尿療法講座會

由丹中華文學會主辦的“神奇的尿療法”講座經2月22日星期二在中華獨中的校園圓滿結束。吉隆坡的主講者林延甲博士擁有多年的尿療經驗，他早年曾患心臟病，因為需要清幽的環境，所以就住進森林療養。也因為在森林里水源難尋，他唯有以自己的尿來解渴。經過多年，他發現到他的心臟病已不藥而癒也因此激起了他對尿療的研究，並將他研究出的成果帶出人類社會。

就林博士多年的經驗，他發現尿療對高血壓、心臟病、糖尿病、甚至癌症等病，都會有接近97％的治癒。

而且他還表示，將尿液滴入近視的眼睛，也能將近視治好，他本身以前也曾患上500度的近視，但經過尿療法，以將之治好。此外，尿也是一種保健品，他表示只要每天將一滴尿液加入一杯水中，就能使百病不生，也能加強自身的体抗力，強化體質。也可以使身材回復原形，也就是說可以減肥或增胖。

而且他也發現到，近年來醫學界也漸漸的開始運用尿。有些藥品的成份也含有尿，例如避孕藥、維生素Ａ、維生素Ｅ等。也有醫院將尿液一點滴的方式滴進人體里；也有將尿液制成藥丸的，但這些都是昂貴的成品，而且也因為製造過程中有一定的過濾，把一些有用的物質也過濾掉，保存不完整的營養，所以也不比自身的尿來得好，而且在一定程度上比較干淨。

這場講座除了吸引丹中全效師生的參与，也有大量來賓家長前來支持，使得全場座無虛席。在聽眾發問期間，也碰到不少有趣的問題。例如有同學問：“喝了會不會長高？”、“尿會不會難喝？”、“有沒有臭味？”、“要喝多久才有效果？”等問題。林博士也運用了高度的幽默來回答聽眾們偶爾暴出哄堂大笑，使全場一直維持在充滿知性与性的氣氛里。

（黃麗潔報導）

Urine Therapy: an Amazing Untold Story

"When all other medicines and remedies failed, urine therapy successfully treated this woman's lifelong 'incurable' illness"

AN AMAZING UNTOLD STORY

There is an extraordinary natural healing substance, produced by our own bodies, that modern medical science has proven to be one of the most powerful natural medicines known to man. Unlike many other natural medical therapies, this method requires no monetary investment or doctor's intervention and can be easily accessed and used at any time. The extensive medical research findings on this natural medicine have never been compiled and released to the general public before now, but those who have been fortunate enough to hear about this medicine and use it have found that it can produce often astounding healing even when all other therapies have failed.
This book tells of the doctors, medical researchers and the hundreds of other people who have used this extraordinary medicine throughout our century to cure a huge variety of common illnesses and combat even the most incurable diseases. This is the extraordinary untold story of a natural healing substance so remarkable that it can only be called our own perfect medicine. My own experience with this little-known natural medicine began as a result of my search for an answer to many years of serious chronic illnesses that had begun very early in life. Like thousands of people today, I had developed chronic, degenerative disorders that couldn't be helped by conventional medicine and which threatened to destroy permanently my ability to work, function and simply enjoy life.
When I was young, I suffered through the same measles, mumps, chicken pox and colds that everyone else did. And like other children, I played hard, worked hard, and dreamed of the day when I would become a vigorous, emancipated teenager, just like everyone else. But, for me, that particular dream wasn't going to come true. One beautiful July morning at the age of 12, I awoke with a start. Suddenly, surprised and frightened, I realised I was lying in a dark red pool of blood that was so large it had soaked through even the thick layers of my mattress. Trembling and weak, I pushed myself up out of bed and felt a horrible, wrenching pain tear through my abdomen.

My worried mother came running in answer to my screams, but, after assessing the situation, said there really wasn't much she could do about the pain of my first menstrual period. But what neither she nor I knew at the time was that what should have been a natural transition to adolescence and menstruating was, for me, going to become a waking nightmare that lasted almost 30 years. At the onset of each one of my monthly menstrual periods I would invariably end up either in my doctor's office or at the emergency room of the hospital screaming with pain, bleeding copiously and passing huge clots of blood.

For several months after my 'periods from hell' began, my mother chauffeured me around the city from doctor to doctor with no success until our family doctor finally instituted a monthly regimen of painkillers such as Demerol or Darvon injections and then sent me home with a big, round bottle of full-strength prescription codeine with which I proceeded to dope myself senseless for the next eight to 10 days. This same cycle was repeated every month for almost 20 years.
Throughout adolescence, the simple everyday functions of getting up and going to school were an often monumental and utterly exhausting effort for me. Unlike the rest of my family and friends, I had marked periods of extreme exhaustion. I became extremely susceptible to colds and flu and felt bone-chillingly cold all the time-even in the warmest summer weather.
By the age of 14, the effort of combating severe chronic pain and fatigue while trying to keep up normal activities became impossible. I collapsed and had to be hospitalised and removed from school for several months. But even after a huge battery of medical tests and innumerable visits with doctors and specialists, no one was able to diagnose what was causing my problems.
After many weeks I returned to school and struggled through the high-school years with the aid of generous amounts of codeine and other strong painkillers that my doctor willingly prescribed. But by the time I left home for college, the symptoms of bleeding, exhaustion, pain and digestive problems became so bad that I often was unable even to leave my room or take part in daily activities.
I kept up the Demerol injections and codeine for many years and added to my regimen several other new painkillers and drugs which had been developed for menstrual problems. But the problems continued unabated, and in the ensuing years I developed myriad other serious health problems.

During the years from age 18 to 30 I was diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory disease, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease or ileitis (a chronic, painful inflammation of the colon), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), Hashimoto's disease (a disorder of the thyroid gland) and mononucleosis.

I had severe chronic kidney infections, two miscarriages, chronic cystitis, severe candida and external yeast infections along with marked adrenal insufficiency and serious chronic ear and sinus infections for which I was prescribed antibiotics on an ongoing basis for several years. Food and chemical allergies also became a big problem, and even though I ate almost nothing because of my extreme food allergies, I actually kept gaining weight, which only added to the discomfort of all the other health disorders with which I was dealing.

The bottles of drugs I had taken during this time could have filled a small landfill, but none of my illnesses or disorders had been resolved and, in fact, they were more debilitating than ever. It seemed as though I had become nothing more than a walking encyclopaedia of disease, and the worst part about the entire situation was that no matter how many failed drug therapies I tried, any visit to the doctor's office only resulted in another discouraging failure.

Another big problem was the drug side-effects. I felt like a ping-pong ball, bouncing from one drug to another as my doctors kept prescribing more and different drugs to counteract the side- effects of the ones I was already taking.
By the time I turned 30, the natural health movement was really picking up speed, and, desperate for any solution, I tried out the Adelle Davis nutrition regimen, megavitamin therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic care and every herbal preparation and drug-free natural health therapy that I could find.
Within two years, my chronic cystitis cleared up and the menstrual pain and bleeding markedly decreased. The ulcerative colitis also responded and the sinus infections disappeared. I felt that I was slowly and surely regaining strength and health and even beginning to experience a portion of the energy and vigour that 'normal' healthy people enjoy-and all without drugs.

When I conceived my son at 34 and made it through the first trimester without miscarrying, I felt as though I'd conquered the final health frontier. Unfortunately, in my burst of enthusiasm, I underestimated the impact of pregnancy on my understandably frail health, and the birth for which I had so carefully prepared was a near-fatal disaster requiring emergency surgery. As it turned out, even despite all the illness and pain I'd gone through in the years before the birth, all of it seemed like child's play after I ran head-on into the serious complications of a difficult childbirth.

For months after the birth I hounded my gynaecologist, complaining of unremitting and severe abdominal cramps, cystitis and horribly painful menstrual periods. My natural health treatments would give temporary relief but, mystifyingly, didn't seem to have the same beneficial and lasting effects that they'd had before my pregnancy.
I underwent every conceivable medical test, each of which came back negative, but the problems just didn't go away. My doctor flinched every time I walked in the door and then sent me back out again with increasingly severe assurances that the pain was "unwarranted" and probably all in my head.

After alienating every doctor in town with my complaints, I finally gave up and decided to 'suffer in silence' until one hot summer day, almost 24 months after the birth, I suddenly fell screaming with pain on my living room floor in front of my terrified two- year-old. I literally had to crawl to the phone to call my husband. When he carried me, screeching, into my OB's office, the doctor clicked his tongue disapprovingly. "Now it can't be that bad, dear. We just checked you out a few months ago," he cajoled.
He gave me codeine and sent me home. Forty-eight hours later I was in the operating room having emergency surgery for multiple-ruptured ovarian tumours.
A couple of days after the procedure, my doctor sauntered into my hospital room with a conciliatory grin on his face. "Gee," he drawled apologetically, "we had no idea anything like this was going to happen. Your ovary looked horrible-engorged to the size of a grapefruit. No wonder you were hurting. Sorry you had to go so long without help but, you know, the tests just never turned up anything. And oh, by the way, the pathologist found a little endometriosis in your right ovary."
Endometriosis is an incurable women's disease in which uterine tissue for some unknown reason detaches itself from the uterus, moves to other locations in the body and attaches itself to other organs or body tissue. This misplaced uterine tissue spontaneously bleeds in response to hormonal changes, causing internal bleeding, scarring and often excruciating pain that can destroy the woman's ability to live and function normally. This disease is not uncommon among women, but it is incurable, at least by conventional medical standards.

My "little" endometriosis turned into the monster that ate Tokyo. Three months after my doctor had 'successfully' operated, I was again sitting in the ultrasound room at the hospital, watching as several new endometrial tumours appeared on the monitor screen, accompanied by the usual excruciating pelvic pain, internal bleeding, constipation, haemorrhagic cystitis and acute exhaustion.

After the ultrasound I decided to contact a doctor who was recommended to me as an expert on endometriosis. He told me that he felt that my health problems had originally stemmed from undiagnosed severe endometriosis and an underactive thyroid which had probably been present since adolescence. He recommended an immediate hysterectomy, which I underwent. The day after the operation, the doctor visited me and compassionately whispered that I would "never have a problem with endometriosis again". But he was wrong.

Twenty months later, I had more tumours and another operation. Three months after that, the pain, tumours and internal bleeding reappeared and I was scheduled for what would by now have been my sixth surgical procedure in five years, which I refused to undergo.

Desperate and seriously debilitated, I flew to Mexico where I spent $15,000 on an intensive course of intravenous megavitamin and live-cell therapy at one of the alternative cancer clinics which had offered some hope for my case. For weeks, doctors poured nutrients and natural medicines into my veins and mouth. I watched as many of the cancer patients around me seemed to get better and better with the treatments. And I did, too-for about two months.

I spent my 40th birthday hopelessly sick and in bed, which was where I stayed that entire year. The drugs, operations and Mexican treatments had completely failed, and my usual herbs and homoeopathic remedies, although they gave temporary relief, seemed almost useless against the disease. And by now, even though I had health insurance, my husband and I had spent over $100,000 of our own money, and still I couldn't even get out of bed.

