The strong rise of cow dung and urine in India

"Oh, thank you for the gift, cheers, cheers!"

In Agra, a famous city in northern India (where the Taj Mahal is located), Jaram Sinha, a 42-year-old man, gathered many colleagues in the cowshed. Sinha took a steaming cup of fresh cow urine from the cow's ass and lifted his neck to drink it off.

After drinking, it is natural to show his story. Sinha said that he used to have diabetes 12. Since he started drinking cow urine, the disease has disappeared. "Cow urine can not only treat diabetes, tuberculosis and tumors, but also prevent cancer", which is close to curing all diseases.

Several years ago, we didn't see so many people begging for cow urine. Now the supply of cow urine in Sinha's family is tight. Seeing business opportunities, Sinha is ready to attract investment to establish a "cow urine factory" and start industrial production. Products include: cow urine oral liquid, cow urine eye drops, cow urine toothpaste, cow urine soap and cow urine shampoo. ...

I thought of the advertising slogan of Sinha Niuniao Oral Liquid for him: "A thousand-year-old prescription, a gift from God, healthy drinking, ah ... so cool!"

(Note: Sinha and his friends drank fresh cow urine)

With the rise of eating cow dung and urine among Hindu fundamentalists, the industry that produces cow dung and urine food and health care products has also risen strongly in recent years. The top cow dung urine health care product on the market is called Pancha Garvia, which is made of cow dung, cow urine, milk, ghee and curd. Why cow dung is so popular among Indian people in recent years is a long story.

If cows and monkeys are two mascots in India, their status will be reduced.

In the eyes of Hindus, the monkey is the incarnation of the monkey "Hanuman" (the prototype of China Monkey King), who once helped Rama defeat the devil and created a beautiful world. Niuer is even worse. Every part of his body is possessed by countless gods.

The accurate positioning of cows and monkeys in India should be called "sacred objects". Since they are sacred, they cannot be violated, which brings two demons to contemporary India: cows and monkeys, leisurely cows wandering on urban and rural roads, and arrogant monkey gods.

Such a scene is very common in India: a farmer (wife) drags his hard-earned fruits and vegetables to the city to set up a stall to support his family. Looking at the food in the car, a group of "Hanuman" sitting on the roof of the car have long been salivating. You can't fight, you can only scare people. Since they are monkeys, they are also highly intelligent creatures. After a long time, you will know that you are just bluffing. Sometimes a collective attack is launched, sometimes a diversion is made, and a load of fruits and vegetables will soon be hurt. Hanuman is full of warmth and yearning. Sometimes, after a full meal, he still shoots AV unscrupulously at the scene. Farmers (women) had to push home in tears. In modern Indian society, "Hanuman" is worthy of the glittering word "urban management".

Cows and monkeys are closely related to modern Indian politics and society, and a political party's attitude towards cows and monkeys has a great influence on votes. When they are too extensive and seriously interfere with people's lives, everyone will complain (especially the more secular people); If they are too strict, everyone will protest (especially fundamentalists). How to serve and manage the cow god and the monkey god is a problem that needs serious consideration from the central government to the local government in India.

For the agricultural population, Niu Niu is indeed a treasure. It is a tool of labor and a source of food and clothing for many ethnic groups. China Miao, Yao, Zhuang, Dong and other ethnic minorities, as well as some rural areas of the Han nationality, also have cow worship. Cattle can be used as pack animals and farm animals, cow dung can be used as fuel, beef and milk can be used as food, and cow fur can also be used to make clothes and utensils.

They are all sacred objects, but the relationship between cows and contemporary Indian politics is the most complicated. After all, few people in the world regard the Monkey King as a tool and food, and most Hindus don't eat meat, let alone cows. However, another large group of Indian Muslims eat beef, and the "da Park Jung Su" class left over from the caste era does not have these taboos.

At the same time, India is also one of the two largest beef exporters in the world in recent years. However, it should be noted that the god cow worshipped by Hindus is "Indian tumor cow", not buffalo, which is the main export target. Hindus give Americans delicious food, and beef is regarded as a sacred sacrifice in India. After being introduced by Americans, it has been improved by breeding and become a better variety of "Brahman cattle", which is the most common source of beef for Americans. However, conservative Hindus do not agree with this view. They believe that the ancient and pure cattle are the most sacred, and their urine and feces have high medicinal value.

