Eat your orange peels.
Matter of fact eat them daily.
Egg count per gram was reduced significantly using orange essential oil significantly reduces worms and eggs in sheep.
Make orange peel tea.
Eat raw.
Lots of fiber.
Orange peel even has protein.
Raw orange peel contains approximately
1
.
5
g
of protein per
1
0
0
g
. For smaller serving sizes, one tablespoon (
6
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) provides about
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0
9
g
of protein. While low in protein compared to major dietary sources, the peel is highly nutritious, offering significant dietary fiber, Vitamin C, and various antioxidants
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34879947/
EPG reduction of 77.07% on D14 with the dose of 700 mg/kg (OEO2 × 350) suggests that OEO can help to reduce the severity of parasitic infection and, consequently, to diminish pastures contamination, when used together with other methods to control gastrointestinal parasites in sheep.
Vet Parasitol Reg Stud Reports
. 2021 Dec:26:100637. doi: 10.1016/j.vprsr.2021.100637. Epub 2021 Sep 11.
Can orange essential oil reduce the severity of parasitic infection in sheep?
Maria Theresa Scheffer Pereira da Silva 1 , Matheus Borges de Carvalho 2 , Diógenes Adriano Duarte Santana 1 , Sthefany Kamile Dos Santos 1 , Rüdiger Daniel Ollhoff 1 , Fernando Bittencourt Luciano 1 , Cristina Santos Sotomaior 3
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PMID: 34879947 DOI: 10.1016/j.vprsr.2021.100637
Abstract
In this study, a three-step experiment was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of orange essential oil (OEO) to reduce the severity of parasitic infection in lambs naturally infected with gastrointestinal parasites. In the first and second stages of the experiment, the lambs were distributed in groups (n = 10): without treatment (control), treated with levamisole (7.5 mg/kg), and treated either with 200, 300 or 400 mg/kg OEO in the first stage and with two doses of 300 or 350 mg/kg each of OEO with a six-hour interval in the second stage. In the third stage of the experiment, 20 lambs were distributed into control and treated groups (two doses of 350 mg/kg OEO) and slaughtered for determining the parasite count in the abomasum and small intestine. Evaluations were performed on D0, D3, D7, D10, and D14 by determining the egg count per gram of feces (EPG), and the percentage of EPG reduction was calculated in comparison to D0. Coproculture was performed on days D0 and D14 of the first and second stages of the study. In the first stage, the EPG increased by 20.90 and 100.99% and decreased by 5.54% on D14 in the groups treated with 200, 300, or 400 mg/kg OEO, respectively. At the second stage, the EPG of the OEO groups decreased by more than 96% on D3, but on D14 was decreased by 0.82% and 77.07% in the 2 × 300 and 2 × 350 mg/kg groups, respectively. Haemonchus sp. was the highest percentage of collected larvae in all coproculture tests, ranging from 90 to 100%. In the third stage, there was no difference (P 0.05) in the mean number of parasites between the OEO groups and the control. Although the decrease in EPG of more than 96% on D3 did not persist in the other evaluations, and immature forms and adult parasites were collected at slaughter, the EPG reduction of 77.07% on D14 with the dose of 700 mg/kg (OEO2 × 350) suggests that OEO can help to reduce the severity of parasitic infection and, consequently, to diminish pastures contamination, when used together with other methods to control gastrointestinal parasites in sheep.
Keywords: EPG; Haemonchus; Lambs; Limonene; Phytotherapy.
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https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content?contenttypeid=76&contentid=09216-1