Effect of Apitherapy in Piglets with Preweaning Diarrhea
| Autor: | Seok Hwa Choi, Seung Hoo Lee, Chun-Sik Bae, Young Hoon Bai, Sok Cheon Pak, Seong Soo Kang, Seong Koo Cho |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Diarrhea
Allergy Swine animal diseases Physiology Venom Microbial Sensitivity Tests Biology Apitherapy fluids and secretions Bee venom Escherichia coli medicine Animals Antibacterial drug Treated group integumentary system Therapeutic effect Rectum General Medicine bacterial infections and mycoses medicine.disease Bee Venoms Complementary and alternative medicine Immunology medicine.symptom |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Chinese Medicine. 31:321-326 |
| ISSN: | 1793-6853 0192-415X |
| DOI: | 10.1142/s0192415x03001004 |
| Popis: | This study was designed to examine the therapeutic effect of honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) venom in piglets with bacterial diarrhea. Comparison between bee venom- and drug-treated groups was our main concern in the present study. Preweaning piglets were assigned to treated and non-treated control groups. In the treated group, 47 piglets were acupunctured with the worker honeybee once a day for three consecutive days. Two acupoints, GV-1 (Jiao-chao) and ST-25 (Hai-men), were selected for apitherapy. In the control group, 44 piglets were intramuscularly injected with a standard dose of a known antibacterial drug, colistin sulfate (300,000 IU/kg of body weight), and an antidiarrheal drug (berberine, 2 ml/kg) once a day for three consecutive days. At post-treatment, 90.9% of the control piglets and 93.6% of piglets in the treated group recovered from bacterial diarrhea. Bee acupuncture therapy did not show any side effects such as allergy, intoxication, hemorrhage or infection. It is concluded that bee venom therapy was effective in controlling bacterial diarrhea in preweaning piglets. |
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