Woman claims drinking, snorting and pouring her own urine into her eyes every day has cured her anxiety, improved her sight and helped her lose 30lbs

  • Grace Jones, 32, from San Diego, has been doing 'urine therapy' for two weeks 
  • Says she ingests it, snorts it, pours it into her eyes and rubs it on her skin daily
  • Claims it has cured her anxiety and helped her to lose 30lbs in just two weeks 
  • Health experts say urine contains toxins expelled from the body and kidneys and drinking it could therefore be harmful 
  • Dermatologists have said that urine can have anti-inflammatory properties that could help the skin - but only when applied in a very specific way

A woman who drinks her own urine and rubs it on her skin claims it has cured her anxiety and helped her shed 30lbs.

Grace Jones, 32, from San Diego, has been gulping down, snorting, and rubbing her own urine on her skin and hair for the past two weeks.

The retail manager drinks a glass first thing in the morning and claims it has already cured ailments including her bad eyesight, eczema, anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, digestive problems and helped with weight loss.

Grace said: 'I ingest it, snort it, pour it into my eyes and rub it on my skin and hands.

'I wee into a cup in the morning and drink it straight away.

A woman who drinks her own urine and rubs it on her skin claims it has cured her anxiety and helped her shed 30lbs. Grace Jones, 32, from San Diego, has been gulping down, snorting, and rubbing her own urine on her skin and hair for the past two weeks

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She retail manager drinks a glass first thing in the morning and claims it has already cured ailments including her bad eyesight, eczema, anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, digestive problems and helped with weight loss. Pictured is her eczema before

'I try not to drink it in the evenings because it gives me a lot of energy and keeps me awake.

'I'm completely off my blood pressure medication, it has helped my skin problems, my hair looks healthier and I've lost 30 pounds.

'I no longer have depression, anxiety or brain fog.'

As well as her new morning routine, Grace has adopted a plant based diet and cut out alcohol; both of these lifestyle changes are known to help improve general health, aid weight loss, and boost the complexion.

However Grace still credits much of her personal transformation to 'urine therapy'.  

She decided to start following the controversial wellness trend two weeks ago when she came across a post on social media encouraging people to try it. 

She said: 'I was skeptical at first and it took me a while to get over the stigma of it.

'It tastes slightly salty and buttery but it depends on what you've eaten and how you're feeling.

'I wanted to get off my blood pressure medication so I was searching for alternative methods so when I saw someone on Instagram teaching urine therapy, I just fell into it.'

Although she has been open about her quirky new self-care routine with her friends and family, Grace admits that she hasn't yet told her partner of nine years because she is worried about his reaction.

She said: 'I've told a couple of my friends and family and some have said I don't know what I'm doing or I'm crazy or sick or I'm going to hurt myself because it's toxic waste.

'I haven't told my boyfriend yet because I don't think his reaction would be positive.

'I'm just waiting for the right time. I have my own bathroom so I can keep it hidden.'  

Should you drink your own urine?

Urine is made of approximately 95 per cent water and 5 per cent nutrients including calcium and iron. 

Fans of 'urotherapy', a term used to describe drinking your own pee, include Madonna. 

In 1945, John W. Armstrong, a British naturopath, published a book claiming that drinking urine could cure all major illnesses, however there is no scientific proof of this. 

Health expert Aisling Pigott, dietician and spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association, says urine contains toxins expelled from the body and kidneys, and drinking it could therefore be harmful and cause infection.  

However Shona Wilkinson, head nutritionist at NutriCentre, says urine is not toxic and is actually very sterile as it has been filtered twice – once by the liver and again by the kidneys. 

Followers claim it cures diseases when ingested and acne when used topically due to its 'disinfectant' properties, and it has been used in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicines.

Sources: Healthline.com; Marie Claire

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Pictured: Grace's eczema on her finger before she started drinking urine and rubbing it onto her skin.

Urine therapy is still an extremely divisive subject in the medical community - with some doctors warning that the practice of drinking the liquid can cause infection because it contains toxins that have been expelled by the body. 

However others claim that that urine is actually completely sterile because it has been twice-filtered by the body, first in the liver and then via the kidneys. 

The effectiveness as urine as a topical solution to improve the skin is also the subject of debate and controversy - however some dermatologists note that it can be used as an anti-inflammatory treatment for some conditions.  

Dermatologist Whitney Bowe, MD, told Refinery 29 that washing or toning your face and skin with urine may prove effective, but only if it is done in a very careful and regimented way. 

She warned that anyone hoping to experiment with urine therapy should only do so with their own sample, and advised that it only be done with freshly-expelled urine, in order to avoid any potential 'bacteria contamination'. 

Dr. Bowe added that anyone who is prone to UTIs, has diabetes, or is taking any oral medication, should avoid putting urine on their skin because this may cause a reaction.  

