ETHNO-MEDICINAL PLANTS IN ANIMAL HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN INDIAN HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS



Manisha Joshi(1*), Babita Bohra(2), Vir Singh(3)

(1) Kalpavruksha Hostel, Hebbal Campus, I-Iebbal, Bangalore — 560024
(2) Department of Livestock Production and Management, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, GB Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar-263145, Uttarancha
(3) CBSH, GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-263145, Uttarancha
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract


Natural ecosystems in the Himalayan mountain areas serve as a rich repository
of numerous plants of ethno-medicinal value being used by local livestock-dependent
communities in animal health management. This paper brings forth a comprehensive list of the plants indigenous to the Himalayan mountain areas which carry vital medicinal values and have been exploited by local people for millennia. Folk uses as well as medicinal uses of these plants have been elaborated. In the wake of on-going rapid agricultural transformation and globalization, use of plants of ethno-vet medicinal
values and indigenous knowledge woven around the usage of such plants is fast
vanishing. These, however, are very much alive in the Indian Himalayan region. Use of
these uncultivated/ wild plants in the animal production systems by the smallholders in
the poor countries of the South, indeed, poses a challenge to the systems operating in
the industrialized countries of the North as well as to the rapidly going processes of
globalization. Utilisation of these ethno-medicinal plants is cost-effective, affordable
and time-tested and needs to be preserved and promoted.


Keywords


Himalayas, Ethno-Medicinal Plants, Health Management,

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