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Ethnoveterinary medicine in Kenya
A field manual of traditional animal health care practices
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This field guide is the first practical manual of traditional
animal health care practices in Kenya, and probably in all of Africa. Compiled by
a team of 40 veterinarians and traditional healers, the manual includes information on the
indigenous livestock health care practices of many of Kenya’s pastoral and farming
communities. It covers more than 60 of the most important diseases and problems faced by
livestock holders in camels, cattle, chickens, dogs, donkeys, goats and sheep.
For each disease or problem, the manual gives the signs,
causes, prevention measures and a range of traditional treatments.
The treatments are in recipe format to enable readers to prepare and use the remedy
themselves. The text is written in clear, simple language, and is amply illustrated with
line drawings.
This manual will be an invaluable aid for livestock health
practitioners, veterinarians and development professionals throughout Africa.
Contents
1 Preparing and using traditional medicines
- Preparing medicines
- Applying medicines
- How much medicine to use
- Conserving medicinal plants
- Diseases that people can catch from animals
- Notifiable and immunisable diseases
2 Nutrition and management
- Pasture management
- Feeding and nutrition
- Feeding problems
- Feeding young animals
- Mineral deficiencies
- Poisoning
- Snake bite
- Housing
- Predators and wild animals
3 Breeding and reproduction
- Breeding
- Abortion
- Difficult birth
- Poor mothering
- Navel ill (musky chick disease)
- Retained afterbirth
- Uterine prolapse
- Mastitis
- Milk fever
- Venereal diseases
- Sheath rot
4 Surgery and injuries
- Surgical techniques
- Castration
- Fractures (broken bones)
- Wounds and burns
- Abscesses
5 Skin and eye problems
- Contagious skin necrosis
- Footrot
- Lumpy skin disease
- Orf
- Pox
- Ringworm
- Eye problems
6 External parasites
- Biting flies
- Fleas
- Leeches
- Lice
- Mange (mites, scabies)
- Mosquitoes
- Nasal bots (fly larvae)
- Ticks
- Tsetse flies
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7 Internal parasites
- Bottle jaw
- Coenurosis (gid)
- Cysticercosis (meat measles)
- Hydatid disease
- Liverflukes
- Lungworms
- Stomach and intestinal worms
8 Diseases carried by ticks
- Anaplasmosis
- Babesiosis (redwater)
- East coast fever
- Heartwater
- Trypanosomosis (nagana, surra)
9 Lung diseases
- Coughs, colds and pneumonia
- Contagious pleuropneumonia
- Malignant catarrhal fever
- Newcastle disease
- Pasteurellosis
- Tuberculosis (TB)
10 Constipation and diarrhoea
- Bloat
- Constipation
- Diarrhoea
- Coccidiosis
- Colibacillosis
- Enterotoxaemia
- Johne's disease
- Rinderpest
- Salmonellosis (fowl typhoid, paratyphoid, pullorum)
11 Other infectious diseases
- Anthrax
- Blackquarter (blackleg)
- Brucellosis (contagious abortion)
- Ephemeral fever (three day sickness)
- Foot-and-mouth disease
- Glanders (farcy)
- Haemorrhagic septicaemia
- Leptospirosis
- Rabies
- Tetanus (lockjaw)
- Wooden tongue (actinobacillosis)
12 Appendices
- Animal names in local languages
- Animal weights
- Disease names in local languages
- Plant names in local languages
- Weights and measures
- Participant profiles
- List of papers presented
- References
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226 pp. paperback. Published 1996 by Intermediate Technology Kenya and International Institute of Rural Reconstruction,
Nairobi, Kenya.
ISBN 9966-9606-2-7 Price $US10.00.
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