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The school aims to provide a standard of excellence recognised internationally and by professional bodies, giving credibility to the field of animal aromatics. Students who qualify are expected to work with integrity and follow guidelines for professional development to set a precedent for recognition. .

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The Ingraham Institute of Zoopharmacognosy
 

Teachers at the International School of Animal Aromatics

Caroline Ingraham: Pioneer of the study of aromatic plant extracts and their symbiotic relationship to animals.

Rhiannon Harris: Worldwide expert in oral and topical essential oil science.

Tom Ingraham: Sciences/Biology Dept

Nick Thompson BSc.(Hons), BVM&S, VetMFHom, MRCVS
Nutrition. Parasites and Drug metabolism
 
Post Graduate Courses

 

The Ingraham School offers the most advanced, professional education available in its field. Caroline teaches a large part of the course, so that she can continually share her most up to date experiences with the aromatics that she is working with. However, to ensure that her students can be sure of the most professional teaching available, modules of the course are also taught by specialist lecturers, who are leaders in their subjects and at the forefront of education and research.

 

Training in animal aromatics involves teaching the student to read an animals response to aromatic remedies, understanding how to match the animal’s condition and temperament to the plant extracts and other secondary metabolites and how to apply them for individual conditions. Our aim is to offer the animals the plant extracts that they would otherwise seek in the wild to bring them back to health.
Field Study Home Work
A report from Dida Wales an Ingraham student teaching a client how to work with plant extracts.
A freezing, wet day in early January. By the time we managed to get Ellie in the stable she was ready to double barrel anyone that got near her. The rest of us were freezing! The first oil I offered was rose otto, and Ellie was absolutely not interested. I tried neroli, geranium and lavender, and got nowhere, so I offered cornflower water and this was the first aroma that she liked. She inhaled quite a lot of this and licked a little from her owners hand, and then she seemed to want a break. It had been a long morning , so we let her back into the field and had a warming coffee for half an hour, The first thing she did when we released her into the field was roll again and again! I always think of rolling in theses circumstances as stress relieving. behaviour or a way to rebalance. When we approached her later on, she was already looking to see what we had to offer her and her attitude was far more interested. We went back to the shelter and I offered the cornflower water again, which she inhaled deeply and when she turned away from this I offered Angelica root. She inhaled this for quite a while, and showed a real fascination for the aroma. She didn’t want to lick any but was quite thoughtful and still, which amazed her owner as she is usually fairly agitated. We gave her five minutes to think about this and she was happy to stay in the shelter while we chattered. Next I offered her some rose again that had previously been diluted, and this time she was very keen. She mouthed the bottle and took around 3ml, while still wanting to inhale it. Ellie spend 40 minutes with the rose oiland was very thoughtfull and sleepy afterwards so we decided to leave it there for the day. I left the owner with another 5ml bottle of rose, some cornflower water and we arranged to meet up again during the week.

A report from Dida Wales an Ingraham student teaching a client how to work with plant extracts
Jamie took was very keen on most  his ‘emotional oils’ Claire, his owner was convinced that he was just licking them because they tasted nice – until she tried them!  Claire was also not totally sure of the therapeutic and medicinal qualities of the oils and took part in this study purely as a favor. However she soon began to notice little changes in Jamie and started to ask more detailed questions about the chemical compounds within the oils. She noticed that when out hacking, Jamie seemed more settled, things like crossing the busy road opposite her house, Jamie was more willing to let Claire decide when to cross, up until then he would get agitated. Claire also mentioned in conversation that Jamie really looked forward to the oils and she looked forward to their quiet time together when she would offer them. The oils were first offered in November.  In February a second batch of remedies were sent to help prevent the onset of sweet itch which he was prone to. Jamie loved them! Refills were sent of calendula, garlic, and peppermint. As he is alone when grazing it was thought that he may like to access these aromas during the day when Claire was away, so on alternate days Claire puts a few drops of either peppermint, rose, neroli or ylang ylang into a bucket of water that gets put into his paddock and so far no sign of itching.

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Entry Requirements
Students are also expected to have some work experience with animals or to have had animals in their care and must be aged 16 and over.

Teaching and Learning Methods
Lectures are supported by visual and practical demonstrations. Both traditional and non-traditional teaching and learning strategies will be utilised based on group and individual work.

Modes of Study
Modules will be held at various settings; classroom; stable yards, farms and on campus.

 
Some may express ethical objections to working with caged animals. However, the fact that the animal is captive is no reason to deny it treatment.
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