Is it true that in India many are treated for Covid-19 with cow manure and urine?

In 2020 and 2021, large world media talked about a very unusual way of treating coronavirus, popular among Indians. We checked the reliability of such messages.

During the active phase of the Covid-19 pandemia, the world media appeared messages The fact that in India people are trying to prevent the disease with cow manure and urine. It was argued that these are not isolated cases and that the country is supposedly even conducted Partieswhose visitors collectively drink the urine of animals.

India in which Live almost 1.4 billion people and where many residents are located Behind the poverty line, it turned out to be one of the most affected by the coronavirus of countries. According to Johns Hopkins, Pandemia Trued life More than half a million Indians. A particularly difficult period fell on April and May 2021, when a Delta Variant Coronavirus appeared in the country. At the peak of the second wave for India, the number of daily infections exceeded 400,000, a It was dying More than 4,000 people per day - and these are only official numbers. In hospitals Not enough medical staff, beds, equipment and drugs, ambulance vehicles bringing patients stood in giant lines for hours, and relatives of the infected Tried independently find and bring oxygen to the hospitals.

In such conditions, a significant part of the Indians turned to traditional methods of treatment and prevention of infectious diseases, which are still very common in India. A significant part of such practices is associated with the use of various products that can be obtained from cows without killing them. Doctrines of Hinduism, which in India Confess More than 80% of the population, consider the cow by inviolable animals, is called a “universal mother” and associate with the mother of all the gods, the goddess Aditi. They do not eat cows, but everything that can be obtained from them during life, counts supervaluable, including bowel movements.

For example, drinking a cow urine to get rid of cancer Recommends Indian Ministry of Traditional Practices. The official Indian cow commission, created under the Ministry of Fisheries, Livestock and Demand, issued a document in which She saidthat the use of milk, urine and manure effectively heals psoriasis, eczema and other skin diseases, arthritis, leprosy, and at the same time helps to relieve inflammatory conditions. In June 2021 in the country Passed The first online explosion for medical students on the “promotion of science related to products received from cows”.

Among other things, cow's milk, urine and manure were used and used to treat and prevent colds. When Kovid's pandemic began, they began to be used by analogy to combat coronavirus. This practice has caused anxiety experts, since raw cow's milk and especially excrement often contain a large number of pathogens that cause severe, and sometimes fatal diseases in people. To diseases that can be obtained by contact or use of potions created on the basis of products obtained from living cows, Relate, for example, cutting lichen, rickestsiosis (a disease caused by rickest bacteria and manifested, including inflammation of the inner shell of the heart), leptospirosis (a bacterial disease with a mortality rate of 5-10%, and in the case of lungs-up to 70%), campilobacteriosis (also caused by bacteria, manifests itself, manifests itself in diarrhea), and manifests itself), and manifests itself). Salmonelosis, listeriosis (a very severe disease, with the development of a nervous form by almost 100% deadly) and much more.

Some experts believe that what happened In India in 2020–2021, a flash "Black mold" - Diseases caused by microscopic fungi of the Mukorov and affecting eye, nose, lungs, skin and brain - could also be partly associated with the practice of treatment with cow excrement. Mercmicosis, as this disease is also called, developed in patients a few weeks after their symptoms of Covid disappeared. According to reports, this disease Tedged Life of almost 9,000 people who have undergone coronavirus infection.

Mukorov’s disputes are also contained in the cow of manure, and with excrement or burning cakes from manure for cleaning the premises (another practice common in India) could contribute Mass spread of fungi. At the same time, the risk of infection is maximum for those who have immunity for any reason weakened-for example, due to diabetes or treatment with steroids. Covid was an additional risk factor for such people, even more reducing protection. In addition, in such people, coronavirus often becomes a heavy form that requires the use of steroids.

Nevertheless, the practice of using cow manure and urine was widespread during the acute phase of the pandemic, especially in some states. For example, in Gujarat worked A special covid hospital, where cow excrement were the only means of therapy. And one of the political activists, who, after the death of the head of the Indian party, BJP wrote on his Facebook: “Getting rid of the crown is not cow manure and urine. Deliveting is science and common sense ", even Arrested. True, quite quickly released.

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