SHORT COMMUNICATION
USE OF POLYHERBAL SPRAY IN WOUND MANAGEMENT OF GOATS
M.D.PATEL, K. K.TYAGI, A. B.FULSOUNDAR. AND L. M.SORATHIYA
Livestock Research Station, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari-396 450, Gujarat,
Corresponding Author E-mail: drmanish911@yahoo.com
, Mobile: 9725018797
Key words: Goat, polyherbal spray, wounds, healing time
Corresponding author:
Dr.M.D.Patel,
Assistance Research Scientist
Livestock Research Station
Navsari Agricultural University
Navsari-396 450, Gujarat
E-mail: drmanish911@yahoo.com
Mobile: 09725018797

As goats are known as poor man’s cow, they serves as source of milk as well as family income to small marginal farmers and landless labours especially in tribal areas of South Gujarat. Various common illnesses of goats like worm load and wounds affect the overall health of animals resulting in economic losses. These losses can be effectively minimized, if necessary care on health management is taken into consideration. It is a fact that locomotory soundness is mandatory for small ruminants because the lameness leads to reduced performance due to decreased food intake, diminished food and reproductive efficiency, loss of body weight, lowered milk production and libido
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. As lameness affect grazing and such affected goats become progressively weak and on many instance death occur in untreated or complicated cases. This is also an important cause of involuntary culling to avoid losses due to death
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. The wound in feet are the common cause of lameness in small ruminants.
Similarly wound to udder and head are also most common sites of wounds in goats.
Further, continued rainfall for longer period of times as well as hot and humid climate of south Gujarat predisposing wounds being infested by maggots as fly population increases in such environment. To promote healing and prevent infections / infestation, either phyto-chemicals, chemicals or combination of both in form of liquid, spray or ointment are applied topically on wounds and other cutaneous lesions 3-8 . The goat owners of tribal area have to depend on their traditional knowledge and believe for treatment of various illnesses as they are not getting sufficient and timely veterinary aids as compared to dairy farmers of non-tribal areas. Goat owners are using their traditional knowledge to treat maggot infested inter-digital wounds such as use of snogh, annona paste, neem leave paste, kerosene, turmeric etc. Non-systemic use of these ingredients, use of single ingredient and not following aseptic dressing practice

are the most common cause of getting non-satisfactory results although use of these ingredients were reported to be used in various types of wound management of domestic animals 9-16 . Looking to important aspects of heath of goats of tribal areas of
South Gujarat, a study was planned to ascertain the effect of a polyherbal spray in treatment of wounds of goats of South Gujarat.
Under All India Co-ordinated Research Project (AICRP) on goat improvement-
Surti field unit of Livestock Research Station, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari,
Gujarat, the registered farmers maintaining a flock of 20-40 adult goats and their offsprings facing a major problem of wounds especially in feet, teat and head and their subsequent transformation into maggotted wounds. Therefore, an intervention to use polyherbal spray (Tinc
®
spray) in daily dressing of wounds was made to study its efficacy in wound healing. Goat owners were provided polyherbal spray under the project. The spray containing a mixture of oil of turpine 60%, iodine 7%, neem oil 21% and camphor 12%. Information on time taken for complete healing and occurrence of various wounds were collected during twice a week visit schedule. Further, data on were statistically analyzed on IBM SPSS statistical software using chi square test (at probability at 5% and confidence interval at 95% level) as per method described by
Snedecor and Cochran 17 .
The seasonal distribution of various type wounds along with time taken for complete healing is given in table-1. The overall occurrence of wounds was 9.78 per cent. Among all type of wounds, inter-digital wounds showed significantly higher prevalence (39.13%) followed by teat wounds (25.36%), wounds on head (17.39) and other body parts (18.12). Significantly higher occurrence of wounds was found in monsoon season than winter and summer seasons. It was reported that when goats are

allowed to graze or kept on continuous wet environment, it may lead to softening of the inter-digital tissue of the claws and which further prone to injuries during grazing in hilly tract during rainy season 18 .
Cases of wounds treated with polyherbal spray were completely healed in 8.14 days of time. The time required for complete healing of wounds was ranged between
7.30-9.20 days. Further, the difference in time required for wound healing in different type of wounds was statistically non-significant. Though, the time required for wound healing in present study was comparatively lesser than earlier reports 8, 19-22 . These previous reports reported wound healing time between 10-20 days with use of various phyto-chemicals. During the study, it was observed that no live maggots were recovered on second day of treatment of few maggotted wounds. Further, daily use prevented re-occurrence of maggotted wounds which helped in faster healing of wound.
Among the contents of a mixture – oil of turpine is known for its antiseptic, anti-fungal and maggoticidal action
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. Further, other components like iodine and neem
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and camphor
7, 31 are also known for antiseptic and germicidal action. Earlier, scientists
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5,8,16,19,32-33
evaluated various medicinal palnts in different polyherbal preparations on different types of wounds of domestic animals and reported their antibacterial, antimycotic, insecticidal, antiseptic and wound healing properties. Jamal and Gahlot 7 specifically used a mixture of oil of turpine 60%, Iodine 7%, Neeem oil 21% and camphor 12% for various skin lesions of large/small animals and reported its powerful fungistatic, bacteriostatic and antiseptic properties but important parameter like time required for wound healing not studied earlier was studied in present study.
It was concluded that comparatively higher occurrence of wounds in goats of
South Gujarat was observed in monsoon season (50.36%) with overall prevalence of

9.78 per cent. Significantly higher occurrence of inter-digital wounds (39.13%) than other types of wound was observed during the present study. An average time taken for wound healing was 8.14 days. The use of a mixture of turpine oil, iodine, neem oil and camphor as polyherbal spray found advantageous in various wounds of goats as wounds heal faster without repeat occurrence and minimum other complications.
Acknowledgements:
Authors are thankful to all goat farmers registered under AICRP for their support and co-operation while above study. Authors are also thankful to ICAR for overall funding of project under AICRP on goat improvement.
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Table-1: Seasonal prevalence and time taken for complete healing of wounds treated with polyherbal spray
Type of wounds
Goat population covered
Prevalence
Seasonal Prevalence
Winter Summer Monsoon
P value
Average time (days) required for complete healing
Interdigital wounds
Teat wounds
Wounds on head
Wounds on other body parts
2822
2822
P value
108
(39.13)
70
(25.36)
48
(17.39)
50
(18.12)
276
(9.78)
18
26
16
14
74
9
18
20
16
63
(26.81) (22.83)
0.000*
81
26
12
20
139
(50.36)
0.000*
8.25
9.20
7.30
7.80
8.14
P value
0.311*
Figures in parenthesis indicate percentages * indicates significant at p<0.05