TITLE OF THE INVENTION:
Natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION:
The present invention relates to incense sticks made of natural organic ingredients, mainly cow dung which burn without giving out fumes of carbon monoxide.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION:
Incense is aromatic biotic material which releases fragrant smoke when burned. It is used for a variety of purposes including ceremonies of all main religions, to overcome bad smell, repel insects, spirituality, aromatherapy, meditation, pleasure and various other purposes. Incense is composed of aromatic plant materials often combined with essential oils. The forms taken by incense differ with the underlying culture and have changed with the advances in technology and increasing diversity in the reasons for burning it. Incense comes of two different types. The indirect burning incense is not capable of burning on its own and requires a separate heat source while the direct burning incense is lit directly by a flame and then fanned or blown out leaving a glowing ember that smoulders and releases fragrance.
Countries like India have a rich tradition of using incense in many social and religious occasions since time immemorial. In incense sticks, also known as agarbatti, an incense paste is rolled or moulded around a bamboo stick. This method of making incense stick originated in India and is different from the Nepalese, Tibetian and Japanese methods of incense stick making in which bamboo stick is not used. Other forms of incense include cones, logs and Benzoin resins which are incense pastes formed in shapes of pyramids or logs and then dried.

US Patent 5914119 discusses process and product for attracting animals and covering human scent in which an improved animal lure and cover scent process and product employs a combustible absorbent material impregnated with an aromatic substance having fragrance attractive to an animal, with the absorbent material being of restricted combustibility such that the absorbent material tends to smoke without producing a flame as it burns, the smoke entraining the fragrance with it as it travels through the air. The combustible absorbent material of the present invention is in the form of an incense stick wherein a cellulosic material formed from sawdust is coated on one end of a combustible bamboo stick. A weather shield protects the incense stick from wind and rain.
US Patent 6488875 discloses a method of manufacturing no-stick multi-color incense in which incense is mixed with wood powder and an adhesive in powder form evenly and then the mixture is added into a liquid containing pigment and fragrance, stirred into a one-color glutinous paste and compressed into a single-color chunk by machines. The same procedures above-mentioned are repeated several times to obtain chunks with different colors. These mono-color chunks are cut into small cubes. The cubes are mixed together, piled on top of each other with different colors and then extruded by extruding machine to form incense with multiple colors. After drying, no-stick multi-color incense is obtained.
US Patent Application 20130171032 provides electronic incense stick having high light usage efficiency which includes a transparent tube, a first non-transparent coating, a second non-transparent coating, and a laser diode. The tube includes an opened end and a bulb portion formed at an opposite end. The first non-transparent coating is formed on a major part of an outer surface of the tube adjacent to the bulb portion. The second non-transparent coating is formed on a part of the outer surface that is not covered by the first non-transparent coating. The laser diode

is positioned at the opened end and configured for emitting a laser light beam which transmits to the bulb portion along a central axis of the tube.
JP 2004002216 provides an incense stick and incense having a suppressed amount of smoking and contributing to recycling of wastes. The method for producing the incense stick and incense comprises the following steps. A step (SI) of carbonizing tickets or paper tubes becoming the wastes into charcoal with a carbonization apparatus, a step (S2a) of powdering the resultant charcoal, then a step (S3) of preparing the resultant powder together with powder of a raw material for the incense stick (Machilus thunbergii, etc.), a step (S4) of kneading the prepared material, a step (S5) of extruding and cutting out the kneaded material to a suitable length with a shaping machine, a step (S6) of drying the cut material with a dryer and then a step (S7) of bundling the dried material for each constant amount and packing the bundled material into a box.
JP 2011168496 gives aroma incense stick to solve the problem wherein aromas of flowers, leaves, whole plants and fruits are easily volatilized and thus large amounts thereof need to be kneaded into incense sticks when used as raw materials, which requires a large cost and may result in excessively strong, offending aromas. The oil-based aromas of flowers, leaves, whole plants and fruits are adsorbed onto a molecular sieve and used as a part of raw materials of an incense stick. This suppresses emission of the aromas immediately after production and enhances emission of the oil-based aromas when burnt.
JPH 0820519 relates to incense composition composed of an incombustible or flame-retardant natural material powder, a vehicle, a disintegrator and a binder, having a specified apparent specific gravity, capable of compression molding and disposable after use as anincense without causing an environmental pollution by the decomposition method or the incineration method

