09/11/2023
Cows, Health & Ayurved
Cows have an important place in Vedic literature since the beginning. A cow and her calf are worshiped on this auspicious day of Vasubaras out of gratitude to her.
*The following products derived from cows have tremendous health benefits.
🐄 *Cow Milk* - Cow's milk is, strength booster, very beneficial for emaciated people. It helps mitigate exertion, cough, breath, old fever.
🐄 *Goghrit- Cow ghee- is the ultimate medicine for pitta dosha. It is known to be wisdom, memory, life-enhancer, fire-enhancer. It is beneficial for children as well as the elderly. Reduces excessive hunger and excessive thirst. Useful in diseases like emaciation, burns, tuberculosis, herpes.
When the ghee is cultured with various medicines, it is useful for thousands of diseases as prescribed in Ayurveda.
🐄 *Godadhi- Cow curd is sour and hot in nature. It is Vata reducing but Kapha and Pitta increasing. Can be used in anorexia, some urinary disorders.
Eating too much curd can cause skin diseases, diabetes, fever, dysentery, frequent colds etc.
🐄 * Cow urine-* Cow urine is pungent, bitter, hot. It is alkaline, increases fire and is easy to digest. It is choleretic and kapha and vata carminative. It is used for diseases like colic, spleen disease, some skin diseases, cough, swelling, pandu disease, earache.
🐄 *Gomay* - means cow dung
A mixture of all these is called *Panchagavya*.
Among these, ghee, milk, curd, and urine are used in various medicines in Ayurveda.
PLEASE NOTE - The claims like -all diseases are cured by panchagavya , is not claimed anywhere in Ayurveda. So Panchamrut or Panchagavya should not be consumed daily by everyone. It is also not advised to drink cow urine daily as prescribed by some folklore practitioners.
_