Practice Name:

Cough and Asthma of Animals

Affected Animal	Cattle
Affected Animal (Scientific Name)	Bos Taurus
Affected Animal (Taxonomy)	Bovidae
Affected Animal (Vernacular)	Gai, Gau
Category	Veterinary Care
Disease	Cough
Disease Attak Stage
Disease Common Name	Cough
Disease Group	Respiratory disease
Disease Distribution	Wordwide

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Ayyathurai Konar
City / District	Madurai
KVK District	Krishi Vigyan Kendra , Agricultural College and Research Institute,TNAU, Madurai -625001
Address	Madurai , Tamilnadu
Languages Spoken	Tamil
Vocation	Farmer
State	Tamil Nadu
PIN Code	625002

PAS_1	"Women farmer Shantiben of district Amreli treat cough in cattle with the help of unripe pods of golden shower. Extract the creamy paste from the unripe pods of golden shower. Feed 100 to 150 grams of the paste to the coughing animal. Giving once a day gets complete control in three or four days. Equally useful are the flowers of the tree in controlling cough. Just 40 to 60 grams of flowers have the same effect."
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone	Tamil Nadu uplands and leeward flanks of south Sahyadris, hot, dry semi-arid eco-subregion (8.1)
Disease Symptoms / Clinical Signs
Disease Description
Disease Control
Disease Prevention
Precautions
Procedure of Use	Fruits of ‘kallathikai’ (Ficus tinctoria) ‘seeragam’ (Cuminum cyminum) and garlic are pounded together and made into small balls. These are administered to the animals in the morning for three days to relieve cough and asthma.
Etiology Causative Agent
Global Context
Lesson Implication
Other Medications / Treatments	Use antibiotics
Limitations of Approaches
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	KNW0020000000437
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/1728
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN