Plant usage in protecting the farm animal health

Abstract

Phytotherapy, as form of traditional and conventional veterinary medicine, includes curing, alleviation and prevention the onset of diseases in animals based on natural medicinal raw materials and folk remedies made from plants. In animal health care, the use of medicinal and other plants as supporting therapy, in preventive purposes or as a complete therapy has a large potential regardless whether it is the question of individual or combined plant medicinal preparations which act synergistically. Phytotherapy is very intensively used in prophylactic purposes and with the aim of treatment of milder forms of diseases, chronic diseases and recurrent infections as well as in organic livestock production. Extracts and preparations from different plants are used with the aim of intensifying the activity of immune system and stimulations some functions of organism. The great number of herb metabolites shows antimicrobial and antiparasitic activity and gives the positive effects in the treatment of ectoparasitoses and endoparasitoses. This research paper gives a review of the plants most frequently used in ethnoveterinary medicine for health purposes of farm animals.

Fitoterapija, kao oblik konvencionalne i tradicionalne veterinarske medicine, podrazumeva lečenje, ublažavanje i sprečavanje nastanka bolesti životinja primenom prirodnih lekovitih sirovina i narodnih lekova pripremljenih od biljaka. U zdravstvenoj zaštiti životinja, upotreba lekovitog i drugog bilja kao potporne terapije, u preventivne svrhe ili kao potpune terapije ima veliki potencijal, bilo da se radi o pojedinačnim ili o kombinovanim biljnim lekovitim sredstvima koja deluju sinergistički. Veoma intenzivno se primenjuje u profilaktičke svrhe i u cilju lečenja blažih oblika bolesti, hroničnih bolesti i rekurentnih infekcija, kao i u organskoj stočarskoj proizvodnji. Biljni ekstrakti i preparati se primenjuju u cilju jačanja aktivnosti imunskog sistema i stimulisanja pojedinih funkcija organizma. Veliki broj biljnih metabolita ispoljava antibakterijsko i antiparazitarno delovanje i daje pozitivan efekat u tretmanu ektoparazitoza i endoparazitoza. Ovaj rad predstavlja pregled najčešće korišćenih biljnih vrsta u etnoveterinarskoj medicini u cilju zaštite zdravlja domaćih životinja.