An Overview of Ethnoveterinary Medicine in Nigeria
Journal Title: Tropical Journal of Natural Product Research - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
A myriad of animal diseases are responsible for major losses in livestock production, threatens the epidemiology, control and prevention of zoonosis and pose a major threat to human health and as constraints to the development and enhancement of viable livestock production systems in Nigeria. The impact of these animal diseases is particularly severe in endemic and rural areas. Small-scale livestock farmers with low incomes in Nigeria have thus engaged in a long tradition of the use of herbal remedies to care for their sick and infected animals. These practices have become widespread and generally accepted because of the lack of availability of veterinary services in these rural areas and/or costs of allopathic veterinary drugs. A number of plant species have been identified by traditional herbal practitioners for treating a wide range of animal ailments. This practice also known as ethnoveterinary medicine has gone through an age long and iterative process and has been developed through trial-and-error and deliberate experimentation. However, very little information has been recorded about the plants used as veterinary medicines. Though plants serve as potent medicine for curing various diseases of human as well as animals. It is crucial to without bias learn, evaluate, promote and integrate the beneficial facets of traditional animal healthcare practices into current primary livestock health care delivery services. The specific aim of this review is to document common ethnoveterinary medicinal plants, their preparation and the application methods used traditionally to treat animal diseases
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Edwin Uwagie-Ero
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