Can chives treat livestock diseases, and is feeding them effective for female livestock that do not come into estrus?
Chives are pungent in flavor and warm in nature, and have medicinal functions such as dispersing blood stasis and promoting new tissue growth, strengthening the stomach and freeing the intestines, eliminating phlegm, detoxifying, tonifying the liver and kidneys, warming the waist and knees, and strengthening yang and securing essence. Used as medicine, chives can treat many livestock diseases with good efficacy. So which livestock diseases can chives treat? Is feeding chives effective for female livestock that do not come into estrus?
Treating regurgitation of stomach contents and vomiting of grass: 500 grams of chive roots, 100 milliliters of cow's milk. Mash the chive roots and extract the juice, mix with an appropriate amount of milk and administer by drenching, once daily or every other day, for 2 consecutive doses.
Treating rumen atony: 250-500 grams of chives, 50 grams of salt. Chop the chives and mash them into a paste, mix with the salt, add an appropriate amount of warm water, and administer by drenching once.
Treating prolapse of the penis that cannot be retracted: 100 grams of chives, 50 grams of honey. First wash the affected area with weak tea, then chop the chives finely and mash them, add honey and mix well, apply to the affected area, once daily, for 2 consecutive applications.
Treating endometritis: 120 grams of fresh chives, chopped and mixed into the feed for pigs. For sows with clear, watery, and relatively abundant secretions, along with poor appetite and a tendency to lie down and be inactive, the efficacy is relatively good.
Treating hair loss in horses: after mashing 200 grams of chives including roots to extract juice, then take 250 grams of fresh cypress leaves and 200 grams of fresh Pyrrosia lingua, add 1000 milliliters of water, boil for one hour, mix evenly with 200 grams of chives, wash the affected area, twice daily, for 3-5 consecutive days as one course of treatment.
Treating female livestock that do not come into estrus: 100-150 grams of chives, 150 grams of brown sugar, mash and mix with water or yellow rice wine and feed. Suitable for sows that do not come into estrus; cattle can also be treated with it.
Treating foot rot in cattle: a handful of chives, one egg, stir-fry in a pan until hot, take out and apply externally to the rotting area between the hooves.
Treating white scour in piglets: chop the chives finely and crush them, mix into the feed and administer. 25-50 grams per pig, once every other week. It can both prevent white scour and other digestive tract diseases, and also has the effect of increasing body weight.
Treating spontaneous sweating and night sweats in livestock: 1 kilogram of chive roots, washed clean and decocted in water for internal use, effective after 3 consecutive doses.