尿循環呼應大自然循環!作者:Cate Stillman;改編翻譯:Dr. Chapman Chen

在印度五千年阿育吠陀經典達瑪·譚崔(Damar Tantra)中,帕爾瓦蒂(Parvati)問丈夫濕婆(Shiva),永保青春活力的秘訣,濕婆(Shiva)答道:日日飲晨尿。 但尿不是廢物嗎?根據Esmail Koushanpour(1986)著作Renal Physiology(腎臟生理學),尿是血清超濾液。問題來了,尿連腎都不要,為何還要飲? 哪,飲尿可從身體創建反饋循環,以了解正在發生何事,並且循環再用尿中可用之物。 尿循環 尿液升級其實反映自然界的循環,例如水循環和堆肥循環。 自然的水過程周而復始,從海洋蒸發到凝結,到凝聚落雨,到徑流,滲透(Infiltration)滲濾(percolation),然後再回到水中蒸發。 滲透(水從地面流入地下,形成地下水)和滲濾(水垂直流經泥土和岩石)映照腎過濾血而形成尿。  堆肥循環 尿循環也對應堆肥循環。 堆肥似乎是廢物,但其實是來自廚餘的肥料。堆肥經自己所含微生物的活性作用,轉化為泥土養分,滋養穀物和植物,而穀物植物反過來又成為我們的食物。 尿就好像堆肥,人的細胞有如土壤。 尿如重新引入人體,尿中的微生物就會將其發酵成促進人體細胞健康的物質。 當然,人體微生物組的活性作用,也進一步將尿加工,變為有益細胞的物質;人體微生物組可分類為腸道微生物組、肺部微生物組和皮膚微生物組。   佛陀傳授尿療法(註一)  佛陀以發酵尿為依(曾焯文倒譯,Khematto比丘英譯,Vinaya Piṭaka〔律藏〕卷四,Mahāvagga〔大品〕,Mahākhandhako〔大犍度〕,CattāroNissayā〔四依〕);以發酵尿為藥(曾焯文倒譯,阿姜蘇嘉多禪師〔Bhikkhu Sujato〕英譯,四集,初五十經篇,優樓比螺品,知足 〔AN 4.27〕)。 曾焯文註:根據十誦律、四分律、得法大經、摩訶僧祇律等佛經的各種漢譯本,佛祖教比丘病時服陳棄藥/腐爛藥/腐尿水。查陳棄藥/腐爛藥/腐尿水巴利文原作pūti-mutta-bhesajja,直譯腐臭尿藥,現代佛學家Khematto Bhikkhu、阿姜蘇嘉多禪師、Buddha-Vacana Org. 均詮釋為fermented urine medicine(醱酵尿藥),Robert Thurman (1982) 則詮釋為陳舊尿藥。勿忘陳舊的尿會發酵,產生餲(aat3)味,相當攻鼻,但可當藥用。換言之,二千五百年前,佛祖經已傳授尿療法。   耶穌推薦尿療法(註二)  在約翰福音 7:38(現代標點和合本)中,耶穌道:「信我的人就如經上所說,從他腹中要流出活水的江河來。」此處耶穌在回應其祖先所羅門國王的建議:「你要喝自己池中的水,飲自己井裡的活水。」(箴言 5:15 現代標點和合本  )。 然則,除了尿之外,還有甚麼活水會從你的肚中流出呢?   本文中文版連結:https://www.hongkongurinetherapy.com/%e5%b0%bf%e5%be%aa%e7%92%b0%e5%91%bc%e6%87%89%e5%a4%a7%e8%87%aa%e7%84%b6%e5%be%aa%e7%92%b0%ef%bc%81%e4%bd%9c%e8%80%85%ef%bc%9acate-stillman%ef%bc%9b%e6%94%b9%e7%b7%a8%e7%bf%bb%e8%ad%af%ef%bc%9adr-cha/ 本文英文版連結:https://www.hongkongurinetherapy.com/urine-upcycling-echoes-water-and-compost-cycles-by-cate-stillman-adapted-by-dr-chapman-chen/ ! 改編自:澳洲瑜伽療愈師Cate Stillman 影片 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhbF2lwli48&t=819s Notes
  1. https://www.hongkongurinetherapy.com/%e4%bd%9b%e9%99%80%e5%82%b3%e6%8e%88%e5%b0%bf%e7%99%82%e6%b3%95-%e4%bd%9c%e8%80%85%ef%bc%9a%e6%9b%be%e7%84%af%e6%96%87%e5%8d%9a%e5%a3%ab/  https://www.hongkongurinetherapy.com/buddha-prescribes-fermented-urine-medicine-urine-therapy-by-dr-chapman-chen/
  2. 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 !
 

Urine Upcycling Echoes Water and Compost Cycles. By Cate Stillman. Adapted by Dr. Chapman Chen

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
  1. https://www.hongkongurinetherapy.com/buddha-prescribes-fermented-urine-medicine-urine-therapy-by-dr-chapman-chen/
  2. 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 !

Documentary Explores the Benefits of Drinking Urine

Documentary Explores the Benefits of Drinking Urine

Spectacle Films, Inc.'s Documentary film ‘Urine: Good Health’ investigates the alleged medical validity of “auto urine therapy”

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“You really don’t need a diagnosis if you’re sick [...] you just drink your urine, and that will cure it”, claims Michael Maloney, New York City Fire Department Captain

Whether they’re practitioners of Ayurvedic medicine, Christians compelled by Proverbs 5:15 which commands the faithful to “Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well”, or alternative medicine advocates who dress the practice in a more scientific vernacular, there is a significant minority of people worldwide who drink to their health from cups of their own urine.

In the film ‘Urine: Good Health’, documentarians Cevin Soling and Eli Kabillio investigate the history of urine therapy practices, interview its modern adherents and advocates, explore the question of urine’s alleged medicinal qualities, and delve fearlessly into inquiries that many -- when confronted with the topic -- would wonder about, but few would ask.

