Cow Dung-ed Floors & Walls
In ancient india, all the indian homes had cow-dung pasted
floors. This was because it had many benefits ranging from antiseptic
properties to keeping ground and home always warm. New layer of cowdung or old
layer of cowdung is removed in every cold and rainy season and a fresh cow-dung
paste is applied throughout all floors and walls. Cow-dung when it dries
becomes very solid as a cement and is also a poor conductor of moisture and
maintains warmthness inside the walls and on the floors.
You may have heared from your doctors saying keep your
feet warm in winters and rainy seasons so that your body will not loose temperature
by walking on today’s modern marble stone floorings and you will not fall sick.
Even Ayurveda says, keep your feet always warm in winter’s and that’s the
reason why western cold countries use leather shoes and woolen socks to cover
their legs and feet. However Indians knew this way long back and used this naturally
available cow’s dung to plaster their floor’s and walls. When woman, work in
home, they encounter with water several times, chances of their feet becoming
wet is high. That’s the reason why rural indian woman’s still use cow-dung
flooring, such that when they walk bare foot in the house, their feet will not
catch cold.
But today’s modern houses floor are made of marble’s,
different kinds of stones. These marble stones are very heat resistant and are
always cold in nature. Its hard to walk on them nowadays with bare foot in
winter seasons.
What
happens if my feet is not warm?
You will be prone to all cold related diseases. Like
cough, cold, body aches, muscle catches, numbness in the muscles and so on…. Numerous
ailments. So keeping your floors and walls pasted with cow-dung, you will be
safe from all cold related ailments and diseases. Our ancestors knew it way
long back, they used this natural, non-harmful technique to keep themselves
warm. But nowadays, current generation uses all costly things to keep them warm,
Costly sweaters, leather shoes, woolen socks.
If you keep your walls and floors warm, I can say u can
walk bare foot and can wear very less clothes to keep yourself warm. Marble
stones are very attractive, looks luxurious but people who live inside this
kind of house invite all ailments and woman at house nowadays are much prone to
cold and are getting all kinds of ailments at very young age. Its better that
we understand why our ancestors did, followed this vedic way of living and were
far healthier than us. Atleast apply the cowdung paste in corridors, where we
walk regularly and if you want luxurious
look in your bedrooms, there you can avoid it. In this way we can live a happy,
healthy life.
Lead life the vedic or old traditional way. Its
time-tested by generations.
Jai Hind
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