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Ethnoveterinary Medicinal Plants and Practices in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

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A majority of population living in the villages of Andaman & Nicobar Islands depends not only on the farming but a major role of their livelihood is animal rearing. Due to remote locality, the cure for their cattle from diseases is not easier; therefore, they develop their own methods by using locally available plants in their backyard, nearby forest, and home remedies to cure their animals and poultry. Many of these practices are quite effective and being used by them since long past. In most of the cases plants or plant parts are given as such, seldom in combination with some other plants, plant parts, or home remedies. The old-aged farmers and livestock owners gained the ethnoveterinary knowledge from their own experience or from their ancestors through the words of mouth. Livestock are an important and integrated component of the agricultural production system in developing countries. Antibiotics are indiscriminately used in livestock and poultry production and the phenomenon of the problem of multidrug resistance has evolved with a great concern for an organic livestock production system. The importance of traditional and alternative medicine out of medicinal plants has been realized for sustainable livestock production by the veterinary practitioners and medicinal plants have comprised a significant proportion of veterinary research. Due to isolated spread of 572 islands in remote locations of A&N Islands, rural farmers are dependent on indigenous knowledge for the treatment of their livestock and poultry rather than immediate animal husbandry and veterinary services. A&N Islands are the hot spot of a large number of medicinal plants. A field survey was done to study and document these ethnoveterinary medicinal plants. A total of 41 plants from 27 families were identified which are of ethnoveterinary importance from the different villages of South and North Andaman districts of Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Extensive research works are being carried out to explore medicinal plants as growth promoter and immunomodulator in poultry.

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  1. Department of Botany and Microbiology, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India

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Tamilvanan, S., Sunder, J. (2020). Ethnoveterinary Medicinal Plants and Practices in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. In: Khasim, S.M., Long, C., Thammasiri, K., Lutken, H. (eds) Medicinal Plants: Biodiversity, Sustainable Utilization and Conservation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1636-8_18

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