Urine tastes “like sea-water”, according to one member of a urine therapy support group in Los Angeles, assuring viewers that drinking pee is not at all unpleasant.

“Urine, when it is first voided, is 100% sterile,” according to “naturopath” Dr. Robert Green. As it sits, urine may breed bacteria, and it is then that it takes on the unpleasant smell attributed to alleyways and public restrooms. This “Water of Life”, we are told, is capable of curing nearly anything.

“You really don’t need a diagnosis if you’re sick [...] you just drink your urine, and that will cure it”, claims Michael Maloney, New York City Fire Department Captain in an interview for the film.

“Urine is antibacterial, antiviral, and antiprotozoal -- which means [...] against parasites”, states the author of ‘Urine Therapy - It May Save Your Life’, Dr. Beatrice Bartnett (Chiroprator/Naturopath) who explains that when people are fighting off an illness, antibodies discarded in the urine significantly boost one’s immune system when re-absorbed into the system

But some in the medical community disagree.

There is also controversy within the urine therapy community as to whether it is beneficial or counter-productive to use urine other than one’s own. One urine therapy advocate advises, “If you’re visiting a country where most of the tourists develop dysentery, malaria, cholera, typhoid fever [...] as soon as [you] get to the hotel, ask the healthiest looking bell-boy for a drop of his urine, because he’s already developed resistance against the microbes in the area. His urine is the best vaccine [...]”

Other urine therapy advocates strongly disagree, believing that one can only expect positive results from one’s own urine.

Urine-drinkers seem united, however, in the idea that the medical establishment is suppressing this ancient “medicine” that threatens the therapeutic primacy of expensive pharmaceuticals.

It’s a controversy that continues to rage on unbeknownst to the general population, one which this documentary sheds light on with unflinching candor, intelligence, and absorbing pacing and cinematography. Urine: Good Health provides an entertaining introductory education to a topic that is sure to make its viewers the life of any cocktail party.

天水靈藥,防病回春!น้ำปัสสาวะ” ยาอายุวัฒนะต้านโรคร้าย!Trans. Dr. Chapman Chen

許多人以為尿好齷齪(污糟),但信不信由你,飲尿其實能令你延年益壽,百病不侵。德國、巴西、日本和印度等許多國家的醫學界均致力研究尿的醫療價值。 尿,看來黃甘甘,但原來含豐富礦物質、維生素、激素、酵素、免疫力、蛋白質和更多有用物質,例如尿激酶urokinase有助溶解血液凝塊,打通堵塞的血管,控制炎症。尿含荷爾蒙紅血球生成素erythropoietin,可刺激紅血球產生;干擾素抗病退毒癌;晨尿中的褪黑激素有助熟睡;生長激素可修復身體的磨損組織。 童子尿含更多整全礦物質,如鈣、鎂、磷、銅、鋅、碘、鐵和尿素,抗炎利尿,滋養皮膚。 新手請參考佛經《藥犍度》,建議開始時一點一點飲。用水溝稀尿的中段(頭段同尾段棄掉),令身體逐漸適應。由四分一杯開始,然後加到半杯。朝早飲一次有於身體平衡;再加到早晚(睡前)一次,可長久保健。 日飲三次,則能醫百病。除了飲之外,又可用尿洗傷口消毒;又或用來灌耳,醫耳疾;尿拔(含尿在口五至十五分鐘)能醫牙痛及喉嚨痛,用尿洗鼻腔,可醫鼻竇炎或重感冒。 Article link: https://www.hongkongurinetherapy.com/%e5%a4%a9%e6%b0%b4%e9%9d%88%e8%97%a5%ef%bc%8c%e9%98%b2%e7%97%85%e5%9b%9e%e6%98%a5%ef%bc%81%e0%b8%99%e0%b9%89%e0%b8%b3%e0%b8%9b%e0%b8%b1%e0%b8%aa%e0%b8%aa%e0%b8%b2%e0%b8%a7%e0%b8%b0-%e0%b8%a2/  ! น้ำปัสสาวะ" ยาอายุวัฒนะต้านโรคร้าย" พูดถึงน้ำปัสสาวะ หลายคนคงมองว่าเป็นของสกปรก แต่เชื่อหรือไม่คะว่า การดื่มน้ำปัสสาวะจะทำให้อายุยืนยาวขึ้น และปลอดจากโรคภัยทั้งหลาย โดยวงการแพทย์ในหลายๆประเทศ เช่น เยอรมนี, บราซิล, ญี่ปุ่น และอินเดีย ก็ทุ่มเทวิจัยเรื่องคุณค่าของน้ำปัสสาวะในการรักษาโรค เห็นสีเหลืองๆแบบนี้ อันที่จริงแล้ว “น้ำปัสสาวะ” มีคุณประโยชน์อเนกอนันต์ เพราะอุดมไปด้วยแร่ธาตุ วิตามิน ฮอร์โมน เอนไซม์ ภูมิคุ้มกัน โปรตีน และสารที่มีประโยชน์อีกมาก เช่น ยูโรไคเนส เป็นเอนไซม์ช่วยละลายลิ่มเลือด รักษาภาวะเส้นเลือดอุดตัน, โพราทาแกลนดิน ช่วยควบคุมการอักเสบ และต้านการจับตัวของลิ่มเลือด, อีริโทรพอยติน กระตุ้นการสร้างเม็ดเลือดแดง, อินเตอร์เฟอรอน สารต้านทานโรคและมะเร็งร้าย, ฮอร์โมนเมลาโทนิน พบในน้ำปัสสาวะตอนเช้าหลังตื่นนอน ช่วยให้นอนหลับสนิท, โกรทฮอร์โมน ทำหน้าที่ซ่อมแซมส่วนสึกหรอ และยิ่งถ้าเป็นน้ำปัสสาวะของเด็ก จะยิ่งมีแร่ธาตุมาก ครบครันทั้งแคลเซียม, แมกนีเซียม, ฟอสฟอรัส, ทองแดง, สังกะสี, ไอโอดีน, เหล็ก และยูเรีย ซึ่งเป็นสารขับปัสสาวะต้านการอักเสบ และบำรุงผิวพรรณ สำหรับมือใหม่หัดดื่มน้ำปัสสาวะ ในหนังสือ “ยาพระพุทธเจ้า น้ำปัสสาวะเป็นยารักษาโรค” แนะนำว่า ควรเริ่มดื่มทีละน้อย โดยใช้น้ำปัสสาวะช่วงกลางผสมน้ำให้เจือจาง เพื่อให้ร่างกายค่อยๆปรับตัว เริ่มจากหนึ่งในสี่ของแก้ว แล้วค่อยเพิ่มเป็นครึ่งแก้ว หากดื่มวันละ 1 ครั้งตอนเช้า จะเป็นการช่วยร่างกายปรับสมดุล ดื่มวันละ 2 ครั้ง ตอนเช้าและก่อนนอน เป็นยาบำรุงรักษาอวัยวะ และหากดื่มวันละ 3 ครั้ง ทั้งเช้า กลางวัน เย็น จะเป็นยารักษาโรคและอาการเจ็บป่วยสารพัด นอกจากการดื่มแล้ว ยังนำน้ำปัสสาวะมาทาแผลสดเพื่อฆ่าเชื้อ หรือใช้หยอดหูแก้อาการหูน้ำหนวก และอมในปาก เพื่อรักษาอาการปวดฟันและเจ็บคอ คนเป็นไซนัส หรือหวัดรุนแรง ก็ใช้น้ำปัสสาวะล้างโพรงจมูกได้. ที่มา : ไทยรัฐออนไลน์     資料來源:https://www.thairath.co.th/lifestyle/woman/257887

