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Marigold: Preventing pest, healing wounds |
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Practices for chilli, warts, wounds
A 55-year-old toddy tapper and farmer, Battini Kumaraswamy, learned some traditional practices from his grandmother. He has shared his knowledge with fellow villagers who find the practices to be very effective.
24408 Avoiding pest attack on chilli crops
The farmer who has had formal education only till class five, is quick to point out that pests in chillies can be averted by planting marigold randomly among chilli plants.
Marigolds (Tagetes sp.) are well-known repellents of aphids Also see Honey Bee, 9(1):12, 1998.
24409 When wounds heal slowly
He uses marigold leaves for wounds, which don’t heal easily or heal very slowly. He just takes a few leaves, grinds them into a paste and applies it on the affected part twice a day.
Marigold has several medicinal properties and is known to be extremely effective in wound healing (Chopda and Mahajan, 2009. Ethnobotanical Leaflets 13, 1-32). Also see Honey Bee: 11(3) 9, 2000.
24410 Healing warts
For healing warts, Kumaraswamy takes garlic and “tangedu” (Cassia siamea Lam.) leaves and grinds them into a paste and applies topically on the warts.
The lipid extract of garlic is reported for treating warts. It has antiviral, antibacterial as well as antifungal activity (Garlic: A natural cure for warts. International Journal of Dermatology http://www.bastyrcenter.org/content/view/851/ accessed on May 10, 2013). C. siamea is also known to heal warts http://archive.org/stream/classbookofbotan00wood/classbookofbotan00wood_djvu.txt accessed on September 10, 2013). Another practice to heal warts is to crush garlic with Tylophora asthmatica, Capparis brevispina and pepper to extract the juice. The juice is mixed with buttermilk or goat’s milk and is given to the animals suffering from bacterial infection. Also see Honey Bee, 8(3):8, 1997.
24411 Maggot infested wounds
For treating wounds, Kumaraswamy recommends applying latex of Calotropis gigantea (L.) R. Br. This, he claims, kills the maggots infesting the wounds.
In case of wounds treated with latex of C. gigantea, the epithelisation was faster than Framycetin sulphate cream (Nalwaya et al., 2009. International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1 (1): 176-181). In combination with camphor and butter, Calotropis plant juice is applied on animal wounds. Also see Honey Bee, 9(1):10, 1998.
Battini Kumaraswamy
Duggondi Mandal, Warangal District
24412 Improving milk yield
A decoction made by boiling yellow sorghum, coconut and jaggery increases milk yield. About 500g of this decoction should be given twice daily, in the morning and the evening. The use of jaggery as energy-promoting constituent in the feed ration augurs well for improving milk yield in animals.
Anumula Sambaiah
Nalla belli mandal,,Warangal District
coute: Mupparapu Raju
Different parts of yellow sorghum (Sorghum vulgare) have been found to be rich in calcium, protein and phosphorus and thereby used for treating general debility (Saganuwan. 2010. Some medicinal plants of Arabian Pennisula. Journal of Medicinal Plants Research, (4) 9: 766-788.
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Honey Bee 24 (4) 15, 2014 |
