From Animal Aromatics to Zoopharmacognosy
- a personal journey

©TheoWebb

Caroline trained over 25 years ago in the use of plant extracts for people but it was not long before she realised that both animals and humans shared many of the same needs. From this beginning Caroline founded Applied Zoopharmacognosy, which aims to give animals in domestic or captive environments an opportunity to self medicate and connect with their natural instincts to bring them back into health.

Caroline has been involved in projects in Africa, Aisa, Europe and the USA. She is a highly sought after lecturer and teacher, and speaker at international symposiums. Caroline has worked with great success in Africa; in 2007 she worked with an eight month old baby elephant that was suffering from a large open wound having fallen down into putrid well water. The survival rate for baby elephants in this scenario has been extremely rare. Having been called out by the Sheldrack Trust Caroline helped the elephant back to good health and their resident vet acknowledged that Caroline’s work had saved its life. Today, as elephants at the trust are now given the opportunity to self-select, the survival rate with such cases has dramatically increased.

In the UK, Caroline has worked extensively with dogs, horses and cats. Much of this work has been with establishments such as HorseWorld near Bristol; Battersea Dogs Home, London; Wood Green Animal Shelter, Cambridge; Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary, Bristol and more exotic species including tigers at The Wildlife Heritage Foundation, Kent.

Caroline’s work and training courses are expanding all over the world with Australasia and China recently taking a very keen interest in the Ingraham Academy. During late March till early April 2012, she will travel to Beijing; Hangzhou and Taiwan to teach zoopharmacognosy and give media interviews (Magazine and TV).


  
Caroline has numerous publications in circulation, many of which have been translated into foreign languages (French, German, Italian and Finish). The ‘Animal Aromatics Workbook’ is a particular best seller and is available on Amazon. In addition to Caroline’s books, she is also a regular contributor to magazine articles, the most recent of which was for the Kelly Marks publication ‘Listening Post.’