Ethnozoological Study of Traditional Medicinal Animal Parts and Products Used among Indigenous People of Assosa District, Benishangul-Gumuz, Western Ethiopia

Table 3

Medicinal use of animals and animal parts for traditional therapeutic purposes by the peoples of Assosa district and the fidelity level.

Animal group	Common name	Local name	Scientific name	Parts/products used	Ailments treated	Additives used	Mode of application	NR claimed (n/38)	FL (%)
Mammals	Cow	Lam	Bos taurus	Milk	Snake bite and poisoning	None	Drinking (oral)	12	31.6
				Butter	Ear infection	None	Heating and dropping (topical)	16	42.1
				Bile	Intestinal illness and cough	Liver	Eating (oral)	9	23.7
	Dog	Wusha	Canis familiaris	Excreta	Body wounds	None	Massaging (topical)	19	50
				Liver	Rabies	None	Eating (oral)	17	44.7
				Bile	Epilepsy	None	Fumigation (topical)	9	23.7
	Donkey	Ahya	Equus africanus asinus	Milk	Cough and eye illness	None	Drinking (oral) and dropping (topical)	28	73.7
				Leg fat	Breast illness	None	Massaging (topical)	7	18.4
	Hyena	Jib	Crocuta crocuta	Skin	Evil eye	None	Fumigation	35	92.1
				Skin	Facilitate birth delivery	None	Sitting on	7	18.4
				Excreta	Wound healing	Water	Massaging (topical)	19	50
	Goat	Fiyel	Capra aegagrus hircus	Milk	Eye illness and snake bite	None	Drinking (oral)	20	52.6
				Butter	Ear infection	None	Dropping (topical)	19	50
				Horn	Leprosy	Honey	Anointing on body (topical)	14	36.8
	Rat	Ayit	Rattus rattus	Leg and bile	Night mare	None	Tying on neck	5	13.2
	Bat	Yelelit wof	Cynopterus sphinx	Meat	Asthma	None	Eating after cooking (oral)	25	65.8
				Meat	Hepatitis and mental illness	Injera	Eating (oral)	25	65.8
	Porcupine	Jart	Hystrix cristata	Alimentary canal	Premenstrual pain and typhoid	Water	Drinking (oral)	7	18.4
				Spine	Stomach pain and abscess	Ash, honey	Eating (oral)	24	63.2
				Meat	Stomach ailment	None	Eating fresh (oral)	24	63.2
	Warthog	Kerkero	Phacochoerus africanus	Teeth	Toothache, wart and rheumatism	None	Heating and massaging (topical)	23	60.5
				Skin	Herpes	None	Heating and massaging (topical)	9	23.7
				Horn	Body swellings	None	Heating and massaging (topical)	13	34.2
	Pig	Asama	Sus scrofa domestica	Meat and liver	Stomach and internal illness as whole	None	Eating fresh (oral)	21	55.3
				Blood	Stomachache	None	Drinking (oral)	32	84.2
	Cheetah	Aboshemane	Acinonyx jubatus	Skin	hemorrhage	None	tying (topical)	6	15.8
	Human	Sew	Homo sapiens	Urine	Body wounds, bleeding & senselessness	None	Pouring/dropping (topical)	16	42.1
	Anubis baboon	Tera zinjero	Papio anubis	Excreta	Toothache	None	Chewing for long time	14	36.8
				Meat	Joint pain and fracture	None	Eating fresh (oral)	18	47.4
				Female genital	Goiter	None	Eating fresh (oral)	7	18.4
	Bush duiker	Midaqua	Sylvicapra grimmia	Nail	Abdominal pain of children	None	Tying (topical)	7	18.4
	African buffalo	Goshi	Syncerus caffer	Horn	Abdominal ache	Water	Drinking (oral)	8	21.1
				Meat	Impotency	None	Eating fresh (oral)	7	18.4
	Leopard	Nebir	Panther pardus	Meat	Impotency	None	Eating fresh (oral)	7	18.4
	Lion	Anbesa	Panther leo	Meat	Impotency	None	Eating fresh (oral)	6	15.8
	Cat	Dimet	Felis domesticus	Skin	Spiritual problems	None	Tying (topical)	9	23.7
				Bile of black cat	Visual defect	None	Anointing on eye (topical)	13	34.2
	Jackal	Kebero	Canis aureus	Liver	Mental disorder or illness	None	Eating (oral)	17	44.7
	Hippopotamus	Gumarie	Hippopotamus amphibius	Skin	Donkey illness	None	Heating and massaging (topical)	19	50
	Rabbit	Tinchel	Lepus fagani	Meat	Common cold	None	Eating after cooking (oral)	6	15.8
				Fat and skin	Wart, cow and donkey illness	None	Anointing and fumigation (topical)	15	39.5
	Hyrax	Shikoko	Procavia capensis	Whole body	Children retarded growth	None	Eating fresh (oral)	6	15.8
	Camel	Gimel	Camelus dromedarius	Milk	Migraine	None	Drinking (oral)	19	50
	Grivet Monkey	tota	Chlorocebus aethiops	Meat	common cold	None	eating (oral)	7	18.4
Birds	Crow	Kura	Corvus splendens	Leg bone	Goiter	None	Tying (topical)	7	18.4
	Owl	Gugut	Strix aluco	Meat	Enhance intelligence	None	Eating (oral)	21	55.3
				Beak	Evil attack	None	Tying (topical)	9	23.7
	Hen	Doro	Gallus gallus	Egg	Cow and donkey disease	None	Drinking fresh (oral)	27	71.1
				Whole meat	Fracture and body damage	None	Eating (oral)	20	52.6
				Chicken	Snake bite	None	Tying (topical)	21	55.3
	Pigeon	Rigib	Columba livia	Meat	Mental disorder and heart failure	None	Eating fresh (oral)	18	47.4
Reptiles	Lizard	Enshilalit	Iguana iguana	Whole body	Cattle wound	Oil	Anointing (topical)	19	50
	Python	Zendo	Python sebal	Fat	Headache, body disorder & ear infection	None	Fumigation and dropping (topical)	19	50
	Tortoise	Eli	Testudo graeca	External coats ash	Wart and leprosy	None	Anointing with ash after burning (topical)	7	18.4
	Chameleon	Esist	Chamaeleo chamaeleon	Whole body	Retarded growth	Oil	Eating after cooking (oral)	7	18.4
	Snake	Ebab	Naja naja	Blood	Snake bite	None	Drinking soon (oral)	21	55.3
				Head part	Evil eye	None	Tying on neck (topical)	12	31.6
Arthropods	Scorpion	Gint	Palamnaeus swammerdami	Body oil	Burn skin and wart	None	Heating and anointing (topical)	11	28.9
				Meat	Scorpion bite	None	Anointing (topical)	10	26.3
	Bee	Neb	Apis mellifera	Honey	Cough and abdominal pain	None	Eating (oral)	22	57.9
	Bug	Tihuan	Cimex rotundatus	Blood	Ringworm	None	Anointing (topical)	17	44.7
	Ticks	Meziger	Dermacentor	Blood	Skin illness and fungal disease	None	Anointing (topical)	17	44.7
Annelids	Leeches	Aliqit	Hirudinea	Head part	Rheumatism	None	Massaging (topical)	7	18.4

NR: no. of respondents; FL: fidelity level.