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Encyclopedia > Urine therapy

In alternative medicine, the term urine therapy (also urotherapy, urinotherapy or uropathy) refers to various applications of human urine for medicinal or cosmetic purposes, including drinking of one's own urine and massaging one's skin with one's own urine. A practitioner of urine therapy is sometimes called a uropath [citation needed]. Alternative medicine has been described as any of various systems of healing or treating disease (as chiropractic, homeopathy, or faith healing) not included in the traditional medical curricula taught in the United States and Britain.[1] Alternative medicine practices are often based in belief systems not derived from modern science. ... This article is about the urine of animals generally. ...


In the Indian ayurvedic tradition, urine therapy may be called amaroli. Another name is Shivambu Kalpa, taken from the title of the ancient text Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi. Here, shivambu can be translated as "the waters of Shiva", and refers to the urine. Ayurveda (आयुर्वेद Sanskrit: ayu—life; veda—knowledge of) or ayurvedic medicine is a more than 2,000 year old comprehensive system of medicine based on a holistic approach rooted in Vedic culture. ...

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History

Promoters of urine therapy believe urine to have many preventative and curative powers. Some cultures have traditionally used urine as a medicine, especially India's, where it is prescribed by the Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi, which (among other uses and prescriptions) suggests massaging one's skin with aged, concentrated urine. In traditional Tibetan medicine, examination of the patient's urine is one of the main sources of information for a diagnosis.[1] Many plants have traditional medical uses. ...


The Koryak tribe of Siberia is reported to have used the Amanita muscaria mushroom as an entheogen, and to have drunk the urine of those using the mushroom in order to experience the effects themselves. Tribesmen who could not afford the mushrooms drank the urine of those who could; tribesmen drank their own urine in order to prolong the experience; and tribesmen on trips carried their own urine with them.[2] They sometimes concentrated their urine by partially freezing it and ingesting the unfrozen liquid.[citation needed] R. Gordon Wasson has theorized that the mythological soma of the Vedic religion was also Amanita muscaria.[2] Koryak may refer to: Koryakia Autonomous District, an administrative region of Russia. ... This article is about Siberia as a whole. ... Binomial name (L.:Fr. ... For other uses, see Mushroom (disambiguation). ... This entry covers entheogens in the strict sense of the word (i. ... R. Gordon Wasson (September 22, 1898 – December 23, 1986) was an author, amateur researcher and banker. ... This article is about the Vedic plant and ritual. ... This article discusses the historical religious practices in the Vedic time period; see Dharmic religions for details of contemporary religious practices. ...


The homeopath John Henry Clarke wrote, "…man who, for a skin affection, drank in the morning the urine he had passed the night before. The symptoms were severe, consisting of general-dropsy, scanty urine, and excessive weakness. These symptoms I have arranged under Urinum. Urinotherapy is practically as old as man himself. The Chinese (Therapist, x. 329) treat wounds by sprinkling urine on them, and the custom is widespread in the Far East. Taken internally it is believed to stimulate the circulation".[3] A Homeopath is a homeopathic practitioner. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...


Modern claims and findings

Urine's main constituents are water and urea. However, it contains small quantities of many hormones and metabolites,[4][5] including corticosteroids.[6] Urea has been claimed by some doctors to have an anti-cancer effect.[7] In addition, the other chemicals in urine might have some effect if ingested. In 1997, Joseph Eldor, of the Theoretical Medicine Institute in Jerusalem, published a paper suggesting that because cancer cells release antigens which appear in the urine, oral autourotherapy could spur the intestinal lymphatic system to produce antibodies against these antigens.[8] Urea is an organic compound with the chemical formula (NH2)2CO. Urea is also known as carbamide, especially in the recommended International Nonproprietary Names (rINN) in use in Europe. ... In physiology, corticosteroids are a class of steroid hormones that are produced in the adrenal cortex. ...


Despite these claims, there has been no research that has found drinking urine to be useful for any illness.[9] However, human urine is normally relatively free of bacteria, since the bladder itself is normally a sterile environment. However, the urethra does contain bacteria, and this is why many physicians ask for a urine sample mid-stream, in order to allow the first few seconds of urination to wash out the bacteria within the urethra.[10], and drinking small amounts of one's own urine is unlikely to be seriously harmful.[9] Urinating on jellyfish stings is a common folk remedy, but has no beneficial effect and may be counterproductive as it can activate nematocysts remaining at the site of the sting.[11][12] Bold text For other uses, see Jellyfish (disambiguation). ... A home remedy is a treatment or cure for a disease or other ailment that employs certain foods or other common household items. ... Cnidocytes are prey-capture and defensive cells unique to animals of the phylum Cnidaria. ...


