Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Names of Common Diseases
- List of Maps, Photographs & Tables
- 1 Introduction: African Local Knowledge & Veterinary Pluralism
- 2 Ticks, Tick-borne Diseases & the Limits of Local Knowledge Introduction
- 3 ‘The Grave of the Cow is in the Stomach’: Environment & Nutrition in the Explanation & Prevention of Livestock Diseases
- 4 Transhumance, Animal Diseases & Environment
- 5 Plants & Drugs: Medicating Livestock
- 6 Medicinal Plants: Their Selection & their Properties
- 7 Animal Health & Ideas of the Supernatural
- 8 Gender, Space & the Supernatural
- 9 Conclusion
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 Recommendations
- Appendix 2 African Ideas about Diseases and Conditions Associated with the Environment
- Appendix 3 African Ideas about Supernatural Causation
- Appendix 4 Plants and Diseases
- Appendix 5 Non-Plant Remedies
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Appendix 4 - Plants and Diseases
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Names of Common Diseases
- List of Maps, Photographs & Tables
- 1 Introduction: African Local Knowledge & Veterinary Pluralism
- 2 Ticks, Tick-borne Diseases & the Limits of Local Knowledge Introduction
- 3 ‘The Grave of the Cow is in the Stomach’: Environment & Nutrition in the Explanation & Prevention of Livestock Diseases
- 4 Transhumance, Animal Diseases & Environment
- 5 Plants & Drugs: Medicating Livestock
- 6 Medicinal Plants: Their Selection & their Properties
- 7 Animal Health & Ideas of the Supernatural
- 8 Gender, Space & the Supernatural
- 9 Conclusion
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 Recommendations
- Appendix 2 African Ideas about Diseases and Conditions Associated with the Environment
- Appendix 3 African Ideas about Supernatural Causation
- Appendix 4 Plants and Diseases
- Appendix 5 Non-Plant Remedies
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
These are plants that informants mentioned in their interviews. Most of these appear in the text. This is not a comprehensive list of all the plants that researchers have identified for these regions. We have tried to find the botanical name where possible. Sources for botanical names include John Mitchell Watt and Maria Gerdina Breyer-Brandwijk, The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa (Edinburgh, Livingstone, 1962); R. A. Paroz, A List of Sotho Plant Names (Maseru, Basutoland Scientific Association, 1962); R. B. Bhat and T.V. Jacobs, ‘Traditional Herbal Medicine in Transkei‘, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 48, 1 (1995), 7–12; Ben-Erik van Wyk, Medicinal Plants of South Africa (Pretoria, Briza, 1997); Ben-Erik van Wyk and Nigel Gericke, People's Plants: A Guide to Useful Plants of Southern Africa (Pretoria, Briza, 2007); A. P. Dold. and L. M. Cocks, ‘Traditional Medicine in the Alice District of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa’, South African Journal of Science, 97, 9–10 (2001), 375–9; D. van der Merwe, G. E. Swan and C.J. Botha, ‘Use of Ethnoveterinary Medicinal Plants by Setswanaspeaking People in the Madikwe Area of the North West Province of South Africa’, Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, 72, 4 (2001), 189–96'; PlantZAfrica website: www.plantzafrica.com.
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- African Local Knowledge and Livestock HealthDiseases and Treatments in South Africa, pp. 273 - 283Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013