I had one last surgery which removed another large bleeding tumour. When I got home from the hospital I weighed 89 pounds and developed a post-surgical infection which required several courses of antibiotics. After taking the antibiotics, I developed an extremely severe case of candida (yeast infection). My hands and arms became covered with a horribly itchy fungal infection that nothing could relieve or cure, and I remained generally exhausted, bedridden and in intense pain.

Because of the surgeries, I was also experiencing early and severe menopausal symptoms: hot flushes, mood swings, water retention and depression. But because endometriosis is exacerbated by oestrogen, my doctor recommended that I refrain from taking oestrogen supplements which she said would have relieved the severe and very unpleasant symptoms.

Several months after the surgery, the all-too-familiar endometrial symptoms returned. My doctor assured me that all was well, but when I asked for and received my surgical records from the hospital I found she had written that "all attempts to remove endometriosis will be done, but complete surgical care can rarely be guaranteed; the patient may require further therapy for endometriosis, medically or surgically". For my exhausted and bewildered husband and myself, this prognosis seemed like an insurmountable and final defeat.

I had one more heart-to-heart talk with a gynaecologist who told me, "Given the severity of your case, the reality is that you could be facing a lifetime of corrective surgery." Given the state of my health at the time, I couldn't envision that "lifetime" meant anything more for me than a few additional years of mind-numbing pain and misery before my body finally gave out.

After nearly a lifetime of illness, these last episodes in my late thirties and early forties seemed like the final blow, and in all honesty I felt that there was no way out and no hope in sight. No matter how many times I'd been assured by my doctors that drugs and surgery would cure the endometriosis and my other disorders and make it possible for me to live a normal life, the doctors had been proven wrong.
A few weeks later when I heard that one of my friends from the cancer clinic had died in his sleep, I felt sad for his family but happy for him because he was finally free of his pain and suffering. In many ways I felt that he was the lucky one and I almost wished that the same thing would happen to me. It seemed that death would have been a blessing, especially so that my family could be freed from the seemingly never-ending burden of my illness and be able to get on with their lives.
Sitting alone and discouraged one morning, I glanced up dismally from a book I was reading when my husband came into the room. "I've got something else we can try, honey," he chirped enthusiastically, and proceeded to describe his conversation with a woman who had cured herself of a serious and reportedly incurable kidney disorder by using an unusual therapy. "Whaaat!" I responded after he told me what the therapy was. "I don't think so," I said, and went back to reading my book.

But after several more days and many more horrible episodes of pain and drugs, my husband handed me a small book and said, "You've got to try this." I picked up the book and began to read.

The small, unpretentious-looking book was full of fascinating stories about people who had been cured of even the worst diseases with a seemingly strange and little-known natural therapy. The therapy seemed incredibly effective, yet I still felt reluctant to try it. But as I read further on in the book, the stories were so compelling and the therapy was so simple that suddenly it didn't seem strange or preposterous to me any more. And at this point in my now nearly futile existence, I knew I had absolutely nothing to lose by trying it-so I did.

From the first day I began the therapy, to my immense surprise I got almost instantaneous relief from my incurable constipation and fluid retention. Within a week, my severe abdominal and pelvic pain was unbelievably gone.

The chronic cystitis and yeast infections (internal and external) soon disappeared, and food allergies, exhaustion and digestive problems all began to heal.

After a few more months of the therapy I noticed that, amazingly, my colds, flu, sore throats and viral symptoms, all of which had resurfaced and become chronic after the surgeries, now rarely made an appearance. My hair, which had fallen out in handfuls after my fifth surgery, became thick and lustrous, my weight normalised and my energy and strength increased so markedly that I was even able to work again.
Last summer I hiked four miles into the Grand Canyon. For the first time in many years I can swim and even comfortably ride horseback or on my mountain bike for hours at a time-all formerly unimaginable activities. Much to my own and my family's amazement, I am back at work. After 30 years of almost non-stop illness, I have a rich, full life again-and all because of an unbelievably simple and effective natural medicine that almost none of us even knows exists.

This natural therapy became, for me, a priceless gift of health, as it has for many others. It gave the fastest, most dramatic results of any natural or manmade medical treatment I have ever tried and was truly the miraculous happy ending to my long story of illness and failed medical treatments. By using this simple, natural medicine, along with other natural healing approaches such as homoeopathy, herbs, good nutrition and rest, I have been able to remain consistently disease-free and I feel better and stronger than I have ever felt in my life since that fateful day in July so many years ago. And even though this natural medicine seemed so peculiar to me at first, I later discovered to my surprise that medical researchers have been intensively studying and using this medicinal substance for decades.

As a matter of fact, unknown to the vast majority of the public, this incredibly simple and wonderful natural treatment is a well-proven medical therapy that has been used extensively and successfully throughout the 20th century by doctors and researchers from many different branches of medicine all over the world and has been shown to be amazingly effective in treating a huge variety of illnesses.

It's time that all of us should know about this therapy and about the medical research findings on this truly remarkable natural medicine-which is why I have written this book.

Up until this point, whenever anyone wrote or talked about using this substance for healing, they've been told that it's just an unproven folk remedy or old wives' tale. But, as you'll discover in the following pages, this is completely untrue. The truth is that doctors and medical researchers for years have scientifically proven the tremendous effectiveness of this natural medicine. They just haven't told us about it-for reasons which we'll discuss later on in the book.

This simple, natural method may seem less glamorous than commercial drugs and space-age surgical techniques because it's not glorified by the press or hyped by sophisticated, sugar-coated advertising themes. But when all the manmade medicines in the world can't help, people like myself have been eternally grateful to find that nature has provided this safe, painless solution to even seemingly incurable illnesses.

WHAT MODERN SCIENCE KNOWS ABOUT A MIRACLE MEDICINE (AND ISN'T TELLING)

So what is this mystery miracle medicine and why don't any of us know anything about it? If the body really does produce such an amazing substance, and doctors and scientists have used it to heal people, where are the news reports, the accolades, the commercials, the media hype? You want to know the answer? Then prepare yourself by first opening your mind. Let go of your initial disbelief and preconceptions and get ready for the best-kept secret in medical history. This extraordinary miracle medicine that numerous doctors, researchers and hundreds of people have used for healing is human urine.

Surprised? Now before you scream "I don't believe it!" consider this. Whether you know it or not, you've already re-used and reingested your urine-large amounts of it for a long period of time-and it's one of the reasons you're alive today.
As medical researchers have discovered:

"Urine is the main component of the amniotic fluid that bathes the human fetus. "Normally the baby 'breathes' this urine-filled amniotic fluid into its lungs. If the urinary tract is blocked, the fetus does not produce the fluid, and, without it, the lungs do not develop." (G. Kolata, "Surgery on Fetuses Reveals They Heal Without Scars", The New York Times, Medical Section, 16 August 1988)
This is a fact that probably none of you without a medical background know, but the reality is that urine is absolutely vital to your body's functioning, and the internal and external applications of urine have proven medical ramifications far beyond anything that we, the general public, can imagine. What amazes people most when they first hear about the medical use of urine is that they've never heard of it before. To the vast majority of mankind, urine is nothing more than a somewhat repugnant 'waste' that the body has to excrete in order to function.
But as you'll discover, urine is not a waste product of the body but, rather, an extraordinarily valuable physiological substance that has been shown throughout the history of medical science right up until today to have profound medical uses that most of us know absolutely nothing about.

One of the first things we need to clear up is the common perception of urine. Urine is not what you think it is. As a matter of fact, you probably have no idea what urine is or how your body makes it. In reality, urine is not, as most of us believe, the excess water from food and liquids that goes through the intestines and is ejected from the body. I know that we generally think of urine in just this way: you eat and drink, the intestines 'wring' out the good stuff in the food, and the urine is the leftover, dirty, waste water that your body doesn't want, so it should never, ever be reintroduced into the body in any form-right? Wrong.

No matter how popular a conception, this commonly shared scenario may be, it just isn't true. Urine is not made in your intestines. Urine is made in and by your kidneys. So what does this mean, and why should it change the way you feel about urine?

In layman's language, this is how and why urine is made in the body. When you eat, the food you ingest is eventually broken down in the stomach and intestines into extremely small molecules. These molecules are absorbed into tiny tubules in the intestinal wall and then pass through these tubes into the bloodstream.

The blood circulates throughout your body, carrying these food molecules and other nutrients along with critical immune-defence and regulating elements such as red and white blood cells, antibodies, plasma, microscopic proteins, hormones, enzymes, etc., which are all manufactured at different locations in the body. The blood continually distributes its load of life-sustaining elements throughout the body, nourishing every cell and protecting the body from disease.

As it flows through the body, this nutrient-filled blood passes through the liver where toxins are removed and later excreted from the body in the form of solid waste. Eventually, this purified, 'cleaned' blood makes its way to the kidneys.
When the blood enters the kidneys it is filtered through an immensely complex and intricate system of minute tubules, called nephron, through which the blood is literally 'squeezed' at high pressure. This filtering process removes excess amounts of water, salts and other elements in the blood that your body does not need at the time.

These excess elements are collected within the kidney in the form of a purified, sterile, watery solution called urine. Many of the constituents of this filtered watery solution, or urine, are then re-absorbed by the nephron and delivered back into the bloodstream. The remainder of the urine passes out of the kidneys into the bladder and is then excreted from the body.

So, you say, the body's gotten rid of this stuff for a reason-so why would we want to use it again? And here's the catch. The function of the kidneys is to keep the various elements in your blood balanced. The kidneys do not filter out important elements in the blood because those elements in themselves are toxic or poisonous or bad for the body, but simply because the body did not need that particular concentration of that element at the time it was excreted.

And medical researchers have discovered that many of the elements of the blood that are found in urine have enormous medicinal value, and when they are reintroduced into the body they boost the body's immune defences and stimulate healing in a way that nothing else does. As medical research has revealed: "One of the most important functions of the kidney is to excrete material and substances for which the body has no immediate need..." (A. H. Free, and H. M. Free, Urinalysis in Clinical and Laboratory Practice, CRC Press, Inc., USA, 1975, pp. 13-17)

For instance, the kidneys filter out water and sodium from the blood into the urine. These are both vital life-sustaining elements without which your body cannot function. But both elements could be lethal if there were too much water or sodium in your blood.

Now what about potassium, calcium and magnesium? These are familiar nutrients that we ingest in our food and vitamin pills every day, but they're also in your urine. These nutritional elements are extremely valuable substances to the body, certainly not toxic, and yet the kidney excretes these elements into the urine. Why? Because it's taking out the excess amounts of potassium, calcium, etc. that are not needed by your body at the time they are filtered out. Actually, it is this regulating process of the kidneys and the excretion of urine that allows us to eat and drink more than our bodies need at any one time. "The principal function of the kidney is not excretion, but regulation... The kidney obviously conserves what we need, but, even more, permits us the freedom of excess. That is, it allows us to take in more than we need of many necessities-water and salt, for example-and excrete exactly what is not required." (Dr Stewart Cameron [Professor of Renal Medicine, Guy's Hospital, London], Kidney Disease: The Facts, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1986)

But this isn't the end of the story. Scientists have discovered that urine, because it is actually extracted from our blood, contains small amounts of almost all of the life-sustaining nutrients, proteins, hormones, antibodies and immunising agents that our blood contains. "Urine can be regarded as one of the most complex of all body fluids. It contains practically all of the constituents found in the blood." (A. H. Free and H. M. Free, Urinalysis in Clinical and Laboratory Practice, CRC Press, Inc., USA, 1975, pp. 13-17)

Many medical researchers, unlike most of us, know that far from being a dirty body-waste, fresh, normal urine is actually sterile and is an extraordinary combination of some of the most vital and medically important substances known to man. Now this fact may be unknown to the vast majority of the public today, it is nothing new to modern medicine.

