Caroline is the Director of the Ingraham Academy of Zoopharmacognosy. For the last 25 years she has pioneered the self-medicative approach to animal health; allowing animals to express their innate ability to determine the medicinal plant secondary metabolites and minerals appropriate to their condition. This method has achieved great success for both physiological and behavioural problems. She has also made detailed observations of the distinct behavioural profiles that these animals exhibit when self-medicating.
Caroline's work has attracted increasing media attention, and she has featured on many television documentaries such as National Geographic and David Bellamy productions. She has appeared on ITV's "Talking to Animals" and on Radio 4 talking on Animal Self Selection. Articles in publications have also featured her work. Caroline's books, 'Aromatherapy for Horses', and the 'The Animal Aromatics Workbook' have become a must for those interested in enhancing an animal's environment and consequently their health. She is currently in the process of writing more books on the subject, co authoring one with T. H. Ingraham. This approach is gaining interest in the wildlife community both in the UK and abroad.
Her work with animals is internationally acknowledged and she is in demand as a speaker for professional bodies. Caroline has worked with a variety of species of animals both in the UK and abroad including companion animals, livestock, tigers, elephants and reptiles. Her international reputation has grown through successes such as at sanctuaries in Europe and David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya.
You may read Caroline's biography on this page.
Thomas Ingraham was a scholar at University College London and earned his BSc in Biology in 2009. He has written both the pharmacology of secondary metabolites and botany modules and holds tutorials twice a year. He is currently interested in possible biological mechanisms that could account for self-medicative behaviour, including the neurobiology of motivation and the ascending information of internal body states.
