Zoopharmacognosy has become a topic of interest with significant implications for human medicine and animal care. Reports of several anecdotal observations and research experiments related to animal health in the wild, in captivity and on domestication are being increasingly reported in the literature. These are revealing natural ways of handling health and disease, so far unrecognized by modern science. Knowledge of medicinal properties of herbs arrived at by centuries of observation and practice is traceable to times before recorded history in this subcontinent. Hence, observations of animals in disease in the wild, definitely predates this. Tenets of disease prevention, enabling of innate healing, and dietary role in health maintenance, which were the basic precepts of traditional medicine are now being recognized as rationalistic approaches. Zoopharmacognosy is further reaffirming these wholistic methods and it looks like we have much to re-learn along these lines.