Vermiculture: renewable resource of biologically active substances. Review

 

Titov I.N., Laboratory of the biotechnology, Cathedra of the Chemistry, Vladimir State Pedagogic University, Vladimir, Russia

 

Preparations made of material of animal origin (placenta, snake and bees poison, dags, sea and river hydrocoles) were used extensively in folk and modern medicine for treating many human diseases. These preparations are also very important nowadays, though some of them are not used in modern medicine because of resource deterioration. Renewable natural medical material of animal origin and pharmaceutical preparations on their basis as well as biologically active food supplements are the future. This area of human activity and economics must be developed and improved in every possible way.

The vermicultivation technology is practically wasteless. Potential and perspectives of this state-of-art biotechnology may play am important role in three vital spheres of human activity on the Earth, i.e. environment protection, agriculture, health care. Thus, vermicultivation is a modern biotechnology able to turn plant organic wastes into valid animal proteins effectively. Moreover, the earthworm biomass is a unique and renewable natural source to produce different preparations of biologically active substances