THE SCIENCE BEHIND COW URINE AND THE CONTROVERSY

 Can Cow Urine cure any disease ?

Five critical uses in medicine are:

1. Prevention of antibiotic resistance
2. As a fungicide and biofungicide
3. As an antiseptic
4. For its anthelmintic activity
5. As a bioenhancer

In Susruta (45/221) and in Charak (sloka-100) several medicinal properties of CU have been mentioned such as weight loss, reversal of certain cardiac and renal diseases, indigestion, stomach ache, diarrhea, edema, jaundice, anemia, hemorrhoids and skin diseases including vitiligo. Gomutra is capable of removing all the imbalances in the body, thus maintaining the general health. CU contains 95% water, 2.5% urea, minerals, 24 types of salts, hormones, and 2.5% enzymes. It also contains iron, calcium, phosphorus, carbonic acid, potash, nitrogen, ammonia, manganese, iron, sulfur, phosphates, potassium, urea, uric acid, amino acids, enzymes, cytokine and lactose.

CU is an effective antibacterial agent against a broad spectrum of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria and also against some drug-resistant bacteria. It acts as a bio-enhancer of some antimicrobial drugs. It has antifungal, anthelmintic, antineoplastic action, is useful in hypersensitivity reactions and in numerous other diseases including increasing the life-span of a person. Recent researches have shown that CU is an immune-enhancer also. Therapeutic properties of CU have been validated by modern science also.

Pathogenic bacteria are remarkably resilient and have developed several ways to resist antimicrobial drugs. Due to increasing use and rampant misuse of existing antibiotics in human and veterinary medicine, and also in agriculture, threat from antimicrobial resistance is increasing. Resistant strains like Penicillin- and Methicillin- resistant S. aureus, vancomycin resistant Enterococcus, and ciprofloxacin resistance P. aeruginosa are an ever increasing global threat. After photoactivation and purification, CU has been found to be effective against certain drug resistant bacterial strains. CU extract of A. indica showed better MIC values than the organic fractions for MDR E. coli (12.68 mm) and K. pneumonia (9 mm). CU extracts of A. indica showed >8.66 mm zone of inhibition for MDR S. aureus, P. aeruginosa and P. vulgaris.

Enhanced wound healing activity of CU has been observed in research on Wistar albino rats. On 4th day, the external application of CU showed significant and progressive increase in wound healing in rats compared to different concentrations of CU and 1% w/w nitrofurazone ointment locally.

CUC was found to be more effective than piperazine citrate as anthelmintic agent at both 1% and 5% concentrations. For anthelmintic activity, adult Indian earthworm Pheretima posthuma was studied due to its anatomical and physiological resemblance with the intestinal roundworm parasite of human beings. Paralysis of earthworm occurred in 53 and 48 min with 1% piperazine and CUC, respectively and 16 and 13 min with 5% piperazine and CUC, respectively. Time taken for the death of earthworms decreased from 72 min with 1% piperazine to 60 min with 1% CUC, respectively. It further decreased from 28 min with 5% piperazine to 18 min with 5% CUC, respectively.

A ‘bioenhancer’/‘biopotentiator’ is an agent capable of enhancing the bioavailability and efficacy of a drug with which it is co-administered, without any pharmacological activity of its own at the therapeutic dose used. In ayurveda, this concept is known as ‘yogvahi’ and is used to increase the effect of medicines by increasing the oral bioavailability (especially of medicines with poor oral bioavailability), decreasing their dose and adverse effects, and were used to circumvent the parenteral routes of drug administration. We can develop more such useful and economically viable drug combinations, by integrating the knowledge of time tested ayurveda with modern methods of research . CU is the only agent of animal origin which acts as bioenhancer of antimicrobial, antifungal, and anticancer agents. The indigenous CU contains ‘Rasayana’ tatva, which is responsible for modulation of the immune system and also act as a bioenhancer.

CU has antioxidant properties and is a free radical scavenger, and thus it neutralizes the oxidative stress. Scientists proved that the pesticides even at very low doses cause apoptosis of lymphocytes and tissues through fragmentation of DNA while CU helps the lymphocytes to survive by inhibiting their apoptosis and by repairing the damaged DNA and is, therefore, effective as anti-cancer therapy.

SECOND OBSERVATION

Urine as medicine
To understand why urine can be medicine, you have to first know that your body is made up of 90 trillion bacterial cells, and tens of thousands of species. Western medicine, AKA allopathy, did not know this fact until a few short years ago. Most western doctors still don't know this scientific fact, and do not use it in their practice.
Our bacterial ecosystem is suited to our body, and a cow's bacterial system is suited to a cow's body. Other than a tiny number of pathogens (cow pox is one), most bacteria and viruses that live in a cow are totally harmless to humans, as long as the cow is grass-fed. Cow urine is therefore totally harmless to us.
But more importantly, what happens to cow urine when it has been left around for a while, is that huge numbers of harmless bacteria (to humans) colonize it and create an ecosystem. When you drink this urine, you are essentially getting a huge probiotic top-up for your body (Consider that yogurt by contrast has only 4 bacterial species). Even more important, those bacteria are ones that are best-suited to break down green vegetables and extract nutrients from it, so when they colonize your gut, you will improve your digestion, your vitamin production and your vitamin absorption. In other words, cow urine is a whole-system treatment for multiple ailments, especially immune ailments.
One last thing, before you run off to the nearest USDA corporate feedlot to get some cow pee. American cows by and large are raised on antibiotics,. pumped with hormones and are grain-fed, so forget about using their urine for anything. If you genuinely want to try this therapy, book a flight to India, and find yourself an ayurvedic clinic that will source authentic grass-fed, antibiotic and hormone-free cow medicine.

THIRD OBSERVATION

No, but it can be used for cure of some diseases.

No medicine can be used as the cure of any disease. Urine is normally secreted by animals to get rid of microbes or something that is harmful to their body. What is harmful to them may not be necessarily harmful to all other beings.

Many scientific experiments have been carried out and Cow urine has been proven as an excellent disinfecting solution. It is used as an insecticide in organic farming. Cow urine is also used in religious rituals.

Distilled cow urine is used in the cure of many diseases in ayurveda. Urine in its raw form is not advised to be drinken as it may contain harmful bacteria.

Many people drink it for religious reasons as they may have been advised by sadhus or elders for health and prosperity.