Open Access Library Journal
Vol.02 No.01(2015), Article ID:68006,12 pages
10.4236/oalib.1101258

Medicinal Plants in the Ethno Veterinary Practices of Bensa Woreda, Southern Ethiopia

Yibrah Tekle

Animal Health Researches, Southern Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), Hawassa, Ethiopia

Email: goytomtekle@gmail.com

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Received 6 January 2015; accepted 21 January 2015; published 26 January 2015

ABSTRACT

Ethno botanical study on traditional medicinal plants were conducted between November, 2013 and September, 2014 in Bensa Woreda, Southern Ethiopia and documented different types of traditional medicinal plants used by the indigenous peoples. The study was focused on identifying medicinal plants, plant habit, disease treated, plant parts used, way of knowledge acquired, methods of preparation, route of administration, importance/indication, and ingredients added. This study was aimed to document the ethno veterinary knowledge and practices used to treat and control of livestock and human diseases in Bensa Woreda, SNNPRs, Ethiopia. A purposive sampling technique study was carried out using a semi-structured questionnaire, field observational and survey to document indigenous knowledge of 33 traditional healers. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze and summarize the ethno-botanical data. Twenty nine plants, which have medicinal value against a total of 16 livestock and animal diseases, were reported and botanically identified as belonging to various 21 plant families. Most of the plant species reported belonged to one of four major families: Asteraceae (13.79%), Lamiaceae (13.79%), Euphorbiaceae (6.9%) and Rosanceae (6.9%). Trees (51.72%) and herbaceous (24.14%) were the major growth plant habit used, whilst leaves (65.52%) and bark (20.69%) were the major plant parts used in the study areas. The informants mostly practice oral drenching (54%) and topical (22%) of plant technique preparations. Out of the total 29 ethno-veterinary medicinal plant species were identified and documented in the study area 62.1% predominantly used to livestock aliments treatment followed by 37.9% for livestock and human (both) aliments treatment. The distribution of healers indicated that the majority were in the range of 26 - 45 years of age (66.7%, younger) and 33.3% between 46 and 70 years old (elders). Majority of informants accounting for 90.9% were males, and the remaining 9.09% were females. This study indicated that traditional medicine is, playing a significant contribution in obtaining the first aid healthcare needs of the Bensa district community. The persistence and recognition of this indigenous knowledge is due to the limited access to modern healthcare facilities. Documentation of the practices and medicinal plants is a critical issue and essential to safeguard from lose the knowledge and medicinal plants, and can be used to support the country’s livestock and human health care system and improve lives and livelihoods.

Keywords:

Bensa, Botanical, Healer, Medicinal Plants, livestock, practices, Documentation

Subject Areas: Plant Science, Veterinary Medicine

1. Introduction

In most developing African countries like Ethiopia, which has the huge livestock population in Africa with a total contribution of 15% GDP and 33% of the agricultural output, and possess about 41.5 million heads of cattle, 28.2 million sheep and goats, 5.8 million equine (horses, Donkeys and Mules), 1 million camels and over 42 million poultry [1] , livestock production remains crucial and represents a major asset among resource-poor smallholder farmers by providing milk, meat, skin, manure and traction. However, the economic benefits of livestock populations remain low due to prevailing livestock diseases which are among the principal bottle necks of livestock performance and cause of high economic losses of the resource poor farmers [2] [3] . The majority of livestock raisers in Ethiopia are geographically far away from the sites of animal clinic stations; and those that are closer to the sites may not afford the fees for services. The inadequate funding at the national level for the prevention and control of animal diseases adds to the burden, especially among pastoralists who live in the remote arid and semi-arid lowland parts of the country [4] .

Modern veterinary medicines are not well developed in the country, nor are modern drugs available adequately to fight animal diseases. It is estimated that the traditional remedies are sometimes the only source of therapeutics for nearly 80% of human population [5] and 90% of livestock in Ethiopia of which 95% are plant origin [6] [7] . Ethiopian farmers and pastoralists rely on traditional knowledge, practices and locally available materials, plants in particular, to control and manage livestock diseases [7] - [10] and Ethiopians have used traditional medicines for many centuries, the use of which has become an integral part of the different cultures in Ethiopia, due to cultural acceptability, efficacy against certain diseases and economic affordability [11] [12] . The indigenous peoples of different localities in the country have developed their own specific knowledge of plant resource uses, management and conservation [13] [14] . In some parts of the country, livestock diseases such as anthrax, blackleg, anaplasmosis, ascariasis, abscess, leeches, trypanosomiais, lymphangitis, stomatitis, and coccidosis have been treated using various natural plant product combinations [15] [16] . Therefore, due to the inadequate animal health services in the different areas of country traditional ways of treatment appear to be a viable alternative to tackling the problems approach.

