Ethnoveterinary medicine for animal health care
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Founding Story
Cheryl
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Lanstales
, BC, Vancouver
, BC
Vancouver, Coast and Mountains, Vancouver Island, Thompson Okanagan, Kootenay Rockies.
More than 5 years
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o To help agricultural rural communities share their alternative solutions for animal health problems and disseminate the already collected ethnoveterinary practices in British Columbia.
o To update a manual on ethnoveterinary medicine in British Columbia by putting data collection forms into the back of printed copies that will be placed in each library in British Columbia.
The manual describes the preparation, use and efficacy of ethnoveterinary medicines in a form that is relevant to British Columbia and globally, and it can be understood by farmers and the general public. The manual is not designed to replace standard veterinary information. Sixty copies were given to research participants in 2004. Now I hope to place a copy in each BC library and to update the information.
Ethnoveterinary medicines used to treat endoparasites and stomach problems in pigs and pets in BC, Canada. 17 citations
Plants used in rearing locally-grown organic small-scale poultry and rabbits in BC, Canada. Current Nutrition & Food Science 8(3): 220-234. Requested reprint of the 2010 paper.
Organic parasite control for poultry and rabbits in British Columbia, Canada. J Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 7:21
Medicinal plants used in British Columbia, Canada for reproductive health in pets. Preventive Vet Med 90: 268 – 273. 4 citations
Medicinal plant treatments for fleas and ear problems of cats and dogs in British Columbia, Canada. Parasitology Research 103 (4): 889-898. 5 citations
Ethnoveterinary medicines used for ruminants in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 3(1):11. 48 citations
Ethnoveterinary medicines used for horses in Trinidad and in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2 (1): 31. 18 citations
The manual will be disseminated throughout BC at low cost. Library borrowers can use the manual to contribute to rural incomes, maintain the resilience of rural communities, promote self-reliance and contribute to an internationally recognized safe and good quality food supply; in addition to providing improved and affordable livestock health care. It will strengthen rural community capacity building, leadership and skills development. As such it fits the mandate of serving as a contributor to the economic survival for needy communities. The interest in sustainable agriculture is driven by several concerns: revival of the small family farm; a general unease with the impacts of agribusiness practices; a desire for greater levels of civic engagement, and the hope for profits.
Create data forms, insert them in manual. Print manual.
Send manuals to all libraries. Obtain list of all libraries. See if main library can handle distribution to all others.
Reminders that the data forms should be filled in and returned.
Start validating the information on the returned data forms.
Add the new data to the existing manual.
Print the updated manual and devise a dissemination plan.
Professional co-authors Professor Nancy Turner and Dr. Tonya Khan DVM. Farmer co-authors are Willi Boepple, Victoria, BC and Jan Bevan, Hornby Island. A future co-author will be Kerry Hackett a Medical Herbalist located in Southern Ontario I also collaborate with Drs A.G.M. (Tedje) van Asseldonk IEZ: Institute for Ethnobotany and Zoopharmacognosy, the Netherlands. She disseminates my research through her institutional publications.
No. It is specific to BC.
It is claimed that only drug companies with sales of US$5 billion can engage in traditional validation and drug discovery so this research will evaluate the ethnoveterinary plants used with a non-experimental method. This method consists of:
1. obtaining an accurate botanical identification
2. determining whether the folk data can be understood in terms of bioscientific concepts and methods
3. searching the chemical / pharmaceutical/ pharmacological literature for the plant’s known chemical constituents and to determine the known physiological effects of either the crude plant, related species, or isolated chemical compounds that the plant is known to contain. To assess whether the plant use is based on empirically verifiable principles.
I will need volunteers to contribute time to remind borrowers that the manual is available and that is has forms that can be filled out and returned.
Comments
I have many papers, 11 of them on PubMed, 6 of which are open access and none of which were funded. The research funded ended when the data was collected. I need to pay for the research write up time and find funds for future research.My papers are in the top 10 most downloaded category on more than one journal and have been in the top 25 hottest on Science Direct. They have many citations. Other people do the same kind of research but they do not validate it scientifically the way that I do. My validation process means that people can judge how useful the medicinal plants are even if they are never tested in clinical trials. If companies can't make a profit from the plants they don't test them in clinical trials because of the costs involved.
My research is usually participatory and people benefit at once and from the publications which are usually open access.