Hello Susun,
I am an Aussie lady desperate to cure her dairy goats of sub clinical mastitis. I have read an article by you online suggesting Echinacea and poke root...which I ordered form a herbalist here in Australia and have been giving to my girls at milking twice a day along with ample amounts of garlic for one week now. How long is it safe to continue this treatment (tested milk yesterday...has improved but not right yet)? These goats must have picked up the mastitis when they were drying up as the milk was fine previously but not post kidding. Prior to the herbs I gave them dolomite and Vit C for several months but the milk was still bad. Any advice will be much appreciated,
Kind regards...
Hello,
You can continue with the Echinacea as long as you like, make sure your dosage is high enough. The poke should only be used sparingly, while situation is critical….no more than 7 days, then off for a week, then you could use again for a week. poke can be hard of the system, even fatal in large doses.
Here from Susun:
There’s a big bottle of echinacea root tincture (Echinacea augustifolia) in the barn. (I make it by the quart.) And a smaller one of poke root tincture (Phytolacca americana). My goats rarely get mastitis, but anyone who keeps dairy animals knows it can happen suddenly, so I prefer to be prepared. Poke root tincture is a specific against breast infections. Echinacea is a superb antibacterial and immune system nourisher. I add one dropperful of poke tincture to an ounce of echinacea tincture. The dosage for a full-grown goat is about six dropperfuls of the echinacea-poke mixture. In the most severe cases, we will dose on an hourly basis. As the mastitis recedes, we lengthen the time between doses. I have found even difficult cases of mastitis will bow to frequent, large doses of echinacea.
The worst mastitis I ever dealt with was caused by acorns. Our star producer – we had to milk her three times a day or she would leak milk – gorged herself on fallen acorns. We didn’t realize how many acorns she had eaten until milking time. She was down and her udder was the size of a beach ball. We gave her eight droppers of echinacea/poke every half-hour, and poulticed her udder with warm, boiled cabbage leaves almost continually throughout the night. By dawn, we could milk her, though we continued to give her echinacea/poke every two hours for a few days.
Read the complete article here
http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/July10/healingwise.htm
love,
Justine
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