To us, the public, urine seems like an undesirable waste product of the body, but to the medical research community and the drug industry it's been considered to be liquid gold. Don't believe it? Read this:

"Utica, Michigan - Realising it is flushing potential profits down the drain, an enterprising young company has come up with a way to trap medically powerful proteins from urine. Enzymes of America has designed a special filter that collects important urine proteins, and these filters have been installed in all of the men's urinals in the 10,000 portable outhouses owned by the Porta-John company, a subsidiary of Enzymes of America."Urine is known to contain minute amounts of proteins made by the body, including medically important ones such as growth hormone and insulin. There is a $500-million-a-year market for these kinds of urine ingredients. "This summer, Enzymes of America plans to market its first major urine product called urokinase, an enzyme that dissolves blood clots and is used to treat victims of heart attacks. The company has contracts to supply the urine enzyme to Sandoz, Merrell Dow and other major pharmaceutical companies. Ironically, this enterprise evolved from Porta-John's attempt to get rid of urine proteins-a major source of odour in portable toilets. "When the president of Porta-John began consulting with scientists about a urine filtration system, one told him he was sitting on a gold mine. "The idea of recycling urine is not new, however. 'We thought about this,' says 26 Whitcome of Amgen, a Los Angeles biotechnology firm, 'but realised we'd need thousands and thousands of litres of urine.'
"Porta-John and Enzymes of America solved that problem. The 14 million gallons flowing annually into Porta-John's privies contain about four-and-a-half pounds of urokinase alone. That's enough to unclog 260,000 coronary arteries." ("Now Urine Business", Hippocrates magazine, May/June 1988)

But urokinase isn't the only drug derived from urine that, unknown to us, has been a financial boon to the pharmaceutical industry. In August of 1993, Forbes magazine printed an article about Fabio Bertarelli who owns the world's largest fertility drug-producing company, the Ares-Serono Group, based in Geneva, whose most important product is the drug Pergonal which increases the chances of conception. Guess what Pergonal is made from? "To make Pergonal, Ares-Serono collects urine samples from 110,000 postmenopausal women volunteers in Italy, Spain, Brazil and Argentina. From 26 collection centres, the urine is sent to Rome where Ares-Serono technicians then isolate the ovulation-enhancing hormone." (N. Munk, "The Child is the Father of the Man", Forbes Magazine, 16 August 1993)

Ares-Serono earned a reported $855 million in sales in 1992, and people pay up to $1,400 per month for this urine extract. Obviously, most of us are operating under a gross misconception when we wrinkle our nose at the thought of using urine in medicine.

Urea, the principal organic solid in urine, has long been considered to be a 'waste product' of the body. It's even been considered to be dangerous or poisonous, but this, too, is completely untrue. Like any other substance in the body, too much urea can be harmful, but urea in and of itself is enormously valuable and indispensable to body functioning. Not only does urea provide invaluable nitrogen to the body, but research has shown that urea actually aids in the synthesis of protein, or, in other words, it helps our bodies use protein more efficiently. Urea has also been proven to be an extraordinary antibacterial and antiviral agent and is one of the best natural diuretics ever discovered. Urea was discovered and isolated as long ago as 1773 and is currently marketed in a variety of different drug forms. These are a few more examples of commercial medical applications of urine and urea in use today:

Ureaphil: diuretic made from urea
Urofollitropin: urine-extract fertility drug
Ureacin: urea cream for skin problems
Amino-Cerv: urea cream used for cervical treatments
Premarin: urine-extract oestrogen supplement
Panafil: urea/papain ointment for skin ulcers, burns and infected wounds
Another urine-related product ingredient is carbamide. Carbamide is the chemical name for synthesised urea. Where do you find carbamide? In places you'd never thought of, such as in products like Murine Ear Drops and Murine Ear Wax Removal System which contain carbamide peroxide, a combination of synthetic urea and hydrogen peroxide.

Medical researchers have also proven that urea is one of the best and only medically proven, effective skin moisturisers in the world. In many years of laboratory studies, researchers discovered that, unlike just about all other types of oil-based moisturisers that simply sit on the top layers of the skin and do nothing to improve water retention within skin cells (which gives skin its elasticity and wrinkle-free appearance), urea actually increases the water-binding capacity of the skin by opening skin layers for hydrogen bonding, which then attracts moisture to dry skin cells.

This is a remarkable fact considering that women spend billions of dollars a year on outrageously expensive skin moisturisers whose ingredients, even in tightly controlled double-blind comparison tests, don't even come close to hydrating dry skin as well as simple, inexpensive urea. So, as surprising as it seems, urine and urea do have an amazing, voluminous history in both traditional and modern medicine.
An article, titled "Autouro- therapy", published in the New York State Journal of Medicine (vol. 80, no. 7, June 1980), written by Dr John R. Herman, Clinical Professor of Urology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, points out the general misconceptions regarding urine and its medical use:
"Autouropathy (urine therapy) did flourish in many parts of the world and it continues to flourish today... There is, unknown to most of us, a wide usage of uropathy and a great volume of knowledge available showing the multitudinous advantages of this modality... "Urine is only a derivative of the blood... If the blood should not be considered 'unclean', then the urine also should not be so considered. Normally excreted, urine is a fluid of tremendous variations of composition..."...Actually, the listed constituents of human urine can be carefully checked and no items not found in human diet are found in it. Percentages differ, of course, but urinary constituents are valuable to human metabolism..." Look up urea in a medical dictionary. In Mosby's Medical and Nursing Dictionary, urea is defined not as a useless body waste but as a systemic diuretic and topical skin treatment. It's also prescribed to reduce excess fluid pressure on the brain and eyes.
Uric acid, another ingredient of urine, is normally thought of as an undesirable waste product of the body that causes gout. But even uric acid has recently been found to have tremendous health-promotion and medical implications. Medical researchers at the University of California at Berkeley reported in 1982 that they have discovered that: "Uric acid could be a defence against cancer and ageing. "It also destroys body-damaging chemicals, called free radicals, that are present in food, water and air and are considered to be a cause of cancer and breakdowns in immune function. "Uric acid could be one of the things that enables human beings to live so much longer than other mammals." (O. Davies, "Youthful Uric Acid", Omni magazine, October 1982)

Urine is a critically important body fluid that has fascinated medical science throughout the centuries. Medical scientists study urine with tremendous intent because, unlike the public, they know that it contains innumerable vital body nutrients and thousands of natural elements that control and regulate every function of the body. So, whether we know it or not, urine does have an extremely important and undisputed place in medicine-and not just as a diagnostic tool or as an ingredient of various synthetic drugs.

Your first reaction once you've read the convincing research demonstrating urine's often startling medical uses may be a willingness to use it as long as it's altered enough to make it unrecognisable. Many people might consider a synthetic or chemically altered form of urine-such as urokinase, the blood clot dissolver-as preferable to using it as a natural medicine.

But, there are many reasons for using urine in its natural form rather than as a synthetic drug or extract, not the least of which is the fact that there is no synthetic equivalent for individual urine, and never will be, owing to the tremendous complexity and uniqueness of each person's urine constituents.
Just as nature produces no two people who are exactly the same, there are also no two urine samples in the world that contain exactly the same components. Your own urine contains elements that are specific to your body alone and are medicinally valuable ingredients tailor-made to your own health disorders.

How can that be? It is because your urine contains hundreds of elements that are manufactured by your body to deal with your personal, specific health conditions. Your body is constantly producing a huge variety of antibodies, hormones, enzymes and other natural chemicals to regulate and control your body's functions and combat diseases that you may or may not know you have.

Modern research and clinical studies have proven that the thousands of critical body chemicals and nutrients that end up in your individual urine reflect your individual body functions, and, when re-utilised, act as natural vaccines, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-cancer agents, hormone balancers, allergy relievers, etc. (Talk about the perfect preventive care treatment!)

Many doctors have discovered and shown that it's extremely important to use our own natural urine in healing because extracts or synthetic drug forms of urine don't contain all of these individualised elements that address our personal, individual health needs.

Another reason that many doctors have emphasised the use of the natural form of urine is that it does not produce side-effects whereas synthetic drugs and therapies all produce side-effects, many of which are extremely dangerous.

As an example, the urine-extract drug called urokinase, which is used to dissolve dangerous blood clots, can cause serious abnormal bleeding as a side-effect; but natural urine itself, which contains measurable amounts of urokinase, has been used medicinally even in extremely large quantities without causing side-effects.
If you're not familiar with just how pervasive and extreme the risk of chemical drug-taking is, go to the library and look up a copy of The Physician's Desk Reference for Non-prescription Drugs (Medical Economics Data Productions Co., Inc., 1993, 14th ed.). This is the doctor's guide to every prescription and over-the-counter drug on the market, and every one of them is accompanied by a long list of ominous and frightening potential side-effects.

On the other hand, in almost 100 years of laboratory and clinical studies on the use of natural urine and simple urea in medicine, extraordinary results have been obtained, but no toxic or dangerous side-effects to the user have ever been observed or reported by either researchers or patients using the therapy.
As we've learned, urea, which is the principal solid ingredient of urine, has been synthesised and medically used with excellent results and with no side-effects. But again, research has shown that whole urine can cure many disorders that urea cannot, because urine contains thousands of therapeutic agents such as important natural antibodies, enzymes and regulating hormones that urea alone does not contain.
Urine therapy not only has dozens of successful research trials supporting it, but also thousands of success stories from people all over the world. As many people today have discovered, conventional medicine held no answers for either their chronic or acute illnesses and health disorders-but urine therapy did.

About the Author:

Martha Christy is a nutritional and natural health-care consultant, medical research writer and editor, and author of the international bestseller, Learn to Control Stress with the Stress Test. Her other books include Reconstructing The Real You, Even Good Foods Can Be Bad For You (Personalizing Your Nutrition), Balancing Your Body's pH, Simple Diagnostic Tests You Can Do At Home, and Homeopathy and Your Own Perfect Medicine

Urine

Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
(The Book of Proverbs 5:15)

Urine therapy refers to one of several uses of urine to prevent or cure sickness, to enhance beauty or to cleanse one's bowels. Most devotees drink the midstream of their morning urine. Some prefer it straight and steaming hot; others mix it with juice or serve it over fruit. Some prefer a couple of urine drops mixed with a tablespoon of water applied sublingually several times a day. Hip New Agers no doubt prefer to take their dose with their evening salad tossed with Piss & Vinegar dressing, available at alternative specialty shops. Some wash themselves in their own golden fluid to improve their skin quality. Many modern Japanese women are said to engage in urine bathing. The truly daring use their own urine as an enema. Urine is not quite the breakfast of champions, but it is the elixir of choice of a number of holy men in India where drinking urine has been practiced for thousands of years. The drink is also the preferred pick-me-up for a growing number of naturopaths and other advocates of "nature cures." The main attractions of this ultimate home brew are its cost, availability and portability. It is much cheaper than that other "water of life," whisky (uisge beatha), which also has been hailed for its medicinal qualities. Unlike whisky, however, urine is always available, everyone carries a supply at all times, and, for most people, there are no intoxicating side effects. Furthermore, the urge to overindulge is almost absent when drinking urine. The same can't be said for good single malt such as Highland Park or a good whiskey such as Black Bush.

