Table 5 Other products used in the treatment of camels in Sahrawi veterinary
From: Ethnoveterinary of Sahrawi pastoralists of Western Sahara: camel diseases and remedies
Product | Preparation | Administration route | Indications |
|---|---|---|---|
Bitumen | Mixed | Topical | Mange |
Butter (camel/goat milk) | Â | Topical | Chest wounds, Dermatomycosis |
Camel blood | Mixed with sugar | Eye drop | Eyes inflammation |
Larvar | |||
Camel fat (hump) | Mixed | Topical | Chest wounds Dermatomycosis |
Camel placenta | Â | Oral | Calf diarrhoea (preventive treatment) |
Duda syndrome | |||
Camel skin | Coat is removed, skin is cut in small pieces and dried, then pit cooked in sandy soils | Topical | Gengivitis |
Camel urine | Collected and plastered with the soil | Topical | Shmel (mastitis) |
Chameleon skin (Chamaeleo spp.) | Dry | Topical | Udder infections |
Mastitis | |||
Camphor | Â | Topical | Mange |
Donkey bones (Equus asinus L.) | Burnt, grinded and dissolved in water | Oral | Buguashish |
Donkey faeces (Equus asinus L.) | Grinded and dissolved in water | Oral | Diarrhoea |
Exhaust engine oil | Coat is cut | Topical | Mange |
Tick infestations | |||
Fermented milk (camel/goat) | Â | Topical | Skin conditions |
Food crust | Collected from the bottom of the pot after cooking and then grinded | Topical | Wounds |
Hematite/Red ochre [Iron(III) oxide Fe2O3] | Grinded and dissolved in water or oil | Topical | Hematomas |
Headstroke | |||
Broken ribs | |||
Abscesses | |||
Hyena feces and/or blood (Hyaena hyaena L.) | Â | Oral | Aulisis |
Insecticide spray | Â | Topical | Ticks |
Fleas | |||
Milk cream (camel/goat milk) | Coat is cut | Topical | Mange |
Dermatomycosis | |||
Eye drop | Skin necrosis (shdan) | ||
Eye inflammation | |||
Larvar | |||
Rock salt | Grinded and heated in fat | Topical | Camelpox |
Grinded and dissolved in water | Wounds | ||
Dietary supplement | |||
Soap | Dissolved in water and oil, the floating fat is then collected | Topical | Mange |
Fleas | |||
Spiny-tailed lizard (Uromastix acanthinura Bell.) | Roasted on the fire and cut in pieces, then dissolved in water | Oral | Kidney infections |
Abscesses | |||
Aulisis | |||
Weight and appetite loss | |||
Roasted, triturated and dissolved in oil | Oral | Duda syndrome | |
Dried skin | Topical | Mastitis | |
Sugar | Dissolved in water | Inhalation | Diarrhoea |
Buguashish | |||
Sulphur stone | Grinded and dissolved in hump fat, then left resting for a week | Topical | Mange |
Tobacco | Heated in oil | Inhalation | Flies infestations |
Boiled or macerated in water | Dipping | Fleas | |
Macerated in water | Oral | Duda syndrome | |
Eye drops | |||
Vegetal oil | Heated | Topical | Dermatomycosis |