I’ve been a critter doctor for over 30 years. I’ve treated hogs and horses, goats and geese, cows, cats, cockatoos and canines. I’ve out maneuvered angry ostriches and can dodge llama spit with the best of them. Heck, I worked my way through vet school raising tropical fish. We had 150 fish tanks in a […]
People often ask me if I could only have five or ten herbs, what would they be. And, while many of the spots on such a list might happily be filled with any number of herbs, one of the stalwart, must-have herbs would be yarrow, Achillea millefolium. So, let’s yack about yarrow a bit. It […]
Many years ago, long before I was a serious herbalist, I was in the vitamin aisle at Wal-Mart standing in front of a display of Ginkgo biloba capsules. As I read the label on one of the bottles I was really fascinated. “Wow” I thought “It says here if I take these capsules my brain […]
As a boy I was always a nature lover. I spent my youth exploring creeks and woods and wild places in Iowa, Pennsylvania and South Jersey. I became very interested in edible plants, wild foraging and primitive skills. Euell Gibbons and Larry Dean Olsen were my heroes. After high school I went to Peru as […]
A New Disease Syndrome! A new disease syndrome in dogs has recently emerged in the United States. Cases have shown up in several states and it’s likely to spread quickly. The illness is characterized by a severe, hacking cough much like Kennel cough but much more serious. Infected dogs also tend to run a fever […]
Life is unpredictable. Things can be puttering along just fine one minute, and the next moment, everything changes. In cases of illness or injury, the speed of our response can often have a significant impact on outcome. And, the immediate availability of the remedy for the problem is often critical to a good outcome. Let […]
How much control do you have over your life? How much control would you like to have? When you’re sick, do you say? “I have a bladder infection…I need to go to the doctor.” I think if I typed that sentence into a translating app it’d likely say, “I need to go sit in a […]
The Recent Covid Resurgence has lead to more questions about herbs, Ivermectin etc… School is back in session, fall is here and the respiratory viruses are having their annual heyday. And, as coronaviruses influenza viruses always do, the Covid and flu kids have mutated to give us new strains that sometimes don’t give a hoot […]
People often ask me “Doc if you could only have one herb in your practice, what would it be?”. Honestly, if push came to shove, that herb would have to be cayenne pepper. Why? Because in my veterinary practice I’ve saved more patients more dramatically with cayenne pepper that with any other plant.
More and more, folks are going back to the important things in life. There is a trend toward self-sufficiency and independence. For some this is due to a concern that the current systems of delivering goods and services are not sustainable in the event of a significant emergency or catastrophe. For others, it has more […]