The application of traditional medicine to veterinary medicine has been termed as ethno veterinary medicine. It is mainly concerned with folk beliefs, knowledge, skills, methods and practices which are used in the healthcare of animals. The knowledge varies from region to region, and from community to community [17] . In general, ethnoveterinary practices have been developed by trial and error and by actual experimentation [18] . Ethno veterinary medicine comprises of traditional surgical techniques, traditional immunization, magico-religious practices, and the use of herbal medicines to treat livestock diseases [7] [12] . The relationship between the use of medicinal plants in animals and humans is rather complex. However, an overlap in use of plant remedies for the same indications in animals and human beings may occur, pointing to a theory that humans may have tried these remedies in animals before they used them for their own medical problems. Alternatively, humans may have used their overall arsenal of medicinal plants to treat animals, irrespective of whether or not they used the remedies themselves. Some evidence indicates that some animals may develop a natural attraction towards cer- tain healing chemicals in plants [4] . According to some researchers; about 30% of botanical preparations that are used to treat livestock diseases in Africa are probably effective. For example, one research has indicated that among 31 medicinal plants used by the Fulani of Mauritania, 10 have been found to be useful for the treatment of eight types of animal diseases.

In most scenarios, similar to other forms of traditional knowledge, the ethno veterinary medicinal plant knowl- edge, is not compiled, [17] [19] in Ethiopia is passed verbally from generation to generation and valuable information can be lost whenever a traditional medical practitioner passes without conveying his traditional medicinal plants knowledge, and the younger generation is not interested in living the traditional way of life [20] . This situation is exacerbated by rapid socio economic, technological and environmental changes [21] . In addition, the loss of valuable medicinal plants due to population pressure, agricultural expansion and deforestation is widely reported by different workers [22] . As a result, the need to perform ethno botanical researches and to document the medicinal plants and the associated indigenous knowledge must be an urgent task [23] [24] .

The studies conducted on the traditional remedies used in animal healthcare in Ethiopia are inadequate when compared with the multiethnic cultural diversity and the diverse flora of Ethiopia. Thus, this study, it was necessary and important, was initiated to collect and document the traditional use of medicinal plants available in Bensa Woreda of Sidama Zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State (SNNPR), which suppose that the data could be used as a source for further studies on medicinal plants in Bensa Woreda and for future pharmacological and phytochemical studies. Therefore, this paper presents compiled ethno-veterinary me- dicinal plants used in the study districts, Bensa Woredas of the Southern Ethiopia.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Study Areas

The study was conducted in Bensa Woreda of Sidama Zone, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regional State (SNNPR), southern Ethiopia. Bensa has a total of 250,727 population (male = 126,959; Female = 123,768) from both rural 239,139 (Male = 120,582; Female = 118,557) and urban 11,588 (Male = 6377; Female = 5211) [25] Bensa is located 460 km from Addis Ababa. Mixed crop and livestock farming system are the mode of agriculture in the Woreda, and the livestock available this study area are cattle, sheep, poultry, horses, goat, donkey and mule. Cattle, sheep, and poultry, production particularly plays a central role in the farming system.

2.2. Field survey

An ethno-veterinary botanical survey was conducted to congregate information on the traditional usage of plants in animals and human health care system using a semi-structured interview and observation [26] with the traditional healers who were willing to share to their indigenous knowledge. A prior communication was done with the zone and woreda livestock coordinators and veterinarian, kebele administrative and elders, and agricultural developing agents (animal health assistances) up on the objective of study. And the selected traditional healers in the study areas clearly discussed and communicated with kebele administrative and elders, and agricultural developing agents (animal health assistances) on the objective of the study. At this point, the healers raised questions about their payment, safety and how prevent their intellectual from someone copied/stolen while interviewing and collecting plants. Finally, we were mostly arrived to the agreement by avoiding the fear to feed us the genuine information, but no further attempt was made to influence those healers who completely refused to provide information. A total of 33 individuals healers were purposively selected and interviewed based on their knowledge on traditional medicine using semi-structured interviews and field observations.

