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France24 - Keeping clean and healthy with cow dung and urine
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"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.
- Shree Maa Anantanand is pictured sitting behind medicine made from cow urine which she uses to treat patients at her hospital in Ahmedabad.
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"It might seem that all we do is collect cow excreta to make medicines but it is not so easy," Gandhi told AFP.
"We have to serve the cow on a minute-to-minute basis," said Gandhi who personally feeds his charges on grass dipped in milk, herbs with unrefined cane sugar and water containing essential salts.
He also sings to them.
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