Many advocates claim that urine is a panacea. There is practically nothing it won't cure. Urine is said to be effective against the flu, the common cold, broken bones, toothache, dry skin, psoriasis and all other skin problems. It is said to deter aging and is helpful with AIDS, allergies, animal and snake bites, asthma, heart disease, hypertension, burns, cancer, chemical intoxication, chicken pox, enteritis, constipation, and pneumonia. Urine is said to be effective against dysentery, edema, eczema, eye irritation, fatigue, fever, gonorrhea, gout, bloody urine, small pox, immunological disorders, infections, infertility, baldness, insomnia, jaundice, hepatitis, Kaposi's sarcoma, leprosy, lymphatic disorder, urticaria, morning sickness, hangover, obesity, papilloma virus, parasitoses, gastric ulcer, rheumatism, birth marks, stroke, congestion, lumbago, typhus, gastritis, depression, cold sore, tuberculosis, tetanus, Parkinson's disease, foot fungus, diabetes and other endocrine related diseases. Some enthusiasts see urine therapy as a divine manifestation of cosmic intelligence. They use urine to unleash their kundalini, sending it straight into the third eye, bringing instant enlightenment.

With such wondrous properties, it is amazing that science bothered developing medicine when it had the key to good health already in the bottle, so to speak. Each of us is a walking pharmacopoeia. Homer Smith (Man and His Gods) once wrote that "man is a machine for turning wine into urine." Little did he know that man is a machine for turning just about anything into a medicinal tonic.

Despite the claims by authors of books on urine therapy, the scientific evidence which would recommend that we all start drinking our own urine is piss poor. According to urninophiles, the medical establishment has conspired to keep us ignorant of the wonder drug we all carry in our bladders. One self-proclaimed expert on the subject claims

...the medical community has already been aware of [urine's] astounding efficacy for decades, and yet none of us has ever been told about it. Why? Maybe they think it's too controversial. Or maybe, more accurately, there wasn't any monetary reward for telling people what scientists know about one of the most extraordinary natural healing elements in the world.

This is a common argument from defenders of alternative therapies: the greed of medical doctors leads them to conspire against chiropractors, chelation therapists, etc. The evidence for this conspiracy wouldn't fill a specimen beaker. Part of the alleged conspiracy to keep us ignorant of the wonders of our own wee wee is the fact that many people think urine is poisonous. Urine is generally not toxic and you will not die of uremic poisoning if you start your day off with a cup of your own golden fluid. However, it hardly seems fair to blame the medical establishment for the general public's ignorance on this matter. In any case, just because something is not toxic does not mean it is good for you. Hair is not toxic, either, and even though it might be a good source of fiber, it is generally not desirable to put hair in food.

Furthermore, while it is true that some of the constituents of urine are being used and tested for their potential or actual therapeutic value, it does not follow that drinking one's urine is therapeutic. It may be discovered that one of the chemicals in human urine is effective for fighting cancer. However, drinking one's own urine is not likely going to supply enough of any cancer fighting substance to do any good. It is also true that some of the substances in urine are good for you. For example, if you are ingesting more vitamin C (a water soluble vitamin) than your body needs or can process, you will excrete it in your urine. It doesn't follow that drinking your urine is a good way to get vitamin C into your body. An orange or a tablet might be preferable. However, if you are urinating excess vitamin C, what do you think your body will do with the vitamin C you ingest with your urine? If you guessed that it would get rid of it, you guessed right. The reason your urine contains vitamins and minerals is because your body didn't need them or couldn't use them. You might as well pour water into a full glass as reuptake your excess vitamins and minerals. Even urea, which can be toxic in very high doses, occurs in such minute quantities in the average person's urine that there is very little chance of poisoning from drinking one's own urine.

The origin of this unusual practice seems to be in certain religious rites among Hindus, where it is called amaroli in tantric religious traditions. The tantric tradition is known for its flouting of conventional behavior as a means of establishing the moral superiority of its practitioners. It is also possible that this practice is related to superstitions based on sympathetic magic. Since urine is emitted from the same bodily organ used in sex, perhaps it was thought that by drinking one's urine one was swallowing some sort of sexual energizer. In any case, it is unlikely that Indians some 4,000 years ago had scientific reasons for drinking their own urine.

Another rather unscientific notion which seems to be accepted by urinophiles is that urine is really blood, since it is the byproduct of blood filtering by the kidneys. It is unlikely that if you need a blood transfusion that urine will work just as well.

Another misleading claim being made by urninophiles is that amniotic fluid is nothing but urine: fetal urine. If it is good for the fetus, it should be good for all of us. Here is what urine expert Martha Christy has to say on the subject:

. . . the amniotic fluid that surrounds human infants in the womb is primarily urine. Actually, the infant "breathes in" urine-filled amniotic fluid continually, and without this fluid, the lungs don't develop. Doctors also believe that the softness of baby skin and the ability of in-utero infants to heal quickly without scarring after pre-birth surgery is due to the therapeutic properties of the urine-filled amniotic fluid.

Some of the chemicals found in amniotic fluid are not going to be found in most urine samples. It is misleading, to say the least, to claim that amniotic fluid is "primarily" urine. It would be more accurate to say that they are both primarily water. I don't know what doctors she is talking about, but most parents will tell you that when their babies came out of the womb their skin was anything but beautiful. Comparisons to wrinkly prunes are quite common. So is comparison to one's skin after being in the swimming pool for a long time. The baby's skin becomes soft only after it has been out of its liquid environment for some time. There is a reason for that, according to Kim Kelly, a naturopathic doctor and nurse from Seattle. Newborns don't produce oil from their sebaceous glands until several weeks after their birth, which is why they often appear to have dry, flaky skin. Rather than amniotic fluid contributing to soft skin, according to Kelly, babies in the womb are protected by vernix, a creamy substance that serves as a barrier between the baby and the amniotic fluid. So, unless your urine is full of vernix, using it as a skin lotion is unlikely to work as a moisturizer.

What is urine? Urine is usually yellow or clear, depending upon a person's health and diet. It usually has an ammonia-like odor due to the nitrogenous wastes that make up about 5% of the fluid (the remaining 95% is water). It is a slightly acidic fluid which carries waste from the kidneys to the outside world. The kidneys have millions of nephrons which filter toxins, waste, ingested water and mineral salts out of the bloodstream. The kidneys regulate blood acidity by excreting excessive alkaline salts when necessary. The chief constituent of the nitrogenous wastes in urine is urea, a product of protein decomposition. Urea is, among other things, a diuretic. Average adult urine production is from one to two quarts a day. The bladder, where urine is stored for discharge, holds on average about 16-20 ounces of fluid, though the average discharge is about half that amount. In addition to uric acid, ammonia and creatine, urine consists of many other waste products in minute quantities.

Being a waste product does not mean that a substance is toxic or harmful. It means that the body cannot absorb the substance at the present time. We might think of many of urine's constituents as if they were leftovers from a meal. We could throw the excess food away or we could eat it later after diluting it substantially with water and putting it in the blender. With urine, unfortunately, we cannot ingest waste products in the form they had when first ingested.

For most people most of the time, one's own urine is not likely to be harmful. However, it is not likely to be healthful or useful except for those rare occasions when one is buried beneath a building or lost at sea for a week or two. In such situations drinking one's own urine might be the difference between life and death. As a daily tonic, there are much tastier ways to introduce healthful products into one's blood stream.

Also, unfortunately not everybody can just jump right in and start drinking their own urine without negative side effects. The Chinese Association of Urine Therapy warns that

Common symptoms include diarrhea, itch, pain, fatigue, soreness of the shoulder, fever, etc. These symptoms appear more frequently in patients suffering long term or more serious illnesses, and symptoms may repeat several times. Each episode may last 3-7 days, but sometimes it may last one month, or even worse over 6 months. It is a pity that many give up urine therapy because of such bad episode [sic]. Recovery reaction is just like the darkness before sunrise. If one persists and overcomes the difficulty, one can enjoy the eventual happiness of healthy life.

These same people advise that "All kinds of throat inflammation can be helped by gargling with urine to which a bit of saffron has been added" and "drinking one ounce of urine . . . is more beneficial to the average person than a fully staffed multi-billion dollar medical center." I was unable to find their evidence for these claims. Perhaps the evidence was produced at the First World Conference on Urine Therapy which took place in India In February 1996. Or maybe it came up in 1998 during the Second World Conference on Urine Therapy held in Germany.

Why do alternative therapies such as urine therapy become popular? Probably the main reason is that they seem to work. For any popular alternative therapy, there will always be a good number of testimonials from people who know they work. They know this because they have tried it and it "helped" or "cured" them of some malady. It does little good to point out to true believers that most of their ailments would have cured themselves and gone away had they done nothing at all to treat themselves. One's tooth pain or facial pimples may have gone away after drinking a cup of one's golden fluid, but that is not strong evidence that there was any causal connection between two events. (See the post hoc fallacy.) Likewise, you are not likely to dissuade a true believer by noting that many diseases go into remission for unknown reasons and that just because the remission occurred after drinking urine for a month, does not mean there is any causal connection. And you waste your breath trying to get a true believer to consider the possibility that to begin with they were misdiagnosed by their alternative practitioner. Thus they were never cured because there was never anything wrong with them.

Probably the most common reason for the "effectiveness" of alternative therapies is the placebo effect. Many maladies have a behavioral component, often connected to the subjective evaluation of one's pain. Belief affects behavior and behavior affects the body. Hence, if one believes in a therapy, it is often the case that one will feel better, or think one feels better and act as if one is better, even though there is no objective evidence in the form of urine or blood tests, x-rays, etc., which would prove that one is better. Furthermore, acting in a healthy way could cause objective, measurable improvements. In such cases, it would be misleading to say that the therapy was useless. However, it was not the therapy as such that led to improvement, but one's belief in the therapy. Some might say, what difference does it make since a cure is a cure? It might make all the difference in the world. First, there may not have been a cure after all. Just because one's mood improves does not mean one has been cured. Secondly, there might be a better therapy one is avoiding by using the "alternative" therapy. Thirdly, the relief might be temporary, while the better therapy might produce permanent or long-term relief. Fourthly, for those who are not helped by the alternative therapy, there might be grave consequences which could have been avoided had they been properly treated in the first place. Finally, many people who use "alternative" therapies, use them in conjunction with traditional scientific medicine. They give credit to the "alternative" therapy if they improve and blame traditional medicine if they do not.

