Treatment of foot and mouth disease ailing cattle – A comparitive field study

Abstract

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.