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1. Fuel - cow dung patties (gootte) for cooking

2. Fertilizer - composting makes it even more powerful

3. Heat source - cow dung is naturally hot -compost makes hotter put in glass house to heat glass house or run pipes thru it to get hot water.

3. Purifier - natural antiseptic qualities

4. Floor coating - used mixed with mud and water on floors in mud houses. Improves water absorption of mud. Prevents muddy puddles resulting from spilt water.

5. Mud brick additive - improves resistance to disintegration

6. Skin tonic - mixed with crushed neem leaves smeared on skin - good for boils and heat rash (SP used it for heat rash in Mayapur.)

7. Smoke producer - smoldering cow patties keep away mosquitoes. Can also make smoked paneer over such smoke. Tastes great in pasta! /images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

Ash - from patties used in cooking. -

8. Pot cleaner - used dry absorbs oil and fat wet as a general cleaner

9. Brass polisher - tamarind removes oxidation - wet ashes polishes

10. Fertilizer - alkaline - cow dung ash is basically lime with a few other mineral mixed in

11. Mud additive - dries up slippery mud puddles

12. Mud brick additive - mud and lime (cow dung ashes) becomes like cement

13. Pond PH balancer - thrown into pond neutralizes acid.

14. Tooth polish -

15. Sun-dried organic recreational-aerodynamic-device -cow patty Frisbees /images/graemlins/wink.gif

16. Fan for fire - large cow patties can be used as make shift fans.

17. Deity worship - ingredient in panca gavya

 

Any more?

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Skeeters don't like smoke. That is why it is good to burn incense outside around you to keep mosquitoes away.

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