Your Own Perfect Medicine

Urine Therapy: Your Own Perfect Medicine

"Every one of us has a right to know that our bodies produce an invaluable source of nourishment and healing that we can utilize to heal ourselves and to maintain our lives and our health in both everyday circumstances and in emergencies and life-threatening situations." Martha Christy
"Don't take this therapy lightly. Multiple sclerosis, colitis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, hepatitis, hyperactivity, pancreatic insufficiency, psoriasis, eczema, diabetes, herpes, mononucleosis, adrenal failure, allergies and so many other ailments have been relieved through use of this therapy. After you overcome your initial gag response (I know I had one), you will realize that something big is going on, and if you are searching for health, this is an area to investigate. There are numerous reports and double blind studies which go back to the turn of the century supporting the efficacy of using urine for health."
Your Own Perfect Medicine
by Martha Christy
You may think that when it comes to alternative health therapies - you've heard it all.
But there is one natural therapy you've probably never heard of - even though it's one of the most powerful, most researched and most medically proven natural cures ever discovered.
No matter how hard it may be for you to stomach, the fact is that knowing the truth about this incredible natural substance will be one of the most crucial health facts you'll ever learn. And one of the most remarkable things about this incomparable natural therapy is that the medical community has already been aware of its astounding efficacy for decades, and yet none of us has ever been told about it. Why? Maybe they think it's too controversial. Or maybe, more accurately, there wasn't any monetary reward for telling people what scientists know about one of the most extraordinary natural healing elements in the world.
But no matter why the medical establishment has chosen to keep his invaluable information a secret, it's time that every man, woman and child be told about the only health tool in the world that is always available to everyone and never out of reach - physically or financially. So I want you to sit back, open your mind and get ready to hear the incredible medical facts about human urine - the facts that will change your life.
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Every one of us has a right to know that our bodies produce an invaluable source of nourishment and healing that we can utilize to heal ourselves and to maintain our lives and our health in both everyday circumstances and in emergencies and life-threatening situations.
Two news articles from the past that recently came across my desk vividly illustrate the absolutely tragic consequences of the public's lack of information and our completely unfounded misconceptions regarding our bodies' own perfect medicine:
Tom Brokaw, NBC Nightly News, October 16, 1992:
"In Egypt, rescue workers found a 37-year-old man alive in earthquake rubble. He survived almost 82 hours by drinking his own urine. His wife, daughter and mother would not and they died."
Associated Press, July, 1985:
I don't think there's any question that these women and the child would not have died had they simply been aware of the truth that not only would their own urine not harm them, but would, in fact, have provided a power-packed combination of liquid nutrients and critical immune factors that would have sustained them in good health until help arrived.

The Medical Proof
For almost the entire course of the 20th century, unknown to the public, doctors and medical researchers have been proving in both laboratory and clinical testing that our own urine is an enormous source of vital nutrients, vitamins, hormones, enzymes and critical antibodies that cannot be duplicated or derived from any other source. They use urine for healing cancer, heart disease, allergies, auto-immune diseases, diabetes, asthma, infertility, infections, wounds and on and on -- yet we're taught that urine is a toxic waste product. This discrepancy between the medical truth and the public information regarding urine is ludicrous and, as the news releases you've just read demonstrate, can mean the difference between life and death to you and to your loved ones.
When I contracted a crippling, incurable disease early in life, I used every available conventional medical and alternative healing method over the course of many years without success. When an acquaintance suggested I try "urine therapy" I though she'd lost her mind, but with no options left, I swallowed my prejudice and decided to give it a go. To my own (and everyone else's) amazement, my healing was so rapid and so profound with urine therapy that no question remained in my mind that someone in the medical community had to know more than they were telling about this incredible body substance. And as a matter of fact, they did know more - a lot more.
After many months of haunting university libraries, scanning countless microfiche files and poring over piles of medical journals, I had amassed a small mountain of astounding research studies, findings and files on the use of urine in medicine and healing, I discovered, among numerous other things, that urine, far from being a toxic body waste, was actually a purified derivative of the blood made by the kidneys which contains, not body wastes, but rather an incredible array of critically important nutrients, enzymes, hormones, natural antibodies and immune defense agents.
At the end of it all, as I sat tiredly in my chair eyeing the stacks of research papers covering my desk, I realized that the medical community had pulled off one of the biggest hoodwinks in history. Take for instance the doctor who reported that "urine acts as an excellent and safe natural vaccine and has been shown to cure a wide variety of disorders including hepatitis, whooping-cough, asthma, hay fever, hives, migraines, intestinal dysfunctions, etc. It is completely safe and causes no side effects." (J. Plesch, M.D., The Medical Press, 1947); or the oncologist who reported that "a patient with intractable ovarian cancer was treated with Human Urine Derivative and is now completely well and enjoying the rest of her life." (Dr. M. Soeda, University of Tokyo, 1968). These remarkable findings were published in medical journals - but did you ever hear about them?
And what about the immunologist who, after extensive clinical and laboratory research stated: "It was rapidly appreciated that undiluted urine administered orally was therapeutically effective for Immune Therapy and was initiated when it became obvious that an allergic condition had become uncontrollable." (Dr. C.W. Wilson, 1983, Law Hospital, Scotland). Or the Harvard medical researchers who discovered that active "antibodies to cholera, typhoid, diphtheria, pneumonia, polio, leptospira and salmonella have been found in the unconcentrated urine of infected individuals." (Lerner, Remington & Finland, Harvard Medical School, 1962). What abut the Scandinavian researcher who, in 1951, conclusively proved that human urine can completely destroy tuberculosis? It's a deadly disease, and is now resistant to antibiotics. Isn't it time someone told us that our own urine is medically proven to be anti-tubercule?
Then there's the research into wounds and burns using urea (the primary solid component of urine). As only one research study among many reported: "In America, urea has been used for the treatment of various infected wounds and it has been found to be extremely efficient...even the deepest wound can be treated effectively.... Urea treatment has been successful where other treatments have failed. For external staph infections we found urea preferable to any other dressing...there are no contra-indications to its use." (Dr. L. Muldavis, 1938, Royal Free Hospital, London).
Now these medical reports are only a few of the more than 50 research studies I compiled and published in the book Your Own Perfect Medicine, but they certainly give an indication of the importance of what we've never been told about urine by the medical community. As far back as 1954, the Journal of the American Medical Association (July issue) reported that "More scientific papers have probably been published on urine than on any other organic compound." Another publication revealed that "more than 1,000 technical and scientific papers, related only to low molecular weight substances in urine, appeared in medical and scientific literature in one single year." All this fuss about a substance that we're told is nothing more than a body waste?
I think one of the most interesting pieces of information on urine I came across was the fact that the amniotic fluid that surrounds human infants in the womb is primarily urine. Actually, the infant "breathes in" urine-filled amniotic fluid continually, and without this fluid, the lungs don't develop. Doctors also believe that the softness of baby skin and the ability of in-utero infants to heal quickly without scarring after pre-birth surgery is due to the therapeutic properties of the urine-filled amniotic fluid.
Reports on the extraordinary external benefits of urine abound as well. Medical studies relate remarkable cases of stubborn or "incurable" chronic, severe eczema that miraculously disappear with urine therapy. Because urine is both anti-viral and anti-bacterial, it's ideal for treating cuts, wounds and abrasions of all kinds. Acne, rashes, athlete's foot and fungal skin problems respond dramatically to urine soaks and compresses as well. (You'll find complete instructions for using urine therapy internally and externally in Your Own Perfect Medicine.)
For home use or emergency treatment care for wounds, poisonous bites or stings, and even broken bones, urine is an incomparable, proven natural healing agent that provides instantaneous therapeutic benefits under any circumstances.
For years, people have said to me, "Well, I have heard of people surviving by ingesting their own urine, but I thought it was just a myth." Myth it isn't. Medical fact it is. As Dr. John R. Herman remarked in his article which appeared in the New York State Journal of Medicine in June, 1980: "Auto-uropathy (urine therapy) did flourish in many parts of the world and continues to flourish today....there is unknown to most of us, a wide usage of uropathy and a great volume of knowledge available showing the multitudinous advantages of this modality. Actually, the listed constituents of human urine can be carefully checked and no items not found in human diet are found in it. Percentages differ, but urinary constituents are valuable to human metabolism."

Your Body's Own Super-Nutrition Therapy
In 1975, one of the founders of Miles Laboratories, Dr. A.H. Free, published his book Urinalysis in Clinical Laboratory Practice, in which he remarked that not only is urine a sterile body compound (purer than distilled water), but that "it is now recognized that urine contains thousands of compounds, and as new, more sensitive analytical tools evolve, it is quite certain that new constituents of urine will be recognized." Among the urine constituents mentioned in Dr. Free's revealing treatise is a list of nutrients that will knock your socks off. As Dr. Free comments, the ingredients listed below are only a few critical nutrients found in urine:
· Alanine, total ..... 38 mg/day
· Arginine, total ..... 32 mg/day
· Ascorbic acid ..... 30 mg/day
· Allantoin ..... 12 mg/day
· Amino acids, total ..... 2.1 g/day
· Bicarbonate ..... 140 mg/day
· Biotin ..... 35 mg/day
· Calcium ..... 23 mg/day
· Creatinine ..... 1.4 mg/day
· Cystine ..... 120 mg/day
· Dopamine ..... 0.40 mg/day
· Epinephrine ..... 0.01 mg/day
· Folic acid ..... 4 mg/day
· Glucose ..... 100 mg/day
· Glutamic acid ..... 308 mg/day
· Glycine ..... 455 mg/day
· Inositol ..... 14 mg/day
· Iodine ..... 0.25 mg/day
· Iron ..... 0.5 mg/day
· Lysine, total ..... 56 mg/day
· Magnesium ..... 100 mg/day
· Manganese ..... 0.5 mg/day
· Methionine, total ..... 10 mg/day
· Nitrogen, total ..... 15 g/day
· Ornithine ..... 10 mg/day
· Pantothenic acid ..... 3 mg/day
· Phenylalanine ..... 21 mg/day
· Phosphorus, organic ..... 9 mg/day
· Potassium ..... 2.5 mg/day
· Proteins, total ..... 5 mg/day
· Riboflavin ..... 0.9 mg/day
· Tryptophan, total ..... 28 mg/day
· Tyrosine, total ..... 50 mg/day
· Urea ..... 24.5 mg/day
· Vitamin B6 ..... 100 mg/day
· Vitamin B12 ..... 0.03 mg/day
· Zinc ..... 1.4 mg/day
As you read over this extraordinary list of nutritional elements, you can begin to understand why the stories you may have heard of people surviving on their own urine are true. But what about other elements in urine that you've heard about?

