Is it true that feeding houttuynia cordata to pigs can cure pig disease?

Houttuynia cordata Thunb is a common Chinese herbal medicine, which can grow in any soil and can be planted in large quantities. Many pig farmers in rural areas have planted it to feed pigs, which is said to be able to treat pig disease. Is this true?

Generally speaking, it is good to feed Houttuynia cordata as green feed to pigs, such as improving the physical function of pigs, enhancing immunity, can also play the role of anti-virus and so on. So does this mean that Houttuynia cordata can cure pig disease?

Let's take a look at some real cases:

Case 1: a sow in Li's pig farm with left hindlimb inflammation and abscess caused by trauma, unable to rise on the floor and loss of appetite.

Treatment: Houttuynia cordata stem and leaf dried product appropriate powder, fresh houttuynia cordata whole grass juice, juice mixed powder is paste, apply to the affected part, 1 dose / day, continuous use for 3 days, combined with oral administration of fresh houttuynia cordata whole herb, 50g / day for 3 days. After adopting the above methods, the suppurative wound converged obviously, healed quickly and cured in 3 days, and the pig's appetite recovered well and there was no secondary disease.

Case 2: 1 Zhang reserve sow, weighing 60 kilograms, urine is lime milk, drip is not a line, dripping endless.

Treatment: fresh houttuynia cordata 100g, chopped and mixed with feed, 2 doses a day for 3 days, at the same time, 1-2 days combined with oral amoxicillin powder 50g/ days, pigs recovered after 3 days. All physical signs returned to normal and there was no secondary disease.

Case 3: Wang has a parturient sow, which is in the adaptation period. Symptoms see the outflow of sticky yellow-white dirt from the birth gate, repeated infertility.

Treatment: fresh houttuynia cordata 500 g juice extraction, 10~20mL filtrate, mixed with 300mL saline, rinse the vagina of infected animals, 1 dose a day for 3 days, and 100 g fresh houttuynia cordata herb, chopped and mixed with feed, 2 doses a day for 3 days. The urination of the pig was clear after 3 days. Normal estrus and successful mating.

Case 4: Zhao's 5 piglets, with an average weight of 25 kg, showed bead-shaped dry and hard feces, poor appetite, rough coat, dim light, and mental malaise.

Treatment: Houttuynia cordata stem and leaf dry product research end, with a small amount of piglets open food mix feed, each head 10g 20g. For those with severe symptoms and no mouth opening, juice was squeezed with fresh Houttuynia cordata Thunb, 10~20mL was taken and taken continuously with 3-5 doses, the constipation symptoms were relieved and the appetite returned to normal.

Case 5: there were 9 piglets in the same column in a pig farm with damp-heat dysentery, yellow-white atherosclerotic stool, rough coat, lethargy, loss of appetite, drowsiness and dehydration symptoms.

Treatment: fresh houttuynia cordata whole grass juice, take 5ml + medical sugar saline 15ml + purple garlic 5g, mixed administration, one dose a day, continuous use for 3 days. Among them, the above formula for piglet yellow dysentery can replace sugar saline into white sugar water, piglet white dysentery using brown sugar water, proved by clinical practice, can achieve a good effect.

Case 6: twelve fattening pigs of a farmer were treated with ten medicines (dried houttuynia cordata ground into powder) for prevention and health care during the whole feeding process. Especially in the high incidence period of epidemic disease in spring and autumn, mixing and feeding according to the proportion of 1g:5kg for 15 to 30 days, a better effect of health care and prevention was achieved, until no more epidemic disease occurred.

Thus it can be seen that adding Houttuynia cordata to pig feed can greatly reduce the occurrence and harm of classical swine fever, lung disease, influenza, paratyphoid and other diseases, and Houttuynia cordata contains fishy smell, which is very suitable for pig taste. Generally, it is better to feed pigs with fresh grass, and the amount of feed should account for 20%-25% of the total feed. Continuous feeding can achieve very good results.