Ethnobotany of India, Volume One by Pullaiah T.; Krishnamurthy K. V.; Bahadur Bir

Author:Pullaiah, T.; Krishnamurthy, K. V.; Bahadur, Bir
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Apple Academic Press, Incorporated
Published: 2017-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

ETHNOVETERINARY MEDICINE OF EASTERN GHATS AND ADJACENT DECCAN REGION

M. HARI BABU, J. KOTESWARA RAO and T. V. V. SEETHA RAMI REDDI

Department of Botany, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam–530003, India, E-mail: [email protected]

CONTENTS

Abstract

8.1Introduction

8.2Review of Literature

8.3Fodder Yielding Plants

8.4Enumeration

8.5Discussion

8.6Conclusion

Keywords

References

ABSTRACT

The review deals with 271 species of plants belonging to 221 genera employed in 512 kinds of folklore prescriptions for treating 134 different types of animal diseases by the rural people and tribals of Eastern Ghats and Deccan plateau covering Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Maharashtra states. Of the 512 practices 212 were found to be new along with 33 new ethnoveterinary plants. The results are compared with those of others in different parts of India. Herbal veterinary medicine offers enormous scope for further research, so all the existing information is to be correctly recorded before it is lost. Based on the age-old practices, pharmaceutical industries may formulate some novel prescriptions to cure various animal diseases. Documentation and standardization of ethnoveterinary knowledge is also important in the context of Intellectual Property Rights to check the patent claims. In future, detailed chemical and pharmacological investigations of these traditional formulations and medicinal plants will be very helpful for inventing/developing new veterinary drugs.

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