Animals healers

Part 2 book "An introduction to human – Animal relationships, a psychological perspective" includes content: Animals amusing and assisting humans; animals healers; eating, hurting, and killing animals; into the anthropocene.

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The indigenous technical knowledge (ITK) regarding animal husbandry is considered as old as domestication of various livestock species. Unfortunately, these practices which are in vogue throughout the rural India are little documented and there is danger of extinction of this knowledge. Thus it is become imperative to collect and document these practices. A semi structured interview schedule was used for the data collection from 10 traditional healers and 120 livestock owners.

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Crassocephalum crepidioides is a medicinal plant used in west and central Africa, not only as leguminous crop, but also to treat high blood pressure in particular. The objective of this work was to evaluate the diuretic activity of aqueous leaves extract of C. crepidioides in the treatment of high blood pressure as claimed by traditional healers. Rats both male and female were used to evaluate the diuretic activity. C. crepidioides was administered to rats at 25, 50, 75, 100 and 125mg/kg.

19p quenchua2 15-12-2019 19 2   Download