Traditional veterinary medicine in the Alice district of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa : research in action
2001
Resource-poor farmers in rural and
peri-urban areas have limited access to
veterinary care in terms of support
services (from state and private veterinarian
and animal health technicians), information
about the prevention and treatment of livestock
diseases, and preventative and therapeutic
veterinary medicines. This results in
reduced productivity and in livestock disease
and deaths, which is a great burden on these
farmers, who can least afford the loss of their
animals. There is a need to encourage disadvantaged
farmers to use available resources
and methods, at minimal cost, and to improve
their productivity. One of these resources is
ethnoveterinary medicine. A list of 53 plants
used as veterinary medicines by stock farmers
in the Alice district in the Eastern Cape is
presented together with their preparation and
methods of administration.
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