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HOLISTIC HEALING & ANIMAL ZOOPHARMACOGNOSY
Natural Calming Remedies, Herb Pots & Herbal Toys for Animals
Award Winning Calming Products & Research Based Solutions
Intuitive Reiki Treatments, Holistic Remedies & Gifts
Calming Remedies for
Dogs & Cats
Award Winning Products
Holistic Remedies
& Gifts
Fireworks
Help & Advice October 2026
Over the last 8 years I have worked with and helped over 800 animals with anxiety & stress, and subsequently developed an award winning calming spray and herb pot especially for stressful times like this.
Please take a look through the information provided and click on the link to purchase one of my tried & tested products.
"Let's make this season a more comfortable one for them"
Helen Baker
Specialist in Animal Applied Zoopharmacognosy
BE PREPARED!
"A Google search will bring up
events & times in your local area"
Both the calming spray and herb pot are great for calming the pathways to the brain that facilitate fight or flight. It takes the aromatic spray just 3 seconds to calm their
nervous system. Please see the benefits and description of each product in the shop.
"Thank you for helping to make the fireworks weekend a bit easier for all our animals"
Clare.L. - Staff Member at Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary, winter 2025.
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How can Reiki & Herb products help with my animals stress & anxiety?
The products you see here are the result of working with over 800 animals in a sanctuary setting
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Calming Sprays
Personally hand-poured with a blend of several essential oils, the Calming Spray has been developed from my own experience and research of working with over
800 animals with trauma,
stress and anxiety.
Great for:
Anxious cats & dogs
Over-grooming issues
Multi-pet household stress
New visitors to the home
Fireworks & noise disturbances
Car journeys & Vet visits
Night-time stress & anxiety
On dog walks
This essential oil-based spray helps reduce the fight-or-flight response in your animal's nervous system, giving them a sense of calm and control. Many owners have found the calming spray to be the solution to their pets' long-standing anxieties.
Taking just 3 seconds to start the calming process within the brain,
it can be sprayed onto blankets, bedding and into the air during
times of great stress and can calm
many different situations.
Leone, owner of Alfie, says:
Thank you so much for recommending the calming spray for Alfie's bedtime anxieties. He has stopped crying in the middle of the night, and now we can all get a
good night's sleep!
Brilliant 5 *
Valerian Herb Pots
This versatile valerian pot is exclusive to Reiki & Herb and is ideal for every home with an anxious pet and can be a very useful and effective tool in
a multi-pet household.
Valerian is the number one herb for helping animals with stress
following my own research with hundreds of sanctuary animals.
It is recommended and safe to use on the vented position daily during times of stress and perfectly safe for your animal to eat every day
if they self-select.
The pot has 3 different options to choose from:
Top Off Fully Open, Fully Vented
& Semi-Vented
Known as the 'little pot of magic'
because it always delivers calm.
Animals love to roll about in a sprinkling of valerian on their beds, which can help to reduce their anxious behaviour in seconds.
Julie Baber says:
This is a fantastic product!
My nervous dog used to bark
at everything that moved,
and after using the pot
in the home, he is fine.
He's even good with Fireworks now & actually walked into the garden when I was watching them to be with me!
I love that it's portable too, as I can take it away with me, and would definitely recommend anyone with an anxious animal
to give the herb pot a go.
5* Product
Herbal Toys for Cats & Dogs
Handmade with a generous amount of valerian or catnip,
Herbal Cat Kicker Toys &
Valerian Dog Cushions
can help to reduce your pet's
stress and anxiety.
Cats love to grab and back kick
catnip toys, they can entice play and help to counteract boredom.
The alternative valerian-filled toys can help your cat release often hidden anxiety, watch them release that energy and relax.
Valerian dog cushions are now being commonly used to settle a dog's anxiety and can help with
the anxious behaviour that
bedtime can often bring.
Great for your dog's basket they can help with separation anxiety or just that unease of not being around you. They are made from robust materials and are
triple stitched for extra safety.
New designs and fabric choices are made for different seasons.
A great choice as a gift for those special pets, or for
that special occasion.
