Zoopharmacognosy + my interview for Johnny Vedmore's podcast
A quick post, for a change!
This is a very quick post to share two things.
One, Dr. Mercola published my article about zoopharmacognosy, i.e. animals who self-medicate. Sometimes my curiosity about the world leads me down random rabbit holes, the subject of self-medicating animals is one of those. It is really quite fascinating, both in general and in a philosophical sense.
What’s interesting is that just a few years ago, the BBC (!!) was okay with talking about allowing animals to “treat themselves” by letting them choose a remedy from a range of medicinal substances and herbs. Now though? Forget about it. Even licensed human doctors aren’t allowed to prescribe anything that deviates from the party line! Anyway, here is the article about animals:
(Dr. Mercola’s website / Censored Library Substack / PDF).
“Zoopharmacognosy” is a type of animal behavior in which animals self-medicate
Many species of animals are known to select and ingest or topically apply plants, soils and insects with medicinal properties, in …
