Thyme tea
You can buy Thyme tea at a chemist's. Or you can grow your own fresh Thyme herb if you have a garden. I buy Thyme at a special shop with ecology vegetable. The Thyme is imported from Germany and his quality is proved.
Thyme tea or if you like thyme herb has fungicide effects and counterworks fungi. Any idea? Yes, you can use Thyme tea as a additional medicine against Megabacteria by another name Going Light Syndrome or Avian Gastric Yeast.
Tea Strength - strong or light tea?
No matter what sort of tea you want to offer to your ill bird in lieu of drinking water but do not boil the tea too strong please and cool down the tea on a room temperature before you serve the tea.
If you prepare the tea from a tea bag then following rule is valid. Boil the tea according to the instruction hints for one tea cup in recommended dosing. Then dilute this tea with about one half of tea cup of pure water (it means add 50% of pure water (boiled) more after you prepared the tea according to the instruction).
We know that ill budgie mostly needs a lot of energy. It is not valid if a bird has an extreme excess weight.
If you need an energy and tasty tea for your budgie you can append Dextrosis or Honey to a tea as well. You can buy dextrosis at a chemist’s. If you prefer honey you can buy it at a shop. But I buy honey directly from beekeepers (no synthetic honeys from a shop). Well, we have prepared a tea according to the instruction in the previous post. For this quantity of a tea you can append a half of teaspoon of dextrosis. The same dosage is valid for honey. It could be unhealthy even for healthy bird if you dosed more sugar to your budgie.
The extreme attention is valid if your bird is suffering from kidney disease or kidney problems. You can add dextrosis or honey only in the case if you consult it with your avian vet.
Do you remember previous posts about Megabacteria? I hope so. It is very important. If your budgie is suffering from Megabacteria no sorts of sugars in any forms are allowed!!!!
You can add vitamins to a tea as well. But I will write later about it.
Tip:
You can add dextrosis or honey to clean drinking water as well.
Chamomille Tea
You can buy Chamomile Tea at a chemist's. Chamomile is one of the most valuable herbaceous plants. You should have Chamomile Tea in your budgie medicine cabinet as well. This herb has its place in a healthy budgie diet as additional medical supplement.
Chamomile Tea or if you like Chamomile herb suppress the inflammations and it is very helpful against infectious diseases. If your budgie is suffering from crop inflammation or some respiratory diseases then Chamomile Tea will help your feathered patient to restore to health more quickly. I can recommend Chamomile Tea if your budgie is suffering from diarrhea as well. Chamomile steam bath can be tried against a cold and various diseases of air passages of birds.
Tip:
If you have some possibility serve Chamomille tea after visit of your avian vet.
You can prepare Chamomile tea according to the instruction in the previous posts. The lotion can be flavored with dextrosis or honey as well. (Attention!! - remember Megabacteria and kidney disease restrictions)
Fennel Tea
Lately we were speaking about our budgie’s medicine cabinet a little. Today we can add another important item to it – Fennel Tea.
Fennel has very important anti spasm features. Therefore Fennel Tea can help budgie against constipation and flatulence. Gas can be gathered in a crop or abdomen of a bird in consequence of some fungal infection. If you do not have Fennel Tea at your disposal you can use Anise Tea. But about Anise Tea we will speak in the next post.
Tip:
If you have some possibility serve Fennel Tea after consultation with your avian vet.
You can prepare Fennel Tea according to the instruction in the previous posts.
The tea can be flavored with dextrose or honey as well. (Attention!! - remember Megabacteria and kidney disease restrictions)
Black Tea
You can buy Black Tea at almost every shop. I bought my tea in Tesco. I prefer high quality teas for my budgies therefore I chose Ahmad tea – Ceylon tea. I doubt that some very cheap so called Ceylon teas are really made from tea leaves.
This tea is made from leaves from the hillside of Ceylon (it is written on the box and I try to believe). Certainly you can use some another Ceylon tea. (But I think I do not have to tell you anything about it. It is said Englishmen are experts on teas).
You can use Black Tea for stimulating budgie’s blood circulation. Black tea can be used as a remedy from a stress state for example or against diarrhea as well. But it is a good idea to consult Black Tea using with your avian vet.
Tip:
Do not serve too strong Black Tea.
Prepare Black Tea according to the instruction in the previous post.
Courtesy of Ales.