Table 1 List of animals and their parts use for therapeutic purpose in the studied area.
English Name | Scientific Name | Local Name | Part used | No. of Informants reporting the use | Method of preparation and medicinal use | Related earlier reported use in India [Ref.] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. Indian ass | Equs hemionus | Gadha | Dung | 2 | Dung kept in water and after one day filtered water is given to cure jaundice. | Â |
2. Cow | Bos indicus | Gai | Urine | 18 | Weakness due to fever is cure by drinking urine. | Â |
| Â | Â | Â | Urine | 2 | Given to cure cancer. | Â |
| Â | Â | Â | Dung + Milk | 20 | Muscle pain can relieve by smear of dung and milk mixture. | The Dried dung is burnt and ash is applied to treat utricaria in Kachchh [15]. |
| Â | Â | Â | Ghee | 5 | 250 gm Ghee + 100 gm Black pepper mixture given orally to neutralize snake poison. | Â |
3. Dog | Canis familiaris | Kukaro | Urine | 22 | Used as eardrop for curing earache. | Also reported by Naga tribe of Nagaland [11]. |
4. Goat | Capra indicus | Bakri | Urine | 3 | Urine of goat administered orally to cure tuberculosis. | Reported by Ao [12] and Naga [11] tribe for asthma, T.B., paralysis, and by Tamilnadu tribe for insect bite [13]. |
| Â | Â | Â | Milk | 22 | Mouth ulcer is treated by direct spray of milk from breast of goat to tongue of a patient. | Â |
5. Human | Homo sapiens | Manakh | Urine | 24 | Human urine is used as antiseptic for wound healing. | Also reported by Naga tribe of Nagaland [11]. |
6. Indian Peafowl | Pavo cristatus | Mor | Leg | 5 | Peacock's leg is rubbed with water and this essenced water is used in ear infections | Also reported by Naga tribe of Nagaland [11], Bhil of Rajasthan [19]. Legs boil with oil in kachchh [15] and Maharastra [17] for similar purpose. |
7. Pig | Sus scrofa | Soor | Fat | 12 | Fat of pig is use as massage cream in muscular pain. | Also reported by Ao tribe of Nagaland [12], but fat of pig used for Hemorrhoids in Tamilnadu [13]. |
8. Sambhar | Cervus unicolor | Sambhar | Antler | 2 | Antler is rubbed with water this paste is applied in eye ailments. | Also reported in Kachchh of Gujrat [15]. |
9. Sheep | Capra sp. | Menda | Milk | 23 | Used as massage cream in muscular pain. | Â |
10. House sparrow | Passer domesticus | Cheedi | Fecal | 20 | Fecal matter is applied in the anus of baby to treat constipation. | Ash of excreta is used for treatment of asthma in children is reported in Kchchh [15]. |
11. Pigeon | Columba livia | Kabutar | Fresh blood | 14 | The fresh blood is massaged externally to treat paralysis. | Same use reported in Kachchh [15] and Tamilnadu [13]. |
12. Collared dove | Streptopelia sp. | Kamedii | Flesh | 3 | To attain early puberty girls eat flesh of collared dove. | Â |
13. Hardshelled Turtle. | Kachuga tentoria | Kachhua | Carapace | 7 | Ash of carapace is used in lung diseases as cough, asthma, T. B. etc. | Ash of Lissemys punctatus' Carapace is used for healing of internal injuries, pruritis and cough (Kachchh) [15]. |
14. Honey bee | Apis indica | Mokh | Honey | 21 | Used as eye drops to cure eye disease. | Honey is used for cough and could. (Tamilnadu tribes) [13] [16]. |
15. Bivalves | Mactra sp. | Seepi | Shell | 3 | Shell of sepia is rubbed with clarified butter (ghee) and red lead (sindoor) to apply on acne to cure. | Â |