MASTITIS WITH TOXAEMIA & SEPTICAEMIA
a) Arsenicum Album: 1M.Hourly for five doses. Mastitiswith sudden onset,
Pyrexia, great prostration, debility, exhaustion, and marked Anorexia for
concentrates. Thirst for small quantities of water at frequent intervals.
Tendency for Gangrene or Septicaemia. Milk is thin, straw coloured without any
clots. Last stript of Milk will be an ideal sample.
b) Baptisia: 1x. Two hourly x four doses.
All discharges are foetid. (Milk, breath, urine and faeces.) Low fevers, septic
conditions of blood with extreme prostration.
Can swallow only liquids.
Septic conditions of blood with prostration.
In whatever position animal lies, the parts rested upon feel sore and bruised.
Simple continued fever with gastric symptoms – Anorexia. (Compare Continued
fever of a low typhoid type Echinacea:Q. 2 hourly, Arsenic: 3c. 3
hourly).
It is advised in ulceration of teats and udder.
N.B.:-Baptisia raises the natural body resistance to the disease
c) Echinacea Angustifolia.: Q. 1 ml q.i.d. for three days, is effective for
Mastitis with puerperal infection with tired feeling.
• Acute auto-infection.
• Symptoms of blood poisoning and septic conditions.
• Tendency to Gangrene.
• Lymphatics enlarged.
• Carbuncles and boils.
• Pyaemia – febrile symptoms like accelerated pulse, flushed
face, enteritis, bronchitis and drowsiness.
• Desire for cold water.
N.B.:-Promotes lactoferrin production in goat milk in order to reduce
inflammatory changes in the udder of goats, may be in other animals also
d) Nux Vomica.: 1M. 4 doses per day for three to four days.
Mastitis with Anorexia, Pyrexia with dung hard and constipated. Cows will be
active and irritable with straining
for small quantities of faeces and nervous with over sensitiveness to noises.
Left flank will be hard, on palpation and pits on pressure. Alternate
constipation with Diarrhoea.Hunger, with aversion to concentrates, loss of
appetite and sudden satiety to green fodder. Thirst, sometimes with dislike to
all drinks principally water. Toxaemia from conventional drugs, poisons,
vaccines and spoiled food, Acetonaemia (Ketosis), deranged digestion with
disorders of Liver or Abomasum.
N.B:-Absence of all desires for defecation is a contraindication for
Nux Vomica.
e) Pyrogenium: 1M. t.i.d. x two days (At infrequent doses). Mastitis with
Septic fevers especially with puerperal Metritis.
• All discharges (milk, lochia and diarrhoea)are dark and horribly
offensive.
• Restlessness.
• Constipation: Predominant, Obstinate and complete with inertia from
impaction.
• In fevers, Stool large, black carrion-like.
• Diarrhoea: (brown or black) noticed in rare cases are horribly offensive,
painless and involuntary.
• Rapid pulse out of proportion to the temperature.
• It is a dynamic remedy indicated when the well selected drug fails to act,
due to lack of vital force in the patient.
• History indicates use of much antibiotics in the past,
including dry cow mastitis tubes.
Note: For GRANGRENOUS MASTITIS: Refer GRANGRENE.
III. SUBACUTE STAGES OF MASTITIS
a) Conium Maculatum: 30cl200c. Four doses/two days. Udder induration with pain
and hardness, ascending
paralytic weakness of limbs, milk yellow/colostrum like, creamy, stringy, keeps
head perfectly still. Worse lying down.
b) Kali Mur: 3x/6x/30c. Two hourly for two to four days.
Normal constituent of cells related to FIBRIN. Udder Catarrh (Sub acute/
chronic cases) with Diphtheritic/ white/ exudate in milk, with thin coagulated
white layer on standing (FIBRINOUS). Complaints worse on movement and better
from heat
c) Mere Sol.: 30-1M. t.i.d. x two days. Moderate fever and slow onset, mouth
and tongue moist, glistening with aphthae, saliva, slimy and stringy. Halitosis,
Rhinitis, Conjunctivitis, teeth indented udder indurated, painful suppuration.
