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Volume 6, Issue 6 (Suppl)
Med Aromat Plants
ISSN: 2167-0412 MAP, an open access journal
Herbals Summit 2017
October 18-20, 2017
October 18-20, 2017 Osaka, Japan
3
rd
Global Summit on
Herbals & Traditional Medicine
An ethnoveterinary survey of medicinal plants used by the traditional healers in Virudhunagar
district, Tamil Nadu, India
Natarajan Nirmalkumar and Vadivel Siva
Virudhunagar Hindu Nadars' Senthikumara Nadar College (Autonomous), India
T
he present study was aimed to document the medicinal plants which were used to cure diseases in cattle by the traditional
healers in Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu, India. Information on medicinal plants was collected from the traditional
healers by adopting semi-structured questionnaire and through open-ended interview. It is evident from the data that leaves
constituted the major plant part used (52%) followed by whole plant (34%) and barks (14%). These plants were used to treat
appetites, bloat, fever, ephemeral fever, diarrhea, dysentery, cough and foot and mouth diseases. About 25 traditional healers
were interviewed. From this study, a total of 60 plant species belonging to 26 families were used and described along with
drug preparation mode of administration, dosage and duration of the treatment. The main purpose of this study was not
only documenting the ethnomedicinal plants used by traditional healers but also maintain with traditional knowledge for
the conservation and sustainable utilization of the promising medicinal plants in these area and also for effective treatment of
various ailments in cattle.
Biography
Natarajan Nirmalkumar has completed his Doctoral degree in Botany from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli in 2008. Currently he is working as an
Assistant Professor of Botany at Virudhunagar Hindu Nadars’ Senthikumara Nadar College (Autonomous), India. He has published more than 35 research papers
in national and international peer reviewed journals.
rapdnirmal@yahoo.co.inNatarajan Nirmalkumar et al., Med Aromat Plants 2017, 6:6 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-0412-C1-014