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Ethnoveterinary uses of medicinal plants among traditional herbal healers in Alaknanda catchment of Uttarakhand, India
- Source :
- African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines; Vol 7, No 3 (2010), Scopus-Elsevier
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- The people of far-flung rural areas still depend to a large extent upon plants and household remedies for curing veterinary ailments. The folk knowledge of ethnoveterinary medicine and its significance has been identified by the traditional communities through a process of experience over hundreds of years. The paper deals with 34 ailments commonly found in nine different categories of livestock/animals (i e. buffalo, cow, oxen, sheep, goat, horse, mule, dog and cat) and their treatment with 73 medicinal plant species belonging to 70 genera and 45 families that occur in forests as well as close vicinity of the rural settlements. Out of the total population, majority of the people (more than 80%) was found dependent on traditional (herbal) system of treatments practiced by local herbal healers (Pashu Vaidyas), while rest of the people preferred modern (allopathic) system of treatments for curing veterinary ailments. In this study we observed that old aged people have more knowledge and experience particularly in remote areas for curing veterinary ailments. The traditional system of treatment is one of the most important prevailing systems in the area where modern veterinary health care facilities are rare or in very poor conditions.Keywords: Ethnoveterinary uses, Medicinal plants, Veterinary ailments, Livestock, Traditional herbal healers, Alaknanda catchment
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Ethnoveterinary uses, Medicinal plants, Veterinary ailments, Livestock, Traditional herbal healers, Alaknanda catchment
Alternative medicine
Ethnoveterinary medicine
Ethnobotany
India
Animal Diseases
Drug Discovery
Health care
medicine
Animals
Humans
Traditional knowledge
Medicinal plants
Rural settlement
Plants, Medicinal
Sheep
Traditional medicine
business.industry
Plant Extracts
Middle Aged
Research Papers
Complementary and alternative medicine
Socioeconomic Factors
Animals, Domestic
Ethnopharmacology
Livestock
Female
Medicine, Traditional
Rural area
business
Phytotherapy
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 25050044 and 01896016
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- African journal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines : AJTCAM
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bd075a87b4cb71095f3f2f9762fc4d74