ABSTRACT
In many developing countries with limited access to orthodox health care services, the majority of rural people rely on traditional medicines to alleviate a variety of ailments. Likewise, many pastoralists use customary remedies to treat their sick animals. Commercial pharmaceutical drugs are sometimes available in remote rural areas, but they are often dispensed by untrained vendors or repackaged without printed instructions, which may not be able to be read by illiterate users in any case, leading to drug misuse (Mathias, 2007). In an effort to improve animal health care services in rural areas, it is vital to utilize all available resources, including ethnoveterinary medicine (EVM).