英國猛男飲尿回春,醫好抑鬱病!Trans. Dr. Chapman Chen

英國猛男哈利·馬達巔(Harry Matadeen),今年三十四歲,任職健康教練,日日飲自家舊尿二百毫升,啲尿起碼擺咗兩周,甚至成個月,另加新鮮尿。馬達巔堅稱二零一六年開始飲尿,因此醫好咗抑鬱病,感覺健康快樂,醒目聰明;又話用尿搽面,保濕護膚,天水回春,係最好的抗衰老靈藥,好多人都以為其只得二十歲。馬達巔寫了兩本關於陳尿療法的書,利益眾生。其中一本係:Aged Urine - Discovery Of The Century(陳年天水:世紀大發現)。   Article link: https://www.hongkongurinetherapy.com/%e8%8b%b1%e5%9c%8b%e7%8c%9b%e7%94%b7%e9%a3%b2%e5%b0%bf%e5%9b%9e%e6%98%a5%ef%bc%8c%e9%86%ab%e5%a5%bd%e6%8a%91%e9%ac%b1%e7%97%85%ef%bc%81trans-dr-chapman-chen/ Sources: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8024035/Man-drinks-two-week-old-urine-day-claims-cured-depression.html?fbclid=IwAR2hSeoYnSFQO97rutPbdV-651EH-hMjp4_xn9zWYo3x4cVqysPGMG3e03c https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpTdGMG1Yq1Lv94CZc7TL_g    ! Pic credit: Mathew Growcoot/News Dog Media

A brief history of athletes drinking their own urine

Taking the piss: a brief history of athletes drinking their own urine

An NFL player confessed this week to drinking his own urine during the pre-season, but Ben Jones is hardly the first athlete to recycle his bodily fluids

Juan Manuel Marquez famously drank his own urine ahead of his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. Photograph: HBO/YouTube

Ben Jones, an offensive lineman with the Houston Texans, made headlines this week when he confessed to drinking a cup of his own urine to win a bet against his team-mates. “We were having a good time, and whatever makes the team better,” the fourth-year center recalled. “I was just enjoying it – and anytime I can get a laugh out of it, I’ll do it.” Naturally.

Jones, who is described by team-mate Charles James as “a pretty nasty guy”, is hardly the first sportsman to find value in recycling his bodily fluids. Yet many of the Alabama native’s predecessors have consumed urine not in search of the anarchic jollity of a sophomoric sight gag, but in fact a competitive edge.

The great Mexican champion Juan Manuel Márquez famously showcased the practice ahead of his 2009 fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. “This is something I have been doing for the past six or seven fights, and it has given me good results,” Marquez, who has held world titles in four weight classes, said during an episode of HBO’s documentary series 24/7. “If you drink or inject yourself with vitamins, you release them every time you go to the bathroom. Why not put them back in your body orally?”

A ringing endorsement it was not – Marquez lost a hugely lopsided decision – but it hasn’t stopped others from giving it a shot. See the mixed martial artist Lyoto Machida, who told a Brazilian magazine that drinking urine was a longstanding family tradition: “My father does that for a long time and bring it to us. People think it’s a joke. I never said it in the United States because I don’t know how the fans will react. I drink my urine every morning like a natural medicine.”

