says i'm concerned about the new avian flu in my chickens any recommendation on how to keep them healthy and safe yeah you bet influenza viruses there's a lot of herbs

that can help with influenza viruses what i do is i use uh in the same herbs i use on humans one is called and they're on

homegrownerless.net uh for respiratory influenzas um what and we'll probably put some respiratory herbs on herb pep as soon as i get 10

minutes anyway one's called shoe flu and one's called immunity support those are the ones i would use on chickens i just put the powder in with their grain they'll eat it up they don't care um

but if you go to the if you go to hong kong herbalist and look at the formulas there's section on respiratory stuff and look at those formulas and you'll see what i'm talking about okay um

how do you treat hot spots that's a good question too we should have a youtube video on that so a hot spot is a dermatitis it's a moist dermatitis

so what happens is usually what happens the hair gets wet it gets matted down it's a hot muggy day and the water from the wet hair makes everything hot and wet and warm

and the yeast go nuts and you get a hot spot okay so what do you do with that well i would use that uh infection and immunity formula as a spray on the hot spot if it's a and they're kind of

raw so i'm going to mix that with some water just like i would the poultice okay um but just keeping it clean and spraying it with the formula will kill the bugs

clip the hair off right but that's what i would do with it all right um on wounds do you just put the poultice on the open wound or do you use

the herbs fresh or dried um yeah i just put them on the open wound i used to nowadays i just use the spray i take the tincture i put a teaspoon of the tincture in two to four ounces of

water and i spray it frequently and it heals right up i don't do anything with or powders anymore for pulses hardly ever occasionally rarely there's specific cases where i do that if i want to pull something out of the wound

mechanically but everything else is just getting the spray nowadays uh but you can just take the herbs fresh or dried powder mix it with a little water

if it's a dry powder and slap them on topically i slap them right on the wound you know go to the go to homegrownerblast.net and look at the blog there's one on a head wound on a lady that had a big

uh tumor removed off her scalp and we filled that up with herbs just slapping the weeds on uh the powdered herbs with water and max miracle max is another case where we did it that way but i don't do it that way anymore

because i've had worse wounds where i just did the spray and worked just as well so i you know but yeah either way is fine um misha the cat mutation of coronavirus

into fip which is feline infectious paranoids treatment and post treatment if used gs441524 to treat so

coronaviruses and cats so like i said every species has a coronavirus sometimes they jump species uh i've read and i believe

uh that the coronavirus that we currently have is a bat coronavirus that was studied in labs for years and years um so we didn't get the from the bats i

think we got it from uh poor lab hygiene or something more sinister i don't know how you figure that out yourself but anyway the sometimes i'll jump species but the cat coronavirus is a specific cat

coronavirus and if you took poop from a million cats and checked them all most of them would have coronavirus in it and they wouldn't care wouldn't be causing any trouble sometimes it mutates into this feline infectious peritonitis and it's a

disaster and very very deadly and they don't survive from it i have not had success treating that with herbs because usually by the time i get them

in the vet clinic they're almost done you know that's it's a sudden onset thing sometimes and they're almost dead i mean you know they're really in bad shape

um so i don't you know i mean i would use immunity support uh and i would use the respiratory antiviral formulas from

homegrown nervous net because it's a corona and elder and mullen and yarrow and guys like that like to kill coronas but because of the advanced state and the deep tissue problem of that

particular variant of that particular disease by the time i see them and i'm in a position to do anything for them they're they're usually almost dead and i haven't had any luck pulling them around

with that so i haven't had any like pulling around with anything that's that's a horrible disease okay um we for fleas called

okay so john's used a formula called karistan or an oil i don't know i don't know what that is um oh oh okay so john's saying that he used

a topical essential oil called kiristan and that if i'm understanding him right he said that his cat was sneezing a lot and when he stopped using the oil the cat quit sneezing okay

uh and that's very true um oh okay he clarifies here on the next line anyway yeah um essential oils

many essential oils and cats are a really bad idea and we've we've covered that but yeah thanks for sharing that joe okay um okay

poor cat mclean says hello hello um michael says can my cat take burlap tea absolutely you bet she can or you can just throw a little burdock powder in her cat food she'll probably eat it it tastes good

how to prevent alien flu in chickens we've talked about that i would use the immunity support and the on the homegrown herbalist side immunity support and

uh shoe flu s-h-o-o-f-l-o-o that's how you spell shoe flu um okay what is safe for vomiting and diarrhea

