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>  We had a lovely young horse come through the surgical service not too
long
> > ago that had been treated against parasites homeopathically with DE and
> the
> > addition of wormwood to his feed,,,,,,,,,,> So, please folks, if your
bent
> is towards homeopathy, please keep in mind
> > that the sandpaper effect of the DE probably does a better job of
sanding
> > down intestinal mucosa than it does a heavy parasite load.
It doesn't take much DE to get the emerging adult flies--but since internal
parasites aren't using an air-breathing respiratory system, the mechanism by
which DE works on flies doesn't apply to internal parasites.  So yes, if one
was depending on some sort of external damage to the parasite from the DE,
considering the tough outer "skin" that they have to withstand the insults
of living in a digestive tract, it would stand to reason that the intestinal
mucosa would be apt to be damaged by an overload of DE long before the
parasite would!

Heidi


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