MMA fighter Luke Cummo, who soared to fame after appearing in the second season of The Ultimate Fighter, is another proponent of pee drinking. Notorious on the show for idiosyncrasies such as insisting that his bed point north so that he could align his own energy, or chi, with that of the earth, Cummo also advocated the consumption of his own waste. He reasoned that urine “contains minerals, hormones and elements that bind moisture to protein”, and said that his practice of drinking it was all part of the body’s recycling process. He also insisted the alternative application of human urine is a more common practice than Americans think, a fact to which any regular on Craigslist’s Casual Encounters listings can attest.

Certainly, urophagia, the practice of drinking one’s own urine, also known as urine therapy, has deep roots in other cultures. In 1978, the Prime Minister of India, Morarji Desai, a longtime practitioner of urine therapy, spoke to Dan Rather on 60 Minutes about the practice. Desai stated that urine therapy was the perfect medical solution for the millions of Indians who cannot afford medical treatment. According to claims by members of the China Urine Therapy Association, more than 100,000 people in mainland China are current practitioners.

Urine therapy is not limited to merely drinking urine, however. Former MLB standout Moisés Alou, a six-time All-Star and career .303 hitter, revealed that he’d urinate on his hands to toughen them up. Alou, one of the few major leaguers who didn’t wear gloves while batting, was joined by former New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada, who once quipped, “You don’t want to shake my hand during spring training.” Even erstwhile Cubs hurler Kerry Wood mentioned trying the technique to remedy blisters on his pitching hand, although he added that this was as a last resort. “Someone tells you something works,” Wood said, and we are given a brief glimpse into the life of a pro athlete, willing to try anything to gain that edge.

But what are the purported health benefits of urine, which is 95% water but also contains minerals, proteins, vitamins and antibodies? Yoshizo Machida, Lyoto’s father and Japan’s answer to a wrestling dad, contends that ingesting your own urine acts as a “natural medicine” that flushes out the system, aiding in digestion and preventing the build-up of harmful bacteria. Other urine-drinkers swear by its immune system boosting properties and skin-softening abilities.

Still, drinking your urine has no documented benefits. Skeptics say the 5% that isn’t water contains things the body is trying to get rid of. “Think about it like drinking ocean water,” says Jeff Giullian, a nephrologist at South Denver Nephrology Associates in Colorado. “It’s going to dehydrate you and do significantly more harm than good.”

Bear Grylls, the adventurer and host of TV show Man vs Wild, has been filmed several times drinking his own urine in order to avoid dehydration. “Can it save your life?” he asked rhetorically during a recent episode. “Yes, in some situations. Although you read about these people who do it for fun at home. I’m not like that. I’m weird, but I’m not that weird.”

Which more or less settles it. Even if the physiological benefits of Jones’s wee pint are dubious, its value as a comic set piece remains beyond dispute.

Vegetarian Nikola Tesla

North America: early 20th Century

Nikola Tesla (1857-1943)

  • Nikola Tesla (1857-1943)(Inventor; too many to list, including AC Current);Source: Any decent biography of Nickola Tesla

The following was sen by Darko Djurdjic, engineer of Geodesy, writing from Republic Srpska, BIH

PRODIGAL GENIUS
The Life of Nikola Tesla by John J. O'Neill (1944)

"With the passing decades, Tesla shifted away from a meat diet. He substituted fish, always boiled, and finally eliminated the meat entirely. He later almost entirely eliminated the fish and lived on a vegetarian diet. Milk was his main standby, and toward the end of his life it was the principal item of diet, served warm. As a youth he drank a great deal of coffee, and, while he gradually became aware that he suffered unfavorable influences from it, he found it a difficult habit to break. When he finally made the decision to drink no more of it, he adhered to his good intentions but was forced to recognize the fact that the desire for it remained. He combated this by ordering with each meal a pot of his favorite coffee, and having a cup of it poured so that he would get the aroma. It required ten years for the aroma of the coffee to transform itself into a nuisance so that he felt secure in no longer having it served. Tea and cocoa he also considered injurious. He was a heavy smoker in his youth, mostly of cigars. A sister who seemed fatally ill, when he was in his early twenties, said she would try to get better if he would give up smoking. He did so immediately. His sister recovered, and he never smoked again."

A MACHINE TO END WAR
Liberty, February 1937 by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck

"MORE people die or grow sick from polluted water than from coffee, tea, tobacco, and other stimulants. I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat. I am convinced that within a century coffee, tea, and tobacco will be no longer in vogue. Alcohol, however, will still be used. It is not a stimulant but a veritable elixir of life. The abolition of stimulants will not come about forcibly. It will simply be no longer fashionable to poison the system with harmful ingredients. Bernarr Macfadden has shown how it is possible to provide palatable food based upon natural products such as milk, honey, and wheat. I believe that the food which is served today in his penny restaurants will be the basis of epicurean meals in the smartest banquet halls of the twenty-first century. There will be enough wheat and wheat products to feed the entire world, including the teeming millions of China and India, now chronically on the verge of starvation. The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900."

