http://mgdas.com/2010/07/cow-dung-facts-and-statistics/
Dung available from one fully grown cow/ bull is around 5.4 tonnes per annum. so dry dung will be around 54. x 0.30 = 1620 kg per annum. This is equivalent to 712 kg of dry wood. This amount of wood comes from 6 large trees. So by keeping one old cow or bull alive we protect 6 large trees per annum from felling.
Around beginning of 20th century states where cow slaughter was banned only cow dung cakes were used for pryre to give agni samskar to dead bodies as per vedic custom. So that much forest was saved as that many tree were not cut. A tree has great value when it is alive. It decreases pollution, maintains rain cycle, turns CO2 into O2 etc etc. It also provieds shade, fruits, flowers. Also as forest were cut down to provide fuel we saw that many medicinal herbs easily available in forests were lost because of deforestation.
By killing of one old bull we deplete cow dung cakes required for funeral pyre of 10 people per year. So if a bull is allowed to live for 10 years beyond the age of slaughter then he can provide for 100 people funeral pyre thus protecting many full grown trees.
In Vedic culture there are 16 samskaras. These samskaras are ment to put a person in right state of consciousness or mind. In performing all the samskaras actually cow dung is required. So in abscence of dung the vedic culture cannot exist.
Also most of ayurvedic medicines are to be prepared on slowly burnning cow dung cakes. Without using the dung cakes the medicines don’t get proper medical properties. Actually on one side government is making a show of giving encouragement to ayurveda and on other side allowing cow slaughter there by creating shortage of cow dung cakes. This is nothing but duplicity.
Ayurveda cannot exist without cow dung and urine. If such medicines are made on fire coal or electricity then it is like running a petrol vehicle on kerosene. It can’t work and even if it works it won’t work properly. Similarly ayuvedic medicines have to be made on cow dung cakes only to have full effect.
For eg for hundreds of years mid wifes in Indian villages had been using cow dung fomentation to pregnant women, small babies and women who had just delivered babies. These mid wives used to give cow dung cake fomentation to babies and just delivered women with burnning dung which would take care of all there health. But with abscence of cow dung cakes the health of so many ladies is sacrificed. Because of loss and abscence of this lakhs and crores of ladies are inflicted with diseases associated with child birth and painful life there after till death.
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