i was just reading a news on Telegraph so just want to confirm from any indian about its authenticity Here is the News The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, India's leading Hindu cultural group, has developed Gau Jal or Cow Water,(Cow Urine) at its research centre in the Indian holy city of Haridwar on the River Ganges, and hopes it will be marketed as a 'healthy' alternative to Coke and Pepsi. Hindus worship cows for their life-sustaining dairy products, but many also consume bovine urine and faeces in drinks and spice mixes for their "health-giving" properties. In some Indian states, cow dung and urine are sold in regular dairy shops alongside milk and yogurt, and "ayurvedic" Indian health food companies make porridge, toothpaste and tonic drinks which claim to cure ailments ranging from liver complaints to diabetes and cancer. The urine is also believed to have disinfectant properties while the dung is used in many Indian village huts as a clean and antiseptic flooring. Now, the RSS's Cow Protection Department has invented a new urine-based soft drink it hopes will promote its health-giving properties to a wider market. "We refer to gau ark (cow urine) as gau jal (cow water) as it has immense potential to cure various diseases. We have developed a soft drink formula with gau jal as the base and it has been sent to a laboratory at Lucknow for testing," said director Om Prakash. His team is now focusing on packaging, marketing, and of course preservation to stop its curative drink from going whiffy in the summer heat. "It will be a revolution of sorts. The acceptance of cow urine as a potent medicine is increasing day by day and once it comes as a cold drink, its demand will definitely increase. It will prove and justify the high stature accorded to a cow in Indian culture." he added.
Thats true. I will / can never do that . But then there is scientific reasoning behind it. None can deny that.
Dont knock it until you know the facts Some people in the UK and USA drink their OWN urine, because they believe it is good for them.
So what? what people "believe" has no bearing on reality. Why would drinking your own urine be good for you? While there is no evidence what-so-ever that drinking ones own urine, or anything elses, is good for you i'd like to share this gem from an advocate of piss-guzzling so we can get an idea of the type of moron who does this. "You're looking for mid-stream flow ideally," he advises us. "Let the first little bit go, then catch the rest until you've filled a tumbler. I drink about a third of a pint each morning, and if there's a bit left, I rub it over my face."
Naa... The RSS people may give it religious backing but there is still science in it. Things like these are being used in the Ayurvedic medicines.
There are lot of scientific reasons. Every new research made in West has already been found in the East thousands of years ago. e.g. Pythagorus theorem. The Western scientists have accepted it. Vedas has every secret in it. You call it superstitions. But those superstitions have a scientific reason behind it. We did not know the science behind it. But we trusted it and believed whatever was it, it was for our good by our ancestors. The scientists have decoded them and now they believe it to be true, because they found out the scientific reason behind it. Same with the topic. Now ignorant people before arguing, do some Googling.
What does that have to do with drinking urine? Is your reasoning that sometimes people thought of good things many years ago, drinking urine has been done for many years complete bollocks has been believed for many years, therefor drinking urine is good and believing in bollocks is credible. What science? Stop telling us there is science in it and expecting us to take your word for it, tell us what the science is.
It is perceived that Drinking Urine is good for health. I do not know the complete science behind it, but I don't see anything wrong in this. It's the People and their wish.
Well they are wrong. They can eat turds too if it makes them happy, still doesn't make it good for them though.
Its said people who think they know " nothing " know more than people who think they know "everything" You really need to do pay a visit to google and search for the facts. Just type " urine therapy " . Its got nothing to do with religion or RSS or India .. its plain science.
Does that apply to you too, or just people who disagree with the effectivness of primitive elixures made from excreeted fluids? Lets see some credible scientific data relating to the effect consumed urine has on health. Or are you just going to carry on making unsubstantiated claims and demanding everybody else stops talking? what is the science then? stop telling that it is science and start telling what the science is. By the way, i done a search for "urine therapy". The first link said "There is no scientific evidence of a therapeutic use for urine". Or do we have to be more selective and pick less credible sources with our search?
In this case I would say ignorance is defiantly a bliss. We are better ignorant. As far as I know urine, piss, Poop, shit, etc etc are waste products of metabolism and other non-useful materials which can not be of any good to mammals. BTW they are useful for the plants. Haven't heard so far anybody benefiting from drinking urine or eating shit of anybody.
Yeah right, people in India drink cow urine cuz they believe its good but without any scientific facts ... but then why is US patenting it???? I am not saying it has nothing to do with belief or something and I am not even sure if its really good but if there are medicinal use of which people are patenting then ..I will say that people who are saying its gross or whatver are acting out of their belief ..not facts ..
@ Stox You seem to be a Athiest. I don't know what proof you need. You don't believe in Religion, No God. You don't have a right to criticize it.