India: Parents dip their kids in cow dung for a 'healthy and lucky life'

[AMCA]

It's just their culture to dip their kids in cow dung. It does mean that they are bad people. Could any Indian share with us the significance of dipping their kids in the cow dung? Does it makes the kids smarter, bring them good fortune or wealth, ward off diseases, etc?

Its not a culture associated with a particular religion or cast but the locality in general. Scientifically, Cow dung has many antiseptic properties and was used for building homes and warding off epidemics in an era where medicines were in nascent stages of development.

A fact that may interest you is that, E-commerce giants like E bay and Amazon are selling it online.

 

[Maarkhoor]

Pakistani villagers prepare cow dung cakes in the suburbs of Islamabad. Cow dung cakes are popularly used as fuel for cooking in rural areas a major source of domestic fuel as an alternative to firewood.
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what has christian or muslim got to do with it. Its used in villages irrespective of the religion.

Kashmiri Muslim women carry plastic baskets filled with cow dung in Srinagar.
Kashmiri Muslim women carry plastic baskets filled with cow dung in Srinagar. | Enslaved | Pinterest | Muslim Women, Photojournalism and Muslim

They use it as fuel not for religious purpose or eating (Panchagavya) like Hindu did.

 

[Indika]

not aware of this practise, but most people believe that cow dung bacteria repel flies. you know if you eat cheese you get bacteria from cow intestines which is same as eating dung because rennet is a good bacteria. but yes, one should not take it too far and I personally don't like it. however this is what many Indians believe. including muslims and Christians.

heparin, most of the ppl would not even know it is derived from pigs intestine most of the time.
Making Heparin is a Dirty Job - Health Blog - WSJ
Heparin sold by Baxter International in the U.S. has recently been associated withhundreds of adverse reactions and a few deaths. Scientific Protein Laboratories, Baxter’s main supplier of the active ingredient in the blood thinner, says that the Yuan Intestine & Casing Factory isn’t in its company’s supply chain.

But the company does have a joint-venture that sources raw heparin, which is derived from pig intestines, from a handful of Chinese facilities. It’s not clear whether the Chinese operation is the source of the ingredients that seem to be causing harm in patients who receive the blood thinner.

 

[Zibago]

They use it as fuel not for religious purpose or eating (Panchagavya) like Hindu did.

They are also used as fuel in bio gas plants

Slowly as incomes are increasing even in rural areas people are using gas cylinders instead of پاتھياں

 

[Indika]

They use it as fuel not for religious purpose or eating (Panchagavya) like Hindu did.

Not every one consumes it. More than hindus it seems your are so much obsessed with it , that your head is full of it and you can neither get over it or nor get rid of it.

 

[Maarkhoor]

Not every one consumes it. More than hindus it seems your are so much obsessed with it , that your head is full of it and you can neither get over it or nor get rid of it.

I think you have it in break fast so thats why your post smells shittttt

 

[Arsalan mehmud]

Who told you that Hindus drink cow piss, that too on a daily basis? Those number of Hindus who might drink cow piss as daily diet will not exceed the Muslims who drink camel piss as their diet, you are free to fix a number here.

You are doing your own calculation.. We can't drink camel piss without any decease . But will you deny that you people drink cow piss in your prasad without any disease?

 

[MastanKhan]

Hi,

Our kids in the villages have taken a slip into cow dung many a times---. Exposure to dirt---dung as a child---keeps you away from many a diseases----as it strengthens the immune system. Kids who have played in dirt and filth as kids---rarely ever get asthma.

Aslo for that reason----I am more prone to be infcted with a communicable disease when I travel to pakistan---because my body's immune system has gone down.

The hindus have chosen what they do from practises over the centuries---it may seem filthy to some of us----but their is practicality behind it.

Before the invent of anti biotics----or when you were away from civilization and there was no medicine man close by---and no sexually transitted diseases at that time---you used either your own urine or your companions urine to wash the wound to disinfect it----.

Some may have used cow urine as well. So as people saw the dealing of the wounds by urine---they started believing in its magical properties---thus as the myth grew---the usage changed---.

 

[Arsalan mehmud]

there is nothing to be ashamed of or 'accept'/\. this is culture. Do you accept you eat mean and dead bodies of animals and bird. are you ashamed? no .. its something like that. I personally think its disgusting to kill , cook, and eat meat but people do it

Eating dead animal is haram in islam and it is strictly prohibited. There are certain procedure to eat meat. We need to kill in halal way. And by the way there are huge number of people consuming non-veg all over world.
Don't compare shit with non-veg atleast..

 

[Zibago]

I think you have it in break fast so thats why your post smells shittttt

یو آر وٹ یو ایٹ

 

[Indika]

I think you have it in break fast so thats why your post smells shittttt

confirmed. Its mad dung fever, dung in your head is working again get rid of it. Seems you must have consumed some part(?) of mad cow .
No need to go for lab , symptoms are similar to jaundice ppl start seeing yellow every where.

 

[acetophenol]

Traditional/regional customs and practices often cause bewilderment to others which is understandable. Me too is surprised with this. But,as long as it doesn't cause hurt beyond a level,one should not be "mocking" it.

Some members (the usual bunch) is so eager to use this to insult and mock India and Indians,and something that they easily forget is that the same can be done about their customs (and any customs) if one chooses to do so.

 

[Indika]

thus as the myth grew---the usage changed---.

correct and the myth some times becomes a legend.

 

[samv]

India is without doubt one of the most primitive and backward countries in the world.

 

[AMCA]

India is without doubt one of the most primitive and backward countries in the world.

If that were true then we wouldn't be the fastest growing major economy with a Brand value of 7(top 10).