In the 5000-year-old Damar Tantra, Parvati asks her husband Shiva what his secret to youth and energy is, and Shiva replies that he drinks his morning urine. But isn’t urine waste? Well, according to Esmail Koushanpour’s (1986) Renal Physiology, urine is plasma ultrafiltrate. But why would I drink my own urine if my kidneys don’t want it? Well, you can create a feedback loop from your body to know what’s going on and to upcycle it so that you can reuse some of what is in it.
The Water Cycle
Urine upcycling actually reflects cycles in nature like the water cycle and the compost cycle. The natural process of water is in cyclical, from evaporating from the ocean to condensing, to precipitating and raining down, to having runoff, to infiltration and percolation, and then back into bodies of water for evaporation. Infiltration (the flow of water from the ground surface into the ground to form ground water) and percolation (the vertical flow of water through the soil and rocks) mirrors the kidney’s filtration of blood to form urine.
The Compost Cycle
Urine upcycling also corresponds to the compost cycle. Compost seems like waste but it is really a fertilizer that comes from food scraps. Through the activity of the microbes it contains, compost is converted into nutrients for a living soil that nourishes crops and plants, which in turn become our food. Urine is like the compost and your cells are like the soil. The microbes contained in urine will ferment it into health-promoting substances for the human cells if it is reintroduced. Retaken urine will, of course, be further processed for the good of the cells through the activity of the microbiomes inside the body, which can be categorized into gut microbiome, breathing microbiome and skin microbiome.
Buddha Prescribes Urine Therapy (Note 1)
In fact, fermented urine upcycling is prescribed by Buddha as support (Mv. 1.77 IT) and as medicine (Anguttara Nikaya 4.27). The word for “fermented urine” in the Pali canon is puti-mutta-bhesajja, puti meaning decomposing/composting/fermented, mutta meaning urine, and bhesajja meaning medicine.
Jesus Recommends Urine Therapy (Note 2)
In John 7:38 (KJV), Jesus said, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” Here, Jesus was echoing his ancestor King Solomon’s advice, “Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well” (Proverb 5:15 NIV). Now, what else but urine would flow out of your belly as a kind of living liquid?
Article link: https://www.hongkongurinetherapy.com/urine-upcycling-echoes-water-and-compost-cycles-by-cate-stillman-adapted-by-dr-chapman-chen/ !
Adapted from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhbF2lwli48&t=819s
Notes
- https://www.hongkongurinetherapy.com/buddha-prescribes-fermented-urine-medicine-urine-therapy-by-dr-chapman-chen/
- https://www.hongkongurinetherapy.com/jesus-recommends-urine-therapy-go-vegan-by-dr-chapman-chen/ ; https://www.hkbnews.net/post/jesus-recommends-urine-therapy-by-chapman-chen-hkbnews !