Our Plants as Doctors in Today’s Animal Health

Svante Arrhenius, Swedish scientist predicted as early as 1896 that human activity would interfere with the way sun interferes with the earth- leading to global warming, climatic change and loss of biodiversity. Environmental change has affected most biological systems on our planet, mostly negatively. This is becoming an increased concern for the well-being and survival of many species. The effect of environment encompasses endocrine disruptions, sex ratio changes and decreased reproductive parameters, also include physiological, genotoxic, tetrogenic, immune suppressing effect, that lead to disease directly or increase of acquiring disease. Utilization of plants has been in vogue from time immemorial for various needs. Plants with medicinal properties enjoy the highest considerations in indigenous systems of medicine. Knowledge of the curative properties of specific plants is an accomplished art which is passed on from one generation to the next. Healthy animals are more likely to result in safer food supplies, higher production, reduced environmental impacts, improved animal well-being and most importantly reduced use of antibiotics. Plants are nature’s doctors, so plants when used for correction of animal health problems, reduce the disease management expenditure by nearly 40%. More plant utilization with re cropping will bring down the negative impacts of the environmental issues. Very easily available neighbourhood wild plants happen to be solutions for great health problems of animals. Utilization of this plant treasure can work the wonder wand for a better environment free of Global environment concerns.