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Volume 4, Issue 2
American Journal of Ethnomedicine
ISSN 2348-9502
Natural Products Congress & World Pharma Congress 2017
October 16-18, 2017
3
rd
World Congress on
NATURAL PRODUCTS CHEMISTRY AND RESEARCH
&
12
th
WORLD PHARMA CONGRESS
October 16-18, 2017 Budapest, Hungary
A survey on medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Harari regional State, Eastern Ethiopia
Yeneayehu Fenetahun Mihertu
Ethiopia Biodiversity Institute (EBI), Ethiopia
T
his study was carried out to collect and document indigenous knowledge on medicinal plants in Harari regional state,
East Ethiopia. The ethnobotanical data were collected from 24 traditional healers (14 male and 10 female) using semi-
structured questionnaire, observation and guided field walks. The survey identified 54 medicinal plants distributed into34
families and 50 genera. The fabaceae family was the most dominant plant family recorded as sources of traditional medicines.
The study revealed that 42 species (78%) were used against human ailments, 4 species (7%) were used to treat health problems
of livestock and 8(15%) species were used to treat both human and livestock ailments. The plant parts most frequently used
were the Leaf (48%), followed by root (24%), stem (11%), fruit (9) and whole parts (7). Traditional remedies were processed
mainly through crushing, followed by squeezing. Oral applications were widely used, followed, in frequency of prescription, by
dermal applications. The study showed that Harari area possess wealthy of indigenous knowledge on medicinal plants and their
applications. Moreover, this ethnobotanical study can assist scientists for further research on medicinal properties of identified
plants species that could contribute to development of new drugs.
shoyama@niu.ac.jpEnterococcus faecium
probiotic effect on chicks experimentally infected by
Eimeria
species
Azza A EL-Sawah
1
, El-Shaymaa El-Nahass
2
, Hassan El- Sayed Helal
3
and
Shawky Mohamed Aboelhadid
4
1,2,4
Beni-Suef University, Egypt
3
Dar-Alramad veterinary clinic, Egypt
T
his study aimed to investigate the effect of a probiotic against experimentally coccidiosis in broilers using two protocols for
prophylaxis and treatment. Two hundred and forty birds of one day old Ross chicks were divided into eight equal groups
from one to eight. Two groups were controls; one without any treatment as control positive (group 8) and the other uninfected
un treated as control negative (group 4). The remaining 6 groups were underwent of 2 programs for treatment; the groups were
administered diclazuril alone, probiotic alone and a mixture of both of them before infection for ten days as a prophylaxis
program. In the same time, the other 3 groups were administered diclazuril, probiotic and both of them at the day of clinical
signs appearance for five days. A commercial probiotic containing
Enterococcus faecium
was used in this experiment. It applied
via drinking water in inclusion rates 0,5gm/liter. Diclazuril was used as standard. Throughout the 42 days of experiment, body
weight and feed intake were recorded every three days and also feed conversion ratios were calculated, in addition to oocysts
count. Seven days after infection, the infected un treated control group showed the lowest weight gain values, while probiotics
and diclazuril prophylaxis group had the highest weight gain values with the lowest oocyst shedding number. Probiotic
containing groups had moderate lesion score values and moderate oocysts numbers in comparison with the groups contain
diclazuril which recorded low values. In conclusion, a mixture of probiotic with diclazuril gave considerable improvement in
growth performance and caecal health in comparison with infected un treated control birds. Fairly improvement achieved in
probiotics only specially when used as prophylaxis that led to reduction in total oocyst shedding and reduce all negative impact
but not prevent the infection at all by
Eimeria
species infection.
American Journal of Ethnomedicine, 4:2
DOI: 10.21767/2348-9502-C1-003