(Note: Cows are covered with various gods. Pancha Garvia, made of cow dung, cow urine, milk, ghee and curd, is a top health care product.

India has contributed a large number of software engineers and excellent doctors to developed countries in Europe and America. Although the overall medical level in China is still backward, there are many first-class modern hospitals and doctors, but its theological medical system is also flourishing among the people.

If you ask a Hindu, "What is a cow?" He will tell you: "the cow is the mother!" " "Yes, if the cow is the mother, how can people eat the mother's meat? This feeling is understandable.

Mahatma Gandhi, the father of India, became more and more pious from middle age. Not only does he not eat beef, but he doesn't even touch meat dishes. Finally, he stopped drinking milk because he declared "abstinence" at the age of 36, thinking that milk might stimulate sexual desire.

Gandhi said in his autobiography: "I heard that a famous Hindu converted to Christianity. Everyone is talking about it, saying that after he was baptized, he had to eat beef and drink, he had to change clothes, and from then on he had to wear a suit and hat when he went out. I can't stand these things. Really, I think, if a religion forces people to eat meat, drink wine and change clothes, is it still worthy of being called religion? I also heard that this new convert began to slander his ancestors' religion, customs and their country. All this makes me hate Christianity. "Gandhi also praised the cows and called on people to be kind to animals.

Although Gandhi's mood is a bit extreme, it is understandable not to eat cattle or even meat, but how can the urine and feces of "mother" become a panacea for all diseases!

Hinduism is very diverse, unlike other religions, which are relatively unified. There are many factions within religions. However, apart from Vishnu, Shiva and sexuality, it is also a school of Hindu philosophy, such as numerology, victory, rationalism, yoga, Vedanta and diffusion differences. There is one of the most important criteria to distinguish whether it is Hinduism-whether it recognizes the authority of the Vedic classics.

Vedic classics are composed of many ancient books, such as Vedas, Brahma, Forest and Upanishads, which are called "Apocalypse". This set of Vedas is the most important one, including Rigveda, Ramaveda, Yerovi and Alvina Vedas, which were written by Brahmins 2,700 to 3,500 years ago.

Hindu medicine based on "Vedic Classics" is called "Ayurveda", in which Veda refers to knowledge and Ayurveda refers to life. Broadly speaking, people usually call it "Indian medicine", but it is not accurate to explore it strictly. Indian medicine also includes Buddhist medicine, Daropi tea medicine, Sida medicine and Unani medicine. Of course, Ayurveda is definitely the most famous and mainstream traditional medicine in the South Asian subcontinent.

Goroga Collection, Miao Collection and Simba Collection are the three major medical codes of Ayurveda. The first two books were written in Gaoluojia and Miao Wen from 1 to the 4th century, and the last one was written in Shiva in the 7th century. The three of them are also called the three medical saints of Ayurveda.

It is difficult to accurately translate the terms of Ayurveda theory in foreign languages. If translated into Chinese, it thinks that everything is composed of "earth, water, gas, wind and fire", and the human body has three elements, which are called "gas, gallbladder and phlegm". Qi and wind are the same, gallbladder is fire, and phlegm is ground and water, which constitute a system. People with balanced systems are healthy, while people with unbalanced systems are sick.

Ayurvedic doctors claim that they have the following important characteristics: first, they regard people as a whole and use holistic therapy; Second, drugs are cheap. In Ayurveda public hospital in India, medical treatment and hospitalization are free, and only high-priced drugs extracted from precious metals and diamonds are charged; Third, no toxic or side effects; Fourth, everything is medicine; Fifth, pay attention to body and mind, so we should also pay attention to health; Sixth, pay attention to diet therapy; The seventh is the treatment that conforms to nature.

In the ancient world, Ayurveda was indeed a "developed" traditional medicine, with a complex theory based on theology, philosophy and experience, as well as numerous prescriptions and surgical techniques. Ayurveda not only played a fundamental role in the formation of Buddhist medicine in South Asia, but also influenced China medicine, Korean medicine, Mongolian medicine and Tibetan medicine through Buddhist medical prints.

There are eleven kinds of Buddhist medical books in the chronicle of Sui Shu, such as The Dragon Tree Bodhisattva, The Immortal Prescription of the Western Regions, The Immortal Prescription of the Brahman and The Brahman Prescription, and the shadow of Ayurveda can be seen.