according to the environmental condition. This composition capable of compression molding is composed of a non-toxic natural material, excellent in safety to fire and useful for production of an incense capable of being enzymatically or microbially disintegrated in the soil or water to return to dust or combustible after dispose. This composition has 0.2 to 0.6 apparent specific gravity. From this composition, a shaped incense can be obtained by compression molding.; As the natural material powder, manasseite powder, diatomaceous earth, talc, bentonite, rouge, oyster, graphite, a fine powder of a natural fiber, etc., is used. Crystalline cellulose, corn starch, magnesium carbonate, etc., is used as the vehicle and a starch sizing agent, carboxy-methylcellulose, etc., is used as the binder. If a powdery agar-agar is used as the disintegrator, the resultant compression-molded material can be readily disintegrated.
JPH 07187904 describes an incense stick such as mosquito stick and incense stick for household Buddhist shrine capable of prolonging the burning period without causing the dying out and, accordingly, keeping the smoking period comparable to or longer than that of conventional incense stick even by reducing the weight and size of the stick and exhibiting excellent dissipation rate of the active component. Defatted rice bran is compounded as a component of a base material of an incense stick. Defatted rice bran is mixed with powder of extraction residue of pyrethrum, a burning assistant such as wood flour and leaf or stalk powder of cedar and tea, starch such as laurel powder and corn starch and optionally a mildew- proofing agent such as dehydroacetic acid, a colorant, etc.; The obtained composition is further compounded with an active component such as an insecticide in the case of mosquito incense or a perfume in the case of an incense stick for household Buddhist shrine and kneaded with water. The kneaded mixture is extrusion molded to the weight and size to continue the smoking for about 7hr in the case of mosquito incense or for about 40-50min in the case of incense stick for household Buddhist

shrine. The mosquito incense is produced by extrusion molding the composition in the form of a sheet, punching the sheet in spiral form and drying the product.
TW 574177 discusses manufacturing method of smokeless incense which adds 1% to 3% of smokeless binder and 20% to 50% of powdery magnesium carbonate into powdery anthracite to form main incense raw material; the above-mentioned incense raw material can be used to prepare incense products such as stick incense, coil incense, tower incense, etc. Because the major component is inorganic anthracite, no smoke and no smell are produced during burning and thus no harmful smoke is caused; if essence or natural scent is added, a scent without any undesired smell is generated during burning.
TW 201043177 discloses the composition and structure of energy-saving and carbon-reducing incense stick which includes incense powder and stick. Wherein, the incense powder is made by the mixture of coconut powder, wood powder and adhesives. The coconut powder can prolong the burning time of the incense stick, and its ratio is around 40 % of the incense powder mixture. The wood powder is a powder mixture made by sandalwood powder and sunk wood powder, and its ratio is around 40 % of the incense powder. The adhesives is made by Phoebe Zhennan bark powder to adhere coconut powder and wood powder, and its ratio is around 20% of the incense powder. By applying the pressure, one end of stick is wrapped in the incense powder to be the incense stick. In other words, said incense stick is produced by applying pressure on the incense powder to sodify it to be pillar shape.
KR 20140093416 provides a body ashes rites incense and the manufacturing method thereof wherein cremains ancestral rite incense is manufactured by kneading mixed powder of 10-40 weight% of cremains powder, 80-50 weight% of wood flour, and 5-15 weight% of charcoal powder with water containing a water soluble adhesive, molding the kneaded mixture into

