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 picked up a steaming cup of fresh cow urine from the cow's ass and lifted her neck to drink it off.

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

A few years ago, I didn't see so many people want cow urine. Now the cow urine of Sinha's family has become a tight supply. Seeing business opportunities, Sinha is ready to attract investment to set up 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 advertisement for Sinha's Niuniao Oral Liquid: "A thousand-year-old prescription, given by God, drinking healthy, ah ... 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 cattle and monkeys in India should be called "sacred objects". Since it is sacred, it cannot be violated, which brings two evils 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 a car full of food, 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 it is a monkey, it is also a highly intelligent creature. After a long time, you will know that you are just bluffing. Sometimes a group 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 with tears in their eyes. In modern Indian society, "Hanuman" is worthy of the glittering word "urban management".

Cow and monkey are closely related to modern and contemporary Indian politics and society, and a political party's attitude towards cow and monkey has a great influence on votes. When they are too lenient and seriously interfere with people's lives, everyone complains (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 India needs to think about from the central government to the local government.

For the agricultural population, Niu Niu is indeed a treasure, 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.

Both are sacred objects, but the relationship between cattle 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. Another large group of Muslims in India eat beef, and the "untouchable" class left over from the caste era does not have these taboos.

At the same time, India is 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. Hindus give Americans delicious food, and beef is regarded as a sacred sacrifice in India. After being introduced by Americans, it has become a better variety of "Brahman cattle" after breeding and improvement, and it is the most common source of beef for Americans. However, conservative Hindus disagree with this view. They believe that the tumor cow with ancient and pure pedigree is the most sacred, and its urine and feces have high medicinal value.

(Note: All kinds of gods are stationed in cattle. Pancha Garvia, which is 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, and there are many first-class modern hospitals and doctors, its theological medical system is also thriving 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 is baptized, he will eat beef, drink wine and change clothes. From then on, he will wear a suit and hat when he goes 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 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 little extreme, it is understandable not to eat cattle or even meat, but how can "mother's" defecation become a panacea for all diseases!

Hinduism is very diverse. Unlike other religions, which are relatively unified, there are many factions within religions. But regardless of Vishnu, Shiva, sexuality and other sects, it is also a Hindu philosophy school such as numerology, victory, rationalism, yoga, Vedanta and diffuse differences. There is one of the most important criteria to distinguish whether it is Hinduism or not-whether it recognizes the authority of the Vedic classics.

Vedic classics are composed of many ancient books, such as Veda, Brahma, Forest and Upanishads, which are called "Apocalypse". This set of Vedas is the most important one, including Rigveda, Ramaveda, Yeroveda and Avina Veda, which were written by Brahmins between 2700 and 3500 years ago.

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

The three major medical codes of Ayurveda are Golog Collection, Miao Collection and Simba Collection. The first two books were written by Gloria and Miao Wen from/kloc-0 to the 4th century, while the latter was written by 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 is believed that everything is composed of "earth, water, qi, wind and fire", and the human body has three elements, which are called "qi, 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.

Ayurveda doctors claim that they have the following important characteristics: first, treat 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; Seventh, it is a 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 engraving.

Eleven kinds of Buddhist medical books, such as The Prescription of Dragon Tree Bodhisattva, The Prescription of Fairy in Western Regions, The Prescription of Brahman Fairy and Brahman Prescription, can be found in the annals of Sui Shu, showing the shadow of Ayurveda.

Sun Simiao's Thousand Golden Formulas 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 Wanbing Pill, an old woman who cures all diseases; Medical prescriptions-various Indian prescriptions, such as Aweilai Pill Powder, Ganshen Xiaoshi Decoction and Jiangpo Decoction. Health care-gargling with poplar branches, practicing Tianzhu massage and eighteen postures, which is called "Brahmanism".

An acupuncture therapy called "Sarakaya" is recorded in the Vedic medical classics, 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 the19th century, Ayurveda has been impacted by modern medicine and further declined, but it has been revived with the rise of Hindu nationalism. After India's independence, Ayurveda gained legal status and had its own medical school, hospital and clinic system.

Under the impact of modern medicine, Ayurveda has both reformists and orthodoxy. 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 we stick to the classics, we 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 educational system and curriculum, it is indeed "progress". 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 authentic. They often lied that a cow dung urine medicine in Ayurveda has won an "international patent", which means that even foreigners are flocking to it, and domestic consumers should take it with confidence, and 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 pharmacology 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. The disease is caused by the imbalance of basic voxels, and cow urine can be balanced; 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 suffer a little from drinking fresh cow urine, and it takes ten and a half months to achieve the best effect.

Indian medical columnist Kaakkola Ya often writes articles attacking cow dung 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 ingredients. 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 quite different from what the "classics" say.

In the books of the three great 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 Wenji tells about 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) was gradually integrated 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 ate not only meat but also beef and mutton. There are about 250 species of animals mentioned in the Vedic classics, 50 of which are thought 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 criticizing sacrifices. Later, as a long-term ruled class, Hinduism maintained its identity only by constantly strengthening its religious beliefs and condensing its interior, and the worship of cattle was gradually pushed to the extreme. The concept of "the cow is the mother" was quite popular during the Mughal dynasty of Emperor babur. In order to appease the Brahmin class, which is the dominant Hindu population, babur told the Crown Prince to respect the worship of cattle and avoid slaughtering them before they died.

After independence, Niu gradually became a mass political mobilization tool for right-wing parties. Indian nationalist group "Indian National Volunteers" (said to be the second largest political organization in the world) actively promoted the implementation of "banning cattle slaughter" 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 the planned economy of the Soviet Union). Since India implemented the reform and opening up in 199 1, the background of the rise of nationalism and religious revival has emerged. The strength of the secular, center-left nationalist party, the National Congress, has declined, and the situation is different, and the status of cattle is becoming more and more divine.

In areas such as Gujarat, cattle slaughter 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 too much, the center-left mainstream political parties, such as the National Congress Party, also reacted violently to this, which made fundamentalists quite angry and felt that they needed to win the battle for the next generation. After years of lobbying, in 2006, the Board of Education finally agreed to erase 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 low castes ate cows, but Brahmins didn't. The statement in the textbook is wrong, which is a mistake made by the historians who wrote the textbook.

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

In the northwestern state of Haryana in 2002, the "Ten Victory Festival" is being celebrated locally, which is the biggest festival for Hindus to commemorate Rama's victory over the demon king Robona. Some extremists shouted in the crowd that it was blasphemy to see several big Park Yung-soo killing cattle and skinning them, and incited mobs to lynch five big Park Yung-soo.

Dapu Rongsu is engaged in dirty work, and it is one of their jobs to collect the dead animals (mainly cattle) in the wild and go back to deal with them. Many Park Jung-soo eat beef because they are poor and don't talk about religious taboos, as long as they are not in public. These five da Park Jung Su were doing essential 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 told 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. Many bottles contain 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 cow dung and urine food, health care products and medicines in India have three characteristics: rural population, low-income and low-education class and fundamentalists. The so-called "following the Vedic classics" by Ayurvedic doctors and drug dealers is nothing but a "lie intentionally or unintentionally", which can only explain the rise of cow dung urine from more economic and political angles.