Clearing Up the Misconceptions
If you asked a person on the street what uric acid is, he or she would invariably answer that it's a toxic body waste. No so, say medical researchers at the University of California at Berkeley who in 1982 reported they had discovered that "uric acid destroys body-damaging, cancer-causing free radicals and is considered to be one of the physiological factors that enable human beings to live so much longer than other mammals."
But what about urea? Urea is in urine and isn't that the toxic stuff that causes uremic poisoning? Actually, medical researchers discovered many decades ago that urea, far from being a toxic body waste, is an incredibly versatile, far-reaching and effective medicinal agent. In numerous medical studies, it was shown that urea is one of the most potent non-toxic virucidal agents ever discovered. In one particular study, the rabies and polio virus [sic] were killed so quickly and efficiently by concentrated urea, that even the laconic researchers themselves were surprised: "Urea is such a relatively inactive substance and certainly not a protoplasmic poison such as are most virucidal agents, that it is in a way surprising that rabies and poliomyelitis are killed so easily by urea solutions" (McKay & Schroeder, Society of Experimental Biology, 1936).
In reality, Urea is an FDA-approved medicinal agent that doctors and researchers utilize in an amazing variety of therapeutic modalities. Because of its remarkable and comprehensive anti-neoplastic (anti-tumor) properties, it's presently being used in anti-cancer drugs and is extensively studied for use in cancer treatments. The urea compound drug, glicazide, is used successfully by the medical establishment in treating both insulin-dependent and non-insulin-dependent diabetics.
As a natural diuretic, urea is unparalleled, and is a proven and accepted treatment in cases of edema or swelling such as excess cerebral and spinal pressure, glaucoma, epilepsy, meningitis, even premenstrual edema and many other disorders in which excess fluid is a problem. As one American neurosurgeon reported regarding a patient who nearly died form complications following brain surgery: "Urea was administered intravenously as an emergency measure. Within 20 minutes from the start of injection, her blood pressure had returned to normal....from this time on her recovery was uneventful. In this case, urea was definitely life-saving, because prior to its administration, the patient's survival was unlikely. In many similar instances urea was found to be life-saving" (Dr. M. Javid, University of Wisconsin).
The Physiological Answer to a Therapeutic Mystery
The medical findings on urine and urine constituents are overwhelming, and yet it's difficult for most people to understand why our bodies excrete elements that are so obviously valuable to human health and well-being.
The commonly-asked question, "If your urine is so good for you, why does your body excrete it?" is best answered by looking into how our kidneys function. As your blood moves through the circulatory system, it flows through the kidneys at a rate of about 1200 ml of blood per minute. Inside the kidneys, the blood is continuously filtered through a huge system of minute tubules called nephron which sift out excess water, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, salts, and hundreds of other elements including vital antibodies, urea and uric acid.
A large portion of these key physiological elements are reabsorbed into the bloodstream, but a certain amount of critical blood constituents are pooled by the kidney into a liquid which doctors refer to as a "plasma ultrafiltrate" (we call it urine). Much of this sterile, nutrient filled ultrafiltrate, or urine, is reabsorbed and some remains in the kidney for a period of time and is eventually released into a tube called the urethra which empties the urine into the bladder where it is finally excreted. Now you're probably wondering why the body excretes valuable nutrients, water, hormones, enzymes, etc. that are critical to body functioning. Doesn't it make more sense to retain these elements? If urine is a collection of such life-sustaining elements, why does the body get rid of it?
The answer is that the kidneys excrete a portion of urine as a way of removing certain key elements in your blood that are simply not needed at a specific point in time. For instance, you've just been out jogging. You come home and have one or two big glasses of water to drink. Now at this point you've probably taken in more water than your body actually needs. But not to worry -- your kidneys will balance the amount of water delivered into your bloodstream by your copious water drinking and through the urine will excrete whatever amount of water from the blood that isn't needed at the time.
Now water is certainly a life-sustaining element the body cannot do without. So why is it excreted from the body? The answer is obvious. There are times when there's too much water in your system and it needs to be excreted.
It's a physiological fact that in order for us to function normally, the amounts or concentrations of every element in our blood must be carefully and strictly controlled and this is done by the kidneys. Too much water in the blood is fatal. Too much salt in the blood is deadly. As wonderful a nutrient as vitamin C is, too high a concentration of it or any nutrient could kill you. This is why the kidneys excrete valuable elements from the body -- too much of any good thing isn't good for your health.
The same is true of urea. People who have heard of uremic poisoning are surprised when they read the medical research showing urea to be a widely-used, FDA-approved medicine. But just like any other element in the blood, urea only becomes dangerous to the body when the kidneys are damaged or diseased and can't properly balance the amount of urea (and all other substances) in the bloodstream.
Your kidneys aren't doing damage to your body by getting rid of particular excess nutrients, they're just simply excreting the precise amount not presently needed by your body at a given time. And the same goes for practically every nutrient, enzyme, hormone, antibody, etc. that are critical to your survival -- the kidneys keep what your body needs at a certain time, and excretes what it isn't momentarily using into your urine. And as medical scientists and doctors have discovered, these urinary ingredients extracted from the blood can be therapeutic magic bullets.

A Billion Dollar Industry
Despite what the public has been led to believe about urine, pharmaceutical companies have grossed billions of dollars from the sale of drugs made from urine constituents. Pergonal, a fertility drug made from human urine, earned a reported $855 million in sales in 1992, and sales ($1400 a month per patient) have increased yearly. Urokinase, a urine ingredient, is used in drug form and sold as a "miracle blood clot dissolver" for unblocking coronary arteries. Urea, medically proven to be one of the best moisturizers in the world has been a boon to cosmetic companies who package it in expensive, glamorized creams and lotions. Ever used Murine ear drops? They're made from carbamide -- another name for synthetic urea.
When you look at the real facts, the tragedy of the general disinformation campaign on urine is surpassed only by the irony of our unwitting, and often incredibly expensive purchases of what we all mistakenly but firmly believe to be our bodies' "useless" and "offensive" waste-product, urine.

New Acceptance for a Misunderstood Therapy
Because of the nearly all-pervasive public misunderstanding about what urine is and how it can be of immense medical benefit to us, the often amazing anecdotal stories of healing and survival via urine have been routinely ignored, ridiculed or have been written off as "old wives' tales." But when people learn the real facts, these stories take on a significance that not even doctors are now willing to ignore.
Since the first release of Your Own Perfect Medicine, rather than the doubt and derision I expected to encounter, I was amazed at the tens of thousands of people who have willingly accepted the information in the book. Many people (including doctors) have come forward to tell me about their own experiences or about news stories they've read that tell about using urine medicinally and in survival situations:
Dr. David G. Williams, Alternative Newsletter, August, 1994:
"Several months ago I watched the movie Alive. It's the true story of a South American soccer team whose airplane crashed in snow-capped mountains in the dead of winter. The team was stranded for a couple months and survived only by eating the flesh of those who had died either during the crash or later from injuries. A portion of the movie focused on two individuals whose initial wounds progressed into serious infections.
Knowing no way to treat these two, the survivors could only attempt to comfort them. Eventually the infection led to death. Watching the intense suffering of these people made me wonder if there was more that could have been done to save them. I now feel it's very possible that these two people, and thousands of others around the world would still be alive if they had been aware of the therapeutic effects of urine.
With urine therapy, you get all the benefits of urea plus the additional antibodies, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, hormones and more."
Dr. William Hitt, Clinica Hitt, Mexico
January, 1995
"Experience has shown that intramuscular injections of urine are the best methods for handling a myriad of immunological illnesses including psoriasis, basal call carcinoma, asthma and many other disorders."
Reuter Report
August 14, 1990
"Four Sri Lankan commandos who drifted in a boat more than 1,000 miles to Thailand after they had been ambushed and given up for dead were given a rapturous welcome when they returned home. 'They managed to survive on the boat by catching turtles and drinking urine,' a military officer said."
Kyodo News Service, Tokyo
July 30, 1990
"A male cook was pulled out of the rubble of the Hyatt Hotel early Monday morning, 14 days after a powerful earthquake devastated the northern Philippines, officials said. Dry, with only minor bruises on his body, he told reporters he survived by drinking his own urine."
At a time when new viruses and bacteria are outwitting even the best efforts of space-age medicine, and increasingly frequent natural disasters put basic necessities out of reach, the facts about the one medical and survival tool that the FDA can't regulate and that's always there when you need it most, may well become the greatest survival lesson any of us will ever learn.
The author of this article, Martha Christy, is a medical research writer, natural health consultant and author of Your Own Perfect Medicine, as well as several other books on natural healing. Your Own Perfect Medicine is available for $23.90 from FutureMed, Inc., Box 13837, Scottsdale, AZ 85265, or call 1-800-800-8849.

"Your Own Perfect Medicine" by Martha Christy


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用尿洗頭中年婦女秀髮烏黑柔滑

（新加坡十九日訊）五十歲保姆天天用尿洗頭，秀髮烏黑亮麗一如嬰兒般柔滑。這名保姆是劉女士，她受訪時表示，之所以會以尿尿來洗頭，其實是臨時起意的，她沒有想到後來卻髮現效果奇佳。
「我的頭髮本來很油膩，很容易就有臭味，自從用尿洗頭後，我發現不單解決了我頭髮油膩的問題，而且也讓我沒有了頭皮屑的煩惱。」
劉女士說，用尿洗頭的方法很簡單，其實就是用尿當洗髮精，把頭髮先用水沖濕後，再用尿來洗頭，然後再用清水沖乾淨就行了。
她說，用來洗頭的尿不需要加水。
就記者所見，劉女士的頭髮烏黑亮麗，完全沒有老年白頭的跡象，而且非常柔順，真如嬰兒的頭髮般柔軟伏貼。
劉女士是在大姑的介紹下開始認識尿療法，剛開始時是「純喝尿」，到後來她進而將尿療法運用到其他方面，用尿來洗頭，她相信是第一人。
她表示，用尿來洗頭，只能算是一種創意，要實行起來並不會太難 ，比較不容易的是剛開始喝、第一次拿著自己的尿要喝進肚子的那一剎那。
「我是如何克服障礙，一口喝下去？我覺得主要的就是不要去想那是尿，那是骯臟的東西，甚麼都不要想，內心一平靜下來，事情就好辦得多。」
劉女士喝尿喝了一陣子後，髮現自己的關節不再疼痛，也不會再全身風濕痛，得定期去推拿治療了。
「我以前一個月要去兩三次，現在是有時間才去。」
劉女士說，除了用尿來洗頭外，她也嘗試用尿來敷手和小腿的皮膚 。
「我的小腿皮膚生『蛇皮』（即牛皮癬），皮膚乾燥龜裂發癢，而手部可能是因為經常做家務的關系，指甲邊緣的皮膚就經常會裂開，很粗糙，我過後嘗試用尿來敷，沒有想到誤打誤撞，竟然幫我把問題解決了。」
劉女士表示，以前她每天晚上要擦藥，小腿和手部的皮膚問題才不致於惡化，現在她已經不用再抹藥了。
她指出，尿敷法的秘訣是用新鮮的尿敷上患處後，不要清洗，敷上好一陣子後才用水沖掉。
劉女士一天只能喝一杯尿，不得超過，否則就會精神太過旺盛，導致晚上失眠。
她在受訪時告訴記者，目前她是每天早上喝下自己的第一泡尿，每天喝一杯。
「晚上多喝水，隔天的尿味道就沒有那麼重，比較好喝。」
劉女士曾經一度嘗試一天喝兩杯，結果發現晚上會因此而無法成眠 。
「據瞭解，我們健康沒有甚麼大問題的人，最好一天不要喝太多，我就是因為喝太多，導致精神太旺盛，晚上睡不著覺。」
根據資料顯示，大量飲尿後，身體會產生各種變化，有時多個部位很痛，而且以前許多年的病患症狀可能復現，或者腹瀉、失眠、全身很癢、慵懶無力等。
資料指出，這些都是好征兆，一定要堅持下去。

