1. Ramswaroop S. Chauhan, he served the country in various capacities including Assistant Professor/ADIO (1983-96), Associate Professor (1996- 1999), National Fellow (1999-2004) and Joint Director (CADRAD), IVRI, Izatnagar (2004-2009), Director & Vice-Chancellor (2009), ICAR-IVRI and Campus Director, IBT, Patwadangar (2009-2013). During his tenure as academician and scientist, he has written 102 books including 35 manuals and 1 monograph very popular among the student world over. He contributed 99 chapters in different books and published 231 research and 59 review papers. Besides, he participated in International / National Conferences and presented 178 papers. He also popularized science among the common man by publishing 345 semi-technical articles including19 pamphlets. He educated the scientists, Veterinary Officers, Para Veterinary Staff, farmers, butchers and delivered technical expert lectures in more than139 trainings. Besides, Dr Chauhan has been invited by All India Radio and TV at 27 occasions to broadcast/telecast his expert talk. He is life member of 15 scientific bodies and has been in several executive committee such as Chairman, President, Vice President, Zonal Secretary, Joint Secretary. and Registrar ICVP, etc. Based on his contributions and scientific achievements, he has been awarded with several prizes, medals and honours. He has been inducted in many national and international scientific/advisory committees and boards including Member, WHO/IPCS Committee on Environmental Health Criteria. Dr Chauhan added many new including Enterotoxaemia, Pyometra, ETEC infection in camels, isolated camel pox virus, developed rapid diagnostic test DIA for the first time in India. He reported role of cell mediated immunity in rotavirus infection in calves. His pioneer work includes immunopathology due to pesticides, heavy metals, mycotoxins and nanoparticles. Dr Chauhan developed a new method using MTT dye for detection of CMI response. He has scientifically validated Panchgavya and named it as “Cowpathy”. He has been PI of 25 research projects worth millions of Rupees and Co-PI in 2 research projects funded by GBPUAT, DST, ICAR, UPCAR, Industry, DADF, IVRI, Govt. of Uttarakhand etc. Dr Chauhan have been recognized internationally as visiting Professor, University of Wageningen and Advisor, WHO. He also acted as Managing Editor, Journal of Immunology and Immunopathology; Editorin- Chief, International Journal of Cow Science; Editor, The Indian Cow; Editor, CDDL and RDDLs Newsletter and Editor and Chief Editor, Indian Journal of Veterinary Pathology. Dr Chauhan developed 42 CD-ROMs on various topics such as “Environmental Pollution and Immunopathology”, “Veterinary Pathology”, “Herbal Immunomodulation” etc. Dr Chauhan guided more than 50 scholars for their Masters and Doctoral research; most of them are placed as Professors, Scientists, Officers in Indian Army, banks and industry in India and abroad. At present he is working as Head Veterinary Pathology, Chairman Scientific Advisory Committee ICMRNARFBR, Member AWBI and CPCSEA (Govt of India). He contributed a lot as Chairman / Member of the committees for preparation of guidelines on poultry/ birds, Reuse and rehabilitation of large animals, Grading of Animal Facilities, NIAW for making it operational. 2. Prof (Dr) Yashpal Singh Malik is serving as Dean, College of Animal Biotechnology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana, Punjab. He served previously as ICAR-National Fellow at IVRI, Izatnagar India. He is having rich experience in the field of Virology and Biotechnology. His major research achievements include contributions in viral disease epidemiology, virus-host interactions, microbial biodiversity, characterization and diagnosis of animal pathogens. Fore more details click https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2832-4854
<p>Cows are intelligent, emotional, and affectionate creatures which form strong social bonds within their herd and with humans. Cows show their affection with cute and friendly behavior much like a dog would, for example by following you around, licking you, and letting you pet them. According to research, cows are generally quite intelligent animals who can remember things for a long time. Animal behavior scientists have found that they interact in socially complex ways, developing friendships over time and sometimes holding grudges against other cows who treat them badly. It's a positive energy exchange. The person cuddling the cow becomes relaxed by being next to the cow's warmer body and sometimes even manages to follow their heartbeat. It's a win-win situation and great experience for both. When cows are happy, they sprint around and jump into the air with excitement. Cows love to be petted, stroked, and scratched behind the ears. They are very loving and welcome interactions with kind people. Indigenous cow is considered as sacred in Indian literature because its products like urine, dung, milk, curd and butter has many wonderful medicinal properties. Among these products cow urine has recently caught the attention of the researchers and a lot of work is going on its medicinal properties. Cow urine is found to have bioenhancing properties, i.e. it adds to the effect of antibiotics when used in combination. It is can be used as an alternative to the antibiotics in feed additives. Cow urine has antioxidant properties; it can prevent the damage to DNA caused by the environmental stress. It has been found to be a very good immunoen-hancer. And interestingly these properties have been found only in the urine of indigenous cow not in the urine of other species like buffalo, goat or not even in cross bred cows. Indigenous cow urine distillate from Badri cow, Gangatiri cow, Sahiwal cow and Gir cow showed promising results on immunomodulation in in vivo experiments carried out in mice, rats and rabbits. All parameters of immunity including total leucocyte count, absolute lymphocyte count, absolute neutrophil count, serum proteins, serum globulins, serum gammaglobulins,, serum IgG titer, B- and Tlymphocyte blastogenesis assays, DTH reaction, macrophage function assays, gross and histopathological examination of lymphoid organs were indicative of immunomodulatory effects of cow urine distillate. Even in another experiments, it has been observed that the cow urine distillate also minimizes the harmful effects of pesticides and restored the proper immune functions. During the past few years, cow urine therapy has provided promising and authentic results for the treatment of cancer, a deadly malady which is being faced by the mankind and the incidences of which are ever increasing in the current scenario of changed lifestyle and food habits along with exposure to predisposing factors of carcinogens such as tobacco chewing, smoking, alcohol intake, environmental pollutants, occupational health hazards etc. Anti-cancer potential of cow urine therapy has been reflected by several case reports, success stories and practical feedback of patients for the treatment of cancer. Considering the importance it is planned to prepare a document based on research work carried out in by the scientists of various institutes/ universities in India in the form of a book with guidelines to the future research possibilities and priorities in order to achieve the goal of one health. An attempt has been made in this direction leading to the development of this book on “COWPATHY AND HUMAN HEALTH” in which papers from different scientists, NGOs and marketing professionals were included. In our opinion this book will serve as a reference to all the young scientists for their future endeavors. Also it will be useful to the gaushala managers, panchgavya professionals, manufacturing units, marketing professionals, teachers, and students in their programmes. In spite of all precautions and correctness, a human factor of error always remain, for which we will welcome your comments/corrections and will try to overcome in next edition of the book. The grants received from Animal Welfare Board of India and Go Thirth Ashram is thankfully acknowledged.<br></p>
