Is Chinese herbal medicine pig farming the development direction for pig farms? A must-read for pig farmers
Chairman Mao said: traditional Chinese medicine is a treasure house. Where is the main direction of the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine? Besides Chinese medicine used by people, it is now also being applied in the pig farming industry, and there are many monographs in this area. There was once a farm where the pigs had a very poor feed intake, and later, after a stomach-invigorating Chinese herbal medicine was sprayed on, the pigs became very fond of eating. China currently uses more than 5,000 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, and more than 200 kinds are used in Chinese herbal feed additives. In fact, not many can really be used, so there is still much room for vigorous development.
Over the past 20 years, people have gradually discovered that artificially synthesized feed additives such as drugs and antibiotics have toxic and side-residue effects, causing canceration, fetal deformity, and mutation. Clenbuterol is even more obviously harmful to human health, thus forcing people to redevelop Chinese herbal additives. Chinese herbal medicines are purely natural, pollution-free, and multi-functional, and are the development direction of feed additives. The composition of Chinese herbal medicines is very complex, with dozens or even hundreds of components. Modern science has a structure-activity relationship: one component can produce one effect, so one Chinese medicine can produce many effects, such as nutrition, enhancing immunity, anti-stress, and vitamin-like effects.
Toxic Chinese herbal medicines are also one of the important components of Chinese materia medica. They can treat diseases and expel pathogens. Sulfur used externally is toxic, while sulfur taken internally has insecticidal and detoxifying effects. It is used for pig scabies and skin ulceration. Pigs fed a small amount of sulfur have red skin and shiny hair. The use of toxic Chinese medicines requires careful testing, heavy metals must not exceed standards, and they should be used cautiously in appropriate amounts.
In today's world, as the call to return to nature and seek medicine from nature grows louder, humanity is also seeking Chinese herbal medicines that are multi-functional, without drug resistance, without toxic side effects, and of good quality at low cost to replace chemical drugs, with broad prospects. In order to reduce production costs, pig farmers are even more eager to use Chinese herbal medicines that are cheap and excellent, and this is also a requirement of the times moving forward.