Traditional herbal preparation for gastro-enteritis in ruminants: A pharmacognostic review

Abstract

Inflammation of the intestinal mucosa causes enteritis which results in severe production loss. The treatment of enteritis with antibiotics, deleteriously alter the intestinal microflora, thereby interfering with competitive antagonism with the pathogenic bacteria. It also results in development of antibiotic resistance in microbes. The ethno-veterinary practices can provide useful alternatives for intensive animal health care. Hence in this review, antidiarrhoeal, anti-spasmodic, anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, antimicrobial and prebiotic activities of the ethno-veterinary formulation that contains Cuminum cyminum, Papaver somniferum, Trigonella foenum-graecum, Piper nigrum, Curcuma longa, Ferula foetida, Allium cepa, Allium sativum and Murraya koenigii is evidenced by the peer reviewed scientific literature.