Keeping clean and healthy with cow dung and urine

“God resides in cow dung,” says Kesari Gumat, as he walks through his laboratory where researchers mix bovine excreta with medicinal herbs and monitor beakers of simmering cow urine.

The lab in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad is one of a growing number of research centres which have embraced the sacred status of cows in India and sought to push it to a new level.

Promoting the practical alongside the spiritual, they have developed a line of dung- and urine-based medicines which they say can cure a whole herd of ailments from bad breath to cancer.

“These formulas are not new,” Gumat said. “They are contained in ancient Hindu holy texts. We are just making them with a scientific approach.”

The raw materials are generated on site from more than 300 cows which roam the compound housing the centre.  Read Article

By Rupam Jain Nair