Zoopharmacognosy

Zoopharmacognosy

Ingraham Applied Zoopharmacognosy enables self-medicative behaviour in domesticated or captive animals by offering plant extracts that would contain the same, or similar constituents to those found in an animal’s evolutionary history. The practice encourages and allows an animal to guide its own health, since unlike their wild counterparts, captive and domesticated animals rarely have the opportunity to forage on medical plants.

The extracts offered include a variety of essential oils, absolutes, plant extracts, macerated oils, tubers, clays, algae, seaweeds and minerals. Once animals have selected their remedies, they will then guide the session by inhaling them, taking them orally, or by rubbing a part of its body into them. If the condition is allowed to escalate and worsen then more potent remedies will be selected.

When the condition has cleared or improved, the animal will normally reject the plant extracts that were previously chosen.

Applied zoopharmacognosy is a practice that allows animals to use their innate ability to select the plant extracts that they need and guide their own dosage to retain and regain health. This innate ability is vital to an animal’s health and well-being. Self-medication is a technique that has been employed by animals since the dawn of time – a good testimonial for the subject.

Applied zoopharmacognosy was previously unknown in the human world, until Caroline Ingraham developed it in the early 1990s.