Urine Love

by Stanley Young

There comes a moment of decision in each of our lives when we hear that small voice within ask: "Shouldn't I be drinking my own urine?"
The answer, according to a urine-drinkers support group I attended with a friend recently was definitely "Yes!"
The setting was a modest two-story condo on a quiet street in Los Angeles. Rain had been falling ealier in the evening. It was cool, and the walkway to the front door now glistened with pools of water.
Inside, it was warm and welcoming. About ten people in the living room stood in groups of twos and three, chatting and laughing. Classical music played in the background, and a pile of books and pamphlets lay scattered over the coffee table. I picked up 'The Miracles of Urine Therapy' (Water of Life Institute, 1987) and read the blurb on the back. "The therapy outlined in this book is an entirely drugless system of healing; the only ingredient is a substance manufactured by the body, rich in minerals, salts, hormones, and other vital substances, namely human urine."
I put the book down and wandered over to the kitchen. On the table there I caught signt of a couple of slabs of cheese -- Cheddar and Brie -- a basket with a selection of crackers, some cookies, and two large bottles of fruit juice. One was apple.
I cut a slice of cheddar cheese, grabbed a couple of crackers and, after only a slight hesitation, poured out a glass of apple juice and took a small sip. It was, gratefully, sweet and I returned to the living room where two men and a woman, all in their late thirtiesor mid forties, were engaged in animated conversation. "... and do you gargle with it?" asked the woman.
"Absolutely," replied the stocky, balding man energetically. "And I hold my hand cupped like this and let jus a little slowly seep into my nose, too. It cures my asthma."
"My filling came out yesterday," chimed in the second man, "and I can feel it curing my tooth already. There's a big hole there but I'm not feeling any pain at all."
I returned to the kitchen for some more cheese and found Abby, the woman who had organized this get-together. She was wearing a fashionalbe knit outfit in autumn colors and had an open and friendly smile. She was holding a serving platter on which were four small carved glass goblets. Two were filled with an almost luminescent pale yellow liquid, a completely different color from the apple juice.
"...and is that..."
"Yes," she smiled, sensing my question. "It's my urine." She picked one of the filled goblets off the platter and took a long sip.
"There's two more glasses here if anyone else wants to try,"she said, offering the empty glasses to a couple standing and talking by the kitchen door. "...if you get inspired later."
Inspiration there was, in abundance. For most of those gathered at the apartment, urine was more than a bodily excretion. It was indeed the Water of Life, a miraculous elixir and a long neglected cure. They washed their faces with it. They rinsed out their eyes with it. They rubbed it into their hair. They warmed up 4-day old urine, scrubbed it all over their skin, and left it there to dry. And, of course, they drank it whenever they could. "It's the runoff from your blood," said Abby, kicking off the evening's presentation and discussion. "It's got everything you need to cure yourself. How many of yo here tonight have tried drinking your own urine?" she asked the room. Seven people raised their hands. "I've only tried it a few times," admitted one tall man in the front, smiling. "I'm not slugging it down yet or anything like that...."
Abby smiled. Everyone has to start at their own pace, she informed us, and she had some sage advice for the new and would-be urine drinkers in the crowd.
"The first urine in the morning is the best," she said, referring to its healing powers, not its taste. The other experienced drinkers agreed that the first morning's "catch" was, perhaps, a trifle too gamy for the uninititated.
"I suggest for the first time that you drink a glass or two of pineapple juice, and then drink your urine afterwards," said one man. "It'll taste just like pineapples!"
One man, an unemployed actor and self-admitted alcoholic inthe AA program, revealed that drinking urine cured him of shingles three months ago, and he hadn't missed a day since then.
"Now I'm so into this," he bubbled. "I soak my feet in it. I put it in my eyes. Rub it into my hair."
The man held up a 32-ounce juice bottle he carried around with him in a backpack. It was filled to the brim with a clear, pale yellow fluid.
"This is about a day's catch," he said. "That's about what I drink a day. I call it Caribbean water - warm and just a little salty. Some say to age your morning catch, and that's what I do."
With the enthusiasm of every new convert, he misses no opportunity now to spread the good word of urine-drinking to all he meets.
"I've already lost two friends," he admitted. "They don't seem to understand."
Perhaps his friends don't understand that, like the body, one's urine is constantly changing. The actor related how his urine had gone "from a salty taste, to, well, almost smoked oysters."
"Sometimes it's exquisite," added a thin woman in the last row of folding chairs. "And if you fast on it - just urine and water - by 6 o'clock in the evening it's *fantastic*, delicious."
Several of the experienced drinkers nodded in agreement.
"It's an ancient therapy," the actor added. "It goes back to the pyramids, to the Vedas, to the Bible. It's holy...." He stopped for a moment, almost unable to contain himself. "If you're suffering from mental problems, it will realease that, too."
"Jesus used urine therapy," said a man who had just arrived and was about to sit down on the stairs at the back of the room. He looked to be in his late twenties. "Forty days and forty nights in the desert - what else was there to drink? Ghandi used to do it in prison. He couldn't have made it otherwise."
The young man then shifted into an explanation of Christ's "missing years." the twelve or thirteen years when Jesus of Nazareth had wandered through Tibet and into India where, among many other ancient Eastern practices the young seeker adopted, he started drinking his own urine. When he returned to the Middle East, he continued the practice. And, apparently, also taught it to his followers.
"When they bastardized Christianity," the young man continued by way of explanation, "they took some stuff out, and part of that was urine therapy."
How different the Eucharist might have been, I wondered. The young man's historical analysis was, perhaps, difficult to substantiate. Not so the words of the next man to stand and speak.
He was a professional classical guitaritst, I was later told. His face was somewhat thin, but his skin had a natural and healthy glow to it, like the complexions you see among those who drink lots of wheatgrass or carrot juice.
"George had AIDS," said Abby, by way of introduction, and, I thought, to prompt him to speak. George nodded.
"I used to have Kaposi's sarcoma on my legs, my gums were rotting and I had recurring pneumonia." he said in a quiet voice.
He lifted the cuff of his pants to show his leg. The skin there was clear. He had arrived at drinking urine as a last resort, he told us. All his other attempts at curing his symptoms, using drugs and Western medical treatments, simply weren't working.
"I used to have gray back through here and here," he said, brushing his hand over the front and sides of his head, "and my hair was falling out."
His hair that night was slightly unkempt, but nonetheless full, healthy and a uniform very dark brown, almost black. The same color as his untrimmed beard.
George described how he had started the urine treatment all at once, drinking it, rubbing it in his hair, soaking his eyes in it and so forth. Within a year, his symptoms had disappeared and had never returned. In fact, the vision in one of his eyes had improved from 20 over 400 to 20 over 75, and he rarely wore glasses now.
He thought about his experience a moment. "All my friends are dead who went the normal routes," he said. "It has your life-force in it." He looked up. "It's holy."
The room was silent for a moment.
One woman in a folding chair on the side of the room raised her hand. "But doesn't it contain.....I mean, isn't it what the body excretes? Isn't it waste products....?"
"It's our mindset," answered one tall woman in the far corner of the room. "We think it's filthy," she said, emphasizing the last word forcefully.
Several drinkers in the room had other answers at the ready. Urine, they explained, building up a mosaic of facts, is filtered blood, sterile, 96% water, and can contain your own antibodies and hormones, which help boost your immune system. Urine also contains a load of substances that the body needs, including urea, a chief component of urine. And for those of you who may have been wondering whether drinking urine might lead to harder stuff, we were informed that the bowel and the colon trap all material you're *not* supposed to reingest.
"After you cross the psychological barrier," said the man beside the tall woman, "it feels harmonious. It's a real mild taste. Not at all like what it smells."
It can fight off any pathogen on the planet," added George, the musician who had cured himself of AIDS.
"They're curing leprosy, cancer, and the AMA is against it because it's free," said the man who had previously talked about the urine-Jesus connection. "I heard a story," said Abby, "about a barren couple who drank each other's urine. They even bathed their genitals in it. It was very sexual."
"His sperm count rose," said a man across the room who had heard the same story.
"....and she bore many children," added Abby.
One woman who had arrived only five minutes before, stood up. She was a naturopathic healer, and was responsible for introducing five people in the room, all former patients of hers, to the world of urine-drinking.
She herself had learned about the practice from a friend who came back from India raving about it. Shortly afterward, the naturopathic healer had root canal treatment. One night, with her mouth throbbing unbearably, she decided to drink her own urine as an attempt to get rid of the pain.
"Everybody remembers their first time," she said, smiling, and all the other drinkers nodded and smiled in appreciation.
She was amazed to discover that within ten minutes the pain subsided and subsequently disappeared. When, as an experiment, she stopped drinking her urine two days later, the pain returned.
That was nine years ago. Today she does not drink all the urine here body produces like some of those in the room. She uses it to cure cuts and bruises, and occasionally as an eyewash, and drinks it whenever she feels her body needs it, especially when she travels.
She had just returned from a nine-day visit to Australia, and had been drinking a lot of her urine while there.
"All that traveling," she explained, "the change in time zones, that can weaken your immune system. Drinking your urine gives you that little bit of extra protection when you're weakened like that."
There was also an added benefit to drinking your own urine abroad.
"When I'm traveling it's a wonderful tool," she said. "You don't have to worry about drinking contaminated water."
"For two weeks after the earthquake, people in Bel-Air and Brentwood had to boil their water," said one man in the back. "If they only knew......"
"Urine." added the naturopath. "Why not? It's sterile, it's pure and it's filtered. It's better than bottled water. It's free."
My friend, who had accompanied me to the meeting, was still thinking about what we had both heard and seen that night.
"When I flushed my piss down the toilet the next morning," he told me later, "I just thought: What a waste."

I have received a lot of email based on this article. Let me re-iterate that I personally do not drink my own urine and merely put this article up here because I found it an interesting facet of humanity.
There are those that take the practice very seriously. Indeed, I received a recent message from someone who went to the first annual conference on the subject held in India. He was kind enough to send me a copy of his paper on the subject, which I include here:
Mr. Coen van der Kroon
Kinkerstraat 82-C
1053 EA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel/fax: + 31 20 6835510
e-mail: cvdk@knoware.nl




In Search of an Explanation:
Urine Therapy, Transmutation and 'The Healer Within'.



(This paper consists of parts of Chapter 5 of Coen van der Kroon's book The Golden Fountain; The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy, Gateway Books, Amethyst Books 1996, ISBN 0-944256-73-2)

It has always been a kind of vocation for me to connect East and West, ancient and modern, spiritual heritage and science. So with urine therapy: it has a rich history, certainly here in the East. It is connected with spiritual practice as well as with modern scientific research. A good example is the research project at the university of Newcastle into the effect of drinking morning urine by Indian yogis on their meditation practice. This paper is meant to make another such a small connection.

