Ethnoveterinary medicine is a branch of ethnobotany concerned with the study of traditional remedies. Ethnoveterinary methods are as old as domestication of numerous livestock species when it comes to animal healthcare. Herbal medicine has experienced a variety of conceptual modifications over time, yet its tone has stayed mostly same from antiquity to the present. Antibacterial, antifungal, insecticidal, and antioxidant action has been demonstrated for plants. Herbal treatment strives to not only cure the underlying cause of the illness, but also to reverse aberrant symptoms and restore the animals' health and vigour.
Authors: Bhumika Varshney, Sumit Malik, Ajeet Singh, N. P. Mehta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5129-8.ch003
Publish Year: 2022
