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Volume 27, No. (2), 2017 (April)
DOCUMENTATION OF ETHNOVETERINARY PRACTICES IN DISTRICT JHANG, PAKISTAN
N. Badar1.2, Z. Iqbal*3, M. S. Sajid3,4, H. M. Rizwan3, A. Jabbar5, W. Babar6, M. N. Khan3 and A. Ahmed7

N. Badar1.2, Z. Iqbal*3, M. S. Sajid3,4, H. M. Rizwan3, A. Jabbar5, W. Babar6, M. N. Khan3 and A. Ahmed7
1Additional Principal Veterinary Officer, Civil Veterinary Hospital, Jhang.

2Incharge, Feed Mill, LPRI, Bahadurnagar, Okara.

3Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad-38040, Pakistan.

4U.S. Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security (USPCAS-AFS),

5Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia;  

6University College of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur.

7Department of Rural Sociology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad-38040, Pakistan.

Corresponding Author: zafaruaf1@gmail.com
DOI: N/A
Page Number(s): 398-406
Published Online First: April 01, 2017
Publication Date: April 01, 2017
ABSTRACT

The study was conducted to document the plants used in the traditional veterinary practices in Jhang district of Pakistan. Rapid and participatory rural appraisal techniques were used for collection of information i.e. the interviews and focused group discussions were carried with 253 traditional veterinary healers for a period of one year. From the study area, 46 plant species representing 31 families were documented for the treatment of different infectious and non-infectious ailments. The most frequently reported (≥ 22% respondents) plants included: Trachyspermum ammi (L.) SpragueCapsicum annuum Linn, Vernonia anthelmintica L., Foeniculum vulgare Milland Allium cepa Linn. Of 46 plants, 33 were indigenous. Materials other than plants are also used as adjunctive therapy for different ailments. A wide variation in the dose, vehicle, part of plant, mode of preparation and administration/application was observed. The efficacy claims and indications for different plants were quite conflicting. The traditional veterinary healers in the study area used diverse plant species in the veterinary practices with varying claims about their efficacies. Controlled studies for the validation of the plant usage are underway in the Department of Parasitology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.

Keywords: Ethno-veterinary; Phytotherapy; Medicinal plants; Documentation; Jhang; Pakistan

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