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Nam Vali Velanmai |
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Tamil Nadu |
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Hums - practices |
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Stir Growth Higher; Make Egg Extract, or Organic Fertilizer |
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Herbal solutions
Tamilmani (55) from Vanniyampatti village has studied till 10th Standard. He used to work as a powerloom superviser (which manufactured surgical cotton for local mill owners). When he could save enough money, he bought two acres of land. He maintains a herd of six cattles and an equal number of goats. He has developed following innovations for pursuing organic crop production:
221221 For quick Fermentation of organic liquid fertilizer
Usually it takes more than a month to decompose cow dung slurry properly. In order to hasten this process, Tamilmani adds 25 g Kadukkai powder (Terminalia chebula (Gaertner) Retz.) and one gram of Athimathuram powder (Glycrrhiza glabra L.) to make a herbal mixture. He dilutes ten kg of cow dung in a 50 liter container. To this, the herbal mixture is added. The entire solution is stirred well and closed air tight. After a few days the lid has to be opened partially in order to release carbon monoxide and methane gases. After a week or so, when the liquid has no odour, fermentation is supposed to be complete. One liter of this solution is diluted ten times and sprayed to get faster growth. This can also be used with Panchagavya and added to irrigation water or used as foliar spray.
The plant powder of Terminalia chebula (Gaertner) Retz. and Glycrrhiza glabra L. is known to have antimicrobial property (Sato et al, 1997, Irani et al, 2010). The reason for faster decomposition is that the closed container creates anaerobic condition, which increases the growth of anaerobic bacteria which is normally very slow in an open system of composting (Heap, shallow ditches, etc). This also increases the temperature than which favours growth of anaerobic bacteria.
Sato et al., (1997): Biol Pharm Bull., 20(4):401-404.Irani et al., (2010): Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 9 (4): 425-428.
221222 Preparation of Egg Extract
One kg of lemon juice is added to eight beaten eggs in a jar. After eight days, a kg of jaggery is added to the dissolved eggs. The mixture is allowed to ferment for three weeks in the closed jar. After three weeks, the contents are filtered. About 200 ml of the filtrate is taken and mixed with ten liters of water and sprayed on the crops. It acts as a growth promoter, increases the number of flowers in various crops and enhances the crop yield.
Alagesan, et al. (2009) found that “the height, number and area of leaves, number and weight of tomatoes and chlorophyll content of the plants treated with egg lime mix with Panchagavya are positively correlated.” (http://www.eco-web.com/edi/index.htm)
221223 Treatment for Enterotoxe-mia in goats
Enterotoxemia is a condition when large amount of toxins, produced by increased population of Clostridium perfringins Type C and D, are absorbed through the intestines of the caprines that is goats. This disease is often associated with over-eating (fresh grasses in rainy season, heavy grain feeding or excess milk feeding in case of lambs and kids). It progresses rapidly causing death without significant symptoms. Affected caprines may cry continuously or appear depressed or have convulsive twitches with abdominal pain or sudden seizure and throw their head back or can have bloody diarrhoea.
Recently, death of 110 goats in a village Kelal near Paramakudi in Ramanthapuram district was reported. Rajamanickam, a herbal healer administered the remaining goats with brinjal (unripened) after heating directly over fire. He gave four brinjals to each goat. This checked the mortality completely. He has also earlier treated cows suffering with loose motion /diarrhoea by administering a kg of heated brinjal.
The unripe fruit is covered by the calyx, which cures food poisoning. http://www.pyroenergen.com/articles09/traditional-remedies-vegetables.htm
Traditional knowledge on goat rearing
Duraisamypuram (Sivakasi taluka, district Virudhunagar) is a dryland village with black cotton soil having annual rainfall less than 800 mm. Moreover, the ground water is saline at many places. Local people depend upon sheep and goat rearing as their predominant activity. The village has a dominant population of konar (yadava) community. Earlier there were three major herds of animals (each herd is having around 500 – 800 sheep / goats) in the village and now it is reduced to a single herd only. The goat population belong to a particular breed i.e. kanni, which has white markings on the head and the ears. This breed has good survival ability in the dry region. Traditional livestock keepers, viz Chinnagurusamy and Jayalakshmi have shared their practices here:
221224 Cumin controls diarrohea with thuthi
If the animal suffers from loose motion or diarrhoea due to intake of poisonous grasses / herbs or due to excess body heat, they take one handful of Thuthi (Abutilon indicum (Link) Sweet) and ten g of cumin. These are to be ground together and administered orally.