Sun Simiao's Qian Jin Fang also absorbed the contents of Buddhism and medicine from Ayurveda: four theories-earth, fire, wind and synthetic man; Everything is medicine-good food is called food and bad food is called medicine, but medicine and food can also be used interchangeably; Wanbing pill-one side cures all diseases, such as the old woman Wanbing pill that cures all diseases; Medical prescriptions-various Indian prescriptions, such as Aweilai Pill Powder, Ganshen Xiaoshi Decoction and Jiangpo Decoction. Health care-mouthwash with poplar branches, practicing Tianzhu massage, eighteen potentials, called "Brahma method"

A kind of acupuncture therapy called "Sarakaya" is recorded in the Vedic Classic of Medicine, so many scholars in the field of international medical history believe that acupuncture was introduced to China from Ayurveda.

/kloc-At the beginning of the 6th century, babur, a Turkic Mongolian aristocrat, led troops into India from Central Asia and established the last dynasty in India, the Mughal Dynasty. Because the rulers are all Muslims, Hindu Ayurvedic medicine has received little attention; Since the beginning of19th century, Ayurveda has been impacted by modern medicine and further declined, but with the rise of Hindu nationalism, it has regained its vitality. After India's independence, Ayurveda gained legal status and had its own medical school, hospital and clinic system.

Under the impact of modern medicine, reformists and orthodoxy appeared in Ayurveda. Reformists believe that modern medicine should be fully absorbed to transform Ayurveda and give it a new life. The orthodoxy emphasizes that this is unnecessary. Ayurveda is always great, glorious and right. The reason for its decline is the repression of Muslim dynasty and British colonists. As long as it adheres to the classics, it can restore the "golden age." The two factions have been arguing for a long time. With the establishment of Ayurveda education system after independence, it has evolved into "academic school" and "folk school".

Judging from the academic system and curriculum, it is indeed "improved". The five-and-a-half-year undergraduate system requires the study of Ayurveda basic theory, Ayurveda history, pharmacy, pharmacy, forensic medicine, anatomy, physiology, toxicology and hygiene. ...

Folk schools often accuse the government and academic schools of destroying the medicine left by God and mixing it with messy things, and what they have learned is the most real. They often lied that a cow dung and urine medicine in Ayurveda has won an "international patent", which means that even foreigners are eager for it, and domestic consumers should take it with confidence. They also accused the Indian government of being quite negligent.

In fact, there is no so-called "international patent", and the Indian government's management of Ayurveda doctors is becoming softer and softer. More and more local governments and officials, out of "political considerations", are increasingly giving the green light to cow dung and urine drugs and health care products.

Ayurveda doctor explained the pharmacological action of cow dung urine like this, and quoted the Vedic Medical Code:

1, cow is our mother and we are its children, so cow urine is good for our health; 2. This disease is caused by the imbalance of basic voxels, and cow urine can balance it; 3. In all urine, the quality of cow urine is the best; 4, cow urine will not rot, the older the cow urine, the more beneficial it is. It can be said that Sinha and others suffered a little from drinking fresh cow urine, and it took ten and a half months to achieve the best effect.

Indian medical columnist Kak Kolaja often writes articles attacking cow dung for urine as medicine. Once, he asked an Ayurvedic doctor, "You said that the medicinal value of cow dung urine comes from the books written by Kologa and Miao Wen. They all lived 1200 years ago. They live in an era without biochemistry and microbiology, and they don't know the chemical composition. But now is the 265,438+0 th century? " The other party replied, "However, the composition of cow dung urine has not changed since the time of Locha!" " Of course Kaakkola fainted!

According to Ayurvedic doctors and fundamentalists today, eating beef is a sin, but eating cow dung and urine can cure all diseases, which is completely different from what the "classics" say.

In the books of three famous doctors in Ayurveda, it is also said that "beef and beef soup" are good medicines, but Ayurveda doctors and drug dealers remain silent on this matter. Miao Wen Ji tells the medicinal value of beef soup, and claims that tallow can treat weakness and rheumatism. Mahabharata, one of the two great Hindu epics, also clearly records that beef is not only a kind of food, but also a kind of "gift".

Hindu culture (Vedic culture) gradually merged after the ancient Aryan tribes invaded the area. Vedic classics record that their main activities are sacrifice and war. As an early nomadic people, it is impossible not to eat meat. In ancient times, Hinduism not only ate meat, but also beef and mutton. About 250 species of animals are mentioned in the Vedic classics, 50 of which are considered to be used for sacrifice and food.

