Multi-Vitamin & Mineral Herbal Blend - 400g

The combination of herbs, seeds and other plant matter that goes into each rotation of our Herbal Multi Vitamin & Mineral Supplement has been years in the making. Our goal with this product is to provide nutritive as well as ‘medicinal’ properties. We seasonally rotate the combination of herbs to reflect what would be found in the wild during that particular season. So, for example, spring and fall are the body’s liver cleansing times of year and as such we have included herbs like dandelion, red clover, plantain and burdock root, which help cleanse and tonify the liver.
By providing these plants in their whole-food form, they are providing a wide range of nutritional benefits that the body recognizes as food sources.
Why do pets need herbal supplements? Simply put, prevention of a disease is much easier than curing a disease. Herbs harmony the 'Yin and Yang' of the body, and make the body immune to, or more resistant against, many serious diseases. In a word, the purpose of the herbal supplements is not only in helping to cure but in the prevention of becoming ill.
Nutraceutical is a portmanteau of "nutritional" and "pharmaceutical" and refers to foods thought to have a beneficial effect on health. It can also refer to individual chemicals which are present in common foods (and therefore may be delivered in a non-drug form). Many such nutraceuticals are phytonutrients.
Dr. Stephen DeFelice coined the term in 1989. It is certainly not a new concept. Chinese medicine would be one example. Another would be Hippocrates who is quoted as saying, "Let your food be your medicine and let your medicine be your food." Nutraceuticals are sometimes called functional foods.
According to Health Canada, a functional food is "consumed as part of a usual diet that is similar in appearance to, or may be, a conventional food, and is demonstrated to have physiological benefits and/or reduce the risk of chronic disease beyond basic nutritional functions."
Functional foods may come from plants or animals. Active ingredients effective in promoting health include amino acids, fats, dietary fibres, antioxidants, pigments, vitamins and minerals.
Herbs can be used freely and safely as part of one's lifestyle without thinking of them as 'medicines'. For specific health needs, their best use would be preventative -- to prevent problems appearing. There are specific herbs that strengthen and tone specific organs and systems. By using herbs it may well be possible to overcome any weakness.

Ingredients: Changes from season to season, call for current ingredients.
An example ingredient list: kelp, spinach leaves, alfalfa, pau d’arco, dandelion leaf, dandelion root, oat straw, marshmallow root, blueberry fruit powder, hydrangea root, astragalus root, celery seed powder, parsley, ground black oil sunflower seeds, horsetail, nutritional yeast, rosehips.

This herbal blend is high in vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, C, D, K. Also contains sources of Calcium, iodine, iron, magnesium, manganese, selenium and zinc. This formulation can be used in place of vegetables in a raw food diet or can be used for it's multi vitamin & mineral properties with raw, cooked and dry food diets. Feed 1 tablespoon for every 50 pounds of body weight. 400 gram tub contains approximately 48 tablespoons.