Ethno-veterinary practices used for the treatment of animal diseases in Doda district, Jammu & Kashmir

306-312The study was conducted in the Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir state (India) to create a database of the indigenous technical knowledge practices used by the pastoralists for the treatment of animal diseases. The data was collected with the help of a structured interview schedule through personal interview technique. Sixty indigenous technical knowledge practices were identified and documented. A total of 38 species of plants and ingredients used for treatment of 24 different ailments were documented. Of the total 60 documented remedies, 7 were for the treatment of diarrhoea, 6 for bloat, 5 for indigestion, 4 for wound healing, 3 each for fever, stomach ache, jaundice, liver problems, haematuria, internal injury and cough, 2 each for yoke gall, pneumonia, colic, anaemia and one each for dysentery, abscess, stomatitis, oliguria, pleuritis, vomiting, urolithiasis<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-IN">, constipation and abscess maturation. </span