2.3. Sample Size and Sampling Techniques

In this study three kebeles were selected from the study area using purposive sampling techniques. This is because of the kebeles are typically have an intellectual healers and covered by different plant species and these plants are used for traditional medicinal value to treat different livestock and human diseases. The researcher selected 33 healers using purposive sampling technique to gather the relevant data.

2.4. Data Collection

Specimens of plants that were used by the traditional healers for treatment of livestock and humans ailments were collected. The collection data was based on the information supplied by the healers during the interview. The specimens of plants were collected in the field using standard botanic methods together with the traditional healers, that including the vegetative part, leaves, and floral, fruiting and/or seed parts as it was appropriate for taxonomic identification. During collection information regarding habitat data, general description of the plant and geographical site of collection were recorded. The information collected included local name of the traditional medicinal plant, type (cultivated or wild), diseases treated, parts used, condition of plant used, method of preparation, route of administration, ingredients added, other uses of the plant and existing threats to medicinal species. The collected samples of medicinal plants were coded, pressed, and dried then taken to botanical identi- fication by botany specialists in Science Faculty of Addis Ababa University National Herbarium.

2.5. Data analysis

The ethno botanical data were analysis using descriptive statistics was used to summarize the collected ethno- veterinary medicinal data.

3. Results and Discussion

A total of 29 ethno-veterinary medicinal plant species belonging to various 21 families were documented with details on their importance, mode of application, use, ingredient added, traditional preparation, plant part used, habit, family name, scientific name, local name and code (Table 1). Asteraceae (13.79%), Lamiaceae (13.79%) Euphorbiaceae (6.9%) and Rosanceae (6.9%) (Figure 1), and also Clerodendrum myricoides (Hochst.) Vatke (18.19%), Maesa lanceolata Forssk. (15.15%), Bersama abyssinica Fresen. (4.55%), Croton macrostachyus Del. (4.55%) and Ranunculus multifidus Forssk. (4.55%) (Figure 2) were the most frequently used and reported plant families and species for ethno-veterinary practices. Many plants were mentioned against particular diseases, one plant species to one disease, and mixing of two or more different medicinal plants against a single disease was also commonly observed.

The study indicated that the major portion of the farmers in the villages relies on traditional veterinary knowledge, practices and locally available materials [7] primarily medicinal plants used to cure and prevent livestock health problems such as Nasal bot (O. ovis), lumpy Skin Disease, Kidney problem, Cancer (Tumor), Calf diarrhea, Blackleg, Babesiosis, Pasteurollosis, Trypanosomosis, Mastitis, Diarrhea, Equine colic, Internal parasite, Swelling, External parasite, Wound, Constipation, Bloat, and Abdominal pain (Table 2). Although, other local materials are used, the use of plants for the treatment of various ailments prevails.

