Animals as source of medicine.
Animals as Source of Medicine
- Drugs are very useful for humans because they are used to treat various disorders.
- Drugs are obtained from various sources like plant, chemical, and other biochemical ways.
- Various animals are also used as a source of medicine.
- It is also true that Various animals are used to extract the various drugs.
- The drugs that are prepared from the animal, have a good response without affecting the life of mankind.
- The animals that are used in the extraction of drugs are Guinea pig, dogs,mice, rats ,monkeys etc. Besides this, there are so many medicine oriented animals.
- Leech is an animal. A chemical called Hirudin is extracted from leeches.
- It retards the coagulation property of blood. It is used as an anticoagulant in surgical operations.
- Extract of leech is also used in treatment of asthma and rhino-Pharyngitis.
- The silkpod of Mulberry silkworm, Bombyx morai, is used as a tonic and gives effective results in abnormal menstruation and Leucorrhoea.
- Flesh of Apple snail, Pila globosa is used for sore eyes in south India.
- Sea muscles are used in the manufacture of vitamin products.
- Cuttle fish is used as antacids and sedative.
- Cobra venom is used in treatment of Ascites when it is given with fresh juice of sugarcane.
- Small dose of cobra venom is used to treat neuritis,nerve leprosy, hemorrhage of retina and other types of internal bleeding.
- Cobroxin is diluted cobra venom it is used to treat certain types of cancer.
- Cobra cardiotoxin has been reported to be very beneficial in bronchial asthma, arthritis, sciatica.
- Viper venom is used as a homeostatic agent in hemophilia and also used in dental surgery.
- A non toxic protein has been isolated from Russell viper called stypven, used in anticoagulant therapy.
- Oil that is extracted from birds, is very useful in rheumatism.
- The oil of hornbill is used to cure the gout. Insulin is extracted from the pancreas of cows and pigs.
- The anti rabies vaccine is extracted from the brain of sheep.
- Heparin is isolated from the liver of animals. It is an anticoagulant and used in coronary thrombosis.
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