Anthelmintics are drugs that can kill external and internal parasites in cats. Generally speaking, there are two types of deworming for cats: internal deworming and external deworming. For example, Zhichongqing is an internal deworming drug, and Fulian is suitable for external deworming. Let’s take a look at the ingredients and effects of these drugs. I found that this is mostly the method of Western medicine, while in traditional Chinese medicine, when it comes to deworming, an overall overall approach is adopted, and rapid attack or slow deworming is adopted according to the constitution and condition.

For frail cats with weak spleen and stomach, you can use some medicinal materials to nourish the spleen and stomach first, and then deworm the cat, or deworm the spleen and stomach at the same time, using both attack and supplement. At the same time, in order to enhance the anthelmintic effect, it should also be supplemented with some laxatives.

1. Pumpkin seeds

Pumpkin seeds are the seeds of pumpkin, an annual climbing vine of the Cucurbitaceae family. They are mainly produced in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan and other places. When the pumpkin is mature, the seeds are cut open and dried in the sun. Pumpkin seeds contain a variety of chemical components that are beneficial to the body, such as pumpkin seeds, fatty oils, proteins, vitamins B1, C, etc. Pumpkin seeds are mainly used for repelling parasites and reducing swelling. Used to treat tapeworms, roundworms, postpartum limb edema, etc.

In terms of pharmacology, studies have found that pumpkin seeds have a paralyzing effect on the scolex, immature segments and mature segments of tapeworms. Pumpkin seeds can be used alone for deworming, but the effect is better when used together with betel nut.

Other effects of pumpkin seeds:

1. Detoxification

Contains vitamins and pectin. Pectin has good adsorption properties and can bind and eliminate bacterial toxins and other harmful substances in the body, such as lead, mercury and radioactive elements in heavy metals, and can play a detoxifying effect.

2. Protect gastric mucosa and help digestion

The pectin contained in pumpkin can also protect the gastric mucosa from being irritated by rough food and promote ulcer healing. The ingredients contained in pumpkin can promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal motility, and help food digestion.

　3. Prevent and treat diabetes and lower blood sugar

Pumpkin is rich in cobalt. Cobalt can activate the body's metabolism, promote hematopoietic function, and has special effects on preventing and treating diabetes and lowering blood sugar.

2. Garlic

Garlic is a perennial herb with a strong pungent smell. The underground bulbs are spherical or oblate, composed of 6 to 10 fleshy petal-shaped small bulbs, and are covered with gray-white or lavender dry membranous scales. The leaves are several, basal, flat, medium-solid, strip-lanceolate, gray-green, about 2.5 cm wide and 50 cm long. Light pink flowers bloom in summer; the scape is about 60 cm high, upright, cylindrical, with terminal umbels, with 1 to 3 membranous long bracts; the flowers are often replaced by bulbils, usually sterile, with long Stem; perianth 6 pieces, 6 stamens; ovary superior, 3-loculed. Capsule. seeds black.

In terms of pharmacological effects, raw garlic has inhibitory effects on pyogenes, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Shigella dysenteriae, Typhoid Bacillus, Paratyphoid Bacillus, Vibrio cholerae, etc. It is also resistant to penicillin, streptavidin, chlorine, and chlortetracycline. Bacteria remain sensitive to garlic preparations. Raw garlic aqueous extract has a strong antibacterial effect on Neisseria meningitidis in vitro; it has varying degrees of inhibitory or killing effects on a variety of pathogenic skin fungi (including Candida albicans); it has an immediate effect on scrub typhus fever. Grampus has a strong inhibitory effect. Oral administration of garlic directly stimulates the gastric mucosa and reflexively causes an increase in the amount of hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice. Enhance gastric peristalsis. The propylene disulfide component in garlic has a killing effect on mosquitoes, house flies, potato tuber moths, red cottonworms and red palm weevil larvae. Garlic juice can quickly kill trichomonas in the test tube.

Therefore, the main functions of garlic are oral detoxification and insecticide. It is mainly used to drive away pinworms and hookworms. However, it needs to be combined with betel nut and crane lice. It can also treat cat diarrhea and can be used alone.

3. Making a gentleman

The gentleman is oval or oval in shape, with 5 longitudinal edges, occasionally 4 to 9 edges, 2.5 to 4cm long and about 2cm in diameter. The surface is dark brown to purple-black, smooth and slightly shiny. The top is narrow and pointed, the base is blunt and round, and there are obvious round fruit stem marks. It is hard in texture, mostly in the shape of a five-pointed star in cross section, with thicker shells at the edges and a round-like cavity in the middle. The seeds are oblong or spindle-shaped, about 2cm long and 1cm in diameter; the surface is brown or dark brown, with many longitudinal wrinkles; the seed coat is thin and easy to peel off; there are 2 cotyledons, yellowish white, oily, with cracks in the cross section. The smell is slightly fragrant and the taste is slightly sweet.

Qijunzi is an important medicine for killing roundworms. Potassium cliquenate has a paralyzing effect on roundworms and an inhibitory effect on skin fungi. It mainly treats abdominal pain caused by the accumulation of insects in the abdomen. It can be combined with betel nut and crane lice to form Huachong Decoction can be used externally to treat scabies.

When using anthelmintic drugs for cats, it is best to give them on an empty stomach. At the same time, attention should be paid to the selective effect of anthelmintic drugs on parasites. For example, Junzi is used to treat roundworms, and betel nut is used to treat tapeworms. At the same time, when After deworming the cat, let it rest properly.