Abstract
he methodologies and methods used to treat diseases, maintaining animal health and its importance to ethnobotany and Pharmacogonosy. The objective of the present study is to identify the leading medicinal plants used by local communities for the treatment of animals and document the threatened herbal knowledge from the elder formers (R1, R2 and R4) this study labels the ethno veterinary practices in different villages of District Shangla, where the documentation process is carried out through semi-structured questionnaires in 2017 (R1) where about seventy plant species belonging to different families of spermatophytes
have been collected, among which forty-eight belonged to angiosperm families and 2 families were gymnosperms. This comprises 39 herb, 14 shrubs, and 16 trees, respectively. The study postulated on the certification of herbal knowledge on realistic bases though former interviews for the documentation of accurate indigenous knowledge. (R1andR2) All the plant species have high medicinal values and used as an ethno veterinary by the local inhabitants. Like However, family Lamiaceae showed remarkable medicinal benefits. The administrative route is virtually oral, while some fifty species are used externally for skin infections. This study concluded that Shangla District is a rich source of herbal awareness and medicinal plants. In local interviews,
important medicinal knowledge and medicinal plants, most of whom use herbal medicines in livestock and pet animals, were recorded. Like Aloe vera L use for the healing of wounds, Arisaema jacquemontii blume used as antidote, Artimizia annua used as anathematize also in
gastric problems, Avena sativa L. used as a laxative and antiseptic (R1).
Taqiur Rahman, Tabassum Yaseen, Ali Mujtaba Shah, Samiullah, Ghulam Jelani, Gul Nawaz, Qudratullah Kalwar. (2020) Ethnoveterinary and Studies of Khadang Valley Chakesar District Shangla, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Punjab University Journal of Zoology, Volume 35, Issue 2.
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