Abutilon and Cumin have anti diarrhoeal effect. (Chandrashekhar et al. (2004), Journal of Natural Remedies 4, 1 and C.P. Khare (Ed.) Indian Medicinal Plants, an Illustrated Dictionary, Springer
http://siozenh4x0r.webs.com/Indian%20Medicinal%20Plants%20An%20Ill ustrated%20Dictionary.pdf
221225 Vitex arrests bloat
For controlling bloat in goats, a handful of nochi (Vitex negundo L.) leaves, ten gram cumin and an equal amount of black pepper are ground well together and administered after diluting in about 100 ml of water.
Use of cumin for indigestion, gas and abdominal problem is known (H.D. Wasantha Piyadasa (1994): Rev. sci. tech. Off. int. Epiz., 13 (2), 471-486 (http://www.oie.int/doc/ged/D9434.PDF). Vitex negundo L. is effective against bloat. (http://www.longwoodherbal.org/vitex/vitex.pdf)
Herbal healing practices
Deivanayagam (80) is a reputed animal healer in Nadukuppam village. He has been practicing Rana sigichai (Wound healing, treating tumor and also bone setting) for the last 40 years. He learned these traditional practices from his grandfather Mottai Gounder in oral pattom near Vanthavasi.
221226 Surgery for curing swellings/ tumors
If animals suffer due to “Katty” (swelling/ tumors) for many years, he does surgery by using a sharp blade/ knife. After that, he applies special oil prepared using the following ingredients:
100 g of seeds and bark of thattai pungam (Pongamia pinnata Linn.), a handful of leaves of Keelanelly (Phyllanthus amarus Schumach. & Thonn.), 200 ml of Gingelly oil, ten g of Omum (ajwain, Carum copticum L. ) and the same amount of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.).
First gingelly oil has to be heated along with pongamia and keelanally. Before turning the heat off, omam and turmeric are added. The mixture is cooled and stored. Before applying the oil the wound has to be cleaned by putting five gram copper sulphate powder on a cotton cloth and cleaning the wound with it. After that the oil is applied by “Kara seelai” (smearing with the cotton cloth dipped in the oil).
For ripening of swelling tumor of Sembirandai (Grewia flavescens Juss.) tuber is heated over fire and placed over the wound area. It helps in the quick healing of the swellings.
Sesamin from gingelly oil (Sesamum indicum L.) is reported for anti-tumor property (Tanabe et al. (2011): Int J Oncol., 39(1):33-40. Vankar Jethaji Mohanji from Sabarkantha applied pounded fruits of ‘Dhatura’ (Datura spp) mixed with jaggery on the tumours on the neck (HB 4(1)).
Lemon heals, fumes of sembirandai cure
M. Muthupillai is a 60 years old, livestock keeper from Mullipallam village, Vadipatti taluka of Madurai district. She maintains a herd of four dairy cattle. She learned herbal healing practices from her parents and her deceased husband. Some of the practices that she follows are given below:
221227 Mastitis
In Mastitis, udder becomes inflamed generally due to bacterial infections. This reduces milk production or alters milk composition. Muthupillai advises use of lemon and Sembirandai (Grewia flavescens Juss.) to treat this. About 200 ml of lemon juice is squeezed and applied externally on the udders. And the affected part is exposed to fumes of Sembirandai continuously for a couple of days.
Use of Citrus is reported in controlling mastitis in Pakistan (Dilshad et al., 2010: Pak Vet J, 30(3): 167-171). Sambirani (gummy Boswellia from Boswellia serrata Roxb. ex Colebr) is known to have antimicrobial/antibacterial activities. http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/traditional/SelectMonoVol4.pdf
221228 Retention of placenta
Muthupillai advises grinding one kg of boiled gingelly cake (Sesamum indicum L.) and about a kg of palmyra jaggery well. Six bolus are made and administered orally twice. She gives an alternate treatment in which she takes one kg of rice flour and one kg of palmyra jaggery. This is made into a bolus which is administrated orally twice.
M.Muthupillai, Mullipallam, Vadipatti, Madurai
Scout: V. Alagumalai SEVA
Use of Sesamum indicum ash with Rivea hypocrateriformis, Suva and jaggery is reported in Honey Bee 8(2): 15, 1997
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Honey Bee 22(1) & 222) 36-37, 2011 |
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