Indigenous Knowledge on Cattle Health Care Practices in Selected Villages of Madurai District in Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

The present study was aimed to investigate the Indigenous knowledge on cattle health care practices in selected villages located in foot bases of Azhagar hills in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu. The informations related to ethnoveterinary practices were collected through questionnaire as well as personal interviews during field trips made from August, 2014 to June, 2018. It has been shown that 41 medicinal plants of 24 families used by traditional healers to cure cattle diseases were documented from study sites. The ancestral traditional knowledge of people who have been using the native plants for the preparation of drugs and methods of their administration were recorded. From this present investigation, the practical knowledge of people in herbal medicines reveals that they are capable of treating various diseases.