Ethnoveterinary management of cattle helminthiasis among the Fulani and the Mossi (Central Burkina Faso): plants used and modes of use

Hilou, Adama; Rappez, F; Duez, Pierre

doi:10.4314/ijbcs.v8i5.24

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“…Similar to findings of Okombe et al (2014a), the most common preparations of EV remedies include maceration and decoction in water for oral administration. Although keepers can use different routes of administration (Hilou et al, 2014;Okombe et al, 2014a, b), most of the treatments cited here were administered orally by drenching prepared remedy to the sick animal, by leaving the plants permanently in the drinker for some days or by mixing plant powder with food. The predominance of the oral route in the administration of treatments can be explained by the ease of administration and by the localization of the major symptoms observed; indeed, the oral route is by far the most common for administrating drugs intended to treat the gastrointestinal tract (Hua, 2020).…”

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Smallholders’ knowledge about healing goat gastrointestinal parasite infections with wild plants in southern DR Congo

Mavungu

Mutombo²,

Numbi³

et al. 2023

Front. Pharmacol.

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Gastrointestinal parasite (GIP) infections control has an important role to play in increasing livestock production from a limited natural resource base and to improve animal health and welfare. This study aimed to collect indigenous knowledge and identify wild plants locally used by goat smallholders of three territories of Haut-Katanga province for treating signs of gastrointestinal parasitism. Ethnoveterinary surveys were conducted by semi-structured interviews and a bibliographic screening of the biological activities relating to cited plants was carried out. Our interviews showed that ethnosemantic diagnoses of GIP diseases are based on signs. Eighty-seven informants reported that 27 plant species from 15 families, dominated by Fabaceae (29.6%) and Lamiaceae (18.5%) were commonly used in their goats treatment. Among these plants, five species with palmately compound leaves were considerably more used. From those, we noted a substitution of Vitex congolensis De Wild. and T. Durand (Lamiaceae) by Oldfieldia dactylophylla (Welw. Ex Oliv.) J. Leonard (Picrodendraceae) and of Vitex mombassae Vatke by Vitex madiensis Oliv. Subsp. Milanjiensis (Britten) F. White. Roots (46.9%), leaves (28.0%) and seeds (12.5%) were the most frequently used plant organs, and maceration is applied for most of the medicinal preparations (62.2%). Recipes were administered by oral route, for GIP 1) prevention (33.3%), by macerating the ground plant material in drinking water for 2 weeks at the start of each season (dry and rainy); and 2) treatment (66.7%). According to the literature, some of these plants have few or no studies investigating their anthelmintic activity. The cited plants are worth investigating further as they could constitute an effective alternative strategy in maintaining animal productivity. Studies on the biological activity of these plants can also provide indications of promising leads for extracts that could be developed into commercial standardized medications.

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Smallholders’ knowledge about healing goat gastrointestinal parasite infections with wild plants in southern DR Congo

Mavungu

Mutombo²,

Numbi³

et al. 2023

Front. Pharmacol.

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“…High levels of herd immunity reduce outbreak risk. Pastoralists tend to rely on traditional and/or reactive treatments 49,50 and as vaccination is not a common practice in FMD endemic pastoralist Africa we assume that all immunity is naturally acquired and life-long. Our results that show longer average in-herd residency (T in-herd ) increases mean T ReducedRisk .…”

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Endemic foot and mouth disease: pastoral in-herd disease dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa

Mclachlan

Marion

McKendrick

et al. 2019

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Foot and mouth disease (FMD) burden disproportionally affects Africa where it is considered endemic. Smallholder livestock keepers experience significant losses due to disease, but the dynamics and mechanisms underlying persistence at the herd-level and beyond remain poorly understood. We address this knowledge gap using stochastic, compartmental modelling to explore FMD virus (FMDV) persistence, outbreak dynamics and disease burden in individual cattle herds within an endemic setting. Our analysis suggests repeated introduction of virus from outside the herd is required for long-term viral persistence, irrespective of carrier presence. Risk of new disease exposures resulting in significant secondary outbreaks is reduced by the presence of immune individuals giving rise to a period of reduced risk, the predicted duration of which suggests that multiple strains of FMDV are responsible for observed yearly herd-level outbreaks. Our analysis suggests management of population turnover could potentially reduce disease burden and deliberate infection of cattle, practiced by local livestock keepers in parts of Africa, has little effect on the duration of the reduced risk period but increases disease burden. This work suggests that FMD control should be implemented beyond individual herds but, in the interim, herd management may be used to reduced FMD impact to livestock keepers.

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“…The frequency citation states the percentage of informers that cited the plant species for a particular use (Hilou et al 2014.…”

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Application of ethnobotanical indices to document the use of medicinal plants in Tehsil Kallar Syedan, District Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan

Zareef¹,

Gul²,

Qureshi³

et al. 2023

Ethnobot. Res. App.

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Background. Ethnobotanical studies report the customary uses of plants used by the local communities across the world. The goal of present study was to census the ethno-medicinal uses of local plants used by the natives of Tehsil Kallar Syedan, District Rawalpindi by using quantitative ethnobotanical indices.Methodology. Ethnobotanical surveys were carried out during March 2018 to April, 2022 to document traditional uses of medicinal plants by using semi-structured questionnaires. The gathered data was examined by using quantitative indices comprising frequency of citation (FC), relative frequency citation (RFC), use value index (UV) and fidelity level (FL%).Results. In total, 169 medicinal plant species belonged to 136 genera and 54 families have been documented from this region which are being used to treat or prevent common diseases. The informants included people of different age groups. Poaceae was the most widely used family (17 species). Major life form of plants was herb (61%); while leaves (35%) were highly used in preparing recipes. RFC values ranged from 0.11 to 0.78; while UV ranged from 0.10 to 0.82. A total of 13 species showed highest FL of 100%. Most medicinal applications involved the whole plant (50.8%), although leaves (32.5%), roots (10.0%), flowers (8.2%), stems (5.9%), seeds (3.5%), bark (3.5%), fruit (1.7%), latex (1.7%), bulbs (1.1%), rhizomes (0.5%), and tubers (0.5%) were also used.Conclusion. This research appraisal provides some additional and novel use along with higher RFCs and UVs which may serve as benchmark for phytochemical analysis and novel therapeutic properties.

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Ethnoveterinary management of cattle helminthiasis among the Fulani and the Mossi (Central Burkina Faso): plants used and modes of use

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Smallholders’ knowledge about healing goat gastrointestinal parasite infections with wild plants in southern DR Congo

Smallholders’ knowledge about healing goat gastrointestinal parasite infections with wild plants in southern DR Congo

Endemic foot and mouth disease: pastoral in-herd disease dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa

Application of ethnobotanical indices to document the use of medicinal plants in Tehsil Kallar Syedan, District Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan

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