PhytoMast® is a plant-based formula that's been successfully used for cows, goats and sheep at dry-off by hundreds of farmers and their vets across the US and and Canada for more than 20 years. The registered trademark for PhytoMast® defines it as a "non-feed botanical formulation for bovine udder health, namely, plant extracts for veterinary purposes; a non-feed botanical formulation for bovine udder health, namely, non-feed supplements for livestock." It comes in ready-to-use hygienic, aseptic individual plastic infusion tubes for each teat (and alcohol pads). If you need further in-depth advice on your specific situation, Dr. Karreman is also available for paid consultations.

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PhytoMast

Intramammary infusion for healthy dairy cows & goats at dry-off

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Indications: Healthy animals at dry-off that have a negative California Mastitis Test (CMT) and that have not had clinical mastitis during the current lactation.

Instructions: (1) Milk animal out completely, (2) cleanse teat ends with alcohol pads provided, (3) remove cap and infuse one entire tube per teat. Massage up into the udder.

Ingredients: Olive oil, thyme oil, angelica root oil, cinnamon bark oil, licorice root oil, wintergreen leaf oil (<5%), vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E.

Active ingredient: Thymol (from essential oil of thyme)

All ingredients are recognized as Common Food (21CFR102.5) and GRAS (21CFR172.510, 21CFR172.515, 21CFR182.10) 

Manufactured in a cGMP, FDA-registered facility

Manufactured for:

CowMaster, LLC                                                      

PO BOX 6                                                  

Saxapahaw, NC 27340  

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• The primary purpose of PhytoMast® is as a teat lubricant and temporary liquid barrier film for cows, goats and sheep at dry-off. Its primary purpose is to be a mild antiseptic for healthy cows at the end of lactation. The Olive Oil mix soothes and helps rejuvenate epithelial cells that line the teat canal and gland cistern that it contacts. Think of olive oil upon irritated skin (epithelium) and feeling its soothing effect.

• When a cow is *completely* milked out at the final milking at dry-off, PhytoMast® will come into contact with the most outside anatomical layer of the cow (epithelium) even though you can't see that layer visually. Anatomically speaking, this epithelial layer is an external surface. This sounds odd but it's quite true anatomically. The primary function of PhytoMast® is to cleanse, soothe and rejuvenate epithelium at dry-off and thus improve epithelial vitality for a healthy start to the animal's dry/non-lactating "vacation-from-lactation". 

• Use PhytoMast® only on healthy animals that have a negative California Mastitis Test (CMT) and haven't had any visually observable irregular milk during lactation. 

• PhytoMast® makes no claims against any specific pathogens.

• PhytoMast® (the entire product) is considered Generally Recognized As Safe and Effective (GRASE) for dry-off by scientific experts based on published studies using it in well-controlled clinical investigations that establish it as safe and effective for dry-off in dairy cows. (Letter on file with the company.) 

• The individual ingredients of PhytoMast® are all safe and suitable by the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance at JJ6(a), (b), (c) : Safe and suitable non-grade “A” dairy ingredients, can be utilized in the products when added to a level needed for a functional or technical effect, and limited by Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and are either: (a) Prior sanctioned or otherwise approved by FDA, or (b) GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe), or (c) An approved food additive listed in the CFR. PhytoMast is compliant with the PMO

• All of the ingredients of PhytoMast® are prior sanctioned or otherwise approved by FDA or GRAS or an approved food additive listed in CFR citations. CFR citations about Thymol, its active ingredient include 21CFR182.10, 21CFR182.20, 21CFR172.105, 21CFR172.515, 40CFR180.1240; Olive Oil is Common Food (21CFR102.5), complexing agents of the product include Angelica (21CFR182.10), Licorice (21CFR184.1408), Wintergreen <5% (21CFR201.303), Vitamin A (21CFR582.5930, Vitamin D3 (21CFR172.380), and Vitamin E (21CFR184.1890, 21CFR182.8890).

• PhytoMast® is manufactured in a cGMP inspected FDA registered facility.

• Notably, in relation to the PMO, PhytoMast® is labelled to be used to dry-off dairy animals that will presumably not be milked after its use and thus no milk will go for shipment for pasteurization.

• In case a cow has received PhytoMast® and is accidentally milked into the milk tank, PhytoMast® does NOT trigger the Delvotest P nor Charm SL Beta-lactam tests.

• Thymol was already used commercially in veterinary medicine in a mastitis product for use in dairy cows between 1928-1935 as shown in a veterinary sales catalogue titled "A Manual Of Veterinary Therapeutics" published by Haver-Glover Laboratories, Kansas City, MO 1928. (pg. 98) & 1932 (pg. 115).

• The first successful dissertation of a PhD in the United States that focused on non-antibiotic treatment for udder health was awarded in 2013 at NC State University and was based in large part about dry-off studies on PhytoMast®.

• Using PhytoMast®does not contribute to antimicrobial resistance. Why? Because even a single plant has multiple secondary metabolites that provide a multi-prong effect that supports healthy cellular vitality.  In contrast, continually using only the same specific antibiotic over and over to dry-off cows goes completely against basic medical principles and leads to antibiotic resistance/ antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

• PhytoMast® is manufactured and packaged in the USA. 

• PhytoMast® is OMRI approved.