Treatment of Porcine Influenza with traditional Chinese Medicine

Porcine influenza is an acute and highly contagious infectious disease of pigs caused by porcine influenza virus. It is characterized by sudden occurrence and rapid transmission. It often occurs in the whole group within a short period of 2-3 days. Pigs of different ages, genders and breeds are susceptible to infection. Most of them occur in late autumn and early spring when the weather changes rapidly, as well as in cold winter, with an incidence of about 100%. 63 cases of swine influenza were treated with Jingfangbaidu Powder and Yinqiao Powder. 60 cases were cured after 5 days, 2 cases were cured after 7 days, and 1 case died of pneumonia.

The main results were as follows: (1) the clinical symptoms occurred suddenly and the whole group was infected almost at the same time. The body temperature of diseased pigs suddenly rose to 40.3 ℃ and 41.5 ℃, sometimes as high as 42 ℃. Loss of appetite, even abstinence, extreme mental malaise, lying down, coughing, runny nose, occasional sneezing, dry stool, shortness of urine, dyspnea, sometimes sitting dog posture, conjunctival flush, tears in the eyes.

2 addition and subtraction of Jing Fangdu Powder for the treatment of wind-cold influenza: Schizonepeta tenuifolia, Fangfeng, Notopterygium, solitary living, Bupleurum, Bupleurum, Fructus Aurantii, Poria cocos, Platycodon grandiflorum, Chuanxiong, licorice; Yinqiao Powder for wind-heat influenza: honeysuckle, forsythia, Scutellaria baicalensis, Bupleurum, burdock, tangerine peel, licorice. One dose was fried twice, one dose per day, two times a day, or at the end, boiled water was mixed, and waiting temperature was given for 3 days for 4 days.

3 case 1 4 pigs in Hucheng Town, Liangping County. Symptoms: depressed spirit, loss of appetite, cold limbs, tears in the eyes, cold shape, low bow, trembling, cough, clear nose. It was diagnosed as wind-cold influenza. It is appropriate to treat the surface and dissipate the cold. The addition and subtraction of Jingfangbaidu powder: Schizonepeta tenuifolia 30g, Fangfeng 30g, Notopterygium 20g, Duhuo 20g, Bupleurum 30g, Bupleurum 20g, Poria cocos 20g, Shenqu 30g, Chuanxiong 20g, licorice 10g. Water frying and irrigation were cured after 3 days.

Case 2 three pigs from a peasant household were diagnosed with illness. Symptoms: heavy fever, slight aversion to cold, no or less sweat, cough, shortness of breath, thirst, like drinking water, lipstick, dry and hard feces, yellow tongue coating, pulse floating. Diagnosed as wind-heat flu. The addition and subtraction of Yinqiao powder: honeysuckle 30g, forsythia 30g, Scutellaria baicalensis 30g, Bupleurum 30g, burdock 20g, tangerine peel 20g, licorice 10g. Fried in water for 3 pigs to drink at the same time, all recovered after 3 days.