In this study, trees and herbaceous medicinal plants were the widely used for the treatment of various ailments that constituting the 51.72%, and 24.14% respectively, followed by 13.79% Shrub and 10.34% climbers (Figure 3). On the plant parts basis used for medicinal purposes, different plant parts like leaves, roots, bark and flower were used for treatment. However, leaves were the predominantly (65.52%), used plant part for herbal preparation in the areas, which agrees with the study in other part of Ethiopia [27] ; Leaves, 65.52%, have been used as a remedy more than other parts since leaves seem to contain more active chemicals followed by 20.69% bark, 10.34% root, 3.45% leaf and flower (both) by the ethno-veterinary practitioners (Figure 4). As elucidated in Table 1 the leaf part plant species used for different diseases treatment and prevention were more than the root, bark, and flower, such as Olea europaea L. subsp. cuspidata (WalL. ex G. Don) Cif, Vernonia amygdalina Del, Juniperus procera Hochst. ex Endl, Echinops sp, Acmella caulirhiza Del., Acacia melanoxylon R. Br., Olinia rochetiana A. Juss., Ranunculus multifidus Forssk., Plectranthus glandulosus Hook. f., Clerodendrum myricoides (Hochst.) Vatke., Lepidotrichilia volkensii (Giirke) Leroy, Prunus africana (Hook. f) Kalkm., Vernonia auriculifera Hiern, Solanum benderianum Schimper ex Damme, Lagenaria abyssinica (Hook. f) C. Jeffrey, Ehretia cymosa Thonn., Podocarpus falcatus (Thunb.) R. B. ex. Mirb., Hagenia abyssinica (Brace) JF. Gmel., Phytolacca dodecandra L. (DB.3), and Rhamnus prinoides L. Herit. Such wide harvesting of leaves and flower compared to barks and roots which are important for survival of plants has a less negative impact on the survival and continuity of useful medicinal plants and hence does not affect sustainable utilization of the plants, but in this study area the combine factors like the barks and roots used for ethno-veterinary practice by the traditional healers and the residents also depend on medicinal plants for various purposes such as firewood, construction, agricultural expansion, forage and food they have the negative impact on sustainability of the medicinal plants and climate change. A numerous techniques of preparation were employed before administering the remedies, while the leaves, roots, bark and flower of traditional medicinal plants are crushed/chopped and squeezed and then filtrated to get the plant juice needed for oral drenching (54.7%), topical (22%), ear drop (14%) and nasal (10%) applications (Figure 5). The quantity of plant part used were measured by number of leaves, flower and length of root and bark. The units of measurements used to determine dosage were coffee cup, beer bottle, highland plastic, finger length, number of drops and teaspoon. Some of the plant parts are processed with other ingredients like79.31% water, 3.44% butter and 3.44% coffee while the remaining does not have any ingredients added, 13.79% (Figure 6). Thus, the normality and accuracy dose determination and unit measurements of the medicinal plants were the

Table 1. List of ethno-veterinary medicinal plants for treatment of livestock ailments in Bensa Woreda.

* = only for animal disorder; ** = for human and animal disorder.

Figure 1. The most frequently used and reported plant families for ethno-veterinary practices in Bensa Woreda, Southern Ethio- pia.

Figure 2. The most frequently used and reported plant families for ethn-veterinary practices in Bensa Woreda, southern Ethio- pia.

Figure 3. The proportion of growth form of medicinal plant identified for the treatment of different livestock and human disorders in the Bensa Woreda, southern Ethiopia.

Figure 4. Proportion of administration route of medicinal plants preparation treatment of different livestock and human diseases in Bensa Woreda, Southern Ethiopia.

Figure 5. The total proportion of the ethno-veterinary practices used for the treatment of livestock and human diseases by the healers of the Bensa Woreda, Southern Ethiopia.

Figure 6. The proportion of growth form of medicinal plants identified for the treatment of different livestock and human disorders in the Bensa Woreda, Southern Ethiopia.

gaps/problems of the traditional veterinary healers.

In the study area the practices/knowledge, information on the ethno-veterinary medicinal plants, is rarely found in written form; 9 healers had a written document out of the total healers (33) participated in this study, the traditional healers are acquired from their fathers (21/33, 63.63%), friends (2/33, 6.06%), stranger (2/33, 6.06%), bought from other healers (2/33, 6.06%) and by trial and error approaches discovered (6/33, 18.18%, 4 out of the 6 were females and the remaining 2 were men) (Figure 7) and some of the healers their knowledge transferred to their children, the majority often to the first-born and only some of the traditional healers to their honest and faithful children who can never leak information without regarding the age from generation to gener-

Table 2. The number of ethno-veterinary medicinal plant remedies used to treat ailments/con- ditions in the study area.

Figure 7. The proportion of knowledge aquired the traditional healers in Bensa Woreda, Southern Ethiopia.

ation while the others kept the knowledge with them for the sake of secrecy. Derogatory attitudes towards the traditional medicine practitioners had forced healers to keep their knowledge and practices to themselves. Moreover, it is an income generation activities for these healers. This is analogous with the studies done in other part of Ethiopia [19] . Most of the plant species were collected from wild habitats, 72.41%, [10] and few of them obtained from around home garden, 27.59%, and are being exploited to cure and control the livestock and hu- man diseases.

