A case study on novel natural remedy (Trichosanthes dioica Roxb.) against bacillary white diarrhea in broiler chickens

Abstract

The bacillary white diarrhea disease is one of the most threaten disease in poultry birds especially broilers caused by Salmonellapullorum The major sign of this disease are white diarrhea in appetence depression ruffled feathers closed eyes loud chirping vent pasting gasping and lameness The Trichosanthes dioica family Cucurbitaceae commonly known as ldquo Sespadula amp Pointed gourd rdquo in English ldquo Parwal rdquo in Hindi and ldquo Kovakka rdquo in Tamil is widely grown throughout India The leaves of this plant have also been used in traditional system of medicine for overcoming problems like constipation fever skin infection wound healing and also in gastric ulcer In the present study fine paste of leaves of T dioica was evaluated for its anti bacillary white diarrhea disease on broilers by four days medication Amoxycillin mg kg of body weight of broiler was used as the standard drug T Different concentrations to gm kg each concentration of treatment was given once and twice per day as T T respectively of T dioica were administrated with sterile water The treatment results revealed that the T T and T treatment doses were shown better curing activity against bacillary white diarrhea Further it simultaneously increases the feed intake rate as T gm T gm T gm and gradually increase weight of broiler chicken as T gm T gm T gm than T amp T and results are almost similar with the result of T standard In conclusion the present study provides preliminary records on anti bacillary white diarrhea potential of fresh leaves pastes of T dioica