Fourteen cattle, nondescript breeds differing in age and sex, were taken in this study. History revealed frequent shaking of head, sneezing, nasal bleeding and scratching of nostrils against hard objects. Clinical and parasitological examination confirmed the presence of Schistosoma nasale in the nostrils. Two animals kept as control group without treatment and remaining 12 were intra nasally given the extract juice of Solanum xanthocarpum 3 drops twice daily for 7-10 days. Control showed no recovery and the trial group was found 92 per cent effective on subsequent clinical and parasitological examinations.
In a season of 3 months, sixty cattle of different age, breed and sex clinically presented for foot and mouth disease were comparatively studied and treated giving allopathic and ethno-medicine. Ten of the sixty were given antibiotics and symptomatic allopathic treatment for 3 days. Remaining fifty were orally administered with the finely ground mixture of Mentha arvensis, Curcuma longa, Areca catechu and Piper betel daily once for 3 days. Recovery rate was found to be 50 per cent and 90 per cent in the former and latter group.
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