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Ethnoveterinary practices in Jajpur district of Orissa
338-343Domestic
animals comprise the most important part of agricultural economics of Jajpur
district of Orissa. Farmers in inaccessible countryside of the district still
depend upon plants for curing various animal ailments. Plants of
ethnoveterinary importance have been recognized by the folk through a process
of experience over hundred of years. The paper deals with 88 plant species
belonging 46 families and 86 prescriptions for veterinary medicines in use
among tribes and atribes of Jajpur. Ailments covered in the paper include
anorexia, bad taste of mouth, bronchitis, cold and cough, colic pain,
conjunctivitis, constipation, cracks in palate, cracked nipples, diarrhoea,
dysentery, dyspepsia, dysuria, fever, filariasis, flatulence, foot and mouth
disease, galactorrhoea, indigestion, mastitis, mump, peptic ulcer, scabies,
stomachache, throat infection, yoke wound, swellings, etc. Plants enhancing the
milching capacity as well as those adding to the strength and vigour of the
livestock have also been included