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The paper deals with exploration of folklore knowledge on medicinal plants used in digestive disorders of livestock (cattle, sheep and goats) practiced by local healers of Medak district, Telangana, India. An attempt is made to gather information from the local pastoral healers belonging to Golla, Kurma,Lambada, Mudiraj and Gouda communities. The author has interviewed 25 healers and recorded the methods of collection of herbal plants and methods of preparation of the drugs used by them. Livestock of the district are commonly prone to digestive disorders like anorexia, bloat diarrhea, dysentery (blood with stool), stomach ache, dyspepsia, intestinal worms, hydrocyanic acid and stomatitis. The author has recorded 66 species of medicinal plants during last five years which are being used by the healers belonging to 58 genera of 37 families of angiosperms. In all a total of 70 remedies were recorded under digestive disorders, (out of which 30 for diarrhea and dysentery 9 for bloat, 9 for stomach ache, 8 for dyspepsia, 5 for intestinal worms, 4 for anorexia, 3 for hydrocyanic acid tympani (occurs due consumption of poison leaves which contain hydrocyanic acid), and 2 for stomatitis). The author has recorded several forms of medicines like fresh juice from the fresh plant materials in the form of mixtures, pills, decoctions, powders etc. Healers generally use fresh plant materials like leaves, barks (of roots and stems), tubers, rhizomes either to make juice and decoction. Key words: Folk-lore communities, Traditional healers, Herbal remedies, Veterinary diseases, Medak, Telangana. REFERENCES Gamble, J.S &C.E.C Fischer, Flora of Presidency of Madras. London. (rep. ed1957:BSI. Culcutta). 1915-1935. Goud, P.S & Pullaiah, T, “Folk Veterinary Medicine of Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh”, Ethnobotany, 8 (1 & 2), pp71-74. 1996. Lingaiah M and Nagaraja Rao. An Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used by traditional healers of Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh, India. Biolife. 1(1), 17-23, 2013. Pullaiah, T., C. Prabhakar & B.R.P. Rao, Flora of Medak District (Andhra Pradesh). Daya Publlishing House, Delhi, 1998. Ramdas et al. Ethnoveterinary remedies used in common surgical conditions in some districts of Andhra Pradesh and Maharastra, India. Ethnobotany 12, 100-112. 2000. Reddy K.J & Sudarsahanam G. Plants used as veterinary medicine in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India, Int J Crude Drug Res, 25 (3) 145. 1987. Reddy, K.N., C.S. Reddy. M.R. Bhanja & V.S. Raju, Plants used in Ethno veterinary practices in Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh. Ethnobotany 10: 75-84. 1998. Reddy, C.S & V.S. Raju, Folklore Biomedicine for Common Veterinary Diseases in Nalgonda District”, Ethnobotany, 12 :113-117.2000. Reddy, K.N., G.V. Subbaraju, C.S. Reddy & V.S. Raju, Ethnoveterinay medicine for livestock in Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge Vol. 5(3). 368-372. 2006.Sanyasi Rao M.L , YNR Varma and Vijaya Kumar Ethno veterinary Medicinal Plants of the catchment area of the River Papagni in the Chittoor and Anthapur District of AP, India. Ethnobotanical leaflets 12: 217-226, 2008 |
