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Traditional Herbal Remedies for Thai Elephants
3. Results
Eighty-three different traditional herbal remedies for eye problems, wounds, abscesses, musth, bloat/colic, inappetance/not drinking, diarrhea, external and internal parasites, edema and weakness were documented for elephants. Remedies also included minerals and eleven animal species or their products. The managing director of Pattaya Elephant Village had experimented with plants used in human herbal medicine and provided us with a list of elephant remedies he found effective. Because his remedies have not been traditionally used for elephants, we have listed them separately.
Of the 78 plants used in the remedies, we were able to determine the scientific name for 66 of them using Smitinand (1980) and Craib (1931) as primary resources. The remaining 12 plants were likely called by local vernacular names.
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