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JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Dung is also used as fuel in the form of dried cakes for cooking and heating as well as for production of bio-gas. Slurry, which is a by-product of bio-gas is an eminently rich source of manure and is, in turn, usable for enrichment of the soil. Cow urine is also of immense medicinal value.
Research in cow urine is gaining immense significance in cure of some diseases like cancer, renal failure and so on. Cattle urine is also a powerful natural pesticide and, if used properly can save human beings from the harmful effects of pesticide residues in every thing he eats and drinks.
While the various uses of the products and by-products of the cow and its progeny are discussed in detail further on in this report, the present discussion is only to high-light the inter-dependence of human beings, cattle and land resources. The figure of milk production in the country, which was 17 million tonnes in increased by 5 times to reach about 85 million metric tonnes in The figures of milk production and the per capita milk availability over the years is given in the table below: 6.
Medicinal Properties of cow products - Panchagavya. Panchgavya, a mixture of five products of the cow viz. In recent years, results of scientific investigations in India and abroad into the medicinal and curative properties of these products have created a lot of enthusiasm and hope, as they could be potent anti-cancer and anti-HIV agents.
A detailed table showing the different formulations of Panchgavya treatement for various diseases as given to the Commission by the Gayatri Shaktipeeth, Bhopal is attached as Annex V — II 5 to this Chapter. The list goes like this:. Fuel - cow dung patties goottee for cooking 2. Fertilizer - composting makes it even more powerful. Heat source - cow dung is naturally hot -compost makes hotter put in glass house to heat glass house or run pipes thru it to get hot water.
Purifier - natural antiseptic qualities 5. Floor coating - used mixed with mud and water on floors in mud houses. Improves water absorption of mud. Prevents muddy puddles resulting from spilt water.
Mud brick additive - improves resistance to disintegration 7. Skin tonic - mixed with crushed neem leaves smeared on skin - good for boils and heat rash SP used it for heat rash in Mayapur. Smoke producer - smoldering cow patties keep away mosquitoes. Can also make smoked paneer over such smoke. Tastes great in pasta! Ash - from patties used in cooking-Pot cleaner - used dry, absorbs oil and fat; wet, as a general cleaner.
Brass polisher - tamarind removes oxidation - wet ashes polishes. Fertilizer - alkaline - cow dung ash is basically lime with a few other minerals mixed into it. Mud additive - dries up slippery mud puddles.
Mud brick additive - mud and lime cow dung ashes becomes like cement Pond PH balancer - thrown into pond neutralizes acid. Tooth polish Sun-dried organic recreational-aerodynamic-device -cow patty Frisbees; Fan for fire - large cow patties can be used as make-shift fans.
Deity worship - ingredient in pancha gavya Seed protector- covering seeds in dung before planting helps to protect against pests. Fresh Cow urine taken thirty days straight is an ayurvedic remedy for Brights disease. Disposable camphor lamps for use during fire sacrifices. Another use of cow pies and camel dung mix with fresh water till you have a paste and apply to skin diseases. It seems to work to ease the Itching of psoriasis. If you soak your feet in cow urine it will cure athletes feet.
Fresh, less than hours old cow urine seems to have some helpful effect on teen age pimple eruptions. Wipe on face before going to bed. That is in an old herbal book I found??? For seed-raising — I also use cow dung on insect stings let it dry and then wash with hot soapy water. Cow urine can be used for stones kidney, gall etc.
Apparently, the traditional Indian village system of wiping the floor daily with a mixture of water and fresh cow dung assures that flies will not settle there.
Laxmi Narain Modi in his presentation for the Livestock Policy Perspective July , held in India stated: "Dung and urine from cows and bulls cattle are essential for organic manure OM which is used in the construction of new houses, frequent coating of floors and walls of mud houses to protect from insects, and as a base for bio-gas programs. There are innumerable other uses for traditional medicines.
Urine was used to bleach wool in the middle ages up until sixty years ago. Cow urine used to restart a biogas plant that has "stalled" when the biocomposting won't start or fizzles out in mid process then it can be jump started by adding ammonia a BI -product of urine.
The dung ashes makes excellent tooth power. A good "cement" is made by mixing dung with water and mixing with dirt.
The salt in the dung keeps the moisture in the "cement " from drying out as easily and the "Cement" feels cool and almost damp and lowers the temp in a well insulated house by ten or twelve degrees.
Place in a flower pot and a little fertilizer leaches out with each watering and the Poo pet slowly dissolves into the soil. If you make a biogas composer you can cook off the gas from the dung then when all the gas has been used up, you still have excellent compost in liquid form to place on your garden.
To break the parasite infestation whenever possible collect and place all dung and urine from all animal and human sources in a bio-gas generator.
The digester turns the dung into sterile compost all worms et killed, and as a by product produces a gas called methane which is half as hot as propane but you can still use it to cook or run a generator to produce electricity. It is free and cleans up the area the finished product is essentially sterile and can be spread on crops as an excellent fertilizer. The primary uses of cow or cattle dung can be said to be for organic farming on one hand and on burning of cow-cakes for fuel on the other.
There are also other important uses of cattle dung such as for production of bio-gas etc. All these will be dealt with further in this report. However, due to unscientific methods of collection and management of the by-products such as dung and urine, a lot of wastages occurred. Also, a good part of the dung collected was being dried and used as fuel-cakes. With the advent of composting methods, production of organic manure on a scientific basis resulted in the yield of a product, many times richer in soil nutrients than plain cow dung manure.
The economists who postulate the theory that man and cattle are competing for limited land resources and, therefore, cattle numbers have to be kept limited to a sustainable level, which is an euphemistic way of saying that surplus cattle should be slaugthered.
