Herbal biomedicines: a new opportunity for aquaculture industry

Abstract

Hormones, antibiotics, vitamins and several other chemicals have been tested in aquaculture operations for various remedies. Even though they give positive effects, they cannot be recommended due to their residual and other side effects. The alternative herbal bio-medicinal products in the aquacultural operations, that have the characteristics of growth promoting ability and tonic to improve the immune system, act as appetite stimulators. They increase consumption, induce maturation, and have antimicrobial capability and also antistress characteristics that will be of immense use in the culture of shrimps and other fin fishes without any environmental and hazardous problems. Herbal compounds such as phenolics, polyphenols, alkaloids, quinones, terpenoids, lectines and polypeptides have been shown to be very effective alternatives to antibiotics and other synthetic compounds. The present paper is presented after a careful review of more than 50 herbal plants for their biological effects such as growth promotion, immunostimulation, antistress, antibacterial, antifungal, antivirals, appetite stimulators and aphrodisiac.

Hematological responses of tambaqui Colossoma macropomum (Serrassalmidae) fed with diets supplemented with essential oil from Mentha piperita (Lamiaceae) and challenged with Aeromonas hydrophila

“…Evaluation of the use of phytochemicals in aquaculture is a relatively new research area, but this has been generating promising results (Anderson 1992;Citarasu 2010;Biller-Takahashi and Urbinati 2014).…”

Phytochemical Characterization of Alternanthera sessilis and Assessment of its Growth Promoting Potential on the Freshwater Prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii

“…Certain flavonoids exhibited hypoglycemic activity (Ahmad et al, 2000) and also beta cell regeneration in pancreas (Latha and Pari, 2003). The primary phytochemicals serve as health tonic in aquaculture nutrition (Citarasu, 2010;Pourmoghim et al, 2015).…”

“…Herbal growth promoters helped to induce the transcription, leading to increased RNA, which coupled with increased amino acid and finally enhanced protein synthesis in Penaeus monodon (Citarasu, 2010). It has been…”

In Vitro Phytochemical and Inhibitory Potential Test of Bawang Hutan Bulb Extract (Eleutherine palmifolia) on Vibrio harveyi

“…Vibriosis disease occurs in shrimp including in larvae stadia up to adult shrimp (Soto-Rodriguez et al 2012, Munaeni et al 2014, is antibiotic use (Van Hai et al 2015). Medicinal plant is considered to be able to show potential effect on the growth and survival and also has antimicrobial properties on aquatic organism Citarasu 2010). Phytochemical compound in medicinal plants can be used as chemotherapy in aquaculture (Chang 2000;Sivaram et al 2004).…”