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(Tamil Version of Honey Bee)
P Vivekanandan, 45, T P M Nagar
Virattipathu - 625010, Tamil Nadu vivekseva@dataone.in |
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Fighting fever! Healing wounds! |
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Smt. Parvathi (45), a farmer of village Molapparai, Edaipadi taluka (district Salem) has studied up to standard 7th. She knows many traditional practices for treating cattle. Three such practices are:
22305 Wound healing
Paste of a few leaves of Neelakolinji or Neeli (Indigofera tinctoria L.) is applied over the wound for a couple of days till the wound heals.
Neeli is reported to have antibacterial, antioxidant and cytotoxic effects. (Renukadevi K.P. et al. (2011). International Journal of Pharmacology, 7 (3): 356-362). Kalubhai Somabhai Parmar used curd and natural indigo HB 4(1), 1993.
22306 Treat animal fever
Juice is extracted from a handful of Kundumani (Abrus precatorius L.) leaves and two bulbs of garlic. This juice has to be applied on the nostril of animal to cure the fever.
The plant ingredients possess mast cell stabilizing properties (Taur and Patil, 2011 & Hogberg and Uvnas, 1958) thereby mitigate fever.
also see HB, 3(2), 1992; 8(2), 1997; 5(3), 1994; 6(4), 1995; 7(2), 1996; 7(3), 1996; 9(1), 1998; 4(2&3), 1993; 5(3), 1994; 9(3), 1998; 10(2),1999; 10(3) , 1999; 10(4)1999; 12(3), 2001; 13(1), 2002.
Taur DJ, Patil RY.2011. Mast cell stabilizing and antiallergic activity of Abrus precatorius in the management of asthma. Asian Pac J Trop Med. Jan;4(1):46-9.
Hogberg B, Uvnas B. 1958. Inhibitory action of allicin on degranulation of mast cells produced by compound 48/80, histamine liberator from ascaris, lecithinase A, and antigen. Acta Physiol Scand. Nov 18; 44(2):157-62.
Scout: C.Janani, IV year BSc. Agri, AC & RI MDU, Madurai
22307 Organic fertilizers for Crops
About 20 lime fruits, ten eggs and 250 g of palmyra jaggery are needed to prepare this organic fertilizer. The juice of lime fruits is collected in a bucket. Jaggery solution is prepared by dissolving 250g of it in water. The eggs are added in the end. The bucket is tightly covered by a jute bag and the decoction is allowed to ferment for ten days. Then equal quantity of water is added to it. It is further fermented for ten more days. About 150ml of this mixture is dissolved in ten liters of water for spraying as foliar application.
Egg shell is used to provide nutrients like calcium, micronutrients required for blooming, growth or fruit setting properties.
Navaneetha Krishnan used cow dung, egg shell and bore well crusher soil to make organic fertilizer. (HB 19(4): 20, 2008)
Scout : D. Gajapriya, IV year, BSc. Agri, AC and RI Madurai.
22308 Control of pests in paddy and brinjal
M. Saravanamuthu from village Vayampatti (district Tiruchi) makes five liters extract of Aduhinnapalai (Aristolochia bracteolata Lam.) with water and adds 100g of copper sulphate powder to it. This has to be sprayed by adding 500ml in ten l of water on crops like paddy, brinjal against stem borer and fruit borer.
Aristolochia bracteolata is reported against stored grain pest Tribolium castaneum (Herbst); Jbilou et al. (2006). African Journal of Biotechnology 5(10): 936-940) The plant’s properties against vegetable and rice pest are also documented (Mahapatra et al. (2009). Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, 8(2): 218-224) Interestingly, Aristolochia bracteolata is locally called “keedamari” probably derived from “keeda” (insect) and “mari” (killer) so that the next generation will know by its name itself that it kills insects.
Scout: D. Nirmala Devi, IV BSc. Agri, AC & RI Madurai.
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Honey Bee 22(3) 23, 2011 |
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