Journal of Animal Health and Behavioural Science

Department of Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Bule Hora University, Ethiopia

Publications

• Research Article   
  Traditional Medicine Practices of Guji Semi-pastoralist People to Treat Livestock Ailments in Suro Barguda District, West Guji Zone, Ethiopia
  Author(s): Mersha Ashagre Eshete* and Ermias Lulekal Molla
  
  Ethnoveterinary medicine is essential in many rural areas of the world since people living in remote and marginal areas depend significantly on traditional herbal therapies to treat their domestic animals. Communities residing in such remote areas, and especially those still attached to semi-pastoralist traditions, have considerable ethnoveterinary herbal knowledge, and they usually use this knowledge for treating their animals. This original study was carried out by using proper research questions to gather information about ethnoveterinary medicinal plants and traditional knowledge in treating different livestock ailments, following the proper ethnobotanical data collection and data analysis methods in a place where such a type of study had not been carried out. The objectives of this research were to collect, identify, document, and analyze ethnoveterinary medicinal plants and thei.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/ahbs.2022.6.159

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