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Fidelak, Christian; Reinecke, Annette; Merck, Carl-Christian; Klocke, Peter; Spranger, Jörg. |
The EU regulations 1804/99 on animal husbandry in organic agriculture propose to use complementary veterinary medicine, including homeopathy, in therapy of clinical mastitis, the most frequent disease in dairy farming. The control of dairy cow mastitis is still based on the use of antibiotics. This study should assess the efficacy of a fixed homeopathic combination in curing clinical mastitis in order to minimize the use of antibiotics. The trial was conducted as a double blind placebo controlled study. In a German organic dairy herd of about 300 cows all fresh cases of clinical mastitis received a homeopathic therapy using a predetermined treatment protocol and a certain diagnostic pattern to match right remedies in the sense of the homeopathic remedy... |
Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Dairy cattle; Health and welfare. |
Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/9680/1/9680_Fidelak_Vortrag.pdf |
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