Even when Dasgupta wrote his book in the early s , as noted by him, the crop yield per unit area of land was twice in China and three times in Japan, as compared with India. Erhart Bartsch, who converted a life-less piece of land in Marien-hole in East Germany into a vibrant farm, using cattle as the central figure.
Starting with an inheritance of 13 sickly cattle, who were infected with all kinds of diseases, Dr. Bartsch first grew fodder to feed the cows, which then gave manure back to the soil, resulting even better yields of fodder crops. Through intensive bio-dynamic manuring, the farm was rejuvenated, over-flowing with milk, which was supplied to neighbouring estates.
As a result of this Process, it was found that, in view of the shortage of cattle dung, which was being mostly used as a fuel for cooking and heating purposes, the solution of the manurial problem was to be found in the combination of animal and vegetable wastes. Thus, the concept of green manuring and composting came into being. At Pusa, Sir Howard proved that the use of chemical fertilisers and occurrence of plant and soil diseases go hand-in-hand.
He kept six pairs of bullocks, which were fed on organic produce of his farm. These bullocks became healthy and resistant to diseases like Foot and Mouth Disease, even when other animals at Pusa got infected with the disease.
These words of Sir Howard, written so many decades ago, have indeed proved to be prophetic. Today, Western countries are increasingly moving towards organic and bio-dynamic farming processes, with organically produced agricultural produce fetching higher returns for the producers. However, the devastating effects on soil fertility, the health human and animal hazards of pesticide residues in food items including milk, and the cost of restoring the nutrients to the soil are all to be taken into account.
In the long term, therefore, these practices prove much more costly and all the profits vanish. The age-old practices of using dung from cattle for manuring the fields and using bullocks for ploughing so that their dung goes back into the land, need to be restored.
With the process of converting cow dung into compost, which is many times better than spreading the dung directly on to the fields, value can be added and the results in the form of better yields, more healthy foods and feeds can be perceived quickly. The cow will pay for her maintenance through the increased output of compost made from her dung and urine and cease to be a burden, and to stand as a wall before our economists and scientific men.
Then, when the useless animals are made useful in disregard of the exhortations of scientists and economists to slaughter them, and as these begin to pay their way, other very many blissful things will follow, if we stick to those sound, basic principles that helped to keep India alive inspite of our intelligent men themselves following and calling upon others to follow the lead of a dying, hungry, self-centred, monstrous machine-civilisation.
The Plan document speaks of the criticism from some quarters about the introduction of chemical fertilisers, without full steps being taken to mobilise all the manurial resources of the organic type.
The Planners acknowledge that this criticism was just to the extent that it stresses the need for mobilising such resources. However, they felt that the two processes could go on simultaneously as both the types of manures were necessary for maintaining and increasing soil fertiity.
The use of chemical fertilisers in conjunction with bulky organic manures was recommended. The Plan document notes that the addition of bulky organic manures like farmyard manure, which is a by-product of farming with bullocks, helps the soil by increasing its water-holding capacity, improving soil-aeration, and by changing the plant nutrients through slow decomposition into forms readily available to plants.
There are other advantages in the use of organic manures, viz. On the basis of the Livestock Census, the total production of fresh dung was estimated at million tons, around half of which was estimated to be used as fuel by the farmers.
It was felt that this dung should also be saved for use as manure by creating village forest plantations and popularising the use of coke as a domestic fuel. The Plan document also recommended that, since cattle urine was a very good manure, due to its high nitrogen content, conservation of cattle urine, which was going waste, should be promoted as a part of extension activities in all States.
The procurement and distribution of chemical fertilisers on a greatly-expanded scale was envisaged. No special mention has been made about use of organic manures in this document.
Regarding organic manures, it was found that sufficient stress was still not being laid in extension work for development of local manurial resources. Some progress was noted in the development of cowdung gas and manure plants suitable for use in villages.
However, high cost of the gobar gas plant developed by IARI Rs to was inhibiting its adoption on a larger scale. It was estimated that the amount of cattle dung annually available was million tons, of which million tons was used as fuel, as manure and the remaining was wasted.
As a percentage of the total energy consumption in the country, cattle dung accounted for Targets of fertiliser consumption were raised to 3. A major programme was started for intensification of extension and sales promotion activities so as to step up fertiliser consumption. No separate programme for utilization of rural waste seems to have been thought of, although a green manure programme was sought to be developed.
There is a passing mention about the provisions made for important programmes including distribution of fertlisers and the fact that emphasis has been placed on developing organic sources of manure and higher outlays have been provided for setting up of biogas plants.
Quite a lot of stress has been given to organic recycling by utilising organic wastes in the form of crop residues estimated to amount to million tons annually and cattle dung and other animal droppings to million tons.
Use of organic materials for biogas production and use of the resultant slurry as manure has also received attention. It has been proposed that large scale use of composting techniques would be used by designing simple and low cost composters for use in rural areas.
Biogas development has been envisaged as a major energy provider resulting also in saving millions of tons of forest wood. Manure of meat-eating animals such as dogs should not be used as fertilizer because it can contain harmful bacteria and parasites.
If a human were to eat manure, whether it be his own of that of an animal, it could make him very sick. However, hamsters have a different digestive system than humans and most other animals. Therefore, it's common to see them eating their own feces. This is because the digestive system of a hamster produces two types of excrement: one that's full of nutrients and one that's primarily waste. It's common to see hamsters eating the nutrient-filled feces to obtain the nutrients and fully digest them, according to Hamster Hideout.
According to OnlineSchools. The remaining 25 percent is composed of indigestible fiber, dead bacteria and living bacteria. Because there's bacteria in human feces, there's a risk that it could be carrying parasites or harmful organisms, which is why it's flushed away.
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