Trivendra Singh Rawat extols medicinal properties of cow, says it’s the ‘only animal which exhales oxygen’ 

Trivendra Singh Rawat.

Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, in a video, on Thursday, extolled the medicinal properties of cow milk and urine at a function.

Rawat claimed that cow is the only animal which inhales and exhales oxygen, and has asserted breathing problems can be cured by massaging it. He added that living in close proximity with the animal can cure one of tuberculosis.

While requesting anonymity, he said, “While the medicinal values of cow milk and urine are well known, people in the hills also believe that the cow gives them oxygen.”

Rawat’s remarks come at a time when a BJP MP from his state, Nainital’s Lok Sabha representative Ajay Bhatt, raised eyebrows when he said women can avoid caesarean deliveries by drinking water of Garud Ganga, a river in Bageshwar district.  

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