THE PROBLEM OF INCREASING HUMAN ENERGY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCES TO THE HARNESSING OF THE SUN'S ENERGY.
by Nikola Tesla, Century Illustrated Magazine, June 1900

"A thousand other evils might be mentioned, but all put together, in their bearing upon the problem under discussion, they could not equal a single one, the want of food, brought on by poverty, destitution, and famine. Millions of individuals die yearly for want of food, thus keeping down the mass. Even in our enlightened communities, and not withstanding the many charitable efforts, this is still, in all probability, the chief evil. I do not mean here absolute want of food, but want of healthful nutriment. How to provide good and plentiful food is, therefore, a most important question of the day. On the general principles the raising of cattle as a means of providing food is objectionable, because, in the sense interpreted above, it must undoubtedly tend to the addition of mass of a "smaller velocity." It is certainly preferable to raise vegetables, and I think, therefore, that vegetarianism is a commendable departure from the established barbarious habit. That we can subsist on plant food and perform our work even to advantage is not a theory, but a well-demonstrated fact. Many races living almost exclusively on vegetables are of superior physique and strength. There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. In view of these facts every effort should be made to stop the wanton and cruel slaughter of animals, which must be destructive to our morals. To free ourselves from animal instincts and appetites, which keep us down, we should begin at the very root from which we spring: we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food. There seems to be no philosophical necessity for food. We can conceive of organized beings living without nourishment, and deriving all the energy they need for the performance of their lifefunctions from the ambient medium. In a crystal we have the clear evidence of the existence of a formative life-principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is none the less a living being."

SPEECH ON BEHALF EDISON MEDAL PRIZE
A speech delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
May 18, 1917.

"On this occasion, you might want me to say something of a personal and more intimate character bearing on my work. One of the speakers suggested: "Tell us something about yourself, about your early struggles." If I am not mistaken in this surmise I will, with your approval, dwell briefly on this rather delicate subject. I may say, also, that I am deeply religious at heart, although not in the Orthodox meaning, and that I give myself to the constant enjoyment of belleving that the greatest mysteries of our being are still to be fathomed and that, all the evidence of the senses and the teachings of exact and dry sciences to the contrary notwithstanding, death itself may not be the termination of the wonderful metamorphoses we witness. In this way I have managed to maintain an undisturbed peace of mind, to make myself proof against adversity, and to achieve contentment and happiness to a point of extracting some satisfaction even from the darker side of life, the trials and tribulations of existence. I have fame and untold wealth, more than all this, and yet - how many articles have been written in which I was declared to be an impractical unsuccesful man, and how many poor, struggling writers, have called me a visionary. Such is the folly and shortsightedness of the world!"

Fermented Urine: The Buddha’s Medicine

Fermented Urine: The Buddha's Medicine

compiled and annotated by Brother Promise


The Buddha recommended his disciples to use fermented urine as their go-to medicine.


Puti = fermented

Mutta = urine

Bhesajja = medicine

Putimuttabhesajja = Fermented urine as medicine


Though some commentators explained the Pali expression putimuttabhesajja to mean fermented cow's urine, nowhere is the word cow (gavi or go) mentioned in the original texts. Others have explained the word puti to mean "that which is repulsive" and implied that the Buddha recommended fresh urine therapy-- drinking one's own fresh urine "although it is repulsive". But puti clearly means fermented, putrid, decomposing. For instance the word "corpse" in Pali is putikaya, that is a rotten, decomposing body.

https://palidictionary.appspot.com/browse/p/p%C5%ABti


What follows are quotes of the Buddha from the Pali canon, the standard collection of early Buddhist scriptures.


Pūtimuttabhesajjaṁ nissāya pabbajjā tattha te yāvajīvaṁ ussāho karaṇīyo "Going-Forth has fermented urine medicine as its support. For the rest of your life you are to endeavor at that."

Mv.I.77.1

https://www.dhammatalks.org/vinaya/Mv/MvI.html

Note: "Going-Forth" here means becoming a Buddhist monk or nun.

The Buddha taught his monastic disciples to use fermented urine as their go-to medicine.


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"Mendicants, these four trifles are easy to get hold of and are blameless. What four? Rag-robes … A lump of alms-food … Lodgings at the root of a tree … Fermented urine as medicine…"

Anguttara Nikaya 4.27

https://suttacentral.net/an4.27/en/sujato


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“These four, bhikkhus, are trifling things, easily obtained and blameless. What four? A robe made of cast-off rags is a trifling thing, easily obtained and blameless. Food gathered on alms round is a trifling thing, easily obtained and blameless. The root of a tree as a dwelling place is a trifling thing, easily obtained and blameless. Medicine consisting of putrid urine is a trifling thing, easily obtained and blameless. These, bhikkhus, are the four trifling things, easily obtained and blameless. When a bhikkhu is content with these things that are trifling and easily obtained, I say of him that he has the requisites for recluseship.”

Itivuttaka 101

https://suttacentral.net/iti101/en/ireland

Note: "bhikkhus" means beggars / recluses / monks and nuns / monastic disciples of the Buddha.


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"As you live contented your fermented urine as medicine will seem to you like various medicines—ghee, butter, oil, honey, molasses, and salt—seem to a householder or householder’s child. It will be for your enjoyment, relief, and comfort, and to reach [Nirvana]."

Anguttara Nikaya 8.30

https://suttacentral.net/an8.30/en/sujato


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Now at that time a certain monk had jaundice. “I allow you, monks, to make him drink aged urine and yellow myrobalan.”

