Gaumutra: The Scientific Desi Dawa

The Ancient, Ayurvedic Applications And Scientific Study of Gaumutra

But these days, even the idea that an animal’s urine can be therapeutic makes a lot of us puke. Because urine has a connotation of disgust attached to it since it is considered a toxic waste from animals.

Not just cow urine (Gaumutra), Ayurveda has talked about urine from eight animals to be of medical use. In fact, in Ayurveda, drinking the urine of oneself has also been proclaimed to cure numerous diseases.

Texts like Shushrut Samhita talks in detail about surgical instruments and procedures. Shushrut mentions detailed surgical and plastic surgery process in his book written almost 2700 years ago.

These texts also talk about urine therapy and hail cow urine as equivalent to nectar.

Ayurveda’s way of looking at health and healing is very different from most contemporary systems. It incorporates standard medical practices, with spiritual healing, mantra chanting, herbal remedies for holistic well being (physical, emotional and spiritual).

As Ayurveda talks about not just gross (स्थूल) body but also subtle (सूक्ष्म) body, its layers, the influence of subtle forces like vibrations, energy and aura on ones well being. It becomes nearly impossible for modern science to study it and validate it accurately.

Nevertheless, in this blog, we would attempt to summarize the Ayurvedic assessment and application of cow urine in the modern era and its assessment by the scientific communities.

Cow urine is part of “PANCHGAVYA CHIKITSA”.

Panchagavya is a combination of five items that we get from Cow, cow urine (Gomutra), cow milk (Godugdha), its curd (Godadhi), ghee (Goghrit) and dung (Gomaya).

And “PANCHGAVYA CHIKITSA” is the medical science where diseases are cured using a combination of these five.

In Sushruta Samhita, Gaumutra (Cow urine) has been described as the most effective substance of animal origin with innumerable therapeutic importance. It has been mentioned that it can cure diseases like Kushtha (leprosy), Kandu, Udarrog, Colic, Abdominal tumour, Enlargement of the abdomen and Flatulence.

Holy texts like Charak Samhita, Ashtanga Hridya and Shushrut Samhita has mentioned that Panchagavya can treat curable and incurable diseases.

They provide various formulations of gaumutra mixed with various herbs panchgavya for treatment of a wide range of ailments.

Hence, for decades even western scientists have been conducting research on Ayurvedic principles, formulations and medicines.

Just like Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves was proved experimentally almost 100 years after it was proposed.

Modern science is now gaining some capability to decipher these thousands of years old texts.

Even now, we can’t understand, decipher and authenticate them completely due to our limited knowledge and technical ability.

Let’s first see the chemical composition of a healthy cow before we move on to its medicinal properties and scientific evidence to support it.

Healthy cow urine has a volume of 17–45 ml/Kg/day with a specific gravity ranging from 1.025- 1.045. Its pH ranges between 7.4 to
8.4 with seasonal variations.

Consumption of urine from a healthy cow in regular doses has been reported to restore the balance of all these critical substances in the body.

Urea is a strong antimicrobial agent which ends protein metabolism. Uric acid has also been found to provide antimicrobial activity and fight infections. Iron produces red blood cells, whereas Copper controls fat deposition. Sodium and potassium act as key body electrolyte.

Although, as per Ayurveda there are numerous uses of cow urine. But we would discuss here the popular usage of cow urine which are supported by research.

Cow urine has been used for curing various diseases in Ayurveda, Chinese, Nigerian and various other folk and ancient medical sciences.

Now as the western scientists are embracing Ayurveda more and more products based on Ayurvedic principles and formulations are coming into global the market.

Various researches in and outside India are going on to validate the medicinal properties and formulations of cow urine as suggested by Ayurveda.

There are well-documented cases and researches where cow urine has been found of immense therapeutic help and even has been reported to cure seemingly incurable diseases. We have discussed some of these cases in the blog.

There is evidence to support antiseptic, antimicrobial, anti-fungus, antioxidant, anthelmintic, disinfectant and antidiabetic properties of cow urine.

Anticancer properties of cow urine have also been demonstrated. Whether it may cure cancer completely on its own or not needs more research and data. But it can definitely be helpful as a supportive therapy owing to its antioxidant, antimicrobial and bioenchancing and other properties.

Ayurveda and modern medical sciences if work together in alignment, might come close to a solution that might serve a well major proportion of cancer patients well.

Because, cancer is a complicated disease and everyone’s body is different and hence, how one’s body may react to one treatment, no one can guess.

But we need to have a more open outlook towards the possibilities of modern science and Ayurveda both.

It is understandable that we don’t accept something without enough evidence but it is not right to dismiss even the possibility of something.

Because numerous technologies and discoveries which are now a reality were laughed off at one point by different intellectuals.

With time the advancement of technology and continuous research, we would have more data to prove or disprove the role of cow urine in curing incurable diseases on a wider set of audiences.

But till then, we can’t dismiss the stories, ancient texts anecdotes and well-documented case studies of patients who have been treated using cow urine therapy. As they say, half knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Before, making very strong claims in either the direction we need to sure.

Hopefully, in years to come, we would see more researches, evidence and acceptance of panchgavya chikitsa as mainstream medical science.

Till then, be open, explore and find out yourself what suits your body.

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ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF COW URINE AGAINST SOME PATHOGENIC AND NON-PATHOGENIC BACTERIA

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