Liquid Homeopathic Medicine Cina Enriching Sericulture Industry

The liquid homeopathic medicine, Cina mother tincture (MT) and potentised Cina (200C & 1000C) prepared from the flowering meristems of Artemisia nilagirica (Clarke) Pamp were applied by foliar spray on mulberry (Moms alba L. cv.S|) naturally infected with ischolar_main-knot disease caused by Meloidogyne incognia (Kofoid & White) Chitwood in sericulture field. All the treatment were done four times at an interval of three days. All the treatment significantly reduced nematode infection in terms of ischolar_main gall number and nematode population in ischolar_mains. All the treated plants showed improved growth in terms of number of leaves, ischolar_main and leafprotein content. Cina 200C is more effective than Cina MT in all respect of nematode control as well as growth of test plants. It is interesting that silkworm larvae (Bombyx mori L.) feeding on the leaves of Cina- treated plants showed improved growth, increased silk production, fewer feeding to cocoon formation and zero mortality rate. Homeopathic medicine Cina would be cheap as well as non-phytotoxic and non-pollutant.