My Favourite Summer Essential Oils for Horses & Dogs
Essential oils and herbs can help you and your animals get through summer with your cool intact.
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10 Essential Oils for Winter
Winter is a time for rest and renewal and building inner strength for the re-birth of Spring, a necessary part of the cycle of life. It is a time for preserving energy and spending time quietly, allowing yourself to take things easy, for curling up in front of a fire with a cat or dog
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Essential Oils for Animals – The Basics
Essential oils for animals, what’s that about? This primer is a simple guide to why and how to use essential oils and animal self-selection.
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Essential Oils & Animal Behavior
I have always had a special interest in animal behavior and helping animals adapt happily to domestication. Essential oils make my work a whole lot easier. But still it is important that we understand the root cause of behaviors that are problematic for the animal, and the humans that care for them. That root is stress.
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Animal PsychAromatica and Laminitis: A student’s case study with essential oils
Animal PsychAromatica is a powerfully effective wellness system, based on reducing the stresses in an animal’s life, so that he/she can return to health. Allowing an animal to self-select their own medicine is one of the easiest ways to reduce stress, and an integral part of our system. Essential oils give animals the secondary metabolites
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Shape up for Spring, with essential oils
Spring! Everything’s full of energy and vigour and new life, bounding around enthusiastically like a foal. It’s time to shake off the sluggishness of winter and get ready for summer fun. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Spring belongs to the element Wood, which also rules the Liver and Gallbladder meridians, so this is the best time
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How Animals Use Essential Oils Naturally
I live in Portugal, which is an aromatherapist’s delight. In my back yard (30 hectares/75 acres) aromatic plants grow wild. They include two types of lavender, helichrysum, cistus, rosemary, mint, thyme and chamomile. My horses and dogs are free to interact with theses plants whenever they like. What I have observed is that they hardly ever
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Aromatic Strategy for Sweet Itch
It’s that time of year, Spring has sprung, the bird is on the wing, and so are all the flying pests! Those of you with itchy horses are getting ready to protect your precious friends from suffering, and I am here to give you some ideas how to succeed in your mission. Essential oils relieve
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Essential oils for mares and hormone health.
Understanding moody mares It’s that time of year! Your mare is moody, pulling faces when you saddle her, not concentrating when you ride, harassing the geldings and rubbing her mane! Her hormones are running riot and you don’t know what to do. First, a little understanding is in order: What are hormones? Why do they
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Jasmine for quiet confidence
Jasmine absolute inspires quiet confidence. Especially for animals who bully others because they feel insecure.
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