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Zoopharmacognosy

Zoopharmacognosy

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Sep 15, 2026

Greg TilfordGUEST
11:47
And I started to see this interaction between plants and animals that was just fascinating.
Greg TilfordGUEST
11:51
And I learned about zoopharmacognosy, which is the study of how animals can intuitively select plants, dose them correctly, use them for the correct amount of time, and then discontinue their therapy when it's time to discontinue, and I was fascinated by all of that.
Greg TilfordGUEST
12:07
So I started studying the interactions between plants and animals and then decided, you know, nobody's doing this commercially for animals.
Greg TilfordGUEST
12:15
Let's make, let's make products, let's do herbal tinctures and herbal-- 'cause tinctures make sense.
speaker_0HOST
17:25
The word is zoopharmacognosy.
speaker_1HOST
17:27
That is a brilliant word.
speaker_1HOST
17:28
Can we sound that out? Zoopharmacognosy.
speaker_0HOST
17:31
You got it.
speaker_0HOST
17:32
It sounds complex, but it makes perfect sense when you break it into pieces.
speaker_1HOST
22:51
It comes down to two immense factors.
speaker_1HOST
22:53
Tens of thousands of years of brutal trial and error and a concept known as zoopharmacognosy.
LernerHOST
22:58
Zoopharmacognosy.
LernerHOST
22:59
Break that down for me.
speaker_1HOST
23:00
It literally means animal medicine knowledge.

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