Milk:Watery,fiothy, and stringy, with flakes or clots. Thirst: unquenchable for
cold water, worse at night, wet damp weather, lying on right side, warm byre.
Lower potencies promote suppuration and higher potencies abort. Once
suppuration is imminent (threatening), Hepar will be ideal. Aggravation: Both
heat and cold at night. Ulceration of teats.
d) Phytolacca: 200cllM. Moderate fever with slow onset, grinding the teeth,
lacrimation abundant, saliva stringy, refuses warm fluids, superficial Lymph
glands indurated and painful, coronet inflamed, difficulty in getting up, tip
of tongue red and mapped, indented. Teats: Sensitive and sore, udder indurated,
sensitive, caked, neither heals nor suppurate with nodosities. Milk: Watery
thick curdy with small flakes to large clots. Thirst: Desire for cold water.
Symptoms, worse, when it rains and when exposed to damp cold weather.
Causation: Drenching in rains or prolonged bathing of animals. A cancer remedy.
A hard, painful udder with moderate fever is a keynote. The cow kicks when we
attempt to milk the cow.
Cowpea/Mustard seed). In a few cases the abscess may mature and burst open and
heal. Acute exacerbation due to the unabsorbed indurations takes place, with
recurrence of Mastitis at frequent intervals.
Genetic, environmental (summer/ rains/ winter seasons) and Managemental factors
(Bathing of hydrogenoid cows using Jet pumps, drenching the cows in rains and
exposing to severe sun) may also predispose them to the recurrent attacks of
Mastitis. In such cases, slow but deep acting constitutional remedies will have
to be administered for a complete cure.
Therapeutic hints (characteristic symptoms) of selection of remedies with dose
are detailed below
a) Calcarea Carbonica: 30c. Once a day for eight days and taper once a week I
month. Mastitis that recur in obese cows of Leucophlegmatic constitution with
large head and abdomen with stout limbs. Craving for indigestible things
(Pica). Right sided Mastitis with swelling and tenderness. Dread of being
bathed and in open air. Mastitis in every heat with tendency to prolapse of
Vagina. Udder warts.
b) Calcarea Fluor: 3c-30c. Once a week x four doses. Udder induration of stony
hardness threatening suppuration. Knots in hardened udder. Acts favorably in
indurations of udder, remaining after administration of Sulphur, Silicea and
Conium. A “chronic” remedy that acts slowly. Should not be repeated
too frequently
c) Calcarea Phosphorica: 3x130cl200c. Three doses x three days. Mastitis with
udder induration that recurs in thin anaemic, emaciated flabby animals, prone
to glandular and bony disturbances. Craving for salt. Abdomen flabby. Milk
salty. Aggravation: Exposure to damp, cold, changeable weather. Amelioration:
In summer, warm dry, atmosphere.
d) Calcarea Sulph: 12c. b.i.d. for two to three days. Udder abscesses that have
burst with discharge of Yellow, thick and lumpy pus. Follows Hepar and
Silicea.
e) Myristica Sebifera: 3c. 20 drops daily for 10 to 15 days.
Traumatic or Phlegmonous (Cellulitis) inflammation of udder. Fistula.
Carbuncles. Laminitis. Hastens suppuration and shortens its duration. Often,
does away with use of an abscess knife. A remedy with great antiseptic power,
that acts powerfully often than Hepar or Silicea. Cures suppurative process
affecting joints. Reduces udder indurations from the size of coconut to the
size of gooseberry. Spavin in horses and corneal ulcerations have been
influenced favourably by this remedy.
VI. CHRONIC MASTITIS WITH INDURATION
a) Arnica Montana: 3c to 30c in acute cases frequently, and in chronic cases
thrice daily for five to 10 days. Mastitis and induration due to traumatic/
mechanical injuries of udder due to fall or while in transit. Sore, lame,
bruised udder. Parts rested upon feel sore and bruised. Animal moves
continuously from place to place in search of a soft spot. Great fear of being
touched on affected part or struck by persons coming near the animal.