a stick or a pipe shape in a mold, and then compressing and drying the molded mixture. In a process of combusting the top of the cremains ancestral riteincense, cremains powder can be naturally released into the atmosphere or be exhausted into an ash form in order to prevent damage to the natural ecological environment due to illegal speculation of the cremains powder by the bereaved family. In addition, when the cremains ancestral rite incense is used in ancestral rites for commemorating the memory of a deceased person, religious events, etc., people can devoutly commemorate the deceased person in the process of sending the cremains powder lastly left by the deceased person to the nature.
CN 1023002326 gives making method for Chinese medicinal herb health incense which comprises the following steps of: mixing cassia bark, dried orange peel, quilled cinnamon bark, sandalwood, fennel, galangal, aniseed, acanthopanax bark, nardostachys root, Yunnan costus root, resurrectionlily rhizome, Szechuan lovage rhizome and liquorice, putting the materials into a screen crusher, and grinding the materials into Chinese medicinal herb powder with granularity of 60 to 80 meshes; adding the Chinese medicinal herb powder, elm wood powder and water into a stirring hopper of a stirrer, and stirring the powder and the water uniformly to form incense making paste; putting the incense making paste into an incense making machine, and pressing the incense making paste into a wet incense stick material;; and putting the wet incense stick material on an incense airing rack, naturally airing the wet incense stick material till the water content is less than or equal to 15 percent, and thus obtaining a dry incense stick material. Chemical essence and dyes are not added in the making process of the method, and the adopted raw materials are all from the nature, so the method meets the environment-friendly requirement, and the health incense is suitable

for incense burning blessing in households and temples and does not generate pungent harmful gas such as black smoke and the like.
CN 103536177 relates to an incense body used for moxa, the moxa and a producing method thereof. The incense body used for the moxa is characterized by consisting of the following components in parts by weight: 20-35 parts of wormwood powder, 15-20 parts of natural adhesive powder, and 5-10 parts of charcoal powder. A moxa stick comprises a support stick and the incense body, wherein the incense body is wrapped at the upper part of the support stick and is characterized in that the incense body is the incense body used for the moxa, and the support stick is a bamboo stick with the diameter of 0.8-3.0 mm. Meanwhile, the moxa also can be made into granular moxa. According to the invention, the moxa is made of a pure natural raw material without any chemical article, and the produced finished moxa emits slight perfume after being ignited, so that the air equality is adjusted, the propagation of bacteria in air is suppressed, and the effects of expelling parasites and mosquitoes, dispelling cold and removing dampness are achieved.
Indian Patent Application quotes incense composition and method of preparing the same comprising planets (new grah) influencing ingredients comprising water, saw dust, jigat powder, guar gum, charcoal, black sesame, urad, mustard oil, harbs powder, shami samidha, iron powder, black color, fragrance, and a method of preparation of the compositions comprising saturn plnat influencing ingredients.
Although a number of incense sticks made of natural ingredients are available in the prior art, keeping in view the aesthetic and environmental benefits of using cow dung, a cow dung incense stick that imparts all the aesthetic benefits of cow dung to the modern society, masks the

odour of cow dung, provides fragrance and doesn't emit carbon monoxide gas on burning is the need of the day.
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION:
The main object of the invention is to provide for natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung along with other ingredients like herbs, natural oils, natural resins and tree saps which when burnt, do not produce any harmful gases like carbon monoxide.
Another object of the invention is to provide for natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung which are made in different variations by adding different essential oils for fragrances along with their corresponding herbs to provide desired benefits.
Still another object of the invention is to provide for natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung in which fragrance ingredients are added to the base and no artificial chemicals are used which may dilute the fragrance,
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide for natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung in which the incense is wrapped on bamboo sticks by machines.
A further object of the present invention is to provide for natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung in which each stick burns for almost an hour.
A still further object of the present invention is to provide for natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung which provide both health and aesthetic benefits to mankind.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:
The present invention provides natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung which are made by machines using herbs, natural oils, natural resins and tree saps along with cow dung