Over the years, urine therapy has proved to be an effective tool for healing. Most urine therapists, some of whom have been practising urine therapy for decades, have never sought an explanation for why it works: their own experiences were sufficient proof. For some time now, however, there has been increasing interest in the search for a scientific explanation. This is because urine therapists believe it is important for urine therapy to be acknowledged as a valid method of treatment: doctors should be well informed about the effects of this therapy so that as many people as possible can benefit from it. Since members of the medical world demand an explanation, the interest in scientific research has grown.
Another reason for this growing interest is that a number of 'mainstream' doctors have also had positive experiences with urine therapy, which is reason enough for them to investigate how and why it works. This is not a recent development: in the 1930's, for example, the German pediatrician Martin Krebs successfully treated many patients with urine therapy, and subsequently published the results (1). As a physician, he was convinced that urine therapy was an effective method of treatment, but he also realised that other doctors would not readily accept this fact since it conflicted with the scientific dogma which formed the foundation of their profession.

A good deal of research has already been conducted within the medical world into the composition of urine and its separate components. The researchers Free and Free published a report listing two hundred substances found in urine. They point out that these are only the most significant substances, and that urine probably contains thousands of components.(2) Several substances found in urine seem to be of value as medication, some of which have already been processed and used as such.
The fact that certain individual components of urine are effective does not prove that urine therapy is effective. Conversely, however, it can be assumed that the components which have a particular effect as an individual substance, have the same effect when taken as a component of urine. In certain cases it could be imagined that the combination of these substances with other components of urine reduces or cancels out the effectiveness, but this is not the most obvious conclusion. We can, therefore, reasonably assume that if an individual substance displays a certain characteristic, it will also have this characteristic as a component of urine. The more individually effective substances found in urine, the stronger the argument that urine as a total entity has a therapeutic effect.
A condition of this argument is that urine as a total entity does not contain substances with an obviously harmful effect: as yet there is no evidence to suggest that such substances have been found in urine. The small amounts of possibly toxic substances which can be found in urine largely seem to have a positive effect on the immune system. If urine did contain extremely harmful substances, it would be difficult to explain how many people (myself included) who drink their own urine every day for years could still be in exceptionally good health.
So research has not yet been conducted on urine as a total entity which can be therapeutically applied. Still unanswered are questions regarding how and why urine therapy works, since urine is used here as a total entity. A number of hypotheses have, however, been suggested which can serve as the basis for further scientific research. One of those hypotheses I would like to propose here. This hypothesis deals with the immunological effect of urine therapy and its deeper energetical dynamics. It deals with the socalled 'healer within'. Urine therapy has often been associated with spiritual practice which might make it seem a bit magic. But, as science is discovering today, ancient spiritual ideas come very close to todays most recent discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics and vibrational healing methods.

But back to the basics: Urine therapy (using self produced urine) can be considered to be an extension of the methods of Jenner and Pasteur.(3) An important task of the immune system is to rid the human body of diseased or unusable substances that have developed during the course of an illness. When these substances reach healthy tissue, the serum or blood becomes stronger, the activity of leucocytes (white blood cells) increases, and the patient probably recovers. This phenomenon is known as auto inoculation or self vaccination and can be seen as mother nature's method of healing an illness without external intervention.
Urine therapy can be seen as a form of self vaccination: certain bodily substances which have been removed from the body, some of which may have been produced as a result of illness, are re introduced into the body in small amounts. These substances are re absorbed into the blood through either the intestines or the skin. According to this hypothesis, the immune system is then given the chance to react appropriately.
The doctors Remington, Merler and Uhr have demonstrated that a particular part of urine protein is able to eliminate certain pathogens.(4) This discovery supports the assumption that urine therapy can be used to treat or prevent certain illnesses.
In the early nineteenth century, Dr. Charles Duncan conducted research into therapies with self produced substances, including urine therapy.(5) He demonstrated that patients suffering from gonorrhoeic urethritis (infection of the urinary tube as a result of the venereal disease gonorrhoea) produce their own medication in the form of their own discharge. Auto therapy was applied here by placing a drop of a patient's discharge directly on the tongue, in order to stimulate the body's natural powers. This method had a strong healing effect at every stage of the illness: if applied at an early stage, it could cause the gonorrhoea to disappear.
Auto therapy is based on the principle that the body can use all fresh, self produced, unaltered diseased tissue substances which originate from the micro organisms causing the illness. Seen in this light, patients have their own medication in exactly the form constructed by nature to heal their condition.
The results of Dr. William D. Linscott's research suggest that auto therapy strengthens and stimulates the immune system, in particular with regard to the T cells. The T cell population of several patients who initially displayed a low T cell count increased after treatment with urine therapy.(6)

The Transmutation theory

Most of what has been said here will be valid from a strictly mechanistic point of view. The transmutation theory, though, needs a new, wholistic paradigm which is based more on the dynamics of energies. (7)
In recent scientific research, a shift is visible from reductionism to wholism. It is beyond the scope of this paper to go into this matter. I nevertheless want to take the new paradigm fully into account here in trying to find explanations for the effectiveness of urine therapy.
Urine can be considered to contain an exact holographic picture of the body fluids and tissues. The biofeedback of this holographic information by re ingesting the urine may well inform the energy system in a way which helps restoring a disturbed balance.
The medical doctor and urine therapist Abele cautiously discusses the possible effect of urine as holographic feedback:
"The question rises as to whether urine could possibly be considered to be a sort of liquid hologram. Once the body has been made conscious of urine in an unconventional way (such as it being reintroduced into the body by intramuscular injection) the whole organism evaluates it and subsequently updates its own regulating mechanisms (at least in specific cases)." (8)

The theory of transmutation implies that the body is capable, through energetic exchange within the body itself, to transmute certain substances or molecules into other ones. 'Short circuiting' the system by ingesting one's own secreted body fluids might stimulate the transmutational forces within and challenge the body to transform unusable substances into usable ones without being constantly disturbed by new external input. It could possibly go as deep as to restructure disturbed DNA. This would specifically apply to fasting on urine.(9)
An important aspect here is the theory of structured water. The body consists for the biggest part of water and so does urine. Not all water is the same though. The molecular structure of water can be less or more organized and in the latter case one speaks of structured water. The more it is organized, the better all kind of enzymatic processes can do their job. These enzymatic processes, in their turn, are responsible and necessary for the digestion, absorption and transmutation of all nutrients.(10)
It is scientifically proven how water in biological systems becomes more organized. Water also becomes more organized through exposure to sunlight and through close contact with crystals. The body is both a receptor of sunlight and it contains a high amount of solid and liquid cristallinelike substances. Also body fluids themselves form fluid crystals.(11) Urine is thus a cristallinelike substance containing a high amount of structured water. This structured water, when taken in again, promotes better enzymatic functioning and it has a higher solubility for minerals. A higher amount of structured water in the body system is correlated with better health and more energy.(12)
The fact that urine is a liquid crystal substance, particularly because of the various salts in it, implies that it contains crystalline vibrations completely in tune with the vibrational condition of the body. Re ingestion might give the body valuable vibrational information needed for two things. Healthy vibrations will strengthen the already existing, healthy body resonance. 'Diseased' or stress vibrations will counteract any unhealthy resonance in the body. It is known that disturbing sounds of any sort can be counteracted best by confronting it with the same sounds.
The vibratory patterns of the body, both in the bones (solid crystals) and in the tissues and fluids (liquid crystals), play an important role in the process of transmutation. The resonance field of a crystal can make a protein, for example, change its form into one that is more useful for the body, or easier adaptable by it.(13)
Seeing urine as a liquid crystallinelike substance containing a high amount of structured water may help understanding its healing qualities on the more subtle levels.

This is just one little step in trying to explain the energetical effect of urine therapy on the human organism. This way of thinking should be considered as a kind of scientific, modern 'alchemy'. There is nothing wrong or scary about this terminology and the way of thinking that goes with it. It is nothing new and at the same time highly modern. It provides a chance to scientifically explain urine therapy in its fullest potential, while at the same time taking into account its rich, spiritually associated, history.
Urine therapy confronts us with a very concrete 'healer within' which works both on a mechanistic and on an energetic level. The latter implies that urine, as a holographic substance, can affect all levels of being, from the physical, through the electromagnetical fields of the emotions and the mind, up to the subtler genetic vibrational information of the soul. In this sense urine therapy can be verily seen as one of the divine manifestations of cosmic intelligence. Thus the ancient name Shivambu Kalpa, a name ánd a therapy to be treated with appropiate respect.

Jai Shivambu!

References:

1. Der menschliche Harn als Heilmittel; Geschichte. Grundlagen. Entwicklung. Praxis., Martin Krebs, Hippokrates Verlag Marquardt & Cie., Stuttgart (Germany) 1942
2. A.H. Free & H.M. Free,'Nature and Composition of Urine from Healthy Subjects' , in Urinalysis in Clinical Laboratory Practice, CRC Press, Cleveland, Ohio, 1975, pp. 13 & 17.
3. B. Bartnett, p. 10, Urine Therapy; It May Save Your Life, Dr. Beatrice Bartnett, Water of Life Institute, Hollywood (Florida, USA) 1989 ; J. Plesch, 'Urine therapy' , Medical Press (London), vol. 218, August 6, 1947, pp. 128 133.
4. 'Immuno Tolerance: Historical Perspective' , Physicians Handbook, 1982, p. 13.
5. C.H. Duncan, 'Gonorrhea: Its Prevention and Cure by Autotherapy' , Medical Record; March 30, 1912, p. 610; idem, 'Autotherapy' , New York Medical Journal, December 21, 1912, p. 1281.
6. Dr. William D. Linscott, 'Specific Immunologic Unresponsiveness' , 3rd edition of Basic & Clinical Immunology, a Lange Medical Publication, Los Altos, California, Chapter 17, 'Historical Perspective', Physician's Handbook, 1982.
7. See e.g. Richard Gerber, M.D., Vibrational Medicine, Bear & Company, Santa Fe NM 1988.
8. Herz/Abele, p. 27, Die Eigenharnbehandlung: nach Dr. med. Kurt Herz; Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen, Dr. med. Johann Abele, 8e verbeterde oplage, Karl F. Haug Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany) 1991.
9. See specifically the chapter on urine therapy and alchemy in Dr. Schaller's Amaroli: Amaroli, Dr. Soleil & Dr. C. T. Schaller, 1st edition 1989, Editions Vivez Soleil, Genève (Switzerland) 1993.
10. Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet, Cassandra Press, San Rafael CA 1986, p. 22; Friedman, H.L., Krishman, C.V. and Jolicoeur, C., 'Ionic Interactions in Water' , Ann. N.Y. Academic of Science 1972, 204: pp. 77 99; Clegg, James, 'Metabolism and the Intracellular Environment: The Vicinal Water Network Model' , in Cell Associated Water, (Drost Hansen, W. and James Clegg; eds.) New York: Academic Press, 1979, pp. 363 413.
11. Cousens, see note 10 above, p. 89 96; Lipton, Bruce, 'Liquid Crystal Consciousness, The Cellular Basis of Life' , presented at First International Crystal Conference, San Francisco CA 1986.
12. Cousens, see note 10 above, p. 23; Mikesell, N., 'Cellular Rgeneration' , Psychic Research Newsletter, San Jose 1985, pp. 1 10.
13. Lipton, Bruce, see note 11.

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