Amazing Benefits of Cow Ghee as Per Ayurveda

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Benefits of Cow Ghee would be impossible to put together in one blog, yet here is a small attempt to compile those health benefits given in various ancient Samhitas of our great sages.

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Despite the Western medical community giving flak to ‘Desi Ghee’ and accusing it of an agent for health ailments, recent research found great help in these health ailments.

To put it in one sentence narrating the health benefits of cow ghee, cow ghee is anti-ageing, a source of healthy fat, known to increase the benefits of medicines, digestion, and improve the taste of the meals.

The processing or ‘Samskara’ helps transform qualities of a substance and organic cow ghee has this unique ability to adopt properties of herbal medicines processed with it, augmenting the properties of these herbal medicines without losing its own.

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If cow ghee is processed with drugs like Asparagus, which is known to promote nourishment, it helps degenerative diseases.

If processed with hot (Ushna) and aromatic properties, it is helpful in obstructive disease.

Therefore, according to Ayurvedic science, cow ghee is considered the best media for processing medicines to enhance their bodies’ actions.

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Cow Ghee in Ayurveda

अय धृतम् धीकान्तिस्मृतिदायकं बलकरं मेधाप्रदं पुष्टिकृद् वातश्लेष्महरं श्रमोपशमनं पित्तापहं शुद्धिकृत्।

वह्नेर्वृद्धिकरं विपाकमधुरं वृष्यं वपुः स्थैर्यदं गव्यं हव्यतमं घृतं बहुगुणं सद्य: समावर्तितम्।।

गव्यस्य। (रा.नि.-१५.७७) (रा. नि.- १५.७२)

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The above Shaloka in ‘Raj Nighantu’ signifies that cow’s ghee helps with intelligence, restoring memory, luster over the face pacifies aggravated ‘Vata and Kapha’, kills tiredness, cleanse Pitta and purify the body. It evokes the digestive fire to work in an optimum way.

According to AcharayaCharak, cow ghee pacifies Vata due to Snigdha guna (unctuous properties) and Pitta due to Madhura (sweet) and Sheeta (cold) properties. It increases Shukra and Ojas due to similar properties.

 

Health Benefits of Cow Ghee

1. Works as Laxative:

Cow Ghee is known to increase the quality of the meal. It is combined with as mentioned historically “Samskarao hi Gunaantradhyanum”, for example when it is taken with Milk; it becomes a mild laxative.

2. Natural Healer:

Ayurvedic science practitioners recommend the use of cow ghee in chronic medical conditions as long term debility, body-mind weakness as cow ghee is a natural healer.

3. Great for Eyesight:

Cow ghee has an excellent quality to nourish eyes because of its cold (Sheeta) It helps giving nutrition to the eyes and helps in eradicating sunburns and burning sensation in the eyes. It also acts as a daily healthy dose for the eyes and protects the vision.

4. Keeps Skin Hydrated and Healthy:

Cow ghee for skin is highly recommended as it contains healthy fats that keep skin hydrated, provides the face with much-needed glow or lustre which artificial creams or soaps cannot.

5. Relieves Acidity:

Cow Ghee is super beneficial for people who face acidity regularly. It can work as an antacid with judicious use since it is a natural and ‘Amal-Pitta’ pacifier that helps in acidity.

6. Improves Digestion:

The ghee from Cow helps in digestion as it invokes digestive fire and helps in beating conditions like IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome).

7. Reduces Bad Cholesterol:

Cow ghee significantly reduces the bad cholesterol levels from the body and prevents dangerous diseases like cardiac arrest.

8. Immunity Booster:

The cow ghee is known as the health promoter and has an immunomodulatory effect on the body.

9. Works as Lubricant:

The regular massage of hand, feet, head, or body with cow ghee keeps muscular-skeletal joints healthy. It helps in maintain the synovial fluids in the joints necessary for their lubrication.

10. Detoxify the stomach:

To channelize Doshas from all the body parts to the gut, oleation with Ghee is an essential therapy and purgation to cleanse the gut.

11. Great source of energy:

Loaded with butyric acid, cow ghee also has Omega 3 and Omega 9 essential fatty acids ( EFA) and Vitamins A, D, E, and K which help in total body nourishment.

Spiritual Benefits of Cow Ghee-

The cow ghee is rightly being referred to as ‘The Sacred Fat’ with cow ghee found its mention in Rig Veda and Bhagavad Gita. In Hinduism, the cow ghee is being used in every religious ceremony since an individual’s birth.

  • Cow ghee is used in making ‘Panchamrit’ along with the honey, milk, curd and jaggery to offer it to deities as a Prashadam.
  • When used with HawanSamagri, Cow ghee can bring the unforgettable aroma and vibes in the home that keep harmful bacteria and viruses away from home.
  • The ‘Yajna’ therapies in Ayurveda strongly recommend using cow ghee to do Yajna with cow ghee only.
  • According to Indic Vedic and astrological science, the presence of cow ghee in the kitchen brings prosperity since it is claimed as a sacred butter in the oldest Indian treasures as Charak and Sushruta Samhita.

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