The truth is that the medicinal plants in largely found in the natural habitats faced a major threat to their survival of the mother plants due to the combined effect of factors [28] like continues the mass destruction in their habitats, [19] cultivation of marginal lands/agricultural expansion [29] - [32] grazing, soil erosion, orally transfer of endogenous knowledge from generation to generation, herbal preparation that involves roots and barks [20] draught, urbanization [31] [33] and agricultural expansions. As a result, the stocks of the ethno-veterinary medicinal plants are coming shrink [31] .

Some of the surveyed traditional medicine plant species practiced by informants are recorded in other parts of the country like: Vernonia amygdalina Del., Croton macrostachyus, Rhamnus prinoides L 'Herit., Tragia brevipes Pax., Echinops sp., Clerodendrum myricoides (Hochst.) Vatke Phytolacca dodecandra L 'Herit., Maesa lanceolata Forssk. Hagenia abyssinica (Brace) JF. Gmel. is used to treat internal parasite in livestock in Tigray region, Northern Ethiopia, [34] [35] and in Kofle, Bale, and Debark rural communities of Ethiopi, [36] and also used to treat tapeworm in human in Kofle, Bale, and Debark rural communities of Ethiopia, [36] in Southeast of Ethiopia [4] and by Zay people in Ethiopia [37] . Similar, its use for treatment of livestock ailments has been also documented [2] [3] [38] [39] . And also Croton macrostachyus use for treatment of bloat in Borana Pastoralists, Southern Ethiopia [40] . The result of this study is agreed with the all above citation and documentation.

The distribution of healers indicated that, of the 33 traditional medicine practitioners interviewed, majority were in the range of 26 - 45 years of age. Further analysis showed that 66.7% were over 26 years old, and 33.3% between 46 and 70 years old. Majority of informants accounting for 90.9% were males, and the remaining 9.1% were females. This work indicated that among the informants, nearly 66.7% traditional veterinary healers were Younger’s.

Out of the total 29 ethno-veterinary medicinal plant species were identified and documented in the study area 62% predominantly used to livestock aliments treatment followed by 38% for livestock and human (both) aliments treatment (Figure 8).

4. Conclusions

The people of Bensa Woreda were shown in this study to have a wealth of knowledge/practices about traditional veterinary medicines for treating and controlling their livestock and human diseases. For centuries, the local farmers have learnt a great deal about animal and human diseases and their way of management through indigenous knowledge to protect their health and enhance productivity.

The region possesses a particularly wide range of potentially useful medicinal plants, more extensive indeed than available in many other parts of the country. This study indicates that, the fear of destruction of medicinal plants due to plant parts collected for the purpose of medicine is minimal as leaves were the leading plant parts sought in the area. Moreover, the harvest of whole plants is not practiced in the area, but the combined effect of factors faced a major threat to the survival of the mother plants, stock source.

This finding show us that there is lack of precision in the determination of doses in the study area since there were variations in the units of measurement and the quantity of plant parts used. Hence, the precision and standardization dosage as one drawback for the recognition of the traditional health care system.

Herbal preparations are crude and could potentially be toxic. Research is therefore needed to determine optimal doses and concentrations of the preparations and to identify the side effects of the remedies. Moreover, the efficacy of the preparations, techniques, and practices need to be investigated to identify promising plants for use in livestock development proposals.

The documentation and conservation of medicinal plants is highly recommended.

Training and awareness creation should be given to traditional healers and the local community respecting the management of medicinal trees and shrubs, to encourage and permit their cultivation on a large scale.

Figure 8. The proportion of knowledge aquired the traditional healers in Bensa Woreda, Southern Ethiopia.

Acknowledgements

The author gratefully acknowledges Hawassa Agricultural Research Center (HARC), Hawassa, Ethiopia for financial and logistic support. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the informants for sharing their time and knowledge genuinely. I give my appreciative to Mr. Melaku Wondafrash, Herbarium Specialist, for his priceless support in the identification of plant specimens at the National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University. And I like to appreciate Bensa Woreda Agricultural Office for its kind cooperative.

Cite this paper

Yibrah Tekle, (2015) Medicinal Plants in the Ethno Veterinary Practices of Bensa Woreda, Southern Ethiopia. Open Access Library Journal,02,1-12. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1101258

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