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TO GO WITH India-science-medicine-research-cows, FEATURE by Rupam Jain Nair In this February 27, 2010 photograph, storekeeper Pappu Yadav at the Shree Jagannath Mandir Aushadhalaya pharmacy displays a bottle of cough syrup made from cow urine in Ahmedabad. A laboratory in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad is one of a growing number of research centres which have embraced the sacred status of cows in India and sought to push it to a new level. Promoting the practical alongside the spiritual, they have developed a line of dung- and urine-based medicines which they say can cure a whole herd of ailments from bad breath to cancer. AFP PHOTO/ Sam PANTHAKY (Photo credit should read SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images)

TO GO WITH India-science-medicine-research-cows, FEATURE by Rupam Jain Nair In this February 27, 2010 photograph, storekeeper Pappu Yadav at the Shree Jagannath Mandir Aushadhalaya pharmacy displays a bottle of cough syrup made from cow urine in Ahmedabad. A laboratory in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad is one of a growing number of research centres which have embraced the sacred status of cows in India and sought to push it to a new level. Promoting the practical alongside the spiritual, they have developed a line of dung- and urine-based medicines which they say can cure a whole herd of ailments from bad breath to cancer. AFP PHOTO/ Sam PANTHAKY (Photo credit should read SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images)
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