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Andrea Snow
We use essential oils in our house! My favorite scents to use are from Plant Therapy- lavender is one of my favorites as well as my toddler’s as well. I put a dab of it on his feet to help him relax his way off to sleep! I cannot wait to learn more during this class!
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Dr. Patrick Jones
Essential oils can be useful.
Don’t use them on cats or small dogs and don’t use aromatherapy/diffusers in homes with pets. Some of them are causing serious problems and deaths in animals when inhaled.
Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.
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Ashley Cosby
I have been using essential oils for several years but I feel like a deeper study of herbs will give me so many more options to care for my family and animals in more safe and effective way than essential oils alone. I am a new student and excited about learning more!
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Yolanda Pretorius
I recently purchased a copper distiller to make my own essential oils. Can the fumes released during this process also affect my dog? So far I have distilled lavender, compher, mint and eucalyptus and I noticed that she went outside when the smells became too strong. Are there particular herbs that one should take note of and be extra cautious with?
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I wouldn’t distill oils in a house with a dog or cat. Dogs and cats should stay away from essential oils in general. They have very different livers than we have don’t have the metabolic pathways to process them.
Oils Toxic To Cats:
- Cinnamon oil
- Citrus oil
- Clove oil
- Eucalyptus oil
- Oil of Sweet Birch
- Pennyroyal oil
- Peppermint oil
- Pine oils
- Tea Tree oil
- Wintergreen
- Ylang Ylang
Oils Toxic to dogs:
- Pennyroyal oil
- Pine oil
- Tea tree oil
- Wintergreen oil
- Cinnamon oil
- Citrus oil
- Peppermint oil
- Sweet Birch oil
- Ylang Ylang
Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.
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Brenda Music
What about possums? They keep eating my chickens. Any essential oils that are okay for my chickens that possums will avoid?
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Liz Garant
I’ve heard garlic spray helps keep pests away
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A good remedy for possums or coyotes is to place a small droplet of essential oil on the end of a .22 cartridge and then administer it to the predator internally. :0)
Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.
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Dianne Taylor
Too funny! (my emoji button does not work for some reason, otherwise I’d use the ROFLMA emoji)
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LaDonna Talmage
I’ve always used Lavender as well when my children were home. I don’t have babies in the house any more so I use it for cuts and scrapes I get out in the garden. I think it helps them heal quicker 🙂
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Marjean Booms
This is very good info to know. Thanks
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Margaret Valentino
I used to extensively use essential oils until I found out that they were dangerous to both my maltipoo and cats. I am thrilled to be able to learn how I can now use herbs in other forms without endangering my fur babies.
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Sue Dilling
What equipment do you recommend for distilling my own essential oils?
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Teresa Hull
This is where I purchased my steam distiller. I’ve distilled lavender, sagebrush, catnip, basil, geranium and yarrow. Some were more successful than others. Lavender and sagebrush were my most successful distillations. (REDACTED By Auto-Moderator Robot)>
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You just need a still. They’re pretty simple. You can buy them online. All of mine are homemade.
Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.
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We have several here. The best one is one my production guy made for me years ago. It’s stainless steel. I don’t like the glass ones due to the fragility. It’s really a pretty simple system.
Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.
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Annett
Doc,
Are HGH essential oils homegrown made from the plants you grow and harvest?
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No. I buy them from a really reputable source.
I have made them and may do so again someday but for now I have too many irons in the fire to do my own.Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.
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Rosa Couture
Would anyone know if Hydrosols are ok to diffuse, with pets around? I have a dog & a cat, and want to be wise when it comes to their safety. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
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My understanding is that a hydrosol is just the water you separate from the oil at the end of the distillation process. So, it’s really the same process. I wouldn’t distill oils around furry folks.
Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.
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Paige
I personally have never had any trouble with EO in diffusers and my dogs or foster dogs. However, I do not use them very much. My guess, like everything, is to be aware that it can cause problems, start slowly, and be observant if you use them around your animals.
PMR
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I’d recommend not to distilling oils around pets. Some oils are perfectly safe, some aren’t. And, just to make it more fun, sometimes a purportedly dangerous oil causes no problem and sometimes it’s devastating. So experimenting may not give your correct, repeatable data.
