Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge Vol. 11(2), April 2012, pp. 288-295 Folk veterinary medicines in Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh, India Rajesh Kumar1 & Kumar Avinash Bharati*2 1Department of Botany, Bareilly College, Bareilly-243005, India 2Raw Materials Herbarium & Museum (RHMD), National Institute of Science Communication And Information Resources, Dr K S Krishnan Marg, New Delhi-110012 E-mail:
[email protected] Received 04.05.2010 ; revised 21.11.2011 The aim of the present study is to document the prevalent folk medicinal knowledge of plants used for the treatment of various ailments of livestock in the district Jalaun of Uttar Pradesh. The study was carried out during February 2009 to April 2010 by taking interviews and discussions with the local inhabitants of the district. In total fifty seven plant species have been found to be used against twenty one ailments of livestock in the form of twenty-seven medicinal formulations. The comparative analysis between the previous studies conducted by several authors in India and the present study undertaken in Jalaun district revealed that out of fifty seven remedies reported here, fifty five remedies are found novel since they have been recorded first time. Keywords: Folk medicine, Medicinal plants, Veterinary medicine, Jalaun IPC Int. Cl.8: A61D, A61K, A61K 36/00 Folk medicine is the utilitarian relationship between medicines in Jalaun3 and traditional veterinary human beings and the natural resources in their medicine in the Bundelkhand area4 no study on folk environment, put to medicinal use1. The importance veterinary medicine of Jalaun district has been carried of folk medicine lies in the fact that, in addition to out so far.