Herbals can be very helpful in some situations. But when dealing with amputation, many are not recommended. When something self amputates, the circulation goes, the tissue dies, there is really no mechanism for them to work with the body in that case to aid healing. Caution is advised. There is one case that I'm aware of in humans (the case article is on the NIH website) where herbal treatment was considered the cause of self amputation in a human child who did not receive any other medical treatment.
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The rare occurrence of bilateral autoamputation without any underlying vascular or neurological disorders in this patient is likely caused by vasospasm and thrombosis triggered by the herbal treatments, which possibly contain ergot alkaloids, given by the traditional healer.
For bone infection (osteomyelitis), it's hard to find info on treating birds. Because of their bone structure it can be difficult to treat. In my research a combination of SMZ-TMP and clindamycin seemed the best option for that. But dosing was a very hard thing to figure. I used it on one of my roo's for about 3.5 months at one point due to suspecting that was where we were. I did not have vet help, no one around here will see a chicken. His foot was swollen and hard, lancing found it was all bone. Knowing that if that's what was going on, I either had to try or he would die, I tried. He survived. I had to tweak the dosing several times when his droppings were not looking good, until I found a dose that he was tolerating ok. It all would have been much easier if I'd had experienced help. But so be it. Plumbs Veterinary Drug Handbook, and much internet research was my 'help", not ideal. My bird recovered and lived for many years afterwards. I cannot say with any authority that he definitely had osteomyelitis, that was just my suspicion. This was an infection that I'd already treated long term once before on him, several surgeries, and it had recurred. I was prepared to euthanize him rather than have more surgeries.
But, I'm impressed with the sugardine healing the abscess. Thank you so much- I will keep you posted, I feel like the stress is going through the anesthesia and hopefully the debridement isn't too much.
