Dropsy in Sheep


Homeopathy Treatment for Dropsy in Sheep. Find the best homeopathic medicines to treat Dropsy in Sheep naturally. …


General [General]       This disease proceeds very slowly, and is often a long time before it becomes developed. The first symptoms that are observed are a dull sluggish appearance of the animal. It becomes slow in its movements and tarries behind the flock. The eyes gradually become dull and turbid the skin is puffy about the eyes, nose, and mouth; the wool falls off, or is easily detached from different parts of the body; the breathing becomes difficult, and the animal more feeble, and although other parts of the body waste away, the abdomen swells, the appetite diminishes more and more, but there is generally great thirst; at length the animal gets so weak that he is unable to stand. When the disease gets to this stage, diarrhoea generally sets in, and death soon takes place. The best remedies are Arsenicum, China, Kali carbonicum and Sulphur. Arsenicum corresponds to nearly all the symptoms of this disease, therefore Arsenicum ought to be given first, one grain of the third trituration twice a day. Very often this medicine, followed by some doses of Sulphur, are sufficient to effect a cure but there are some cases when it will be necessary to use the other medicine. Lycopodium will occasionally be found useful.

John Rush
John Rush, School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, North Grafton, USA. The Handbook of Veterinary Homeopathy, by John Rush, was published in 1854. Originally published in London by Jarrold and Sons. "The Homeopathic Treatment of the Horse, the Ox, the Sheep, the Dog and the Swine."