for which dried cow dung is pulverized and mixed with tree sap, required essential oils for providing fragrance, their respective herbs and cow ghee. Bigger particles are removed and after homogenization and mixing with water, the mixture is added to machines to compress and wrap the mixture around bamboo or neem tree sticks to prepare the incense sticks. These sticks are made from organic substances and do not use charcoal or any other harmful gases emitting chemicals making them safe in burning.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION:
The nature of the invention and the manner in which it is performed is clearly described in the specification. The invention has various components and they are clearly described in the detailed description.
Incense burning has been used since ancient times to create pleasing aromas and for medicinal purposes. Its use as medicine has been described in the first phase of Ayurveda which uses incense as an approach to healing. The aroma spread by incense sticks is divine and so has aesthetic or religious importance. According to ayurveda, the ingredients needed for incense making include ether, water, stems and branches, roots, flowers, leaves etc. Most incenses are made by dipping an unscented blank non-perfumed stick into a mixture of perfumes and essential oils.
The basic ingredients for making incense sticks are bamboo sticks, paste made from charcoal combined with other ingredients and perfume ingredients which is a mixture of ground ingredients. To prepare incense sticks, bamboo stick is rolled in the mixture of ground ingredients or into a perfume liquid consisting of synthetic ingredients. This process is usually done by hand.

Nowadays natural incense is usually made using easily available chimney charcoal or saw dust or any other wood. Once it is made, it is dipped in chemical perfume to provide good fragrance. When burnt, these incense sticks create lots of harmful gases which pose health risks to the user, inhaler and to the environment.
The present invention comprises of natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung which has cow dung as its main ingredient along with other ingredients like herbs, natural oils, natural resins and tree sap. All these ingredients used are natural and organic due to which these incense sticks do not emit harmful, gases in the atmosphere due to which the burning of these incenses is safe.
The process of making the incense sticks of the present invention initially involves the selection of indigenous cows among which forest grazing cows are preferred. The feeding habits and type of grass given to these cows to eat are studied. If required, this diet is amended by adding more fibrous food and few medicinal plants. The selected cows are sheltered in a cow shed which has plastered flooring so that no sand gets mixed with the cow dung. The cow dung obtained is then sun dried on sand free ground for 3 to 5 days. Then the dung is pulverized to small particles of 200-300 mesh size. This pulverized cow dung is then packed in fresh bags and stored in moisture free area. To make the incense sticks, 50 to 75% dried, pulverized cow dung, is mixed with makko (incense powder) or similar binder of tree origin. After it gets mixed, respective herbs and their corresponding essential oils and resins or tree sap are added to the mixture for fragrance. Cow ghee is added to this mixture to facilitate combustion. After this mixture is mixed, it is passed through electronic sieve to eliminate the bigger particles in the mixture and to get uniform sized particles. After this homogenization, the mixture is mixed with cow urine and water and added to an automatic machine which compresses and wraps this

mixture around bamboo or neem tree sticks to get the finished product. These sticks are then sun dried and packed in pouches which are then packed in individual boxes.
The incense sticks of the present invention are available in different variations which vary in the use of essential oils for fragrance and herbs. Some of these variants are grouped into two different series.
1. The yoga series which include variants like Loban, Oudh, Guggul, Frankincense and Amber.
2. The natural series which include variants like Neem, Kewda, Champa, Watermelon and Kesar Chandan.
Other similar variants of the incense stick of the present invention can be made using different herbs and their corresponding essential oils. All these variants give pleasing aroma.
Cow dung is considered sacred and pure not only by Hindus but also in other religions like Islam, Jains, Buddhists, Sikhs and others. Cow dung is a natural organic substance which is available in abundance but has not been used in making incense sticks due to its characteristics of absorbing fragrance which gets absorbed by its odour. So cow dung is commonly used for nonconventional activities like burning cow dung cakes in fire for sacrifice known as yagyas. This burning of cow dung at various places, not only fulfils religious activities and purifies the atmosphere, but also repels insects and mosquitoes, eliminating their menace and the health risks caused by them to the people inhabiting the place.
The incense sticks of the present invention have been specially designed to attain maximum fragrance from cow dung when burnt. So when these sticks are burnt, they provide the benefit of doing the religious activity of fire sacrifice or yagya at the place of burning which can be conveniently done on daily basis. These incense sticks are made from cow dung in sharp

