General [General]
Is mostly only a symptoms of disease, and generally disappears with the disease which it accompanies; but we sometimes meet with cases where there is partial or total loss of appetite unattended by any other symptoms; or perhaps there may be only a dislike to a particular kind of food; overloading the stomach will often occasion loss of appetite for several days.
REMEDIES: Arsenicum, Nux vomica and Pulsatilla.
I have lately treated a case of this description, in a cow of four years old, that had previous to my seeing her, been gradually losing her appetite for six or eight weeks, and when I first saw her she would only eat about one third of the quantity
that she had eaten before she began to lose her appetite; she was as a natural consequence, very much wasted, but in other respects she appeared to be healthy; rumination was not interfered with, pulse and breathing regular, and at the healthy standard; her coat generally looks fresh and healthy; she licked herself, excrements in a natural healthy condition, she had no cough, there were several places about the neck and shoulders denuded of hair, it appeared to have fallen off.
I gave her Arsenicum, a dose every day of a week, at the end of that time there was no improvement; I then gave Nux vomica, and afterwards Arsenicum, again with no better success, her appetite still continued to decrease. I then gave Kali carbonicum, after two or three doses she began to improve, and by the time 12 doses had been administered, she had quite recovered her appetite, and regained some of her lost flesh; the hair began to grow on the bald places. From this time she had no more medicine, and she has now quite recovered her condition.
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