Theravada Vinayapitaka Khandhaka Mahavagga 6

https://suttacentral.net/pli-tv-kd6/en/horner-brahmali

Note: This medicine is known as the "Buddha's medicine" in Theravadan countries. In Pali:

putimuttabhesajjaharitaka. Puti=fermented. Mutta=urine. Bhesajja=medicine. Haritaka=haritaki,

terminalia chebula [see https://haritaki.org/haritaki-benefits/]


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"Suppose there was some fermented urine mixed with different medicines. Then a man with jaundice would come along. They’d say to him: ‘Here, mister, this is fermented urine mixed with different medicines. Drink it if you like. If you drink it, the color, aroma, and flavor will be unappetizing, but after drinking it you will be happy.’ He wouldn’t reject it. After thinking, he’d drink it. The color, aroma, and flavor would be unappetizing, but after drinking it he would be happy."

Majjhima Nikaya 46

https://suttacentral.net/mn46/en/sujato


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Anyone who makes use of

Leftovers for food,

Putrid urine as medicine,


The root of a tree as lodging,

And rags from the rubbish-heap as robes,

Is at home in any direction.

Theragatha 18.1

https://suttacentral.net/thag18.1/en/sujato-walton

Note: This passage is attributed to MahaKassapa, one of the Buddha's senior and most accomplished

disciples, who was known for his asceticism, health and longevity.


