New Pet Health Concern

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(04-08-2015, 10:25 AM)Tobi Wrote: Good natural herbal anti-fungals....
Marigold.
Echinacea Angustifolia.
Garlic.

No contra-indications particularly except don't take Echinacea/Garlic if on antibiotics or anti-fungal medication.

I don't think this mixture would necessarily be advised for dogs cats or other pets, or at least a holistic vet's advice might be helpful,; someone who knows about herbal treatments and animals.
But this would be good for humans.

Sometimes herbs work against strains which are resistant to conventional treatments.

Very interesting article. I had not heard of this either.
Some other good anti-fungal herbs are: Pau d'arco and tea tree oil.
A saw something very interesting on the news crawler the other day [of course to my knowledge there wasn't an actual story done on the subject], a 1,000 year old onion/garlic remedy has been found effective against the superbug MRSA virus.

Catherine: I don't see why you couldn't apply any of the mentioned herbs topically on your guinea pigs.
There seems to be a lot of contradiction on the world wide web regarding the safety of internal use of garlic with cats and dogs. All I can say is that I have used it in the past on my pets with no ill affects. However, I don't know how another animal would react.
The best anti-fungal I know of, is garlic. It is nothing short of miraculous. I have suggested it to 2 friends in the past year for ringworm. They were amazed at how quickly it worked.
One friend in particular had been being treated by her doctor for over a year for a fungal infection [not ringworm but in the same family] on her arm. She put a crushed garlic clove on the spot and by the next day the infection was killed. It does hurt like the devil when first applied, and will blister for a period of time. Amazingly though when completely healed, there is no scarring!!