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Mr Chaitanya Charan Das |
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Jagatsinghpur |
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Orissa. |
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Practices for animal diseases |
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Polyherbal formulation to cure swollen tongue and nostrils |
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Mr Antaryami Pradhan is a traditional animal healer from Orissa. He prepares a herbal medicine for treating “Benga” (glossopharingitis) characterized by swollen tongue and nostrils. He uses 50 gm raw chillies, 50 gm “Rai”, Mustard (Brassica juncea (L.) Czern.), and 100 gm of a paste made from the trunk of young banana plant and 50 gm of tender leaves of 'Bara', Banyan (Ficus benghalensis L.). He grinds all these ingredients together and adds two spoonful of warm ghee to it. This herbal preparation is fed to the animal for three days. Some of it is also applied under the tongue of the animal. By the fourth day, the animal gets cured of glossopharingitis and starts eating food. Mr Pradhan has treated 25 such cases with success so far.
Mr Antaryami Pradhan, Angul, Orissa
Extracts from Brassica juncea seedlings show varied degree of immunogenic reactivity along variousplants, yeast, bacteria and animal system.
Renu Deswal and Sudhir K. Sopory; Phytochemistry 49(8):2245-2253, 1998)
Water extract of the bark of Ficus benghalensis shows significant antioxidant effect, in addition to hypolipidaemic effect. Rimi Shukla, Shweta Gupta, J. K. Gambhir , K. M. Prabhu and P. S. Murt; Journal of Ethnopharmacology 92(1):47-51, 2004.
Mr Chaitanya Charan Das treats animals suffering from glossopharingitis by feeding them a paste made of 50 gm of roots and leaves of “Pippal Mula”, False Kava (Piper chaba Hunter), 100 ml of raw cow’s milk, 10 gm of “Maricha”, Black Pepper (Piper nigrum L.), and 20 gm of “Adrak” ginger. Glossopharingitis is reportedly cured after administering 2-3 doses of the medicine. Mr Das has treated ten such cases.
The methanol extract of the stem bark of Piper chaba has been reported to have analgesic, antiinflammatory and anti oxidant effects.Md. Taufiq-Ur-Rahman, Jamil Ahmad Shilpi, Muniruddin Ahmed and Chowdhury Faiz Hossain; Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 99(2):203-209, 2005)
Suchandra Chatterjee, Zareena Niaz, S. Gautam, Soumyakanti Adhikari, Prasad S. Variyar and Arun Sharma; Food Chemistry 101(2):515-523,2007.
Ginger also has an antiinflammatory property. F. Aimbire, S.C. Penna, M. Rodrigues, K.C. Rodrigues, R.A.B. Lopes-Martins and J.A.A. Sertié; Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids 77(3-4):129-138, 2007. |
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| Volume No. |
Honey Bee, 18(3) & 18(4):27-28, 2007 |
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| Call Number |
183409 |
