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Dog Allergies and Local Raw Honey Plus Free Recipe For Healthy Dog Treats

My yoga teacher was the first one to tell me about local raw honey benefits for allergies. I just found out though you can also use local honey to help cure dog allergies. Why does it have it to be local honey? Apparently local honey contains very tiny amounts of pollen. These tiny amounts of pollen are not enough to trigger the allergic reaction in your dog when they ingest the local honey. What does happen though is each time the dog eats the local honey, the dog’s body begins to build up a tolerance to the pollen. Eventually, the dog is able to tolerate the amount of pollen usually present in the dog’s enviornment. It works the same way for humans, in case you are interested.

You can give your dog anywhere from a teaspoon to a tablespoon of local honey once or twice a day. You can also mix it into to their food.

Make sure it is raw local honey. You can find raw local honey at farmer’s markets, natural food stores and sometimes in the health food section of your grocery store.

I also found a really cute recipe for Gingerbread Dog Treats that calls for 4 tablespoons of honey. Couldn’t resist including it in this post. It comes from www.all-natural-dog-treat.com. 

 Gingerbread Dog Treats 

Shape them like little gingerbread people. You can use carob chips for eyes and buttons but never chocolate for dogs.
Have Fun!

Ingredients:
1 cup molasses
4 tablespoons honey
1 cup water
½ cup vegetable oil
6 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
2 tablespoons chopped fresh ginger or one tsp. of dried powder ginger

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Combine the molasses, honey, water, and oil in a medium bowl. In another large bowl mix the flour, the baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Combine well. Divide this dough in four sections and roll each piece into a ball, wrap each ball in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 3 – 5 hours.

After the dough is well-chilled Put dough onto a lightly floured surface and roll dough out into 1/4 “ thickness. Cut dough with a cookie cutter into gingerbread men or other fun shapes. You could use carob bits to form the eyes and buttons if you like. Bake 10 – 15 minutes, or until cookies are lightly browned around the edges and firm.

These are great fun for you and your dog. They’ll make great gifts for your doggie friends too.

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Chamomile – Nature’s Wonder Remedy For Digestive Problems

If you have a stomach ache or upset stomach, chamomile tea is the best rememdy I know. There are several varieties available at the grocery store – honey chamoile, lemon chamomile and mint chamomile – and they all work equally well. Chamomile tea is inexpensive. It costs maybe $2.00 for a box of 20 bags. You really can’t overdose on this stuff either.

When I or my kids have an upset stomach, I put two or three chamomile tea bags in a cup and drink it. Pretty soon I start to feel better. Chamomile is also good if you are having trouble getting to sleep. Celestial Seasonings makes a blend of chamomile with valerian which really works well for relaxation and inducing sleep.

Chamomile is an amazing herb. If I were stranded on a desert island and I could only have one herb, it would be chamomile. According to Pamela Allardice author of Natural Remedies, chamomile has long been cultivated as a medicinal herb and early documents refer to chamomile compresses being used for healing everythings from abcesses to rheumatism.

She says a very mild infusion (steeping a tea bag in hot water) may be given to colicky babies. She also offers this tip – adding a strong brew of chamomile tea to bath water will have a soothing effect on dry or sunburned skin. Other uses are soothe a sore throat, ease the pain of arthritis and menstrual cramps and a chamomile bath to reduce symptoms of hemorrhoids.

You can also purchase chamomile in oil form (ask for essential oils). You can use the oil to speed wound healing, treating burns and bruises, earache, neuralgia and toothache.

Note: Avoid chamomile if you taking an anticoagulent, are allergic to daises or are pregnant.

UPDATE: Some digestive problems are caused by poor colon health. We found that a simple impacted colon can cause long term and short term health problems, fatigue, and discomfort. That is why colon cleansing products are becoming much more popular. Are colon cleansing products bad or good?

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