| Category | Veterinary Care |
| Scout | HBN |
| Ingredients | Urine of cows, leaves of vellaikundumani(Abrus precatorius), and veliparuthi(Pergularia daemia) urine of bullocks, kanja(Cannabis sativa), jaggery, raw rice, field bean seeds, black gram and horse gram |
| Innovator / Knowledge Provider | Documented by Tamil Version of Honey Bee |
| City | Cumbum |
| KVK District | Gandhigram Rural University KVK, Gandhigram, Dindigul Dt. |
| Address | Cumbum ,Tamil Nadu |
| Languages Spoken | Tamil |
| Vocation | Farmer |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| PIN Code | 625520 |
| PAS 1 | "Control of Bovine Ephermal fever"https://veterinaryresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13567-015-0262-4 |
| Agro Ecological Zone | Eastern Ghats (Tamil Nadu uplands and south eastern sahayadris) and Deccan plateau, hot semiarid eco-sub region (8.1) |
| Community Practices | "Sahu mixes three to four egg yolks in about 200 millilitres of mustard oil and applies the mixture on the bodies of the affected cattle. He claims that the cattle are relieved of the fever within eight to 10 hours of completing the treatment. "(Honey Bee, 14(2):9, 2003). "Amaruben H Baurya treat emphemeral fever in animal. About 100 g of garlic pods are crushed and the crushed garlic (Allium sativum) should be smeared on the animal's body twice a day for two days. This causes the ephemeral fever to subside faster." (HB3(2) 1992, p.21, HB(3,4) 1992, p.20 and HB6(4) 1995 p.13) |
| Practice ID | KNW0010000000711 |
| Annotation ID | GIAN/GAVL/1283 |
| Reference | HBN database |
| Disease | Ephemeral fever |
| Disease Description | It is an arthropod transmitted disease of cattle and water buffalo that spans tropical and subtropical zones of Africa , Australia, the middle east and Asia.From the enzootic sites the disease extends intermittently into temparate zones, causing epizootics of variable severity. The disease has not been reported in North or South America or in Europe. Several closely related viruses can infect cattle, but do not cause disease. |
| Management Practices | Vaccination, anti-inflammatry drugs |
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