Aggravation: At motion, exertion and when lying on left side.
Amelioration:
Lying down and lying with head low.
N.B.:-Locally Mother Tincture should not be used on bruised or cut skin. In
such cases, use Calendula Mother Tincture
b) Bellis Perennis.: Tincture to 3c130c three doses x three days. Mastitis with
injuries to the deeper tissues and nerves with intense soreness with
intolerance of cold bathing. Udder engorged. Joints, sore with muscular
soreness. Remote effects of blows, falls and accidents. Deep seated Trauma.
Worse: Cold bathing, cold wind, left side.
c) Conium Maeulatum: 200c-1M. Mastitis chronic/subacute in older cows. Udder
indurated with stony hardness. Trauma of the udder. Sore, hard and painful
udder before and during heat. Milk: Yellow, watery/thick like honey. Clots: Creamy/stringy
difficult to strip. Keeps the head perfectly still while lying down. Paralytic
weakness of hind legs. Painful stiffness of legs. Swaying gait aggravated when
turning the head. Many cases of indurations of udder have been influenced
favorably by their remedy when alternated with Calc. Phos /Calc. Carb,
according to the constitution of the animaL In paretic cases, 1M.
(Infrequently) otherwise 6c-30c. 2 doses /day x 7 days.
d) Hippozaenium (Glanderine-Mallein-Farcine): 30e. Six hourly. Deep seated
abscesses in the udder with erysipelas. Sanguineous (serum, pus and blood)
acrid discharge.
VII. MASTITIS WITH UDDER ABSCESS
a) Anthracinum: 200e. Udder black/ blue with septic inflammation, carbuncles
and malignant ulcers.
b) Arnica Montana 30e. Prevents suppuration, Septicaemia
and promote absorption.
c) Arsenieum: 6c. Tendency to become putrid.
d) Bell: 3x. Swelling redness and pain in the first stage.
e) Bry: 3x.Inflammation and hardness more severe than Bell
f) Calcarea Sulph: 6e/30e. Abscess that has formed a vent.
Discharges are yellow, thick and lumpy.
g) Calendula: Q/30e.1:10 dilution. To irrigate udder absceses.
h) Eehinaeea: Q. 10 drops.For stubborn cases of udder abscesss.
i) Graphitis: 30c Hard Cicatrices remaining after mammary abscesses.
j) Hepar Sulph: 6e. Cures Mastitis with Sinus formation.
Potencies 3x /6c & 30e. Aborts abscess formation, and 2x & 3x. Matures
abscesses or resolve or burst open.
k) Hippozaenium30C:-For Abscesses that are deep seated.
1) Lachesis: 30e/200e. Abscess with dark blue/ purple colour of udder.
m) Mere. Sol: 6c. Suppuration is imminent (threatening or impending).
n) Myristiea Sebifera:3x. Abscess to burst open without the
use of a scalpeL
0) Phytolaeea:2x.When Bryonia fails in long standing cases.
p) Silieea:6e. For discharging Pus.
q) Sulphur:30e. For repeated crops of Abscesses.
r) Tarentula Cubensis:30e. Udder abscess with pain and blue colour with
tendency to Gangrene.
NOSODES IN MASTITIS
a) Anthracinum: 200e b.i.d. x two days. Malignant ulcers, Carbuncles, Septic
inflammation of udder with discharge of offensive pus black in colour.
b) Carcinosin: 30e/200e. At infrequent doses. Pain and induration of udder with
offensive discharge. Pain and symptoms of cancerous affections of udder are
seen relieved by this remedy.
c) Psorinum: 200e/1M. 1 dose a day x two days. Udder swollen, painful with
discharge that excoriate. Mastitis with extreme sensitiveness to cold. Lack of
reactions when well¬chosen remedy fails to act or permanently improve.
Offensive milk, dread ofleast cold air. Mastitis that recur constantly.
