Traditional Ethnoveterinary Phytotherapies from Pakistan

Present investigation was conducted to document plant based Traditional Ethnoveterinary Phytotherapies to cure various aliments in remote areas of Pakistan including Indo-Pak, Pak-Afghanistan, Pak-China, and Pak-Iran borders. Questionnaires based on semi-structured interviews and observations were used to collect data from traditional veterinary healers residing in these remote sites. Eighty seven medicinal plant species belonging to 46 families were recorded for their applications against veterinary diseases. All plant species were indigenous to the study areas. Dysentery, diarrhea, indigestion, gas trouble, constipation, colic, worms, ulcer, wounds, scabies, sores, infections of mouth, throat, lungs, foot, hooves; fever, cough, lactation, unequal memory glands, weakness, mastitis, arthritis and urethra prolepsis were frequently reported veterinary ailments. Forty one plant species were reported in more than two conditions. Commonly used routes of drug administration were oral and dermal. Validation of these ethnoveterinary practices for their quality, efficacy and standardization of doses and screening for active substances that may lead to the discovery of some new, safer and cost effective medicines.