The Herbal Dog: Holistic Canine Herbalism Applications and Practice (Sacred Planet) – February 4, 2025

A Hands-On Guide to Holistic Canine Herbalism

This book is a comprehensive guide to holistic care for dogs. Clinical canine herbalist Rita Hogan explains how to look at dogs as individual ecosystems with unique personalities, physiology, and needs. This allows you to select effective and personalized herbal remedies to support their constitutions and provide relief from many different ailments.

Key Features

• Holistic Approach: It teaches the tenets of holistic herbalism for the individual dog, focusing on how a dog’s main organ systems work and why we need to understand them when choosing specific herbs and foods.
• Safe and Proven Protocols: It presents safe, clinically proven, and effective protocols for common canine conditions, from acid reflux to allergies to itching, scratching, and yeast.
• Comprehensive Materia Medica: The book lays out a comprehensive materia medica of canine-specific herbs, including what conditions they are good for, their energetics, internal and external use, safe dosages, and contraindications.
• Wide Variety of Remedies: Hogan presents a wide variety of holistic and herbal remedies, from herbal tinctures, glycerities, and phytoembryonics to flower essences, essential oils, medicinal mushrooms, and homeopathy.
• Hands-On Approach: The book allows you to take a hands-on approach to your canine companions’ health and longevity, outlining how to help them live their best lives by our sides.
• Expert Authorship: Hogan, who has spent more than two decades working with canines, uses energetic principles (cool, warm, dry, damp) to reveal how herbs are not "one size fits all" and how to find the root cause of chronic imbalances.
• Educational and Eye-Opening: According to a review by Kirkus Reviews, the book provides an informative and sometimes eye-opening examination of natural remedies for helping your dog.