The Eastern Ghats of India is well known for its wealth of natural vegetation and Shervaroy is a major hillrange of the Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu. Ethnomedicinal studies in the Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu orthe Shervaroy Hills have been carried out by various researchers. However, there is not much informationavailable on ethnoveterinary medicine in the Eastern Ghats of India. The aim of this study was toexamine the potential use of folk plants as alternative medicine for cattle to cure various diseases in theShervaroy Hills of the Eastern Ghats. Based on interactions with traditional medicine practitioners, it hasbeen observed that a total of 21 medicinal plants belonging to 16 families are used to cure variousdiseases such as mastitis, enteritis, arthritis, stomatitis, salivation from the mouth, wounding, andconjunctivitis in animals. It has been observed that the traditional knowledge of ethnoveterinarymedicine is now confined only among the surviving older people and a few practitioners in the tribalcommunities of the Shervaroy Hills. Unfortunately, no serious attempts have been made to documentand preserve this immense treasure of traditional knowledge.
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