Life-Changing Herbs for Your Dog with Expert Canine Herbalist Rita Hogan
What's The Juice
Olivia Amitrano
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Ep.143 Have you ever wondered if it's possible to improve your dog or cat's longevity? If your dog is dealing with allergies, hot spots, gut issues, or mysterious behaviors, Rita is truly a wealth of knowledge on pet care that doesn't come around often. Rita Hogan, a holistic canine herbalist and author of “The Herbal Dog”, breaks down everything you need to know about healing your dog with herbs, diet, and even your emotional regulation. Rita walks us through the top 5 herbs for dogs, why our animals are a reflection of our own nervous system dysregulation, how to heal our dogs' allergies, food intolerances, and aid antibiotic recovery with simple herbal remedies that can be easily made at home. She is truly the missing piece of the puzzle in our Western pet care system and generously shares her experience on improving your dog's day-to-day health and capacity for longevity.
HERE'S THE JUICE
- Breaking down Rita's go-to post- antibiotic recovery protocol and the herbal alternatives that can protect your pet.
- The top 5 herbs every dog should be taking to support longevity.
- What your vet won't tell you about flea and tick medicine and what to look out for
- The importance of organ health
- The key to decoding your pet's behavior is to spot underlying health issues before they escalate
- Why fixing your dog's microbiome could be the key to longevity and the three simple steps you can take to start supporting their gut health
- Why your dog could mirror your stress, and the calming ritual that works for you both to support a healthy relationship
TimeCodes:
2:54– talking about Metronidazole
3:15— Blackberry leaf as a solution to diarrhea
5:43— Antibiotic recovery protocol from Rita's book to fix microbiome
6:15— Lily chen tip to restore dog microbiome
9:15—Rita explains the importance of the gut being “prepared” so probiotics work
11:11— How to prepare the gut and make sure probiotics work: Three things (collustrum, plantains, yeast) that increase will boost the secretions of IGA
12:50— How did Rita become a canine herbalist
17:20— Issues with Feel and tick meds and hear worm meds
19:52— Knowing based behavioral cues of a dog what organ issues are
27:00— herbs to use for lymphomas
32:00— importance of balancing both you and your dog's nervous system
37;27— what is the limbic system and how is that involved in the immune system
43:00—talking about how bad phones, wifi, and smart homes are for us and for our dogs
49;45—importance of going back to the basics
51;47— top herbs for dogs
1:01:00- creating a healing protocol and digestive enzymes
1:14:00 - Proteins to feed dogs based on hot or cold energy
1:20:00- oral health links to kidneys
1:30:00- how to stabilize the nervous system for dogs
1:34:00- Using german chamomile to calm nervous system
1;40:00- flea and tick medicine
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| 0:00.0 | As an herbalist myself who has seen the miraculous power of plant medicine for the human body |
| 0:07.6 | and as the mother of a Labrador, I knew I had to have a guest on the podcast that could teach us |
| 0:15.0 | about the benefits of using herbalism for our pets. My dog banks both have some gut issues. We both have some skin stuff. |
| 0:24.0 | And I recently took to using herbs to support him, especially to support his nervous system. I started |
| 0:29.7 | doing some herbal infusions and adding them to his food. And I saw overnight how much calmer my dog was. |
| 0:38.1 | And I just had this aha moment of like, why haven't I been using herbs on him for years and years? |
| 0:42.7 | And I instantly wanted to know everything I could about which herbs were safe, which herbs were like those everyday longevity, strengthening tonics that I could add in really easily and not even think about it. |
| 0:53.8 | And then also more |
| 0:54.5 | specific things like herbs for antibiotic recovery, herbs for allergies and hot spots, and all of the |
| 1:00.2 | things that us dog parents deal with and worry so much about when it comes to our families, our pets. |
| 1:06.3 | So on this episode, I invited Rita Hogan over. She is a canine herbalist and she wrote this amazing book |
| 1:11.7 | called The Herbal Dog. I highly recommend getting her book. It's unbelievable. And I'm sure you're |
| 1:16.9 | going to want to use a lot of the herbs in her book for yourself too, but it's just so nice to learn |
| 1:20.4 | from her. And we just kind of go into everything in this episode. We talk a lot about antibiotic |
| 1:26.5 | recovery. She actually shares something |
| 1:28.9 | really interesting about how you have to prepare specifically a dog's gut because it's so short |
| 1:33.8 | to make sure that probiotics work and stick. So she gives us three specific things that you can |
| 1:39.1 | use before giving probiotics that will boost your dog's IgA secretions and help probiotics to actually stick around and work. |
| 1:46.7 | She talks about the top five herbs that everyone should know about to add to their dog's food. |
| 1:52.0 | She talks about the importance of your nervous system when it comes to your animals, |
| 1:57.1 | the effects of phones on our dogs, not just on our very own brains. And she's just such an |
| 2:03.1 | interesting human. It was just like so nice to talk to a person like Rita. She's just such a real |
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