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Essential Fatty Acids and Beautiful Healthy Skin and Fur
By Hempology | August 19, 2007
Cannabis Digest
By Carola Schleuss CNC, CMP
Owner of and practicing at Simple Remedies Herbal Solutions
Maintaining healthy skin and beautiful fur is as simple as eating. Hot spots, warts and rough scaly skin can look awful and feel painful, and if our animal friends could talk to us they would tell us, it feels hot, itchy, dry, and makes them feel irritable, self-conscious and truly uncomfortable. Their fur might be dull, stinky, patchy and full of dander.
The skin is an organ that is cleansed by the blood and lymphatic system. When the blood and lymph become burdened with excess toxins they exit the body one way or another, usually as uncomfortable skin conditions, such as hives, eczema, psoriasis, hot spots, lumps, warts, or acne. Chemicals, food allergies, and or extreme emotional stress on the system cause most skin conditions. The beauty of whole foods and herbs is that they aid in the cleaning or elimination of toxins, as well as regenerating and healing the tissues.
Begin helping your animal friends to feel better by changing their diet to a good quality natural human food, and add in essential fatty acids (EFA’s) such as hemp oil, fish oil, or raw pumpkin seeds. Just like people, animals don’t make essential fatty acids; they have to get them from their food. EFA’s are very important for healthy skin, bones, strong immunity, nourishment for the nervous system, balancing hormones and metabolism of fats. EFA’s alone will make an incredible difference in the way you and your animal friend feels and looks. For more information on feeding your animal friend wholesome foods read Dr. Allen Shoen DMV, book, Kindred Spirits, or e-mail me at info@simpleremediesherbalsolutions.com for a complimentary whole food list for people, dogs and cats. Before the 1950’s people all over the world fed their animal friends the same food they ate. They still do this in many countries, and their animal friends live longer healthier lives.
Some animals tend to be a bit hotter by nature, but usually excessive heat is an indication of chemical exposure from a poor diet and vaccinations. Quinoa our 10-year-old lab/coyote/cocker spaniel is a bit hot, but, she came into the world this way; she also has had too many vaccines, and began her first four years of life on mostly organic dry pet food. Quinoa suffered from hot itchy skin as well as a few warts. She has been on a whole food diet since she was about five, and has greatly improved. Recently we increased the amount of vegetables and herbs in her diet. She now gets mostly grated vegetables carrots/kale/lettuce/cabbage, a herbal blend of alfalfa powder, comfrey leaf, dandelion leaf, spirulina algae, seaweed (kelp, bladder wrack, Dulse), a variety of animal proteins 30%-40% (lamb, eggs, fish, chicken, organ meat), nutritional yeast, oils from (fish, hemp, olive, coconut), food grade bone meal. Most supplements are given in small amounts.
All the herbs/vegetables (plants) are cooling to the system as well as highly nutrient rich especially minerals for optimal absorption. The beauty of plants is they have all kinds of healing properties such as anti-viral, anti-bacteria, anti-inflammatory… helping with skin condition such as hot spots, eczema and warts.
Externally we use calendula salve, tea rinses and aloe vera gel to help Quinoa’s skin cool down, and essential oil of lavender and oil of oregano for their anti-viral properties. Internally we use aloe vera gel for its cooling and healing properties, burdock root for its blood cleansing properties and Echinacea /Red clover for their blood and lymphatic system properties and essential fatty acids hemp oil and fish oil.
Stay well through nutrition… Nature’s cures
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