Aqua omnium florum
Aqua omnium florum or all-flower water was water distilled from cow-dung in May, when the cows ate fresh grass with meadow flowers. It was also known less euphemistically as aqua stercoris vaccini stillatitia (distilled water of cow dung).[1] This was used as a medicine to treat a variety of ailments including gout, rheumatism and tuberculosis.[2][3]
The 17th century court physician George Bate favoured it and it appeared in the Pharmacopœia Bateana — Bate's Dispensatory.[4] Recipes included:[2] Template:Quote Template:Quote Template:Quote
The latter prescription was used as a panacea by a female doctor in Bate's time. Many incurable cases were brought to her which she treated in this way and she made a great fortune of £20,000 from this practice.[2]
Urina vaccina
Cow tea or urina vaccina (cow's urine) was sometimes called aqua omnium florum too.[1] This was used as a purgative for which the dosage would be "half a pint drank warm from the cow".[5] It was drunk by women in May to clear their complexion.[1]
Indian traditional medicine
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Cow dung, urine and other bovine products are still used extensively in the traditional Hindu medicine, Ayurveda.[6]
Cattle urine drinking in Islam
Similarly, in Islam the drinking of camel urine as the Islamic Prophetic medicine by Muhammad,[7][8][9][10][11][12] has no medicinal scientific evidence according to the World Health Organization.[7]
See also
References
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