Hinduism later generally advocated not eating meat, which was to meet the challenge of Buddhism, because Buddhism advocated not killing animals and criticized sacrifice. Later, as a class ruled for a long time, Hinduism only maintained its identity by constantly strengthening its religious beliefs and condensing its interior, and the worship of cattle was gradually pushed to the extreme. During the Mughal Dynasty of Emperor babur, the concept of "cow is mother" was quite popular. In order to appease the Brahmin class, which is the dominant Hindu population, babur told the Crown Prince to respect the worship of cows and avoid killing them before they died.

After independence, Niu gradually became a tool for large-scale political mobilization of right-wing parties. Indian nationalist group "Indian National Volunteer Corps" (said to be the second largest political organization in the world) actively promoted the implementation of the "Prohibition of Cattle Slaughtering Order" nationwide, but it did not get much response in the political field 80 years ago.

India is a country that has written "socialism" into its constitution, and has long implemented a planned economy (different from that of the Soviet Union). Since India implemented the reform and opening up in 199 1, there has been a background of the rise of nationalism and religious revival. The strength of the secular and center-left nationalist party, the National Congress, has declined, and the situation is different, and the status of cattle is becoming more and more sacred.

In areas such as Gujarat, the slaughter of cattle has been banned, although other sects and people will not slaughter cattle in public because of the reaction of Hindus. Because many historians and scientists don't sell myths fabricated by worshipping cows excessively, the mainstream parties of the center-left such as the Congress Party have also reacted violently to this, which makes fundamentalists quite angry, and they feel the need to win the next generation's battle. After years of lobbying, in 2006, the Board of Education finally agreed to delete the history of eating cows in ancient India from primary and secondary school textbooks.

Toradia, president of the World Hindu Congress, said that in ancient times, only people with low castes ate cows, but brahmins didn't eat cows. The statement in the textbook is wrong, which is a mistake made by the historians who wrote the textbook.

Monkeys can bring chaos to people, but cows are fine, and it is the radicals who worship cows that bring trouble. Hinduism is often described as "the oldest religion with the most diverse internal resources and the highest tolerance", which is generally accurate, but some extreme fundamentalists can easily become demons when they encounter cattle problems.

In 2002, in the northwestern state of Haryana, the "Ten Victory Festival" was being celebrated locally, which was the biggest festival in Hinduism to commemorate Rama's victory over the demon king Robona. Some extremists shouted in the crowd, saying that it was blasphemy to see several Park Jung-soo kill and skin cattle, and incited mobs to lynch five Park Jung-soo.

Da Park Jung Su is engaged in dirty work. One of their jobs is to collect dead animals (mainly cows) in the wild and go back to deal with them. Many da Park Jung Su eat beef because they are poor, and they don't talk about religious taboos as long as they are not in public. These five da Park Jung Su were doing important work that day, transporting cattle carcasses from their wild homes, which was a tragedy caused by rumors spread by extremists.

(Note: The above picture shows cow dung urine medicine, cow dung beverage, cow dung health care product "Pancha Garvia" and distilled cow urine used as disinfectant. )

Edward Luce, director of the Financial Times' South Asia region, recorded the "cow worship" that refreshed his three views in his classic book Ignoring the Gods: The Strange Rise of India. Luce visited their village at the invitation of a farmer in Uttar Pradesh. He found that local women like to use cow dung as disinfectant during childbirth, and the local maternal mortality rate is 8%, ranking first in India.

Luce visited the "Cattle Products Research Center" operated by the World Hindu Congress, which is dedicated to producing all kinds of cow dung and urine products popular in rural areas. Sunil Mansinka, director of the center, told him that any medicine was worthless except the medicine mentioned in the Vedic classics.

When approaching a huge cowshed, Mansinka asked Luce to take off his shoes and walk on the ground covered with cow dung and urine. "Do you know that cow dung is a fungicide? If you have athlete's foot, you can cure it by walking here. " There is a laboratory in the center. There are many bottles filled with cow dung and urine, and the cow urine in a big cup is still bubbling. This is the "antioxidant for treating cancer with cow urine" developed by the center.

At present, the main consumer groups of food, health care products and medicines from cow dung and urine in India have three characteristics: rural population, low-income and low-education classes and fundamentalists. The so-called "following the Vedic Classics" by Ayurvedic doctors and drug dealers is just a "intentional or unintentional lie", which can only explain the rise of cow dung urine from more economic and political perspectives.