Use cow urine to clean offices, says Maneka Gandhi

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New Dehli : Move over phenyl, gaunyle is here. Union minister Maneka Gandhi has asked her ministerial colleagues to opt for a “natural disinfectant” made from extracts of cow urine instead of the “chemically bad” one in government offices.

In a letter to her colleagues in the council of ministers Gandhi has proposed a switch to ‘gaunyle’ – cleaning liquid made from cow urine extracts, arguing that it “environment-friendly”.

“I would request you to replace phenyl, which is currently being used in your ministry and is chemically bad for environment, with Gaunyle,” she said.

Gandhi, minister for women and child development, said the Kendriya Bhandar is now stocking the ‘Gaunyle’. The product is being marketed by an NGO, Holy Cow Foundation. It is said to be environment friendly as it does not have a synthetic base like phenyl but is not as strong as the latter. Phenyl is the cheap cleaning liquid which is widely used in government offices to clean floor and toilets.

She is not alone. Earlier Ayush minister Sripad Naik had vouched for the number of ayurvedic drug companies that were manufacturing medicinal formulations made from ‘panchgavya’, a collective name of five products obtained from cow including its urine and dung.

According to the department a large number of the 7,835 licensed ayurvedic drug manufacturing units in the country make medical formulations from Panchgavya. Panchagavya is a collective name of five products obtained from cow like milk, curd, ghee, urine and dung.

Medicinal uses of Panchagavya and its individual ingredients, including cow urine, are mentioned in authoritative books of ayurveda.

Source : Times of India