in a small dog okay so the question is what's causing the vomiting and diarrhea right that's why sometimes you need to get the diagnosis

so that we can solve the problem uh vomiting and diarrhea could be pancreatitis which is serious it could be food poisoning um it could be a foreign body it could be

you know a lot of other things some of them are scarier than those things so it's really important to to find out what's the cause if you have a dog that's vomiting for

more than more than a day you better get them in and see what's going on sometimes there's vomiting because they ate something dumb and they do it during times and they're done if they're not vomiting the next day don't worry about it you know i mean but kidney failure

can cause vomiting and diarrhea on a dog you know so we we kind of have to have a diagnosis and i can't really say oh well you need this or that um for that kind of a scenario

uh and the other problem is that sometimes it's very difficult to keep herbs in in a vomiting dog right and so sometimes you have to go in and get the iv and get the vet you know

sometimes they're the best solution okay uh main act says i read that ludlum latem pulse mother tincture made from a

plant for making homeopathic remedies can repel fleas i've been looking for the plant but i've been unable to find it or a mother t-shirt of it i have no idea i have no idea i don't know anything

about homeopathy so i don't know there are a lot of things that people say work on the internet and it has been my experience that that's

often not the case with flea prevention stuff but i'd love to be wrong if you find out something really cool let me know um what would you give a horse if they have ehv

um that's a herpes virus infection um you're not gonna cure it but you can suppress herpes by stimulating immunity there are some

herbs that have specific action against terpenes like uh you know calendula lemon balm there's some herbs that kill that beat up herpes pretty bad

but it gets buried in the nerve roots and you'll never cure it i don't think there's a there's a company called silver lining herbs it's

dear friends of mine they sell herbs in big horsey-sized bags um so that's probably what i would do is call those guys and they'll send you some stuff uh

jesus says i love your show thanks thanks for watching um okay so now manix is saying let him plus 30c homeopathic gravity

will help with ticks and other insect bites as as well as puncture ones and again i don't know i don't have any opinion on homeopathics because i don't know anything about it i have some opinions

about it but they're not i mean some of them are good opinions sometimes they really work but i don't i don't use them i know people that use them veterinarians straight laced guys that are

science-based and sometimes they work some of them work very well uh so i'm not beating them up but i don't know diddly about them so i can't help you on that one but thanks for sharing

half acre homestead you're so generous with your time and knowledge dr jones thanks so much i'm saving up to join the school i can't wait we can't wait to have you holler when you're ready we'd love to be on that journey with you it's fun

learn about herbs is fun your instructions with the poultice formula were excellent we avoided the puncture wounds on my daughter's boxer used mainly on areas of mix missing skin oh good i'm glad i am

thanks for the webinar the great information okay led lim brandi says led lim is rosemary and that it's and that that homeopathic

is great for puncture wounds and lockjaw all right that's fun one of these days i need to learn more homeopathy was but i have so many things i'm trying to do right now

[Laughter] okay uh poor but clean says i made a broth with bouillon parsley sage oregano basil and he seems

to be keeping that down he's a little better but it didn't freak me out i have also been giving him acv in his water i assume that's apple cider vinegar um

you know is it was this the vomiting dog yeah okay i see that so that was the vomiting dog you know i mean ginger can help vomiting peppermint and catnip and

things like that can help vomiting if it's a mild case that's not something scary and bad right and and the parsley and sage and oregano and basil those are all mints except the

parsley and all the mints are good for calming the stomach and the guts so you did good those are good choices um and if that helped good that's good if he can keep it down that then then that

means that's probably all he needs and that's good if it continues if the vomiting continues dehydration gets a problem and if the vomiting really continues it might be because it's something really serious and so you

know just be aware of that if it gets to be a problem that's you know get a vet to find out what the problem is all right michael jones that's a great last name

says thanks and thanks to you michael for watching okay so um that's all the questions i am very grateful for your time and patience this

was a longer video than some of you probably had buckled up for but we appreciate it we appreciate your support we appreciate your enthusiasm to learn things and we love learning stuff

with you so that's great um please swing by homegrownerless.net there's a lot of resources there um there's a lot of other youtube videos on our youtube channel here too