A Urine Therapy Testimony: Liver Cancer and Piles Gone! Trans. Dr. Chapman Chen

As recorded in An Experienced Physician's (2010) book Auto-Urine Therapy, an Indian man named Chitalia suffered from liver cancer, piles and continuous fever in the 1970s. Western-style doctors confirmed that he had at the most half a month to live. Thank God, a neighbor handed him a book on urine therapy. Following the instructions in the book, he drank his own urine in large quantities and washed his piles with urine lavishly. Within months, he completely recovered, much to the astonishment of his doctors. Below please find this gentleman's testimony:   Self-introduction My name is Nanubhai Kalidas Chitalia. I am 53 years old. I live at present on the fourth floor of Kapadia Building No. 2, Near G. T. School, Malharrao Wadi, Kalbadevi, Mumbai. I believe that the story of my illness and my recovery to the extent of being able to lead a completely normal life, is of considerable interest, and may prove a source of inspiration to many who have lost all hope. It may rekindle the vital spark in the hearts of those who have lost the will to live.   The First Omen One unlucky day in February 1976, while I was shaving myself, I discovered a small lump under the lobe of my right ear-a hard movable lump that shifted up or down under pressure. No similar lump was found on the left side. I showed it to my family doctor, who did not attach much importance to my complaint. He commenced treatment, attributing the lump to 'weakness'. As there was no improvement, I approached a consultant Physician. 'Deficiency of vitamins/ he diagnosed, and prescribed injections and medicines. A month passed without any improvement.   Diagnosed with Cancer Another doctor was consulted. He listened patiently and attentively, and went through the details of the injections and medicines. He suspected cancer and advised me to go to the Tata Hospital* I saw Dr J. J. Vyas of the Tata Hospital on 19 March 1976. He works in association with Dr Paymaster. He examined me thoroughly, and administered certain tests. There was no pain when the lump was pressed. The test reports came in : I had cancer. The hospital card was issued to me on 19 March 1976, and bore the number AH-3603.   Radiotherapy Treatment for cancer was commenced. 200-watt irradiations were given on alternate days, 20 in all, over a period of about a month and a half. A check showed no appreciable improvement. Another course of ten 200-watt exposures was commenced. This time there were indications of irritation on my neck. My throat began to feel parched. The sense of taste was lost. The irradiated area was scorched.   Some skin was excised. There was some relief, though it proved to be temporary.   Bad Habits I had contracted some bad habits in my childhood. Including smoking 20-25 biris or cigarettes, chewing 4 to 5 betel leaves with tobacco and drinking 5 to 6 cups of strong tea every day, I weighed 62 kilograms. But after contracting cancer, I began to lose weight. There was no discomfort after the treatment at the Tata Hospital. Things were all right till near the end of the year 1977.   Liver Cancer Discovered In December 1977, a lump was noticed on my abdomen. I began to have fever, the temperature ranging from 101° F to 103*F. I lost appetite completely. Lassitude invaded my body. I went to the Tata Hospital again in February 1978, and saw Dr Vyas. The family doctor had been treating me during this period, but the fever did not respond to the treatment. There was another round of tests and investigations. I was told that I had cancer of the liver. There were growths on three sides of the liver. No operation or radiation therapy was possible.   Futile Western Medicines A course of medicines was initiated. Ten injections costing Rs 50 each were given, on alternate days. As there was no improvement, ten more injections, costing Rs 140 each this time, were given. Despite all this, there was no improvement! I got weaker and weaker. My weight dropped to 30-32 kg. I had no appetite. There was a nauseating bad taste in my mouth. On the top of all this, I developed piles. Lumps, fever and piles! I was getting desperate. There was persistent, nagging pain. Dr Vyas gave his final opinion, 'Take rest now. There is nothing more we can do for you/ Treatment was discontinued.   Our family doctor suggested removal of the piles by an operation. But I was in extreme distress because of the pains inflicted by a triplet of diseases. Dr Vyas called for another consultation at my home. After a detailed examination, he asked the members of my family to 'finish all important tasks expeditiously'. As we belong to the Vaishnav sect, the donation of a cow in alms was attended to immediately. Preparations for the ultimate journey were diligently taken on hand. These included pooja worship in the Haveli temple and other religious ceremonies. The proposal of operating for piles was rejected summarily. When death was imminent, what was the sense in having the operation?   Light at the End of the Tunnel These events took place in April 1978.   The spirit was impatient to escape from the body. But my will to live was not yet prepared to submit so easily. My will power was continually inducing me to entertain no other thoughts except those of survival. And one day it was as if the Messiah Himself came to our door. Our next-door neighbour Ramdasbhai stepped into my house, and very gently placed a book in my hands. It was 'Manav Mootra' (Human Urine) by Ravjibhai Patel. Like a drowning man clutching at a straw, I began to read it avidly and with rekindled hope. I went straight to the chapter on piles. I saw light at the end of the tunnel. As death was staring me in the face why shouldn't this free treatment be tried? Accordingly, I commenced auto-urine therapy for the treatment of piles.   Piles Gone! I began to wash the piles 8 to 10 times a day with fresh urine. There was some improvement in about 15 days.   One day two of the excrescences dropped away while cleaning! My surprise and joy knew no bounds! The third one also fell out after four days. The bleeding stopped, the pain simply disappeared. As I had succeeded in freeing myself from one of the three disorders, my confidence grew, and my faith in this therapy deepened. I reported this development to the doctor who had recommended an operation. He could not give credence to such an unconventional cure, so he came and examined me. He was astonished when he saw the results.   Urine-drinking Started Now I decided to commence treatment of the other two complaints, fever and the tumours of the liver, and began drinking my urine on the auspicious day of Dasserah, 1978. I began with half a glass, that is about 4 ounces, of fresh urine in the morning. Meanwhile I continued to take the medicines prescribed by the TataHospital authorities. I had been suffering from asthma, which was inherited from my parents. After eight to ten days of auto-urine therapy, I noted assuagement of the symptoms of asthma. So I increased the frequency of my intake of urine to twice a day. Again in a period of 8 to 10 days, I began to recover my appetite.   The sense of taste which had been lost completely was regained to some extent. I began to feel a little stronger and more active. I became more enthusiastic, and increased the frequency of the intake of urine from twice a day to three, four and more times a day. About 24 ounces of urine were now to be taken everyday. The fever now freed me from its clutches, thus greatly augmenting both my joy and my enthusiasm. I began to drink plenty of water. I began to pass 7 or 8 glassfuls of water in a day, and my total intake reached 48 ounces a day.   A Sudden Attack of Colic About one and a half months from the commencement of this therapy, I had a sudden severe attack of colic at night. I ran to the lavatory. I was feeling so sick that I decided not to lock the lavatory from inside, and asked my wife to stand near the door. I passed very foul smelling stool in a few moments. A highly malodorous liquid containing fibrous materials, red in colour resembling that of flesh, was forcibly expelled in great quantity, followed by black lumpy matter. The smell was so intolerable that it was not possible to continue to sit or even stand Ihere. All at once I felt extremely weak. My wife cleaned me up, and led me to my bed. I was fast asleep in five minutes. Because of my various diseases, I had never before slept so soundly. I began to feel better from the next day.   Cancerous Tumors Gone! After another 15 days, I had the severe abdominal pains once again, and foul smelling lumps were passed in the stool as before. Such lumps continued to be excreted for the following ten days or so, in smaller amounts. After that I began to feel much better. The cancerous tumours could not be detected on examination of the abdomen. My intake of food increased, and so did my weight. I had stopped taking the medicines prescribed by the doctors at the Tata Hospital. After about two or two and a half months, I had recovered completely. The doctor who had been treating me was struck with wonder.   "You are still alive?" After about six months, I went to the Tata Hospital to see Dr Vyas. He was stunned on seeing me. He could not trust his eyes. He had put my file away on the shelf six months ago, when he had found that I had only 10 or 15 days to live. He looked at me incredulously, and asked, 'You are Chitalia? You yourself! You are still alive? I laughed and said, 'Yes, sir, I am the very same Nanubhai Chitalia, alive and kicking. I am not a ghost!' He called for my file immediately, and examined me. He called his assistant too, and recounted to him all that had happened. He also apprised Dr Prafulla Desai, the Head of the Institution, of all the details. Dr Ashok Mehta, Dr S. R. Rao, all gathered there. They went through my records. They simply could not understand how those tumours had disappeared.   How about the Proof? I told them about the auto-urine therapy, with all the details. But the doctors asked, 'What is the proof that it was auto-urine therapy that has effected the cure?' Their medical science had reservations about the efficacy of this therapy. I challenged them to place four of their patients in my charge, assuring them that I would cure them while they stayed in that very hospital. They were not legally in a position to permit me to undertake such an experiment.   Thinking of the great responsibility which would rest on their heads in case anything should happen to any of the patients, they expressed their inability to take up the challenge.   Perfect Health with Urine Therapy Today at the age of 53 years, I am perfectly healthy, take normal food, and am holding a job. There is no trace of disease in my body. I do not take any medicines whatsoever now.   True, drinking of urine continues. I drink my own urine seven or eight times a day. I am greatly indebted to the gentleman who lent me the book 'Manav Mootra'. (Bhoomiputra, 1 - 2 - '84) — Nanubhai Kalidas Chitalia   Article link: https://www.hongkongurinetherapy.com/a-urine-therapy-testimony-liver-cancer-and-piles-gone-trans-dr-chapman-chen/           !   Source:An Experienced Physician (2010). Auto-Urine Therapy. Ahmedabad: Navneet Publications (India) Ltd.