Dairy products are extensively used in Hindu culture and are one of the most essential nutritional components of Hindu meals. Panchagavya, a mixture of five products of cow milk, curd, ghee, urine and dung,[2] is consumed in Brahmanical rituals. The mixture is also smeared on ulcers as a healing product.Cow dung diluted with water is used for plastering huts and court yards in India and cow dung w
ater is used for purifying.Cow urine is believed to have medicinal properties and consumption of cow urine was done by many popular personalities like former Prime Minister Morarji Desai(He is believed to have consumed own urine).[3]
Veneration of the cow increased during medieval times when the rate of cow slaughter increased phenomenally. It is also believed that Muslim sacrifice of cows during Bakr-Id also led to an increase in cow veneration among Hindus.[4]
