Avaliação da tintura extraída da casca de Aspidosperma pyrifoilum Mart. (Pereiro): uma alternativa no controle de ectoparasita em caprinos.

Abstract

The alternative medicaments are substances extracted of natural products and sub products, whose the aim is to cure pathologies that affect the man and the animals. Based in the popular knowledge it was discovered that Pereiro (Aspidosperma pyrifolium Mart), a native plant from caatinga, witch has a regular size being possible to reach till 5m of height, it has action against ectoparasites of the specie Bovicola caprae. This specie of Mallophaga is characterized to parasite goats and it is responsible for great economic loss in Passagem city, Paraíba. Based in this, emerged the objective to make a formulation for a medicament through the bark of the Aspidosperma pyrifolium Mart, and it had to be economically viable to the producers and efficient against the Mallophaga lice, contributing essentially to improve the production of the small rural producer. Between seven producers registered in the association of the Passagem city, in Paraíba, only two producers presented animals with lice. The inspection was realized by manual form and the quantity of lice founded in a side of the animal was multiplied per two. The visits were realized in a gap of fifteen days to count the lice and to apply the formulation. The results demonstrates that the infestation by lice of the genera Bovicola caprae can be related with the seasonality and the formulation obtained through the bark of the Aspidosperma pyrifolium Mart has significant efficacy against this specie of Mallophaga.