| Category | Veterinary Care |
| Scout | HBN |
| Ingredients | Thornapple (Datura innoxia) leaves, flowers or fruits, tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) snuff, jaggery |
| Innovator / Knowledge Provider | Mr. Merajbhai Govindbhai Rabari |
| City | Ahmedabad |
| KVK District | Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Anand Agricultural University, Arnej – 382 230. Tel:02714-242028 |
| Address | At. Po Sela Sanand Ahmedabad |
| Languages Spoken | Gujarati |
| Vocation | Farmer |
| State | Gujarat |
| PIN Code | 380058 |
| PAS 1 | Datura innoxia Mill., Safed Datura (Salonaceae)The whole plant is grinded so as to make paste. It is applied externally to sheep and cowto remove lice for three days. (Diversity of Nutrimental And EthnoveterinaryTherapeutic Potential Plants Of Bahraich (Up) India) |
| PAS 2 | One kg of whole plant of C. reflexa and 1 kgleaves of Datura innoxia are boiled in 1 lt.mustard oil. This oil is massaged toanimal to treat lumbago and rheumatism. (https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/140399/10/l-5%20b.pdf ) |
| PAS 3 | Extract of the tobacco plant is administered orally to cows, leaves as poultice over boils & infected wounds ( Traditional Medicinal Usage of Tobacco – A Review, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270280991_Traditional_Medicinal_Usage_of_Tobacco_-_A_Review ) |
| PAS 4 | Survey on Ethnoveterinary Practices around Junagadh, Gujarat, India (https://www.ijpsonline.com/articles/survey-on-ethnoveterinary-practices-around-junagadh-gujarat-india-3600.html) |
| PAS 5 | Later reports of tobacco use by the Native Americans might be less reliable than those from contemporary sources, but in 1934 Fernando Ocaranza summed up the medicinal uses of tobacco in Mexico before 1519 as antidiarrhoeal, narcotic and emollient; he said that tobacco leaves were applied for the relief of pain, used in powdered form for the relief of catarrh and applied locally to heal wounds and burns (Medicinal uses of tobacco in history, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079499/ ) |
| Agro Ecological Zone | Western plain, kachchh and part of kathiawar peninsula, hot arid eco-region (2.3) ,Coastal Plains and Hills (XIII),Bhal and Coastal area (GJ-8) 14.26% North Gujarat ( GJ-4) 19.87% North west zone (GJ-5) 36.38 North Saurashtra (GJ-6) 29.49 |
| Practice ID | DTP0010000000200 |
| Annotation ID | GIAN/GAVL/2008 |
| Reference | HBN database |
| Disease Description | Injuries in the hooves of livestock sometimes become the breeding ground for maggots. The animal limps and suffers severe pain while walking. |
| Management Practices | Rumex hastatus D. Don. Polygonaceae KUH-450TarookyShrubRoot and leavesWound healingGoat, cow, buffaloesPowderFlourOralFour days(Ethnoveterinary Study of Medicinal Plants in a Tribal Society of Sulaiman Range, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2014/127526/tab1/ ) |
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