Salt?, Spices & Herbs

On the Animals Body Mind Spirit website, there is a detailed page about herbs which addresses plants used in self-medication. On this page I will be addressing how some herbs and spices may be used with food.

Please keep in mind, in many cultures, herbs and spices are used synergistically with each other, not separately. This is the ancient wisdom of the culture and is very important to be honored and respected, as the harmony matters in the body.

Herbs and Spices

• Basil, huge for negating chemical exposure
• Bay Leaf
• Black Pepper, good for digestive tract as warming
• Cayenne pepper
• Chili pepper, very good for circulation as moves the blood, hot
• Cinnamon, very good for the heart
• Chives
• Clove, antibacterial, very powerful
• Coriander
• Cumin
• Dill
• Fennel, very good for calming and healing digestion
• Garlic, antibacterial, very powerful; do not add to cats food, regardless of form, this will make them very ill
• Ginger, very good for calming and healing digestion
• Juniper Berry
• Marjoram, very important for killing off bacteria, fungi and yeast which are interfering with mobility in the body
• Nutmeg, very grounding
• Oregano, strong anti-bacterial
• Paprika
• Parsley, very good for the liver
• Peppermint, very good for the digestive tract as cooling alleviates constipation
• Pumpkin Seed link to fats
• Rosemary, strong anti-bacterial, be careful using this herb as I am finding it stuck in the body in some cases. A form of it is added to crackers, processed food and in a lot of dry pet food which the body does not know how to process out and therefore, this form sits as a toxin in the body causing dis-ease.
• Saffron
• Sage
• Spearmint
• Tarragon
• Thyme, very powerful antibacterial and fungal
• Turmeric, I am wary of this spice as people are using it like candy when it has very strong properties and may do long-term damage
• Watercress

All those above in bold are offered in self-selection sessions to help the animals heal via essential oils. They dose themselves based on how close they place themselves to the essential oil bottle and usually choose a number of oils out of the seventy offered to work with synergistically. It is all about the synergies, the body does not usually want just one remedy, but a combination of nature.

Dogs may choose to take the oils internally as this is high concentration, cats not so much as too powerful. They will choose the herb as it is not as potent.

What Goes into Food

This is tricky as the needs would have to dowsed or muscle tested for the individual animal. If something is added to their food the animal does not need, then they will not eat it.

If they do eat it, it may cause imbalance in the body such as a supplement being added to their food with a whole host of herbs which many of them have. It is rare these supplements are not causing symptoms in the body which no one is associating to the supplement.

With the dogs, ginger was usually placed on pumpkin with garlic with coconut oil to provide flavour and roasted in the oven. Eggplant, garlic and oregano cooked together in tomato puree sauce was a huge favourite in our house. Just the smell through the house had everyone waiting in the kitchen. It all depends on one’s kitchen, and knowledge of food I feel. Herbs are beautiful and have massive healing properties.

Cayenne pepper and ginger were major players in helping our Sienna’s heart heal. They work opposite one another, one is hot and one cools, so amazing. The heat also is very important in clearing parasites and keeping the body clean.

I grow all our herbs in the garden which the wildlife also source, so herbs are constantly being used in our food and would be added to the dogs food too. With the cats, I refer to the essential oils and allow them to choose.

Salt versus Iodine

I think there is perhaps a lot of misunderstanding of what one means when one says, “the body needs salt”.

Paul Bragg explains in his book, The Miracle of Fasting, salt is sodium chloride and is not what we should be processing as it causes swelling in the body as the kidneys are not able to process it out. When there is excess the lower extremities become storage tanks for this with excess fluid. High blood pressure is also a result of too much salt as well as swollen eyelids and baggy eyes, He states, “Salt cannot be digested, assimilated, or utilized by the body”.

Salt is used as a preservative in all the processed foods and is wreaking havoc on the body. He is adamant we receive natural sodium through diet naturally via food such as celery, kelp, eggs, fruits and vegetables. When eating an appropriate diet, the body receives what it needs.

Note, a lot of pet food is laden with salt so the animal’s eat more of it.

Table salt is highly toxic to the body and should never be eaten.

The Himalayan pink salt is coming up as 1.25 on a scale of 10, as being not good for the body. So, this is best not to support either as there will be cumulative effects of using this daily.

However, what the body does need and cannot function without is the essential mineral iodine. This is what Brave Ai had to say about the difference between the two 2025 September 2:

Sea salt, the grey sea salt is the most ideal salt which is moist. It contains over 84 minerals including iodine which is what the carbon-based body requires to run on. However, the best sources of iodine are found in seaweed, including varieties like nori, kelp, kombu, and wakame.

Dogs and cats, both require iodine as do a lot of the animals hence the necessary mineral licks which are placed in the paddocks and stalls for the animals to source when they need. Without these licks, many would perish as the land is not able to sustain them.

During self-medication sessions, bladderwrack and seaweed absolute are hugely self-selected when offering to animals who are in a dis-ease state. Both contain iodine and lots of minerals and vitamins from the sea which help clean the body of chemicals.