HERBAL TREATMENT OF ANIMAL LICE OR ECTOPARASITE

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Aditya S. shelke
Shital D. Pande

Keywords

Ectoparasite

Abstract

herbal remedy and it is being brought as medicine and it is proving effective. Ectoparasites are parasites that live on or in the skin but not within the body. Fleas, ticks, lice and ear mites are common ectoparasites.


Current control methods of ectoparasites, management controls include removal of dung and manure and provision of proper drainage for fly populations targeting their breeding sites, chemical control, development of resistance to it, public concern in terms of residues in food, Includes biological control. Despite many problems like environmental pollution, life form is used, manipulated and exploited. Sterile insect technology sterile insect technology is a method of biological control by which large numbers of sterile insects are released to suppress populations of others.


By using herbal remedies such as (custard apple leaf oil, neem oil, turmeric oil, melia dubia) by applying it in the form of cream to the ectoparasites parasite bites of cattle. Diagnosis can be found from ectoparasites disease.


 

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