How can Applied Herbal Choices help? 

This is a natural therapy that can support behavioural issues

Owners of animals lacking focus or confidence, struggling to settle, suffering from anxiety or being reactive to noises and/or people can struggle for years trying to find help. This can impact on how you feel about your animal and undermine trust in each other, spoiling what should be a joyful and loving relationship.

Applied Herbal Choices works from the ground up by bringing the wealth of nature into your animal’s home and an opportunity to choose from dozens of essential oils and herbs which offer a huge spectrum of properties to help. Even if your dog is one that eats or sniffs everything, this is a chance to observe the unique choices that an individual animal makes – given the opportunity to do so.  

This is a therapy that offers animal owners a chance to deepen the bond between them and their dog or horse. The root of many unwanted behaviours can be anxiety,

Remote Therapy

In order to be able to make Herbal Choices accessible to as many pet owners as possible, I can offer a remote service for dogs. This involves you completing a questionnaire so that I can use the Chinese Five Element system to determine a suitable selection of oils for your pet. These will then be sent to you as a bespoke set of aroma sticks, along with detailed instructions of how to use them. You may also book a remote face to face session too, if you need more support. Please email me if you are interested.

The Theory Behind the Therapy

Ever wondered why your dog eats grass or your horse suddenly dives into the hedgerow for something it normally walks straight past? 

These are examples of animals foraging their local environment and making specific selections based on what their body is telling them it needs.  

Most people have seen their dog eat grass and then purge the contents of their stomach, a natural way for a body to rid itself of bacteria or foreign objects present in the gut.

This type of behaviour was recognized and called ‘zoopharmacognosy’ by a Cornell University biochemist, Dr Eloy Rodriguez (zoo=animal; pharma=medicine; cognosy=knowing).  

After studying aromatherapy with Robert Tisserand, Caroline Ingraham recognized the healing potential of a new approach to using essential oils with animals and has spent her life pioneering a method of enabling animals to heal themselves based on this innate ability and the theory of ‘sensory modulation’ which enables animals to manage their dosage.