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  • Cameroon's Health Minister Urbain Olanguena Awono warned people against drinking their own urine, believed in some circles to be a tonic and cure for a number of ailments. "Given the risks of toxicity associated with ingesting urine", he wrote, "the health ministry advises against the consumption of urine and invites those who promote the practice to cease doing so or risk prosecution."[13]
  • Urinotherapy was in vogue recently to improve well-being or as a last resort in severe illness in the former Soviet Union and in some post-USSR countries.[14]
  • Former Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai practiced urinotherapy.[13]
  • Urine contains many vitamins, hormones and nutrients that are essential to the proper functioning of human body.[4] However, it also contains metabolic waste by-products and small amounts of toxins such as ammonia and formaldehyde. [citation needed]
  • In Shelagh Stephenson's The Memory of Water, one of the characters practices urine therapy. Her sister says that if God had intended people to drink their own urine, He would have built a straw from the bladder to the mouth.

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Further reading

  • Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi, a part of the Damar Tantra
  • Your Own Perfect Medicine, Martha M. Christy, Scottsdale, AZ: Future Medicine, 1994.
  • The Golden Fountain: The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy, Coen van der Kroon, Scottsdale, AZ: Wishland Publishing, 1996.
  • The Water of Life: A Treatise on Urine Therapy, John W. Armstrong, London: True Health Publishing Co., 1940s.
  • Shivambu Kalpa: The Ancient Healing Way of the Self, by the Self, with Medicine of the Self, Arthur Lincoln Pauls, Ortho-Bionomy Pub., 1978.
  • Shivambu Was Is and Will Be, Nila Sanghvi, Mumbai.
  • " RAKSHANK" a book on extract of Urine Therapy written by Dr Rakshak Mal Lodha:- rakshakmal@gmail.com

See also

For the sexual attraction to urine, see Urolagnia. ... This article is about the urine of animals generally. ...

References

  1. ^ Health Through Balance: An Introduction to Tibetan Medicine, Yeshi Donden, ed. and transl. by Jeffrey Hopkins, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Pub., 2003. ISBN 812081519X.
  2. ^ a b The plant kingdom and hallucinogens (part I), Richard Evans Schultes, UNODC Bulletin on Narcotics 21 (1969), #3, pp. 3–16.
  3. ^ A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke, London: Homoeopathic Pub. Co., 1900–1902.
  4. ^ a b Urine Therapy, Jeff Lowe
  5. ^ Clinical value of 24-hour urine hormone evaluations, Alan Broughton, Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, January 2004.
  6. ^ An Investigation into the Determination of Corticosteroids in Urine. I. The Determination of Corticosterone-like Substances, S. L. Tompsett, Journal of Clinical Pathology 6 (#1, February 1953), pp. 74–77. PMID 13034924.
  7. ^ Urotherapy, fact sheet at the American Cancer Society.
  8. ^ Urotherapy for patients with cancer, J. Eldor, Medical Hypotheses 48 (#4, April 1997), pp. 309–315. PMID 9160284.
  9. ^ a b True or False: It's Safe to Drink Your Urine, fact sheet at epnet.com.
  10. ^ Urinary Tract Infections in Adults, fact sheet at the National Institute of Health, publication no. 06–2097
  11. ^ Q: Is it true that urinating on a jellyfish sting alleviates the discomfort? If so, who figured that out?, John Ruch, Stupid Question™, June 7, 2004. Accessed on line September 13, 2007.
  12. ^ Fact or Fiction?: Urinating on a Jellyfish Sting is an Effective Treatment, Ciara Curtin, Scientific American, on line, January 4, 2007. Accessed on line September 13, 2007.
  13. ^ a b Cameroon threatens to jail urine drinkers, Jane Flanagan, Daily Telegraph, on line, article dated March 15, 2003.
  14. ^ Understanding Patients From the Former Soviet Union, Linda Grabbe, Family Medicine 32 (2000, #3), pp. 201–206.

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