Journal
JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY
Volume 106, Issue 2, Pages 285-287Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2005.12.031
Keywords
Zingiber officinale; ginger; anthelmintic; trichostrongylid nematodes; sheep
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This paper describes the anthelmintic activity of Zingiber officinale Roscoe (family Zingiberaceae) rhizome. commonly known as ginger, to justify its traditional use in veterinary medicine. Crude powder (CP) and crude aqueous extract (CAE) of dried ginger (1-3 g/kg) were administered to sheep naturally infected with mixed species of gastrointestinal nematodes. Both CP and CAE exhibited a dose- and a time-dependent anthelmintic effect with respective maximum reduction of 25.6% and 66.6% in eggs per grain (EPG) of faeces on day 10 of post-treatment. Levamisole (7.5 mg/kg), a standard anthelmintic agent, exhibited 99.2% reduction in EPG. This study shows that ginger possesses in vivo anthelmintic activity in sheep thus justifying the age-old traditional use of this plant in helminth infestation. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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