Diseases | Traditional therapeutical practices |
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A) Diseases and treatments related to animal reproduction (gestation, pregnancy, animal birth and breeding) | |
Retained placenta | - Wipe the hindquarter of the animal with wood ash |
- Hang up the rest of the umbilical cord of the spine bone of a dead animal smeared in oil, in order to drain and make a counterweight | |
Abscesses (Mastitis, inflammation of the udder) | - "Unto sin sal" (Unsalted fat; (Fat soft belly of pork) air dried. |
- Melted fat of a cow | |
- Beeswax and garlic | |
B) Digestive diseases | |
"Empacho" (indigestion) and diarrhea | - Milk serum curd with salt |
- Draw a cross with cow's milk on the back of foals or calves | |
C) Respiratory diseases | |
"Moquillo" (Distemper) | - Mark the face of the horse, drawing a muzzle with kerosene or fat |
- Smoke bath with rubber, and chicken manure incinerated | |
- Smoke bath with creosote and a jute bag or rags incinerated | |
- Smoke bath with cobs of corn and rags incinerated | |
- Puncturing the sinuses in horses with a sharp cane | |
- Cut of the ears dogs and leave bleed; then placing a necklace of seven (or an odd number) of burned corn cobs, leaving him in the neck until it heals | |
- Cut of the ears of the horse | |
- Incision below the "carretilla" (in the region of the jugular vein) of horses | |
- Pour one tablespoon of cooking oil in each ear of the horse | |
- Break a raw egg on the forehead of the animal | |
D) Diseases of the skin and hair | |
Pimples and boils | - Poultice of manure of chicken (Gallus gallus) and turkey, fat iguana (Tupinambis spp.), and bread crumb with milk |
Wounds and injuries | - Burned mineral engine oil |
- Sugar | |
- Human stool ("defecation of a christian") | |
- Honey | |
- White soap | |
"Mataduras" (Sores) (Healing of wounds on the back of horses) | - Ointment shoes (prefference color like the hair affected animal) |
- Lime | |
- Copper sulfate | |
- Oil | |
- White Liniment | |
- "Unto sin sal" (Unsalted fat) with lard | |
- Human urine with grated brick | |
"Capaduras" (Castration) (Scarring of castrated cattle) | - Hot kerosene to remove the "pasmo" (similar to a spasm) due to cold entrance when the animal was castrated |
- Kerosene with salt | |
- Ashes with fresh cow manure | |
- Preparation of egg yolk, oil and lime | |
- Burned mineral engine oil | |
Hemorrhage | - Spiderweb |
- Paprika | |
Snake bites (dogs) | - Necklace of braid straw (Stipa brachychaeta) wrapped in the neck until it heals |
- Brushstrokes of kerosene in the affected area | |
E) Parasitosis | |
"Embichaduras": Myiasis caused by the larvae flies of the "screwworm" (Cochliomyia hominivorax, Calliphoridae) and others. | - Hang three leather washers of a male animal, to treat females and, conversely, three female leather washers to treat the males |
- Apply to the navel or to affected areas of a newborn calf an implement fleece (like a cotton swab) dipped in creosote, horse manure, and burned mineral engine oil | |
Scabies: Caused by the mites Psoroptes bovis, (Psoroptidae) and Sarcoptes sp. (Sarcoptidae). | - Burned mineral engine oil (sheep scab) applied with corncob |
- "Unto sin sal" (Unsalted fat) with tobacco, sulfur and creosote | |
"Bicho del cuajo" (Bug rennet): Internal parasitosis due to larvae flies of Gasterophilus spp. (Gasterophilidae) | - Mate, salt, cooking oil and creosote intake. |
F) Diseases of the senses | |
"Nubes" "Clouds" (Conjunctivitis) | - Sugar in the inner of the eye (Equine conjunctivitis) |
- Washings with human urine and salt (Equine conjunctivitis) | |
- Instill blood of dog ticks (Ovine Conjunctivitis) | |
Practice a small incision in the lid of the eye as a cross-shaped | |
Hits on the eyes | - Sugar |
G) Diseases of the urinary ways | |
"Sarro en la verija" (Tartar in urinary ways) (Anuria due to urinary infections) | - Place the horse under a stream of water and a knife in the genital area, and then hit three kicks until urine |
H) Musculoskeletal diseases | |
Musculoskeletal pain | - Friction with fat of iguana (Tupinambis spp), of lion (Puma concolor) or of chicken (Gallus gallus) |
I) Poisonings | |
For consumption of "chuscho" (Nierembergia linariaefolia) | - Break two eggs in the front and draw a cross |
For consumption of "manzanilla silvestre" (Anthemis cotula) | - Drill the crease of the swollen abdomen, with a knitting needle |
"Tasca" (sound made by horses when hitting the jaws), For consumption of "paletaria" (indet.) | - Tobacco, milk and oil intake |
For consumption of "romerillo", "nío" or "mío - mío" (Baccharis coridifolia) | - Rubbing the plant on the lips and gums of the animal, as a way of prevention |
- Milk and cooking oil intake, or other astringent drink like "anís" or "mate cocido" | |
- Vinegar and starch intake |