contrast to the regular incense sticks made from unhealthy chimney charcoal. These incense sticks contain herbs, cow ghee and oils which aren't present in normally available incense sticks. They also contain natural resins, herbs, tree sap and essential oils for fragrance among which only essential oils may be present in regular incense sticks but tree sap and natural resins aren't present. In the incense sticks of the present invention, the fragrance ingredients are added, without dilution with artificial chemicals, to the base due to which they emit pleasant aroma and mask the odour of the cow dung which repels urban life from using them. While in regular incense sticks, the incense sticks, after being made, are dipped in fragrance which has been diluted with fragrance. In the incense sticks of the present invention, the cow dung burns to give out fumes without carbon monoxide while the regular incense sticks when burnt may emit carbon monoxide and other harmful gases based on the chemicals used for their making and the coal source. The incense sticks of the present invention are wrapped on bamboo sticks by
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machine while in regularly available incense sticks, only few are wrapped on bamboo sticks by machine while most of them are hand made.
The incense sticks of the present invention are highly advantageous as fragrance is added in their base, cow dung, which absorbs the fragrance and suppresses the odour of the cow dung thereby purifying the atmosphere and making these incense sticks favoured by people who normally repel use of cow dung items due to its odour. Burning of these incense sticks also gives the user, the satisfaction of doing fire sacrifice or yagya conveniently on a daily basis. Moreover, burning of these incense sticks also repel the breeding and propagation of insects and mosquitoes making the atmosphere safe and healthy. These incense sticks smell like normally available incense sticks and give pleasant fragrance. Each of these incense sticks burn for a longer duration of approximately 55 to 60 minuses. So they last for a long time. Moreover the

use of these incense sticks creates a market for cow dung which is purchased for making these incense sticks thereby helping in saving and caring for milking as well as non-milking cows.
Although the preferred embodiment as well as the method and use have been specifically described, it should be understood that variations in the preferred embodiment could be achieved by a person skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the invention. The invention has been described with reference to specific embodiment which is merely illustrative and not intended to limit the scope of the invention as defined in the claims.

I / We claim,
1. Natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung which contain cow dung as its base along with herbs, natural oils, natural resins and tree saps and are hand made and machine made imparting all the health and spiritual benefits of burning cow dung to the user.
2. The natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung as claimed in claim 1 wherein, the fumes emitted from the incense sticks when burnt, do not contain carbon monoxide or any other harmful gases eliminating any kind of health risk to the user and to the environment as well as repels mosquitoes and insects thereby protecting people from various diseases.
3. The natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung as claimed in claim 1 wherein, the incense sticks are available in different variations depending upon the type of natural oils and tree saps used which impart different kinds of fragrances to the incense sticks.
4. The natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung as claimed in claim 3 wherein, the variants of the incense sticks include but are not limited to:

(a) the yoga series which include variants like but are not limited to Loban, Oudh, Guggul, Frankincense and Amber; and
(b) the natural series which include variants like but are not limited to Neem, Kewda, Chmpa, Watermelon and Kesar Chandan.
5. The natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung as claimed in claim 1 wherein, the
process for manufacturing the incense sticks right from the initial level involves the
following steps:
(a) selecting of indigenous cows preferably forest grazing ones;

(b) studying of the feeding habits and type of grass given to cows;
(c) making amendment in the diet of the cows by adding more fibrous food and few medicinal plants if required;
(d) sheltering these cows in sheds with plaster flooring so that no sand gets mixed with cow dung;
(e) drying the cow dung in sun on sand free ground for 3 - 5 days;
(f) pulverizing the cow dung to 200 - 300 mesh size;
(g) packing the cow dung in fresh bags and storing them in moisture free area;
(h) mixing around 50% to 75% of cow dung with makko which is a natural binder or
similar binder of tree origin; (i) addition of the desired herbs and their corresponding essential oils, resins and tree
saps for imparting fragrance; (j) addition of cow ghee in the mixture to facilitate combustion; (k) mixing this mixture and passing it through electronic sieve to eliminate bigger
particles in the mixture and get uniform sized particles; (1) mixing the mixture with cow urine and water after homogenization and adding to
automatic machine to compress and wrap this mixture around bamboo or neem tree
sticks to get the finished product; and (m)sun drying these incense sticks and packing of these sticks in pouches followed by
packing in individual boxes.

6. The natural organic incense sticks made of cow dung substantially herein described with reference to the foregoing description.