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and uh if there's things that you need or want that aren't there holler and we'll see if we can uh get that done um

so i'm dr patrick jones there's getting to be some more questions here i'm just going to do them all right uh

so mastitis in a cow there's two kinds of mastitis one is uh gram-positive mastitises like staphs and straps um

if it's staph aureus that gets deep in the tissue it's very hard to eradicate or clean that up certainly immune stimulating herbs can help um we need to do it that's a deep subject

and i was a dairy vet for a long time and i can tell you a lot of things about mastitis but that's a deeper topic i'll do uh i'll do something on that okay um

any help for bladder leaking an 11 year old dog uh okay so we talked about in that in the webinar that's the old dogs with the leaky bladders go back and and watch that bit um

and the little pukey dog's mom said he ate something funny yeah so he ate something weird got a bellyache and that's why he was thrown up that's a good reason to throw up what can you do for a cat rachel says who seems to be suffering from

separation anxiety since her brother disappeared that's a good question and that's a real thing pets get very attached to their housemates and when their

brother sister kitty or dog dies they mourn and they worry and they fret and they walk around looking for him and it's a problem uh one solution for that is to get her another friend

you know get her another kitty or a puppy or whatever it was she lost um i have used we have a formula called calm on herb pet.com that can help them through the short

term sometimes i use that on dogs with separation anxiety or cats i use it if you can get a cat to take it sometimes they won't on that one separation anxiety

fear aggression dogs who freak out on the fourth of july because the fireworks uh dogs that are going through an anxiety because of a death in the family or something i've used that formula on

all of those things and with very good results so have a look at that formula on herbpath.com we didn't talk about that tonight but look at look at that one

okay um i have a german shepherd who's disappeared for four days and then finally turned up at the pound when i picked her up she had meds for blood in her stool hasn't eaten for

three weeks okay uh so first of all i'd get a diagnosis on that and if you can't find anything scary and bad i'd put her on

and even if he does find something scary and bad and does other things i'd put her on that nutrition prebiotic and i'd put her on a probiotic too okay so she needs the bugs and she needs the stuff to feed the bugs which is the

prebiotic um and that also the digestive formula to heal up whatever's going on with that gut um and

nine times out of ten that'll work it out if it doesn't work out get a diagnosis and see what's going on but that's what i'd do there i'd do the nutritive and prebiotic and i would do a probiotic which we'll have that on the website

soon i just don't have it in yet and the digestive support formula okay pam

says she's slowly dying the dog yeah yeah that's what i would do with her um and if and if she's a really old dog she might be slowly dying of something and you know or she may have something else

going on get a diagnosis if she's in really bad shape and see what's going on um but i would put her on

the digestive support and the prebiotic in a probiotic as a bare minimum okay poor mclean says you're amazing i love this channel

incoming binging marathon well i'm glad you like the videos take a snack we don't want you to binge too long if you don't have any snacks that's no fun all right neila says she's in the school think stock

you're the best i've learned a lot in the school we got the virus and one thing after another so i'm behind i love seeing you look so well love you thanks nelly we love you too we're glad to have you

she's a sweetheart um poor poor mclean says that the little kitties reacts anytime somebody mentions her brother's name yeah they're not dumb

it's it's amazing how attached they get i'll tell you a funny story about animals knowing each other's names i had goats i've had goats off and on a lot in my

life but we had these four goats and they were sweet and super great goats and we were uh we had the four of them and we went out to the pen and three of them ran up

to the pen right and one of them didn't we didn't see her and my wife says i can't even remember what the goat's name was but she was like you know where's sally

and all the goats looked over to the around the corner of the shed where sally was and we couldn't see her and sally comes out walking around i mean it's like they knew her name it's crazy i think i think a lot of these critters are smarter than we give them

credit for anyway i'm sorry the kitty said that's no fun um uh poor mclean says my dog also had blood in his stool we've been giving him

greek yogurt and oats and honey and licorice root powder yeah there you go that works too uh baby food a meat based baby food just to get some nutrition in her you know i

don't know if it was a her or him but yeah i would do the nutritive i would do the probiotic and i would do some digestive support too that would help a lot okay so if you have other questions just put

them in the comments below we're gonna wrap this up so people can go home and get a snack but we really appreciate you tuning in and hanging around and asking questions and sharing things

and teaching us stuff i always learn something fun when i talk to somebody about herbs so that's good swing by the website homegrowners.net and herbpet.com we'd love to have your support go buy something and that'll

make us both feel happy inside and if you go to ourpet.com it'll make your dog feel happy inside that's a three win right so anyway doc jones here from the homegrowner little school of botanical medicine have a great night thanks for

listening and have a good day unless it's night or day you figure that part out yourself anyway i'm going to go home and go to bed thanks for watching you