As an example of the capricious nature of canine metabolic pathways; I have a client with a vineyard. One day he brought in his dog in a disastrous state from kidney failure. I said “He didn’t get into the grapes did he?” The guy looked at me like I was crazy and said “He eats grapes all the time. I’ve never seen a problem.”
Grapes are known to be surpassingly toxic to dogs’ kidneys…sometimes. So apparently variations in the dogs systems and or variations in phytochemical levels of the grape at various days of its growth can have wildly varying effects. It’s very possible that one could experience the same thing with essential oils in dogs…one day they’re fine. The next day they’re lethal.
By the way, I was able to completely resolve the kidney failure dog with herbs. :0)
Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.
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ConCon62
I learned about dogs and grapes the hard way. My husband was making wine and he took all the grapes out of it and gave it to the goats. Our 8month old blue heeler snuck out there and ate about a pound of fermented grapes. She was dog drunk! She spent the night at the animal hospital with an IV. Thankfully, no kidney failure.
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JENNIFER COATS
I wouldn’t distill oils in a house with a dog or cat. Dogs and cats should stay away from essential oils in general. They have very different livers than we have don’t have the metabolic pathways to process them.
Oils Toxic To Cats:
- Cinnamon oil
- Citrus oil
- Clove oil
- Eucalyptus oil
- Oil of Sweet Birch
- Pennyroyal oil
- Peppermint oil
- Pine oils
- Tea Tree oil
- Wintergreen
- Ylang Ylang
Oils Toxic to dogs:
- Pennyroyal oil
- Pine oil
- Tea tree oil
- Wintergreen oil
- Cinnamon oil
- Citrus oil
- Peppermint oil
- Sweet Birch oil
- Ylang Ylang
(First post here) Doc, why do you not mention Oregano ? or maybe you do and I just haven’t seen them yet?
I make capsules with 2 drops YL Oregano EO topped with coconut oil. Use it with my family like a round of antibiotics. seems to work. I guess I was just wondering, if its so great why I haven”t seen you mention it yet. Of course Im only a little way into the school, but i think Ive seen most of your youtube videos. I have so many questions for you…… lol.
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I haven’t talked much about it because I never use essential oils in any form. If I even touch most of them my flesh blisters enthusiastically, my lungs fill with fluid and my body asks me kindly “There are nicer ways to die. Is this really how you want to do it?” As a result, I’m probably not the best resource on how to use them. LOL
The good news is that my daughter Luci (who is also a naturopath and herbalist), knows lots of fun things about them. She’s the general manager of the company and also does lots of things in the background relating to the school. She keeps threatening to do a little school on oils. I think she should. :0)
Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.
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Jackie Henson
I’ve used EO for years and I LOVE them, but I’m starting to hear they are actually really bad for us, any thoughts?
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Sandy Douthitt
Essential oils can be useful.
Don’t use them on cats or small dogs and don’t use aromatherapy/diffusers in homes with pets. Some of them are causing serious problems and deaths in animals when inhaled.
I have stopped defusing oils because of my critters. I was hoping to learn how to make my own pure oils so I can do it again. Will pure oils hurt animals?
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If you mean essential oils by pure oils, then yes many of them are very dangerous to pets. Just use regular herbs with them. They are better, safer tools for dogs and cats.
Don't use herbs or combine herbs with medications or use them during lactation or pregnancy without talking with your healthcare provider.
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Vicky Kawaguchi
I heard that spraying peppermint EO around your garden would keep cats and insects away.
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Billie barnette
I live in the piedmont of NC and have tried this in my garden, I have not really seen those results but have noticed that my peppermint patch doesn’t have any issues.
Billie Barnette
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Wendy Allen
Any recommendations for dogs with kidney failure? My daughter’s 11 year old pit bull has been diagnosed with stage 1 kidney failure. Any ideas what we can do to treat him and maybe prevent any further issues.
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Lisa Derksen
I used to have a cat that totally ignored catnip/catmint, but if I used Japanese EO on the soles of my feet, she’d try to lick my socks off. What was that all about?
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