Discharges offensive.
d) Staphylococcin: 200c-1M. o.d. two to three doses. Mastitis where
Staphylococcus is the chief bacterial factor with Abscesses, Empyaemia and
Furuncles.
e) Streptococcin: 200e/1M. o.d. x two days. Septic symptoms with Pyrexia in
Mastitis where Streptococcus is the chief bacterial factor.
f) Syphilinum: 1M. 1 dose o.d. x two days. Chronic recurrent mastitis with
severe prostration and debility in the morning. Pains begins with twilight and
end with daylight. Symptoms worse at night. When the well selected remedy fails
to relieve or permanently improve in Syphilitic constitution. Succession of
Abscesses in the udder
g) Tuberculinum.: 200c!lM. Once a week x four doses.
Mastitis due to Tuberculous Diathesis. Symptoms ever changing. Takes cold
easily. Emaciation rapid and pronounced. Repeated attacks of Mastitis that
fails to cure without reference to the name of the disease (Theileriosis,
Anaplasmosis).
h) Variolinum: 200c. Two doses a day x four days. Mastitis with painful cowpox
vesicles over the udder and teats. Alternate with Antimony Tart: 200c. 2 doses
a day x 4 days.
IX. MASTITIS MILK.
CHANGES IN MILK LEADING TO SELECTION OF REMEDIES
a) Acetic Acid: 30c. Milk yellowish green/bluish in dropsical and debilitating
cows. [Calc., Calc. p., Merc., Ph. acid, Sabal., Sil., Sul.] (Boericke)
b) Calcarea Fluor: 6x/30c. Milk with yellowish granules and indurations and
stony hardness in the udder, threatening
suppuration. (Boericke)
c) Calcarea Phos: 30c. Milk salty.
d)
Kali Mur: 6x/12x/30c.Milk with white flakes. Sub-acute fibrinous mastitis with
soft and tender udder. (Boericke)
e) Kali Bichrom: 30c. t.i.d. x three days: Milk ropy, jelly with
yellowish tinge.
f) Lachesis: 200c. Milk curdled and greenish.
g) Lecithin: 12c. Milk watery.
h) Mag. Carb: 30c. Milk with white flakes.
i) Natrum Sulph: 6x/30c. Milk yellowish green in hydrogenoid cows, housed in
damp byres, worse in rainy weather.
j) Phytolacca. D: 30c-1M. Milk stringy, coagulated and thick.
k) Spiranthes: 3c. Milk watery.
X. MILK MIXED WITH BLOOD. (HAEMAGALACTIA)
Rose milk, blood in milk, bloody milk in cows with nervous irritability and
extreme sensitivity to pain.
a) Arnica Montana: 30c-200c. Milk bright red due to traumatic injury to
udder.
b) Bufo Rana: 30c. Milk bloody and offensive with dropsy and induration of
udder.
c) Chamomilla: 30c. t.i.d. x three to four days: Milk thin and reduced in
fat.
d) China Off: 30c. Milk red due to passive postpartum
haemorrhage with dehydration and Tympanites
e) Hamamelis Vir: 6e/30c. Milk with dark venous blood. /) Ipecac: 30e/200c.
Milk with bright red colour.
f) Lycopodium: 30e/200c. Milk with discharge of blood with good appetite, but
constant sensation of satiety. “A few mouthfuls fill up to the
throat”.
g) Millefolium: 3c-30c. Milk with bright red blood.
h) Phosphorus: 30c-200c. Milk with dark red blood without clots.
i) PUERPERAL METRITIS WITH OFFENSIVE HAEMORRHAGIC UTERINE DISCHARGE ASSOCIATED WITH
MASTITIS.
j) Secale Cornutum: 200e/1M. Three doses a day (Alternate with Pyrogen: 1M. in
cases with Pyrexia): Skin .feels cold to touch yet the patient cannot tolerate
covermg, ~Ith tendency to Gangrene. Small painful boils develop m the udder.
Symptoms are worse from heat