Helen. H, owner of rescue dog Yoko, says: Yoko absolutely loves her valerian dog cushion and often picks it up and takes it to her basket when
she wants to take a nap!
I can thoroughly recommend.
Reiki & Herb products 5*
Always spray away from your animal and NEVER directly onto it's fur.
Do not use if your animal is on any prescribed medication before gaining the consent of your animals vet.
Please be aware of your own allergies when using Essential Oils & Herb based products.
A DONATION IS MADE TO HOLLY HEDGE ANIMAL SANCTUARY WITH EVERY PURCHASE
Hello there!
I am Helen Baker
I am qualified in Applied Animal Zoopharmacognosy
An Intuitive Reiki Practitioner
Owner of REIKI & HERB
& Holistic Therapist
at Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary, Barrow Gurney, Bristol.
A deep love of animals, nature, and all things spiritual and holistic has been with me throughout my life.
8 years ago, I joined Holly Hedge as a holistic volunteer and alongside running my company Reiki & Herb, I have helped over 800 animals in need.
I am also part of the fabulous fundraising team, offer holistic treatments for the staff and support the Trustees at meetings.
Here is just a snap shot of my work with the Sanctuary and Reiki & Herb, and a list of any upcoming fundraising events that I will be attending this year.
If you need to contact me, please email:
What is Applied Animal Zoopharmacognosy?
The term is a composite of the Ancient Greek words
'ZOO' = Animal 'PHARMA' = Remedy 'COGNOSY' = Knowing
Applied Animal Zoopharmacognosy is the study of how animals self-medicate by foraging for plants and minerals to maintain health, manage stress, or to treat or prevent disease. When extracts of herbs, aromatic waters, essential oils, clays or macerates are offered to a stressed or sick animal, it will, in turn, self-select what it needs to heal itself.
It's a technique pioneered over a 40-year period of research by its founder, Caroline Ingraham, and I have been lucky enough to train with Caroline and have now helped and treated over 800 animals, with both private clients' animals and cats and dogs at Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary.
In 2021, I launched the enrichment programme at the sanctuary, putting herb trays & herb pots into each of the pens so that every animal had the benefit of calming herbs on their arrival and throughout their stay.
Staff at the sanctuary reported the difference in the animals anxiety levels immediately, along with measured benefits in lowering the fight or flight response of new arrivals and a reduction in boredom levels and anxiety in their long term residents.
Every purchase made from Reiki & Herb goes towards the funding of this amazing project.
INTUITIVE REIKI HEALING FOR YOU & YOUR ANIMALS
Reiki (pronounced as ray-key) is a Japanese word which translated means ‘universal lifeforce energy’.
This energy is known as 'Chi' and is present and acts in all created matter.
Reiki is a healing system that is a safe, natural, and holistic way of treating many conditions, bringing about spiritual, mental and emotional wellbeing.
As a reiki practitioner, I have received 'reiki attunement's' from a reiki master of direct lineage, which means I have had my body's energy channels opened in a way that connects me to the universe's unlimited source of chi. In turn, I can use this unlimited access to the life force energy for my own healing, or a channel for transmitting this healing energy to others.
There are a total of 35 meridians in our systems conducting 'Chi' throughout our body. The meridians are considered to be our control system, operating at a higher level than the physical, but directly affecting it. They are used to effect changes in our chakras and energy systems.
As a practitioner, I channel this life force energy through my hands to you, or your animal, to activate the body’s natural ability to heal itself.
I am an experienced Intuitive Reiki Practitioner, so I am guided to areas that will benefit the participant the most during each session. I do this through observation, visions, colours and feelings, these can all help me to see a clearer picture of what needs to be addressed.
Following a treatment, the Reiki energy continues to work where it is needed most, releasing blocked meridians and chakras, cleansing the body of toxins and working towards a state of balance.
During this time, you, or your animal may feel emotional, or need to sleep more than usual, this is all totally normal, and I always tell my clients to be gentle with themselves,
and similarly with their animals.
Reiki as a energy healing modality is now recognised worldwide and is currently used within hospitals, health care providers and veterinary practices.
I have seen many healing outcomes using Reiki with humans and animals and it remains a constant in the work I do.
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