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| Title: | Folk veterinary medicines in Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Authors: | Kumar, Rajesh
Bharati, Kumar Avinash |
| Keywords: | Folk medicine
Medicinal plants
Veterinary medicine
Jalaun |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A61D, A61K, A61K 36/00 |
| Abstract: | The aim of the
present study is to document the prevalent folk medicinal knowledge of plants
used for the treatment of various ailments of livestock in the district Jalaun
of Uttar Pradesh. The study was carried out during February 2009 to April 2010
by taking interviews and discussions with the local inhabitants of the
district. In total fifty seven plant species have been found to be used against
twenty one ailments of livestock in the form of twenty-seven medicinal
formulations. The comparative analysis between the previous studies conducted
by several authors in India
and the present study undertaken in Jalaun district revealed that out of fifty
seven remedies reported here, fifty five remedies are found novel since they
have been recorded first time. |
| Page(s): | 288-295 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.11(2) [April 2012]
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