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Some of the ethno-medicinal plants used as an alternative to synthetic therapeutic agents are indigenous medicinal plants known to possess a wide range of therapeutic activities; including antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal properties. They are employed in dietary manipulation and in the form of feed additives to promote growth, enhance reproductive performance and general health improvements of the animals. They are used in place of synthetic therapeutic agents, due to the increasing resistance of some pathogens to synthetic drugs, coupled with climatic a change which exposes the animals to severe environmental stress thereby reducing the efficacy of the applied synthetic drugs, thus resulting to severe economic loss to the farmers. Four ethno-medicinal plants; Azadirachta indica, Langucularia racemosa, Dasheen leaves and Vernonia amygdalina were studied. The high content of phyto-chemical properties in these plants are indicative of their medicinal qualities, while their high nutrients compositions such as crude protein, fat, carbohydrate, fiber, vitamins and mineral components showed that the leaves could be a potential feedstuff sources of macro and micronutrients, that could probably be used in dietary manipulations and in the prevention and cure of various diseases in animals and man.
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