A Kozhikode-based Ayurveda cooperative society has teamed up with Malabar Regional Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Limited, or Malabar Milma, to produce veterinary medicines, which, according to them, also reduces the antibiotic content in milk.
Functionaries of the Kerala Ayurvedic Cooperative Society claim that these medicines are effective in treating eight diseases such as bovine mastitis, indigestion, diarrhoea, acidity, bloating stomach, and hoof crack. They can also be used to increase milk production.
M.M. Sanal Kumar of the society said that using Ayurvedic medicines to treat cattle would help reduce dependence on antibiotics. This would go a long way in countering anti-microbial resistance, the tendency of microbes such as bacteria and viruses developing resistance to antibiotics, which is an emerging public health concern. The antibiotic content in milk could be brought down to a large extent as well.
